This thing cost less than a grocery run and can still replace half your retro setup. www.xda-developers.com/favorite-ret...

Software: flawless. Hardware: absolutely fighting for its life. www.xda-developers.com/turned-old-p...

Duplex mismatches happen, but physical layer failures happen way more. www.xda-developers.com/slow-etherne...

Mesh cases help temps… but not nearly as much as cleaning your dust filters. www.xda-developers.com/pc-upgrades-...

Registry cleaners promise speed and deliver breakage. www.xda-developers.com/these-window...

SSD-only nodes = cooler temps, faster VMs, zero drama. www.xda-developers.com/my-home-serv...

Labs lets users test upcoming features with a safety net — backups on, fear off. www.xda-developers.com/home-assista...

RetroAssembly turns a NAS into a time machine… open a browser, load a cartridge, disappear for hours. www.xda-developers.com/play-entire-...

Acrobat should be nervous. www.xda-developers.com/im-never-goi...

Bulk uninstallers exist, so deleting apps one by one is a form of self-inflicted suffering. www.xda-developers.com/windows-main...

Windows 11 can’t catch a break because every patch seems to introduce a new break. www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-ca...

Spicetify adds dancing mascots, custom themes, and extensions that make default Spotify look half-asleep. www.xda-developers.com/i-used-this-...

These aliases bully the terminal into doing more work with fewer characters. www.xda-developers.com/shell-aliase...

A web GUI, a few images, and suddenly an ESP32 can tell “object A” from “object B” like it has an opinion. www.xda-developers.com/train-image-...

Minimal scripting, maximum payoff. www.xda-developers.com/put-entire-m...

The most useful Black Friday upgrades for Home Assistant start with more data, more control, and fewer headaches. www.xda-developers.com/home-assista...

It’s not the flashiest launcher, but it can make you forget the taskbar existed. www.xda-developers.com/keyboard-dri...

Many home networks can’t even saturate 1GbE, so 2.5 might just be numbers on a box. www.xda-developers.com/2gbe-might-n...

Cutting phantom loads with smart plugs is the closest thing to free money a smart home will ever give you. www.xda-developers.com/these-smart-...

Everything on Arm works great until you open GIMP and the whole experience faceplants. www.xda-developers.com/windows-on-a...

A few dozen lines of Python can outwork half your productivity stack. www.xda-developers.com/tiny-python-...

NotebookLM now builds decks, generates infographics, reveals its reasoning, and creates custom personas like it’s auditioning for your job. www.xda-developers.com/notebooklm-n...

This tool can mirror your writing quirks so well it feels like arguing with your own internal monologue. www.xda-developers.com/built-ai-ver...

If you’re not backing up your VMs, configs, and documentation, your home lab is basically a very expensive house of cards. www.xda-developers.com/things-you-n...

IoT clutter can tank your LAN performance long before your internet speed test admits anything’s wrong. www.xda-developers.com/signs-iot-de...

A Windows update tanked frame rates and Nvidia had to swoop in with a driver patch before gamers started rioting. www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-confi...

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. www.xda-developers.com/valves-steam...

Modern games may have benched this aging desktop, but virtualization workloads, distro-hopping, and PCI passthrough experiments are keeping it booked and busy. www.xda-developers.com/im-still-kee...

Nothing exposes Windows 11's Start menu flaws faster than watching it lose a fight to a resurrected Windows 10 layout. www.xda-developers.com/windows-10-s...

These extensions hit Gnome with the digital equivalent of a triple espresso and a project deadline. www.xda-developers.com/gnome-extens...

The internet will tell you to glob paste like frosting, but your CPU would really prefer not to be a cupcake. www.xda-developers.com/thermal-past...

Edge is slowly turning into Copilot with a browser attached as a treat. www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-is...

The network is future-proof; the electric bill isn’t. www.xda-developers.com/rebuilt-my-s...

Turns out the real console war is happening in PDF format. www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-wa...

Valve just woke up and decided to rebuild the entire gaming hardware industry. www.xda-developers.com/new-steam-ha...

Water doesn’t care about your rent deposit — but this sensor might. www.xda-developers.com/dont-believe...

Less moving parts, more moving packets. www.xda-developers.com/why-i-run-re...

Treat your hub like a four-way stop, not a freeway. www.xda-developers.com/please-stop-...

The “Fruit Ninja rave meditation” aesthetic is real. www.xda-developers.com/lumines-aris...

Arc is like a stray dog someone fed once and now it’s loyal, strong, and guarding the house. www.xda-developers.com/im-quietly-o...

It’s basically a weather station, power monitor, and router mood ring wearing a nice wooden frame. www.xda-developers.com/epaper-scree...

The real home lab is the therapy we needed along the way. www.xda-developers.com/i-learned-mo...

The good news is having 10GbE; the bad news is the awareness that comes with it. www.xda-developers.com/unexpected-b...

Tap no, disable USB debugging, and go live your life. www.xda-developers.com/anti-hacker-...

Entity selection finally feels sane. www.xda-developers.com/home-assista...

Centralize the data, decentralize the compute. www.xda-developers.com/self-hosted-...

The real productivity boost was in Settings this whole time. www.xda-developers.com/hidden-windo...

The GPU is doing laps while the CPU is on permanent vacation. www.xda-developers.com/my-self-host...

The model is small, the audacity is enormous. www.xda-developers.com/tinyml-impre...

Internet coverage is now powered by spite, Ethernet cables, and the unkillable router that simply refuses to die. www.xda-developers.com/dont-throw-a...