My Plex library was a mess, but this useful app cleaned it up
…Plex OS Windows, macOS, Linux Individual pricing Free, $1.99/month, or $6.99/monyh See available plans at Plex Related 7 Docker containers you should run on your Synology NAS Turn…
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A modern NAS replaced my smart home hub, backup solution, and media server
…It's no ding on Synology . Tools like Synology Photos and Note Station are pretty good, but these closed-source apps carry the same problem as every other commercial solution. The only…
I replaced 6 paid subscriptions with a homelab on an old laptop — here's the full stack
…The NAS was getting old; it had started to struggle with basic services like Synology Drive, and Plex was a big ask for the hardware. The DS218j had a 1.3 GHz…
6 reasons I'm buying HDDs, not SSDs
…drive Western Digital MyBook drives, through two-bay, four-bay, and currently, a six-bay Synology NAS , and I'm going to need to upgrade that soon enough. Every step has involved…
Running Jellyfin on a NAS with Docker support turned my media chaos into something that actually works
…Related Proxmox running Xpenology gave me the best of both worlds for my home NAS Synology > TrueNAS > Synology. Putting the streaming platform and the media in one place Jellyfin works better when…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…Why I chose a laptop over a server Built-in UPS, low power, zero noise I was already using an old 2-bay Synology NAS (2 cores) to run services like Plex…
Why I bought a 16TB HDD instead of an 8TB SSD
…You'll see more hardware launches from NAS brands such as Asustor and Synology that focus on SSD storage, and that's because they can last longer when treated well compared to…
Your old phone is a better home server than a Raspberry Pi
…While you won't be a Synology for speed, using your phone as a media bridge is perfect because it provides you with a private document cloud or music server for your…
This self-hosted alternative to Plex and Jellyfin works way better than I expected
…computing (Windows, Linux, macOS), NAS (QNAP, Synology, OpenMediaVault, unRAID, FreeNAS, etc.), and other modes (Docker, Flatpak, Android, NVIDIA Shield). After installation, its web-based setup wizard walks through configuration, library detection, and…
I turned my old phone into a security camera that saves to my home server for free
…If you have a Synology or Surveillance Station, just add a new camera using the RTSP URL provided to you when you launched the server on your phone. If both of these…