I ditched Quad9's filtering for Control D, and the visibility difference is massive
…Control D See at Official Site Control D gave me options I didn't know I needed My DNS queries have never been better managed In my case, I wanted more control…
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A $15 fan controller did more for my PC than a new case ever could
6d agoTailscale plus Pi-hole gives you DNS control that Apple and Google will never allow
1w agoYour router's parental controls are security theater, and here's the firewall rule that actually works
1w agoSomeone turned a GBA into a Switch controller, and it uses the OG Link Cable as the cord
1w agoI turned an old iPhone into a Home Assistant wall panel, and it beats every dedicated controller I've tried
…lights, heating controls, cameras, scenes, and media controls present. For a wall panel that can be taken anywhere, we'd need to have a glance-first UX where data can be viewed…
I fine-tuned a 7B model to write my Home Assistant automations, and it actually works
…Alongside all of this, I also used the acon96 Home-Assistant-Requests-V2 dataset from HuggingFace, which contains thousands of instruction-response pairs specifically designed for Home Assistant device control. Each example…
I don't use Tailscale or Nginx to access my home lab remotely, here's what I use instead
…It even supports 2FA, making it about as secure as any other services you use, but it's all owned and controlled by you, so your data isn't being used elsewhere…
I paired a Raspberry Pi with an ESP32, and it unlocked projects I never thought of before
…It can run Linux, host services, serve dashboards, collect data, and glue together a home lab without much fuss. Then you ask it to read a sensor in an awkward spot, sleep…
I found a free, open-source Figma alternative — and kept finding reasons not to go back
…You get the essentials - shapes, text, images, basic alignment, position and size controls, constraints, borders, simple effects like shadow and blur, and a layers panel - but a lot of the deeper controls…
Claude's memory beats Gemini's in one crucial way: you can easily control what it remembers
…One day, I went over to Gemini, and Google told me that there was a new feature that allowed the AI to pluck data from our past chats and use them to…
I switched from NotebookLM to this open-source tool, and it does what Google won't
…Sign in to your XDA account If you're reading this, you probably love what NotebookLM is capable of doing , but perhaps don't feel comfortable handing it all your data or…
Google Home and Alexa can't do what I built in Home Assistant, and that's the whole point
…Likewise, you’ll almost always find some talented tinkerer on GitHub restoring discontinued gizmos to their former glory by adding local controls for them on Home Assistant. And that’s before you…
Your Windows 11 complaints have solutions — Microsoft just doesn't want you to know
…Smart App Control essentially checks the apps you use against a database of apps that are considered "trusted" and, in Microsoft's eyes, more secure. It actually tried to adapt to you…