ESPHome turned my junk drawer into a smart home
…That way, you can use it to keep your office lights on while you're reading or to trigger a private notification if someone enters your room while you're on a…
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My Proxmox backups stopped being a storage nightmare with this workaround
…Related This lightweight tool changes everything for multi-node Proxmox setups It's really effective when you need to control several standalone nodes I ended up deploying a Proxmox Backup Server VM…
I use Claude and local LLMs together now, and it costs half as much while being twice as fast
…Unlike other models, you're not downgraded to a lighter version, but instead, it stops responding altogether until the limit clears, which is a problem I've experienced first-hand even while…
I ran Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 for the same local tasks, and one pulled miles ahead
…The E is for "effective" parameters since Per-Layer Embeddings keep the active footprint small, so E4B is roughly 8B total weights with 4.5B effective. The context window goes up to…
7 programs I stick to on my PC despite other alternatives
…It's a lightweight tool that allows you to choose from a set of presets or customize your own, depending on how you like your games and YouTube videos to sound. You…
I ditched Adobe's $55 monthly fee for three free tools that actually work faster
…It offers a balanced mix of editing features, including face refinement, noise reduction, motion effects, and more. See at Apple Apps (Free) $300 at Apple Apps (Paid) $300 at Blackmagic See at…
The Source engine should've died a decade ago, but Valve kept finding ways to keep it alive
…It relied heavily on baked lightmaps for static environments, with dynamic lighting reserved for moving objects, weapons fire, and projected effects. The flashlight in Half-Life 2 was a projected texture rather…
Stop blaming your ISP — where you placed your router is killing your Wi-Fi
…That's why the most popular analogy — likening a router to a light bulb — is also the most accurate. There's no point hiding a light bulb inside a cupboard or sticking…
I turned an old Android phone into a home server, and it’s more useful than my Raspberry Pi
…A Pi needs $50 in HATs to get GPS, an accelerometer, and an ambient light sensor, but your phone already has all of these sensors baked into the kernel and ready to…
I tried an open-source Figma alternative, and its AI does what Figma's can't
…It's built on CanvasKit and the Yoga layout engine for CSS flexbox and grid, and the 7MB desktop app runs on Tauri, which is why it's so lightweight. Worth flagging…