Windows is undeniably convenient, but Linux puts you in charge
…Linux Mint Linux Mint Official Site Related Windows can learn a lot from Linux, but this is the one feature I really want Desktop environments are so cool There's still some…
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For under $100, an Xbox 360 with homebrew beats almost every modern console I own
…Its library is extensive, and by the end of its official support window, the hardware had aged well. If you weren't around to experience the Xbox 360 era, it's worth…
My favorite alternative to Office 365 isn’t LibreOffice – it’s something way cooler
…The switch to .docx was part of Microsoft's adoption of the Office Open XML standard, which made files smaller, more transparent, and easier to recover if corrupted. Challenge Complete Your Score…
Home Assistant just made every infrared device in your house controllable, and you probably already own them
…With a small, affordable IR blaster acting as a bridge, Home Assistant lets you control any device that responds to an infrared remote without any hardware modifications. Related My smart home still…
I fine-tuned a 7B model to write my Home Assistant automations, and it actually works
…I used Unsloth inside Nvidia's official PyTorch Docker container for the DGX Spark platform. The setup was straightforward: pull the container, install Unsloth and its dependencies, and point the training script…
Stop struggling with OPNsense — these 4 tweaks take a few minutes to make
…From shaping traffic to overriding DNS lookups with local rules through Unbound, you can completely change your network makeup with a few small tweaks within the OPNsense web UI. If there's…
Testing new LLMs shouldn't require five subscriptions, and OpenRouter proves it
…Every provider has its own setup, its own terminology, and its own slightly different way of making you wonder whether you just enabled something expensive. OpenRouter cuts through a lot of that…
I built a touch-enabled ePaper Home Assistant dashboard, and it's better than any tablet
…That includes the smaller E1001 if you wanted to use it on a smaller device, but you'd need to strip out the touch component. Regardless, the whole point of automating your…
I stopped recommending Linux Mint after trying Lubuntu on a nine-year-old laptop
…An official flavor of Ubuntu, it aims to deliver a lightweight and fast experience for older machines while still having all the modern conveniences you could want, since it's based on…
Tines built the better AI workflow builder, but n8n is the one self-hosters will actually use
…n8n's setup is a LangGraph state machine where the Supervisor picks one agent to run next, that agent does its work, control goes back to a router, and the next agent…