Chrome privacy settings cut what your VPN cannot hide
I kept my VPN on for most of a year because I thought it was doing the work of about five different privacy tools at once. It is not. A VPN (virtual…
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Twelve Linux notebooks, three that earned a permanent install
I have spent the last month keeping a fresh Linux install on a secondary laptop and trying every data science notebook I could get running on it. Not a click through the…
A weekend and a jailbreak later, my Kindle reads home state
I had a Kindle Paperwhite doing duty as a Home Assistant (an open-source home automation platform that talks to lights, switches, thermostats, and other smart devices) dashboard for a few months. It…
I switched to Samsung Internet on Android and I have not gone back
I have been a Chrome loyalist on Android for ten years. I owned the Pixel, then the Samsung, then the OnePlus, and the browser was always Chrome. When I picked up the…
Four Docker containers that earn their keep on an old phone
I have a home lab. It runs about thirty containers across two x86 boxes, and I reach them over Tailscale (a mesh VPN that lets devices on different networks talk as if…
Siemens spent ten years before publishing their design system
I have spent most of my career inside small companies, so the Siemens Element story catches my attention every time. A 1000 product enterprise codebase did not become a public open source…
Four Android swaps that quietly gut Google from your phone
I made the switch to open-source apps on my Android phone for one reason. Privacy was the pitch I sold myself on a Tuesday night after a third ad for a vacuum…
Calibre 9.14 ships AI art tools and a server patch you need
The cover generator in Calibre 9.14 is the part that gets the press release. The Content Server patches are the part that should change your update schedule. Most users will see the…
Pair Claude Code with a local model and stop rationing limits
A few weeks ago I was hitting the Claude Code rate limit twice a week. The work I was trying to do was not exotic. It was ordinary multi-file refactors and a…
Running Docker on Proxmox: pick VM or LXC, not the host
Proxmox Virtual Environment ships with solid virtualization and LXC (Linux container) management out of the box, which covers most self-hosting needs without reaching for Docker at all. Sometimes you reach for Docker…