Pick a Linux backup tool in 2026 without burning another weekend
I have spent the better part of a decade running backup strategies for production servers and personal workstations. If there is one thing I have learned the hard way, it is this:…
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The operating systems pushing back against age verification
Bryan Lunduke keeps a public list at github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify. The repository tracks, by operating system, whether the OS has implemented age verification in the user account creation flow, the app store rating system,…
Age verification for social media is the first step toward a logged-in web
Age verification for social media (a system that requires users to prove their age, usually through government ID, biometric scans, or third-party age-estimation services, before they can create an account) is spreading…
VLC is the most powerful media tool on your PC, and most people never noticed
I have been running VLC (VideoLAN Client, the open-source media player that ships on basically every operating system) for fifteen years and I treated it like a fancy .mp4 viewer. The icon…
Claude Design, but the free tier you can actually run
Up until a few months ago, my biggest complaint with AI tools was that the free tiers simply did not cut it anymore. I have since accepted that there is no escaping…
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…
A dead iPad, a Raspberry Pi, and a security monitor that pulls weight
I had a stack of old iPads collecting dust. Some had cracked screens, some were too old to install modern apps, and none of them were useful enough to sell. The hardware…
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…
Strava paywalled its API, and self-hosters are still fuming
The 5 June 2026 Self-Host Weekly carried a lead item about Strava paywalling its API, and I have been thinking about it for a week. Strava is the hosted fitness tracking service…