I turned my old laptop into a retro gaming station with Batocera, and it's better (and worse) than I expected

XDA developers | May 11, 2026, 4 p.m. | Original
Cool concept, annoying execution
Synology's DSM is brilliant until you realize what TrueNAS and Unraid can actually do My homelab needed a lightweight dashboard, so I had Claude and a local LLM race to build it