I spent $90 on a power conditioner, and it fixed my entire home theater setup
…Sign in to your XDA account I've been a home theater fanatic for decades, with various setups in that time. I'm also a magnet for weird tech issues , including AC…
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The NAS feature that changed my home setup wasn't RAID, snapshots, or file sharing
2d agoReplacing paid productivity apps with a self-hosted setup helped me save money, but I had to make some compromises
2d agoYour home server needs Ethernet, but not for the reason you think
6d agoStop treating the Raspberry Pi 5 as a smart home hub — it's actually built for something bigger
1w agoA single mini PC replaced my Raspberry Pi cluster and nearly cut my power use in half
…Sign in to your XDA account For a long time, I treated my Raspberry Pi setup like the ideal home lab foundation. One board handled DNS, another ran a few Docker containers…
My network kept dropping devices until I stopped over-engineering and checked my firewall rules
…started documenting absolutely everything about the network. This coincided with me using Gitea with a repository for my entire smart home and home lab setup. A label maker made this easier by…
I replaced my entire Proxmox backup strategy with one tool, and I haven't thought about backups since
…That is not a huge burden, but it is still more involved than pointing Proxmox at a network share and calling it a day. Some home lab users will look at that…
Your NAS doesn't need to be all-SSD, and TrueNAS proved it to me
…and started using it the way a home server should be used. The bottleneck wasn't speed, and I ended up rethinking my entire setup and strategy. Here's why. I ditched…
Tailscale plus Pi-hole gives you DNS control that Apple and Google will never allow
…Related Is Tailscale the safest way to access your home network remotely? Tailscale is easy to set up, but is that trading off your security? Apple and Google are solving a different…
My UGREEN DXP4800 Pro NAS quietly replaced half my home lab, and I didn’t expect that
…Every stream depended on one box reading from another, which meant another layer of networking, permissions, and troubleshooting. Moving Jellyfin onto the DXP4800 Pro made the whole setup feel more direct. That…
I turned my home server into an AI appliance, and this is the stack that actually stuck
…Ollama and Local LLMs are the brain of my AI stack Building a private brain without the subscription fees Ollama is the core of my AI setup. It gives my home server…
I replaced 6 paid subscriptions with a homelab on an old laptop — here's the full stack
…The most important trade-off for a homelab setup is that I am responsible for everything. Backups, uptime, hardware failure, and updates all fell on me. For example, if the Vaultwarden container…
I turned an old iPhone into a Home Assistant wall panel, and it beats every dedicated controller I've tried
…Keep it local, keep it safe Our Home Assistant, for the time being at least, is only open to the local network. I haven't yet opened it up for external access…