Your backup strategy is probably broken, and a $250 second machine can fix it
…But you can also use cheap rigs to maintain extra copies of your backups Even a Raspberry Pi is good enough for a secondary storage server Although I use another NAS for…
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Someone built a four-node Raspberry Pi cluster you can pick up with one hand
23h agoRunning Pi with local LLMs on a Raspberry Pi sounds chaotic, but it actually works
2d agoI moved my self-hosted apps from a Raspberry Pi to an N100 mini PC, and I should have done it sooner
1w agoThe Raspberry Pi 6 delay until 2028 solves a problem nobody's talking about
1w agoI tested TrueNAS, Unraid, and OpenMediaVault to find the perfect NAS OS, and there's a clear winner
…Combine OpenMediaVault’s barebones nature with its terrific hardware compatibility, and you can see why I used to rely on a Raspberry Pi-powered OMV server for my 3-2-1 backup…
I tried multiple self-hosted dashboards but keep coming back to Glance
…making it worrisome for basic servers with limited hardware. So, I can easily deploy Glance on something as weak as a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W or a laptop with 2–4 GB…
Google's Googlebook is Microsoft's Copilot+ problem all over again, and Magic Pointer won't save it
…Related I built my own Googlebook with a Raspberry Pi, local LLMs, and old hardware I turned out much better than I expected Google has made a stellar product for an audience…
I stopped treating old phones like e-waste and started treating them like tiny servers
…Related I turned an old Android phone into a home server, and it’s more useful than my Raspberry Pi Don't let it collect dust in a drawer.
My Proxmox backups stopped being a storage nightmare with this workaround
…For reference, I wanted to connect my 2-node ZFS replication (+ 1 Raspberry Pi QDevice) cluster to the PBS setup. But since both nodes share the same datacenter, all I had to…
Self-hosting freed me from the OS lock-in trap (and made my devices clutter-free)
…I run most utilities inside containerized environments, which are light enough for most devices, including something as underpowered as a Raspberry Pi. Just like the clients, the OS doesn’t matter for…
The ESP32 project I'm most proud of has no cloud, no app, and no gimmicks
…Despite being cheaper than Arduino and Raspberry Pi Pico, it outperforms most of its rivals. Plus, the ESP32 even has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionality built into every board, making it great…
I stopped looking for the perfect Stream Deck alternative and built one instead
…This specific chip is fantastic because, unlike a Raspberry Pi, it's not too expensive and overkill for what you're using it for. It also has a great advantage: built-in…
Running Proxmox on my ASUS NUC 14 Pro Plus taught me where mini PCs still fall short
…It is the kind of machine that can quietly absorb jobs that used to be scattered across Raspberry Pis and older mini PCs. Used that way, it feels efficient rather than limited…