Your motherboard's tiny fan header can do way more than cool your CPU
…They use four pins these days (ground, power, tach, and PWM), but can also connect to three-wire fans, which don't use the PWM wire for control. Most fan headers are…
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Old laptops are the home server upgrade nobody talks about, and they beat a Pi every time
…But that's the limit of most cheap SBCs, and you start questioning your investment in the ecosystem. An old laptop is a great starting point that most of us overlook when…
I moved my home lab to a new house after years of 24/7 use, and here’s what broke
…I didn't want to throw in either of my other modern GPUs into this thing, so I plugged a spare monitor into the iGPU and thought that'd be the end…
I blocked my Bambu printer from the internet, and it became the printer I actually wanted
…The cloud features are genuinely useful sometimes Convenience is the part that makes this tradeoff awkward The obvious downside is that Bambu's connected features aren't useless fluff. Remote monitoring is…
I ditched iTerm2, Windows Terminal, and Konsole for Wave, and I'm not looking back
…Web browser Native GitHub browsing Tips and help AI coding assistant with multiple model choices System resource monitoring Visual file explorer The AI coding widget can use your choice of local or…
Claude Code's creator keeps sharing tips, and they all made my experience better
…For instance, say you have Claude connected to Slack and your Gmail , you could set up a loop to monitor both every 30 minutes and surface anything that needs your attention. You…
Curtain automation is fun, but the weird smart home projects are where things get really useful
…Questions · Test Your Knowledge Matter and Thread smart home standards Trivia challenge Think you know the protocols reshaping the smart home? Put your knowledge to the test. Matter Thread Standards Connectivity Smart…
I stopped using my NAS as a NAS, and it became the most useful machine in my house
…There’s also the question of failure domains. If the NAS handles storage, media, monitoring, and a pile of home services, one outage can feel larger than it should. A bad update…
I turned this $55 Raspberry Pi into the ultimate streaming device
…The real question was whether I needed beefy hardware to stream media locally without quietly suffering. To experiment with that, I installed five apps, and I turned my $55 Raspberry Pi 4…
Windows 11's worst problem on good hardware is death by a thousand background tasks
…On the list were some familiar cryptic entities like " Antimalware Service Executable ", " Secure System " and " Connected User Experiences " that the average user wouldn't recognize. But that also seems to be a…