I ditched half my Obsidian plugins and my vault actually got better
…Sign in to your XDA account When it comes to Obsidian, most people open it for the first time, see a blank canvas, and immediately head to the Community Plugin gallery to…
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Linux gaming still breaks in ways that make normal people give up
…ProtonDB, a community-maintained database that tracks which games run well through Proton, is proof of this. A quick scroll through will show you that very few titles are straight up incompatible…
I built a perfectly segmented home network, then spent six months poking holes back through it
…I assumed an hour of troubleshooting could solve all that. But it turned into six months of punching holes through the very network segments I spent weeks building. Related Setting up OPNsense…
A $40 label maker and QR codes completely changed how I manage my home lab
…Time was then wasted troubleshooting problems when they arose. I had hardware that either wasn't optimized or was configured in such a way that it introduced inefficiencies. Doing anything with the…
Your Raspberry Pi will outlast your PC if you stop treating it like one
…The community projects and numerous tutorials make it tempting to keep adding them to the same board. That’s the slippery slope. The Pi misbehaves and crashes when you keep stacking workloads…
Your NAS permissions are probably a mess, and a single flat share fixes it
…Spend a couple of minutes searching NAS communities, and you'll see just how prevalent the permission problem is. Where it all goes wrong Permissions to do what, exactly? With a NAS…
Single-maintainer open source is a ticking time bomb, and Booklore just detonated
…What users and communities can do Good news: talented devs tend to fill the vacuum Within days of Booklore's shutdown, the community had collectively appointed Grimmory as its successor. In reality…
I stopped buying smart home gadgets and started building them for a fraction of the price
…Ran the numbers and they didn’t lie Math made the decision easy I wanted to explore the recurring advice from smart home communities to build my own devices to see if…
I've tried a lot of different backup software, and I keep coming back to this free, open-source tool
Pranav Bhardwaj Apr 19, 2026, 9:31 AM EDT Pranav Bhardwaj is a seasoned Tech Writer with a passion for simplifying complex tech issues. Pranav specializes in Windows OS troubleshooting, app reviews…
The real reason you should move to Proxmox isn't virtualization
…What really makes Proxmox Virtual Environment stand out from its rivals is its talented community of devs and tinkerers. Related You need this free self-hosted tool if you're using Proxmox…