Most smart home gear gets worse once you connect it to the cloud
…Although self-hosting your own smart home hub may require slightly extra legwork in the beginning, it spares you from all these problems. And it’s easier to set up than ever…
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Replacing paid productivity apps with a self-hosted setup helped me save money, but I had to make some compromises
3d agoAfter self-hosting LLMs for a year, I realized that models are not the real bottleneck
4d agoThese 5 small tweaks made my self-hosted LLM setup way more productive
4d agoMy self-hosted LLMs are a lot more than just a chat replacement – here's how they boost my productivity
5d agoYour NAS is becoming a single point of failure, and consolidating everything onto it is the reason why
…LXCs require less overhead compared to a fully blown VM due to sharing the host kernel. Now, instead of firing up self-hosted apps and services within virtual machines on TrueNAS, an…
TrueNAS SCALE tried to do everything, so I gave it one job and moved the rest to Proxmox
…It's also fairly limited when it comes to trying software like full Linux distros or a new self-hosted app without at best jumping through some hoops. Resources are often limited…
I built a local AI stack with 5 Docker containers, and now I'll never pay for ChatGPT again
…By leveraging Docker and self-hosting, I’ve built a private, high-performance ecosystem that runs entirely on my own hardware. Equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, 32GB RAM, and…
The best NAS distro is getting better at virtualization, but you shouldn't use it exclusively for that
…Since it houses TBs of data I’ve accumulated over the years, it’s the storage backend for practically every data-heavy self-hosted tool in my arsenal. So, I’d be…
Pi-hole showed me 65,000 DNS queries in hours, and I didn't like where they were going
…My instincts were telling me to look for encrypted upstream DNS and, ideally, a self-hosted solution. Self-hosting DNS changed how I think about privacy Control over convenience After digging into…
I built a 4K Jellyfin server from an old gaming PC, and it transcodes everything I throw at it
…Sign in to your XDA account I've been self-hosting Jellyfin for some time now. I initially hosted it on my Mac, and that worked perfectly fine. I was able to…
My NAS has been a backup server, Jellyfin archive, and file storage for years, and it could still do so much more
…In fact, I’ve been using my NAS units for everything from 3-2-1 backup pipelines to self-hosting useful apps for a few years, and they haven’t let me…
I built my own Googlebook with a Raspberry Pi, local LLMs, and old hardware
…Related 7 self-hosted services I use that can run perfectly on a Raspberry Pi Not every self-hosted application requires a top-of-the-line workstation Open WebUI + local LLMs provide…
Your WireGuard setup is harder than it needs to be, and WireGUI fixes it
…He writes for XDA-Developers, where he focuses on topics like productivity, networking, self-hosting, and more. Over the years, his work has also appeared in leading publications such as Android Police…