4 things I do on a new Windows PC to tighten my security
Marshall Gunnell May 7, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Marshall is a writer covering NAS, data storage, cybersecurity, AI, and general tech with over a decade of experience. His work has been…
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I connected my local LLM to Home Assistant through MCP, and now my smart home manages itself
…For example, I queried it about the entities in my custom dashboards, and this LLM was able to generate detailed (accurate) reports on my devices. HA-MCP Server lets my LLMs access…
These 4 Linux tools solve problems the default apps shouldn't have left unsolved
Marshall Gunnell Apr 6, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT Marshall is a writer covering NAS, data storage, cybersecurity, AI, and general tech with over a decade of experience. His work has been…
Tailscale's latest personal plan changes make it easier than ever to share your home lab with friends and family
…Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. Sign in to your XDA account I consider my dashboards , monitoring…
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I automated my lights first, but energy tracking is what actually saved me money
…The best part is that energy tracking can be checked through the energy dashboard as well as individual entity cards. It transformed the way I manage the smart home, and I only…
I gave Claude Cowork access to my Home Assistant config, and it unlocked automations I didn't know were possible
…It also fixed a few setup issues that I'd missed, guiding me through each step with ease. That's fantastic, especially as I hate writing automations in YAML, and I'm…
Network segmentation is the smart home security step nobody talks about
…You have gone out of your way to build a local smart home setup , and that’s the right call — no cloud dependency and your data stays at home. But nobody mentioned…
I moved my entire Kindle library to a self hosted server and escaped the Amazon walled garden for good
…this, and Calibre works fine if you want to host everything within a desktop environment. Lately, as I've been moving everything productivity-oriented to a Docker-based NAS setup, Calibre just…
I switched from Proxmox to its FreeBSD counterpart on my home server – here's how it went
…Sign in to your XDA account Despite spending most of my time buried under my Proxmox nodes and TrueNAS storage rig, I love tinkering with other virtualization platforms, container runtimes, and NAS…
Tailscale is the only home lab change I made this year that I actually noticed
…Sure, I've upgraded servers, my NAS, and my physical networking stack in that time, but Tailscale is the glue that ties it all together. Without it, I'd be a lot…
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