Stop automating your smart home, it's making things worse
…The fussy stuff went away, and I stopped wondering what my house was going to do next. That alone made the whole setup feel calmer and more polished. Simpler routines made my…
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Stop buying networking gear for your smart home that looks good on paper but fails in practice
…Instead of creating a seamless network, the extender made the whole setup feel patched together with duct tape and wishful thinking. Latency went up, roaming got messy, and reliability became a coin…
I ignored my monitor's USB hub for too long, but it's perfect for one vastly underrated thing
…Since high-bandwidth devices such as external SSDs and hard drives, webcams, and audio interfaces require fast USB ports, people look to the motherboard I/O for reliable connectivity . The monitor's…
A modern NAS replaced my smart home hub, backup solution, and media server
…Effectively, a reliable system that replaced a host of apps, services, and subscriptions for me and could be configured to be more or less automated once setup. Turns out, a modern NAS…
I over-engineered my home lab on purpose, and it's the best decision I've made
…That’s perfectly fine as a beginner, when you’re playing with cool FOSS utilities and quirky distributions. But once you’ve got a reliable collection of containerized apps and virtual machines…
Cheap enterprise networking gear exposes the flaws in expensive consumer hardware
…This is where ex-enterprise routers, switches, and firewall devices come in, providing not only advanced features and security, but also greater reliability. Enterprise hardware is built for 24/7 operation and…
I thought a VPS would replace my home server, but the real costs caught me off guard
…things reliably. Everything was local, which meant the performance was predictable, and I didn’t have to worry about monthly cloud subscriptions. For a long time, the setup worked fine and as…
I used my local LLM to rebuild my workflow from scratch, and it was better than I expected
…Related I turned my home server into an AI appliance, and this is the stack that actually stuck My reliable, low-friction self-hosted AI productivity setup. My non-negotiable productivity workflow…
My perfect self-hosted setup became my biggest productivity killer
…My goal is no longer to build the most advanced setup, but to build one that stays reliable and quietly supports my work. Related After self-hosting everything for a year, I…
These 4 PC drivers will tank your performance if you skip them
…Updated audio drivers also fix compatibility bugs with newer software features such as spatial audio, noise suppression, and advanced microphone enhancements. Since I regularly use voice chats and media editing tools, reliable…