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Most networking equipment isn't exactly designed to be user-serviceable, but the Unifi Dream Machine Pro Max was a little easier to disassemble than most. Honestly, I feared the worst when I looked down the hard drive bays and saw the cooling fans buried at the bottom, but they were attached to a plastic vent that came out after four screws were undone, so that was a pleasant surprise. The worst part was routing the Noctua fan cables back to the headers, as the sleeve around the cables made it a little tricky, so I had to go inside the venting area instead. And the plug needed a little trimmin
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I cut Apple and Google out of my smart home with a $5 ESP32, and it was easier than I expected
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I built a distributed computer with three cheap ESP32 boards using a feature most people ignore
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I replaced my Echo with a $4 ESP32-powered speaker that runs entirely on my local network
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I stopped using my NAS as a NAS, and it became the most useful machine in my house
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