Your self-hosted apps won't work right until you fix this one DNS setting
…It could break OAuth if that's how you're securing those apps, or make it so you have to hack hosts file entries into every device you use, so that they…
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GentleOS/16 is a vintage hobby OS that runs off a 48-year-old CPU and 192KB of RAM
…GentleOS/16 takes its name very, very seriously You won't need a RAM upgrade for this one As spotted by Hackaday , the GentleOS series is designed to work on legacy hardware…
Someone made a pair of wireless Walkie-Talkies using ESP32s, and so can you
…Sign in to your XDA account Summary ESP32 walkie-talkies use ESP-NOW over Wi-Fi for direct device-to-device audio - no radio license needed. Uses XIAO ESP32S3 Sense with onboard…
Microsoft is scrapping SMS 2-factor authentication because it's "a leading source of fraud"
…much harder for hackers. Microsoft says that people who want to keep their accounts secure should create a passkey instead. This is a passwordless method in which your device and the server…
My discontinued Kindle became the best smart home display I own, and it cost me nothing to set up
…While many jailbreak their devices to get away from Amazon's software updates (or lack of them on older devices), that's the tip of the iceberg.
This e-reader beat my Kindle in ways that have nothing to do with the screen
…Sign in to your XDA account I've always loved E Ink devices , whether it was dedicated note-taking devices like the ReMarkable Paper Pro Move , or ecosystem-locked e-readers like…
I connected my dumb appliances to Home Assistant, and it felt like upgrading my whole house
…While traditional hacks like mounting Zigbee vibration sensors to the side of a washing machine fail, there are alternatives. These hacks can trigger false positives during load balancing or aggressive spin cycles…
This ESP32 Macintosh Plus emulator can pull weather from Home Assistant
…modern-day remix of the Macintosh Mini It looks very cool As spotted by Hackaday , this cool device is called the Cydintosh. Its name is a portmanteau of CYD (for the ESP32…
Someone turned a broken Magic 8 Ball into a physics-based Raspberry Pi Pico fortune teller
…Every DIY tinkerer knows that a broken device can always be repaired. The screen may be busted, the motherboard may be fried, and the audio ports may have been worn away after…
Windows 11's Recall tool has been cracked open again, and Microsoft doesn't see that as a problem
…They believed that, if the tool was allowed to roll out for general use, hackers could very easily harvest these files, storing sensitive data. People's names, addresses, payment details, and everything…