OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox are convenient, but they all come with the same trade-off: your files live on someone else’s servers, subject to someone else’s storage limits, pricing ...
Password managers are one of the few pieces of software where trusting a third party with everything you own access to is baked into the whole idea — which is exactly why a growing number of people wh...
Once you are running a handful of self-hosted services — Jellyfin, Immich, Home Assistant, Pi-hole — the question eventually becomes: how do you know if one of them has actually gone down before someo...
If you want to access something on your home server — Jellyfin, Immich, a Home Assistant dashboard — from outside your house, the traditional approach is port forwarding on your router. That works, bu...
Once you have more than two or three Docker containers running on a home server — Immich, n8n, Pi-hole, Jellyfin, and whatever else you have picked up along the way — remembering every `docker run` co...
If you have a collection of ripped DVDs, downloaded films, or home videos sitting on a hard drive and want a proper Netflix-style interface to browse and stream them from — without paying a subscripti...
Smart bulbs, smart plugs, video doorbells, thermostats, robot vacuums — most people end up with five different apps just to control the “smart” devices in their home, each one tied to its ...
If you have ever installed an ad blocker in your browser and wished it worked everywhere — on your phone, your smart TV, your kids’ tablets, even the smart speaker that’s somehow started r...
Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment) is an open-source hypervisor platform built on Debian Linux, combining KVM virtualisation for full virtual machines and LXC for lightweight containers on a single host...