Six Jellyfin settings that turned my media server around
I paid for Plex Pass for about six years before the math stopped working. Hardware transcoding (using your server’s graphics card to convert video formats on the fly) was the feature that…
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One free streaming app earned more screen time than the rest
I have four TVs in rotation and zero interest in paying for another subscription. So for the last month I let four free, ad-supported apps fight it out across my main set,…
Bitwarden self-host lands on AWS and Azure Marketplaces
Bitwarden is now listed in the AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace, which means a working Bitwarden self-host server is about fifteen minutes away from a single marketplace listing click. The deployment is…
A self-hosted dashboard for Hermes Agent that does not need a browser zoo
If you have been running Hermes Agent on your own box and you keep opening three or four tabs just to check what your assistant is doing, you already know the pain.…
Brave’s Shred button lands on Android, and trackers hate it
I have run the same experiment on three different Android browsers over the last six months, and the result is always the same. I open a news site, read three articles, get…
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,…
Self-Host Your PDF Toolkit in 10 Minutes
Self-Host Your PDF Toolkit in 10 Minutes I have handled enough sensitive documents to know I do not want them floating through some third-party cloud before I can merge or rotate them.…