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November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The most useful Black Friday upgrades for Home Assistant start with more data, more control, and fewer headaches.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The most useful Black Friday upgrades for Home Assistant start with more data, more control, and fewer headaches.
www.xda-developers.com/home-assista...
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It’s not the flashiest launcher, but it can make you forget the taskbar existed.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It’s not the flashiest launcher, but it can make you forget the taskbar existed.
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Many home networks can’t even saturate 1GbE, so 2.5 might just be numbers on a box.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Many home networks can’t even saturate 1GbE, so 2.5 might just be numbers on a box.
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Cutting phantom loads with smart plugs is the closest thing to free money a smart home will ever give you.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Cutting phantom loads with smart plugs is the closest thing to free money a smart home will ever give you.
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Everything on Arm works great until you open GIMP and the whole experience faceplants.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Everything on Arm works great until you open GIMP and the whole experience faceplants.
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A few dozen lines of Python can outwork half your productivity stack.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A few dozen lines of Python can outwork half your productivity stack.
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NotebookLM now builds decks, generates infographics, reveals its reasoning, and creates custom personas like it’s auditioning for your job.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NotebookLM now builds decks, generates infographics, reveals its reasoning, and creates custom personas like it’s auditioning for your job.
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This tool can mirror your writing quirks so well it feels like arguing with your own internal monologue.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This tool can mirror your writing quirks so well it feels like arguing with your own internal monologue.
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If you’re not backing up your VMs, configs, and documentation, your home lab is basically a very expensive house of cards.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If you’re not backing up your VMs, configs, and documentation, your home lab is basically a very expensive house of cards.
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IoT clutter can tank your LAN performance long before your internet speed test admits anything’s wrong.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
IoT clutter can tank your LAN performance long before your internet speed test admits anything’s wrong.
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A Windows update tanked frame rates and Nvidia had to swoop in with a driver patch before gamers started rioting.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A Windows update tanked frame rates and Nvidia had to swoop in with a driver patch before gamers started rioting.
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The headset refreshed the Index, yes — but it also smuggled in ARM SteamOS, Proton wizardry, and a potential future where x86 politely fades into the background.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The headset refreshed the Index, yes — but it also smuggled in ARM SteamOS, Proton wizardry, and a potential future where x86 politely fades into the background.
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Modern games may have benched this aging desktop, but virtualization workloads, distro-hopping, and PCI passthrough experiments are keeping it booked and busy.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Modern games may have benched this aging desktop, but virtualization workloads, distro-hopping, and PCI passthrough experiments are keeping it booked and busy.
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Nothing exposes Windows 11's Start menu flaws faster than watching it lose a fight to a resurrected Windows 10 layout.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Nothing exposes Windows 11's Start menu flaws faster than watching it lose a fight to a resurrected Windows 10 layout.
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These extensions hit Gnome with the digital equivalent of a triple espresso and a project deadline.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
These extensions hit Gnome with the digital equivalent of a triple espresso and a project deadline.
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The internet will tell you to glob paste like frosting, but your CPU would really prefer not to be a cupcake.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The internet will tell you to glob paste like frosting, but your CPU would really prefer not to be a cupcake.
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Edge is slowly turning into Copilot with a browser attached as a treat.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Edge is slowly turning into Copilot with a browser attached as a treat.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Valve just woke up and decided to rebuild the entire gaming hardware industry.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Valve just woke up and decided to rebuild the entire gaming hardware industry.
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Water doesn’t care about your rent deposit — but this sensor might.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Water doesn’t care about your rent deposit — but this sensor might.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM