I stopped digging through storage boxes after deploying this self-hosted inventory tool
…CatalogIT is a self-hosted inventory and documentation tool that organizes and tracks all your software and hardware in one place.
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I turned a cheap phone into a retro gaming console, and it outperforms my budget PC
…I binged for about three hours before I thought to check the battery, and it had only dropped to 60% — and that was while powering a wired Bluetooth controller. Performance can vary…
Your old GPU isn't just slow — it has worse bottlenecks than you think
…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found 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 ran Espressif's OpenClaw-inspired AI agent on an ESP32 with my self-hosted LLM, and it actually works
…The chip orchestrates the entire loop, the LLM can be anywhere, the skills hold the device-control logic, and the Lua modules control hardware. When you pair it with a self-hosted…
Bazzite is what most Linux gaming distros wish they were
…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
I stopped looking for the perfect Stream Deck alternative and built one instead
Jasmine Mannan Apr 19, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
Switching from Cloudflare DNS to a home-built resolver taught me how much I was trusting them
…Unbound See at Official Site With your own recursive DNS resolver, you gain control I gained fine-grained control over DNS inside and outside my home network Control is the second reason…
I stopped waiting for good PC ports and just use RetroArch for everything now
…I stopped waiting and just played them anyway At some point, practicality matters more than permission Eventually, I stopped treating access like something I had to earn. I had the hardware and…
Please stop putting heatsinks on NVMe drives that never throttle
Jasmine Mannan Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…