I thought I needed a NAS, then I used this device for Plex instead
…In my case, I stream directly to my Apple TV 4K, along with a few other high-end streaming devices, like the Nvidia Shield TV Pro and Amazon's Fire TV Stick…
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My media server started as a convenience project, but it has become one of my favorite things I’ve ever built
…The Plex UI, too, had started to feel more pushy about streaming media from Plex’s servers. For a tool designed to help me organize and stream my own TV shows and…
I replaced enterprise gear with a $50 compact PC, and my power bill thanked me
…they're reliable and power-efficient systems with the same quad-core processor, the Intel Core i5-7400. Luckily, thanks to the RAM situation, I had to source modules I already had…
You're wrecking your Wi-Fi speeds by ignoring the one setting nobody talks about
…Sign in to your XDA account The demand for faster Wi-Fi has exploded in the last few years as 4K streaming and work from home became mainstream, game sizes increased across…
Don’t toss that old SATA drive - here’s what to do with it instead
…The reliability concerns about these old SATA drives can be real, but they likely still have a ton of life left in them. Related I stopped treating my old 250GB SATA SSD…
The cheapest HDMI cable on Amazon is doing more than your overpriced one
…If both cables can handle the same bandwidth reliably, they're doing the exact same job, and that matters more than "gold contacts" or anything else the marketing tries to sell you…
My homelab monitoring broke silently until I switched from SMS to ntfy in an afternoon
…That was when I decided to migrate to ntfy , and the biggest difference wasn’t reliability alone but visibility. Related 5 of the best tools for monitoring your home lab Keep a…
These 4 free open-source apps fix what Google left broken on my Pixel phone
…This FOSS app shines with network streaming too. I also use VLC to stream video from my home NAS or PC over SMB and FTP. It effortlessly handles hardware decoding, PiP (picture…
Don't waste money on SSD caching—here's why a full SSD upgrade matters for gaming
…great and reliable performance. But gaming is still not a great candidate for SSD caching with HDDs, as your favorite PC titles, notably modern and more demanding games, stream huge amounts of…
Used enterprise switches are absurdly cheap, and they unlock features home routers can't touch
…with video calls or streaming multimedia on your home network. The important part here is architecture, not speed Enterprise switches are designed for sprawling networks where reliability, redundancy, scalability and management features…