After years of PC gaming, I realized my PS5 still gets one thing right
…That might sound strange coming from someone with an RTX 4090 because, from a hardware standpoint, my PC is miles ahead. And it's not just about frame rates. I get better…
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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…
Home Assistant freed me from the smart home brand wars, and now I buy whatever works
…Home Assistant gives me the freedom to buy outside one brand’s ecosystem, but it doesn’t magically turn bad hardware into good hardware. Now I treat cheap devices as experiments first…
My perfect self-hosted setup became my biggest productivity killer
…Instead of focusing on writing and creating, I was busy configuring, updating, and troubleshooting. Self-hosting gives you powerful capabilities, but it also makes it very easy to justify extra complexity. Over…
VLAN isolation sounds great until you forget the firewall rules that actually make it work
Rich Edmonds May 13, 2026, 8:00 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…
Your weirdest Ethernet issues may have nothing to do with your router, cable, or Windows
…Related 6 PC troubleshooting steps I always take before blaming broken hardware Believe it or not, you might not need to replace your RAM. A faulty port on the router or motherboard…
I over-engineered my home lab on purpose, and it's the best decision I've made
Ayush Pande Apr 3, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
The smart home upgrade nobody wants to do is labeling every cable and device
…A small label on the face of each one that says "office desk," "TV cabinet," "garage freezer," etcetera, takes seconds to apply and eliminates an entire category of troubleshooting confusion. Patch panel…
Chasing the perfect home lab is why yours never works
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account For a long time, I treated my…
Your home lab probably falls apart for the wrong reason, and these tools fix it
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account A good home lab doesn’t fall…