I stopped organizing my NAS like a PC, and everything got easier to back up and maintain
…Don't treat your NAS like a PC But it's fine to use it as a server A NAS is a powerful tool in your home lab and smart home arsenal…
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Intel Quick Sync is the reason I will never buy another Nvidia card for my Jellyfin server
…Related You probably already have the best GPU for Plex and Jellyfin transcoding Transcoding is well within your reach, even on older hardware Hardware-accelerated transcoding is pretty important for media servers…
The only reason I still recommend Synology is DSM, but even that's falling behind
…Before Plex was the default, I'd rely on Video Station to get my anime fix. It worked well enough and had a few tricks up its sleeve, guaranteeing compatibility with older…
Stop upgrading your CPU for media server transcoding; a used GPU does it better
…Sign in to your XDA account My homelab Debian server runs on an old PC, hosting containerized services via Docker on Portainer , including Jellyfin. The server didn't have a dedicated GPU…
This tiny Docker container monitors my entire network and alerts me before things break
…I used to be the guy who only found out my Plex server was down when I sat down with popcorn and realized the app wouldn’t load. It’s frustrating, and…
A modern NAS replaced my smart home hub, backup solution, and media server
…As an always-on appliance, the NAS is the always-accessible server for all my software needs. It finally makes backups more reliable Continuous backups with versioning built in Backups are another…
My entire smart home runs on a single Docker container now, and I'm never going back
…Every new device added another point of failure and another tether to a manufacturer’s server. To avoid such fatigue, I decided to consolidate everything under a single, local-first brain: Home…
I built a private podcast feed for all my random YouTube saves and I am never going back
…It's not another Plex server , nor is it a long-term archive project like TubeArchivist or one of the many YouTube downloader apps. It's not even trying to replace YouTube…
I finally ditched Letterboxd for this self-hosted movie tracker and I am never looking back
…My watch history was on one of these apps, reading history was in Goodreads, and my actual media server had no connection to any of these at all. That's what finally…
A $40 label maker and QR codes completely changed how I manage my home lab
…Plex is a media server, Proxmox is a hypervisor, and Grafana is for metrics dashboards. BookStack's hierarchical structure makes it perfect for organizing device documentation that QR codes can link to…