Old laptops make better Home Assistant servers than any smart home hub, and they cost nothing to deploy

XDA developers | Aug. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m. | Original
The best option is the one you already have lying around
A $60 SSD and 15 minutes in BIOS turned my old PC into something I actually want to use Microsoft Publisher is dead in October, but this 25-year-old open-source app already replaced it