YT Zero turns a Synology NAS into a Google-free YouTube inbox
Most of the public web is hostile to the idea of paying attention on purpose. The big video site in particular has spent a decade making the act of “watch one video…
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Run a self-hosted game backlog manager on your Synology NAS
Every Steam owner’s library looks the same after a few years. Hundreds of titles, a handful of completed ones, and a long list of “I will play it later” purchases that keep…
Ruin Media runs in your browser and wrecks your files on purpose
If you have ever wished your vacation photos looked like they came back from the dead, there is now a tiny web app for that, and it does not phone home to…
Move your DNS resolution off your ISP and onto your Asustor NAS
Every time you open a website, your device asks another server for the address. That server is almost always run by your ISP by default, or by Google, or Cloudflare, and the…
Replace your YouTube feed with a NAS-based inbox that ignores you less
YouTube’s recommendation engine has one job: keep you watching past the video you actually came for. The home feed is a slot machine wearing a TV guide costume. Most people have cracked…
Munich court makes Google own its AI hallucinations
The Regional Court of Munich (Landgericht München I) ruled on Tuesday that Google is directly responsible for false claims generated by its AI Overviews. The case is the first of its kind…
Edit photos on your NAS and keep them off someone else’s server
I have a simple rule about photo editing tools. If the app needs an internet connection to remove a background or resize an image, I am already suspicious. My photos are my…
A self-hosted personal wiki that does not need babysitting
I have tried a lot of wiki software over the years. Most of it feels like I am adopting a pet that needs constant feeding. Node.js updates, Redis configuration, database migrations, and…
Move your team wiki off Notion, onto a Synology you own
I have watched too many teams pay monthly subscription fees for tools that lock their documentation behind someone else’s servers. Notion is the canonical example: a polished, fast editor that is great…
Android Studio now lets you pick the model that writes your code
For years, asking Google to play nice with rival AI models felt like shouting into the void. The search giant built its empire on keeping you inside the Google garden. So when…