…It's your desktop PC. By exposing your operating system's internal states locally to Home Assistant , your house stops guessing where you are and starts matching its behavior to your immediate…
Rich Edmonds Mar 24, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
…Between unoptimized PC ports, VRAM anxieties, and the sheer cost of flagship cards as well as other PC components, users are begging for someone to tell them it's okay to slide…
…It was that a Proxmox host on a mini PC got close enough to a legitimate gaming PC experience that I stopped treating it like a gimmick. Cyberpunk 2077, averaging 24.82…
…See at Home Assistant Related I stopped treating my NAS like a file box, and it became the most useful PC in my house Stop treating your NAS like an overpriced external…
…The Steam Deck proved that a portable PC market existed, and hardware makers opted to copy the form factor but ignored the philosophy. They chased raw performance metrics, turning what should be…
…You'll find a slow 100Mbps connection with optical audio, RCA ports, HDMI, expansion, and a few USB ports for good measure. Notice something missing? If you're a PC gamer or…
…There was no public exposure of my services, no port forwarding, and no Tailscale dependency. At that point, the setup stopped feeling experimental. A week later, I stopped thinking about it That…
…We started seeing the signs back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, when bad PC ports and post-launch patches became widespread. Lazy console-to-PC ports led to underwhelming performance…
…Your wireless devices will soon be faster than your wired PC unless you upgrade the port. However, it's worth managing your expectations. A 2.5GbE card in your PC won't…
