4 HDMI gadgets I wish I’d discovered a lot sooner
…The Bi-Directional HDMI switcher One box that simplified multi-display setup I used to think HDMI switches were only useful for adding more ports to a TV or monitor, but I…
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Claude's new computer use feature turned my old laptop into a machine I control from my phone
…It might need more follow-ups to complete a multi-step instruction, and sometimes it can misread the screen context. For instance, it initially used the wrong IP address to access Portainer…
My entire smart home runs on a single Docker container now, and I'm never going back
…I didn’t want a dedicated operating system; I wanted a single, portable process that I could drop onto any Linux box and have running in seconds. The turning point with Docker…
I tested every charger in my house with a tiny USB tester, and half of them were broken
…Some of the chargers were multi-port ones, and were supposed to provide 100W on either port if only one cable was plugged in, but were only negotiating at the lower PD…
The NAS feature I use every day isn't storage, it's Docker
…However, with multiple drives on my desktop PC, as well as cloud backups of important files, the NAS ended up feeling mostly redundant. That's until I started using Docker on my…
Docker on Windows is about to become obsolete, and WSL containers are why
…The GUI dashboard for Docker Desktop is horrible, in my opinion, and I always end up installing Portainer or another management tool to manage my containers. Docker Scout has no equivalent in…
I added a second Ethernet port to my NAS and finally stopped fighting network slowdowns
…This is a very interesting feature that specifically enhances the capabilities and utility of using multiple Ethernet ports. While traditional link aggregation mainly helps with multiple simultaneous connections, SMB Multichannel is different…
Homarr is packed with features, but Glance is what I actually use on my home servers
…Initially, I used a Docker container widget to show the current status, but it had an issue. I couldn't access the container's web portal from it because the widget doesn…
I stopped logging into my homelab dashboard after connecting these 4 MCP servers to Claude Code
…When I asked about it, Claude called Portainer multiple times, went through each service and internal Docker networks, and gave me an answer within seconds. If I were to troubleshoot it manually…
My Windows PC became my homelab's control center with these 5 free tools
…But as the number of hosts grew, multiple IPs, ports, usernames, and notes, it became annoying to manage all those. After switching to Termius , the management of my servers has become far…