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…same underlying OS as my home lab?" That's when I did some experimenting. Synology is a NAS safe heaven It's the Apple for network storage Don't let the fear…
…basic network stability so it wouldn’t randomly drop services. Once everything was running, it stopped being a “laptop” and became a proper home server, my first real setup. Through Home Assistant…
…My home projects quietly changed over time No involvement of GPIO pins A Jellyfin server for media streaming. Pi-hole for network-wide ad blocking. Immich for photo management. Nginx for reverse…
…The dream would be a single device with multiple controllers, like Apple Home and Google Home; however, this actually causes a whole lot of friction. While Matter 1.4 introduced enhanced multi…
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