Stop wasting your old tablet on Netflix and use it as a smart home command center instead
… It’ll leverage the same hardware, making it perfectly suited for the job. …
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Valve's Steam Machine delay forced me to DIY, and honestly it's better this way
… The official SteamOS release is a valid option, but right now, official hardware support is pretty limited, so it might not boot on Intel-based PCs or the newest AMD hardware. …
Bambu Lab wants to lock you into their ecosystem, but here's how I took back control
… I wanted my printer to feel like hardware I own, not hardware I’m politely borrowing from an account login. …
The Steam Controller price tag has allegedly leaked, and it's not great
… This means we don't know when the new range of Valve hardware will be released, nor how much it will cost. …
By the time the Steam Machine ships, it will have already lost the market it was supposed to own
… News of new hardware from Steam was always going to get people talking, and Valve got all the publicity it hoped for. However, the Steam Machine's hardware specs became a huge talking point, and not for the reasons Valve would have wanted. …
Home Assistant just made every infrared device in your house controllable, and you probably already own them
… Meanwhile, Home Assistant quietly bet on a 40-year-old protocol that requires no cloud, no app, and no new hardware. …
My Home Assistant dashboard got better when I stopped trying to put everything on one screen
… It manages everything, allows us to track our energy usage, and interacts with all our smart home hardware. …
I stopped blaming my gaming handheld's battery and started tuning it with this free plugin instead
… This gaming handheld plugin goes beyond setting TDP limits Beyond basic TDP controls, SimpleDeckyTDP offers controls over how the hardware behaves. …
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
… I had the same assumption and was planning to use used enterprise-grade hardware for my setup. Then I thought of giving my 8-year-old Dell laptop, which was lying around, a try before spending on new hardware. Turns out the hardware depends entirely on the use case. …
Someone built the PlayStation controller PC dongle that Sony refuses to make
… I found a project that completely solves this by using a Raspberry Pi Pico 2W as a hardware bridge. …