I stopped treating my old 250GB SATA SSD as e-waste, and now I can't live without it
…PC to the TV, or to a friend's place. Related 5 ways I reuse old NVMe drives to avoid e-waste Waste not, want not. Bringing my old SATA SSD back…
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Treating your ISP's router as the brain of your home network is the biggest mistake you can make
…Fast-forward to today, and my home network includes an OLED smart TV, a laptop, multiple phones, a PS5, and even smart home gadgets. I'm sure many of you are in…
Your Ethernet wall ports might already work, but your builder wired them for phones
…A friend was reveling in similar joy recently, assuming he'd just need to hook up a router and a switch for gigabit nirvana, but it was an older house and the…
Your old Android phone is a better thin client than most mini PCs
…Sign in to your XDA account Thin clients are an age-old concept in office hardware. You've probably come across a locked-down desktop in a corporate setup connected to a…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…The trade-offs of running everything on old hardware Performance is “good enough”—until it isn’t A homelab server on an 8-year-old Dell Latitude 7480 with a Core i5…
I switched from streaming to self-hosting my media — it cost more than I expected
…In fact, cloud storage providers and streaming services that killed off cable TV are counting on your laziness to pay the seemingly small $2 to $10 fee every month, instead of building…
Your new home's network is already broken — here are the 3 fixes that actually work
…What's actually going on here? The issue is that when you're moving into a new home and relying on the ISP-provided gateway and the out-of-the-box settings…
I dug into who makes Amazon Basics batteries, and here’s when they beat name brands
…It's an older remote that I had to point directly at the Blu-ray player for it to work, but once the batteries were on board, that issue was resolved. I…
Curtain automation is fun, but the weird smart home projects are where things get really useful
…old receiver automatically switches to the game input via an invisible IR command. That means you're able to give a legacy device a modern brain for about $5. Another issue you…
I turned my dusty PS3 into a retro console, and my nephew forgot about his PS5 entirely
…To take my mind off that, I pulled out an old PS3 Super Slim from the dusty attic corners. My nephew asked, “What Sony console is that?” While cleaning the PS3, I…