Stop struggling with OPNsense — these 4 tweaks take a few minutes to make
Rich Edmonds Mar 24, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
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6 Docker containers I always use on any new home lab workstation
…designed to help me organize the rest of my container suite Portainer Visual container management dashboard When I’m spinning up a new workstation, the very first container that goes live is…
Home Assistant on bare metal works great — until it becomes your entire home's infrastructure
…Assistant to creating my own custom setup with multiple brands and connection types. Going from running a few smart bulbs to having impressive voice assistants, backups, dashboards, and external services is quite…
I used Claude Cowork to automate my research, and it builds my weekly reports while I sleep
…custom context files for every repository? But how well does Cowork work when it comes to academic research? MCP connectors solve a major problem research scholars run into The weekly hardware report…
My perfect self-hosted setup became my biggest productivity killer
…I was convinced that the more I customized and automated, the more efficient I would become. However, I eventually hit a wall. Somewhere between tweaking custom dashboards and configuring high-availability clusters…
Home Assistant just made every infrared device in your house controllable, and you probably already own them
…With a small, affordable IR blaster acting as a bridge, Home Assistant lets you control any device that responds to an infrared remote without any hardware modifications. Related My smart home still…
Android Auto won't give me an equalizer, so I use this free app instead
…But tuning it for phenomenal music playback is definitely doable, and hardware usually isn't even the problem. The speakers in a modern vehicle can deliver punchy bass and clear vocals, but…
TrueNAS SCALE tried to do everything, so I gave it one job and moved the rest to Proxmox
Rich Edmonds Apr 10, 2026, 12:31 PM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
These $10 home lab upgrades solved problems I didn't know I had
Ayush Pande Mar 29, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
I stopped digging through storage boxes after deploying this self-hosted inventory tool
…Something like a full-featured dashboard that can track not just my hardware, but also my software. That's how I ended up going the open source route and installing CatalogIT on…