These Fire TV settings made my aging streaming stick feel brand new, no hardware upgrade needed
I'm not buying those new VegaOS sticks just yet, thank you
Smart appliances are expensive, so I made my dumb ones report when they were done instead
A cheap smart plug can make a major difference.
I stopped overcomplicating my home lab when I realized plain LXC containers were already enough
Plain LXC containers keep my Proxmox home lab simpler, easier to troubleshoot, and less dependent on unnecessary layers.
This failed game console chased the Steam Machine dream 23 years ago
The Phantom aimed to bring the PC to the living room decades before the Steam Machine.
My favorite alternative to Google Drive is not OneDrive or Dropbox, it's something way private and powerful
A smarter home for sensitive files.
This open-source app does what AirDrop does, but it actually works across Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and Linux
This open-source AirDrop alternative removed the unnecessary steps from my daily file transfer workflow.
Your first home lab shouldn't be a NAS — here's why a used business PC does it better
But running a NAS is still the way to go.
I'm running a 284-billion-parameter model locally, and it competes with cloud AI
DeepSeek V4 Flash can be run locally thanks to some wizardry, and it works really well.
AMD's 128GB AI mini PC runs models your RTX 5090 can't, but for everything else a used graphics card still wins
It can do great things, but there's a lot more to think about than VRAM.
I thought DLSS Frame Generation made Smooth Motion irrelevant — I was wrong
My decades-old backlog is thanking me