I'd do these 5 things differently if I were setting up my home network from scratch
… I can keep the router updated to patch security loopholes, and avoid traffic tracking and consequent ads. …
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A $40 label maker and QR codes completely changed how I manage my home lab
… A The brand of Ethernet cable used B The color of the keystone jacks C Port-to-room or port-to-device mapping D The date the patch panel was manufactured Correct! Port-to-device or port-to-room mapping is the single most useful piece of data for a patch panel label. …
I switched from pfSense to OPNsense, and I'm happy with the upgrade
… Meanwhile, pfSense CE typically only includes maintenance patches, with most of the new and exciting features being relegated to the Plus version of the distro. …
Fedora Atomic is the desktop OS I keep recommending to people who don't want to think about Linux
… Related The atomic Linux distro nobody talks about just got a big update It brings in lots of patches and fixes to the OS Fedora itself is a very rigid system I very rarely have issues with it Okay, so those are my reasons for recommending an atomic OS, but why Fedora ones, specifically? …
Stop buying networking gear for your smart home that looks good on paper but fails in practice
… Instead of creating a seamless network, the extender made the whole setup feel patched together with duct tape and wishful thinking. Latency went up, roaming got messy, and reliability became a coin toss. …
I kept track of every Windows 11 update that broke something this year, and the list is getting long
… App sign-ins broke across Windows Microsoft insists on locking apps behind sign-ins, and then they broke them Two months later, March's Patch Tuesday update introduced a bug that managed to lock users out of a significant chunk of Microsoft's own software ecosystem. …
Linux gamers didn't do anything wrong, but they might pay for Windows piracy anyway
… In its most aggressive form, at Ring -2 UEFI firmware level , an open-source bootkit called EfiGuard patches the Windows Boot Manager to disable PatchGuard, Driver Signature Enforcement , and VBS before the OS even loads. …
Your Ethernet wall ports might already work, but your builder wired them for phones
… Check if your plans include a small server rack, NAS, or network switch, and wall-mount a suitable patch panel here. Label each port on this panel so you can later run short, colorful patch cables from it to an unmanaged gigabit network switch. …
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
… Elizabeth Figura has been working on this problem for years, iterating through multiple kernel patch revisions, presenting the work at the Linux Plumbers Conference in 2023, and pushing through multiple versions of the patch set before it was finally merged into the mainline Linux kernel with versi… …
I used Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to create my personal website, and there was a clear winner
… The multi-page logic was where things really fell apart — the navigation was patchy at best. …