…I installed Proxmox on the mini PC and ran Home Assistant OS as one of the VMs. That made it easy to pass through the SONOFF Zigbee USB dongle. Once Home Assistant…
…Group policy hides behind gpedit.msc, which isn't even installed on Home editions. Half the things I might actually want to do still require regedit and a path I have to…
…The breakthrough came when I stopped troubleshooting Windows and started digging through the BIOS instead. Motherboard manufacturers ship with conservative default settings designed to prioritize stability over maximum performance. The system employs…
…Related 6 CLI tools I install before anything else on a new Linux machine I've set up these terminal utilities on every Linux system in my arsenal htop A process viewer…
…If you’re as big a fan of microcontrollers as I am, you can install ESPHome on Home Assistant and program ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico MCUs to your heart’s content…
…The easiest way to avoid unnecessary PC problems Driver updates may not be the most exciting part of owning a PC, and you certainly don't need to install every single update…
…Adding devices to Home Assistant is as simple as locating their integrations (or installing the right apps, if they aren’t available by default) and filling in their connection details. I’ve…
…We're talking about over 70 utilities that let you monitor processes, analyze system behavior, manage startup entries, and troubleshoot issues at a level far beyond that Task Manager can handle. Tools…
…The true irony is that a lot of these tools install their own background services, their own update agents, and their own tray icons, meaning the thing you downloaded to speed up…
…Maybe you were following a YouTube tutorial or a troubleshooting guide that told you to paste some command and hit enter. As a non-developer, that was also my first introduction to…