I bypassed Plex's remote streaming paywall with one free tool
…Plex's argument is that maintaining the relay infrastructure for remote connections costs money, and that's fair enough. What it doesn't change is that my use is extremely occasional. I…
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I deployed Omnitools on my puny Raspberry Pi Zero and stopped using sketchy overpriced web tools
…Omnitools is a powerhouse with numerous mini-tools that can do the jobs I mentioned while not costing a penny. You may question my decision to pick a locally hosted tool over…
I gave Claude Cowork access to my Home Assistant config, and it unlocked automations I didn't know were possible
…Want me to look at the other two repair items (backup upload failure, deprecated decora_wifi YAML), or stop here? A few questions later, both my automatic backups (my Nabu Casa subscription…
I replaced Cloudflare Tunnel with Pangolin, and finally own my whole ingress path
…Related 5 networking tools I use weekly that don't cost anything No subscriptions, just five free networking essentials. Cloudflare is still here, just not in the way In my previous article…
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Testing new LLMs shouldn't require five subscriptions, and OpenRouter proves it
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…This helps bring down the LLM usage costs. Using MinusPod day to day Set it and forget it For the most part, this is an app that you'll set up and…
Your paid AI coding tools are overkill — here's what I switched to instead
…The thing is, unless you're hosting your own local LLM models , the costs of that accelerated development cycle add up quickly. And sometimes, you just don't need the additional help…
This is the mini PC that finally made me display my home server instead of burying it
…I'm currently using the AI X1 Pro-470 as a home server , where it's reduced my yearly cloud subscriptions by over $1,000. That's nearly the cost of the…
I automated my entire read-it-later workflow with a local LLM so every article I save gets summarized overnight
…Related I use local LLMs and self-hosted apps to manage my documents instead of relying on ChatGPT Not every LLM-powered task requires a ChatGPT subscription A workflow that changes how…
I switched from Adobe to Affinity and found 5 things it actually does better
…And any lag between the brush and what’s happening on screen costs you control. Photoshop has improved here but it’s carrying 35 years of accumulated legacy code, and it still…
My old phone became a $200 webcam upgrade, and the setup took 10 minutes
…At the budget end of the spectrum, cameras offering respectable quality were missing important features that would cost mere pennies to add per unit sold, such as a plastic privacy shutter, an…