Automation
Best Z-Wave 800 Stick for Home Assistant
Three Z-Wave 800 sticks are worth buying for Home Assistant right now, and picking the wrong one usually…
Author
Valentine Cheronoh
Automation
Best Zigbee Coordinator for Home Assistant
Every Zigbee bulb, sensor, and switch in your house talks to one small radio, and picking that radio…
How To
Best Thunderbolt 4 Dock for Linux: boltctl and fwupd Setup
A Thunderbolt 4 dock turns a Linux laptop into a full workstation with one cable: two monitors, wired…
Automation
Best Mini PC for Home Assistant (HAOS and Proxmox), Tested
Running Home Assistant on the wrong hardware is the most common mistake new automators make. Too little RAM…
AI
Mac Mini vs Mini PC vs GPU for Local LLMs
Three ways to run a 70B model at home, and each one wins at something different. A Mac…
Storage
Best UPS for a Homelab and NAS
A homelab UPS has one job your desk UPS does not: hold the load steady long enough for…
Proxmox
Best Mini PC for a Homelab, Proxmox, and Self-Hosting
Picking a mini PC for Proxmox and a homelab is really six choices, not one. A single low-power…
AI
Used RTX 3090 vs RTX 5090 for Local AI: Is the Cheaper Card Still King?
A tested head-to-head of the used RTX 3090 and the new RTX 5090 for running local LLMs, with…
Desktop
12 Things to Do After Installing Peppermint OS
A fresh Peppermint OS install is deliberately lean. You boot into a quick Xfce desktop, the LibreWolf browser,…
How To
Install Dia Browser on macOS: AI-First Browsing Guide
Dia is The Browser Company’s second swing at the browser. Their first, Arc, won a loyal niche by…
How To
Install Arc Browser on macOS and Windows: Usage Guide
Arc is a browser from The Browser Company built around a different premise from Chrome and Firefox. Tabs…
Fedora
Configure GNOME Tweaks and Extensions on Fedora 44
GNOME 50 lands on Fedora 44 with a smoother Activities overview, refined Adwaita styling, and a quietly reshuffled…