Jan AI on Linux looked promising, then Ollama won me back
I have been a heavy Ollama user for about eighteen months. It runs on the Linux laptop, the Mac mini, a small NUC (a tiny fanless barebones PC, basically a board in…
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Bambu Lab’s lockdown is a warning shot for every gadget you buy
I bought a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon in early 2025. It is the best 3D printer I have ever owned, and the worst purchase decision I have made in five years. The…
A $10 email client that actually keeps its mouth shut
I have used Thunderbird for years. It works. It is also a browser disguised as an email client, and every few months I catch it syncing telemetry back to Mozilla (the foundation…
Sending a 10 GB file without renting someone else’s cloud
I have been the person on both ends of the 10 GB file problem more times than I want to admit. The last time was a video project, hand-off to a collaborator,…
How exo can cut AI bills using devices you already own
What exo is, without the infrastructure jargon Most AI tools make the same trade easy to ignore: every useful request creates another charge somewhere. It might be a monthly seat, a per-token…
Portainer 2.39.4 LTS Fixes CVEs
Portainer 2.39.4 LTS Fixes CVEs If you run a Synology NAS (a popular brand of network-attached storage appliance from Synology that runs a customized Linux distro called DSM, DiskStation Manager) and manage…
Plex Just Tripled Its Lifetime Pass Price
Plex Just Tripled Its Lifetime Pass Price I paid $250 for a Plex lifetime pass back in 2019. I justified it by amortizing the cost over the years I had already been…
Speed Up Your Linux RAID Resyncs
Speed Up Your Linux RAID Resyncs I rebuilt a 6TB mirror last weekend after a routine scrub flagged a sector, and the default resync speed took 14 hours. I then rebuilt the…
Cursor becomes code-completion champion
Cursor becomes code-completion champion Cursor quietly acquired Continue_, the open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot. If you have been on the fence about which AI coding assistant to actually install on your machine,…
The Pope Wrote About AI and Self-Hosters Should Care
The Pope Wrote About AI and Self-Hosters Should Care A few weeks ago, Pope Leo XIV released a 52-page document on artificial intelligence. The document is titled Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness…