AgentStop kills runaway local AI agents before they drain your battery
I left a local coding agent running on my laptop overnight to see how much battery it would eat. The answer was the entire battery, plus an hour and a half of…
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Find the Linux process hogging your bandwidth in under a minute
Your Linux server’s network is maxed out and you have no idea what is eating it. The standard reflex is to look at top or htop, and when those do not help…
2026 World Cup without cable: where the free streams actually live
The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicked off on June 11 and runs through July 19. Group stage matches run through the 27th, then knockout matches start June 28, quarterfinals and semifinals follow,…
Self-hosting notes from the week Immich refused to add mobile tags
The Selfh.st roundup for the week of 19 June 2026 leads with Immich, the popular Google Photos alternative that continues to ignore the author’s “desperate pleas for tags on mobile.” Immich is…
Self-hosting week, mostly a roll call of projects that didn’t make it
The Selfh.st weekly roundup for the week of 12 June 2026 is a quiet one. Most of the headline space is given over to the projects that have died, not the ones…
A Vatican AI memo and a quieter week of self-hosting news
The 29 May 2026 issue of Self-Host Weekly landed in my inbox with two stories that, on the surface, have nothing to do with each other. The first was a 52-page Vatican…
Self-hosting a website from a Linux box at home, the cheap way
I run a small WordPress site from a Linux box under my desk. The box cost me about the same as a year of managed hosting from a major provider, and it…
Schedule one-off Linux jobs with at and stop abusing cron
I used to write cron entries for things that should have been one-shot jobs. A temporary firewall rule for a vendor. A service restart at 2 AM. A reminder to pull a…
Plex’s $750 lifetime pass and GitHub’s pricing bombshell, side by side
I read the Self-Host Weekly digest for the week of 22 May 2026 the morning after it landed, and two stories have been sitting in my head since. The first is Plex…
My 2014 ProBook is more repairable than anything made since
I still own an HP ProBook 640 G1 from 2014. It is not a museum piece. It runs Windows 11, it has been opened more times than my two newer laptops combined,…