My Raspberry Pi beats my Switch for one reason
…Heck, GameCube support isn’t even available on the OG Switch, leaving the second-most underrated Nintendo console (the first is obviously Wii U) out of my reach if I didn’t…
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Linux finally has working HDR, but you still can't use it for most streaming services
…Only recently have mainstream desktops and distros started switching to Wayland entirely, so things have been finicky until now. Even then, though, hardware support can make a difference. According to the Arch…
Sunshine and Moonlight let me build my own game streaming service for the cost of one GPU
…Instead of relying on an overkill system for what I needed it to do, Proxmox running a Sunshine Ubuntu VM seemed like the logical step to have something available that could fire…
The real reason you should move to Proxmox isn't virtualization
…Compared to ESXi, which paywalls cluster facilities, PVE not only includes high-availability provisions built into it, but it also has the ultra-useful Proxmox Datacenter Manager companion utility for controlling, monitoring…
I asked Claude to improve my home lab and it was wild
…hosting a few of my own services and testing out Linux distros, so I wouldn’t have to rely on big tech platforms. But over time, things got out of hand. I…
Unraid finally dropped the USB boot stick requirement, and it's about time
…But for most folks, it all boils down to the big two NAS distros: Unraid and TrueNAS . I’ve used both distributions in my home lab extensively, and Unraid definitely has some…
I can’t live without this Linux-based disk tool, and Windows still doesn’t have anything quite like it
…Sign in to your XDA account There's a USB stick that lives on my desk, and it doesn't have a single Linux distro on it that I actually use as…
I stopped being afraid to break my systems after learning what each OS actually needs to recover
…monitoring are only doing monitoring, so they're available when things come crashing down. With the shift to systemd in most major Linux distros , that's where troubleshooting starts when those installs…
I replaced NotebookLM with this free tool that uses my local LLMs
…Not to mention, a lot of the sources I aggregate on my note takers are official documents on experimental devices, beta packages, or early access distros – undisclosed products that I absolutely can…
I ditched VMs for Linux containers, and my home server finally has room to breathe
…With the increased availability of Linux containers (LXCs), largely with Proxmox and the release of TrueNAS 26 , there's almost a better way for running self-hosted services. Linux containers won't…