A used Lenovo ThinkCentre is still the best $100 you can spend on a home lab
…The internal storage is more than enough for the OS plus container and VM working sets, and as far as IPMI goes, Tailscale, the Proxmox web UI, plus Wake-on-LAN cover…
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5 Android Auto settings that make a wireless dongle experience truly seamless
…Chandraveer's downtime is an eclectic mix of reading fiction, practicing calligraphy, conceptualizing new products, and enjoying an expansive FLAC audio library. Sign in to your XDA account I regard Bluetooth and…
I gave my NAS a local AI brain, and it finally became the home dashboard I always wanted
…Sign in to your XDA account A NAS starts out as a big project, but once your storage pools are configured and all services are running smoothly, it's just a box…
6 free and open-source apps you actually haven't heard of
…This cross-platform download manager runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows (where I did most of my testing), and it offers a lot of features you might not have even considered you…
I replaced my Google TV remote with a $25 ESP32 display, and it controls Home Assistant too
…I can launch apps and manage my smart home Swipe for toggles, automations, and scripts The physical Chromecast voice remote has dedicated Netflix and YouTube buttons, but those work over Bluetooth HID…
The Flatpak versus native packages debate finally made sense when I stopped looking for a winner
…There’s also the storage question, and I don’t think Linux users are wrong to care about it. Flatpaks can be heavier, and the overhead is noticeable if you install many…
My dual-display travel setup fits in an envelope and it's not a MacBook
…Chandraveer's downtime is an eclectic mix of reading fiction, practicing calligraphy, conceptualizing new products, and enjoying an expansive FLAC audio library. Sign in to your XDA account Walk through any airport…
My Windows PC is unusable without these third-party tools, and Microsoft doesn't care
…WizTree is undoubtedly the fastest program for scanning your storage drives and building a visual map of everything that occupies space on your PC. It scans partitions in a few seconds and…
The Claude feature everyone ignores is the one I use every single day to boost my productivity
…Thanks to Claude Projects, I have managed to cut out the repetitive setup phase of AI work and saved hours of context-switching and manual uploads every single week. Related I gave…
Nvidia's real advantage isn't raw speed — it's these 5 features AMD still can't touch
…to manage. Instead of storing textures in traditional formats, Neural Texture Compression uses AI to reconstruct them from highly-compressed data during gameplay. This would dramatically reduce storage requirements and make much…