Pi may be a powerful AI coding agent, but I refuse to run it without this extension
Ayush Pande Jun 18, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
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I run two routers at home, and it's not for the reason you think
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Pi-hole is still the best free upgrade you can make to your home network
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…blocks, native script templates, and helper variables into a clean text document on your desktop. If you run Home Assistant on a Proxmox virtual machine or a Docker stack, leave your production…
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…A used workstation arrives with all of the necessary pieces already assembled and validated as a unit. Install Proxmox and you can stand up Nextcloud, Immich, Jellyfin, AdGuard Home, Vaultwarden, and Tailscale…
Your NAS permissions are probably a mess, and a single flat share fixes it
…Where it all goes wrong Permissions to do what, exactly? With a NAS, you can quickly (and easily) create a deeply nested folder structure, have multiple overlapping user groups with countless Docker…
I ditched iCloud for Immich, and my photo library finally feels like it's actually mine
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I used a LattePanda Sigma with 32GB of RAM as my ‘too much power’ home lab box, and immediately found work for it
…I started thinking of it as a staging area for services that didn’t quite belong on my NAS or main Proxmox node yet. That included monitoring tools, small automation jobs, and…
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