Plex wants you to pay $750 for everything Jellyfin can do for free
…Fourteen years later, that price is about to become ten times the initial cost, making all Plex Pass users feel like early Bitcoin buyers. I myself got the Lifetime Pass at $120…
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This is the first self-hosted app I've used that actually feels better than its cloud alternative
…Sometimes, these self-hosted options can have some drawbacks, but it's worth it for the lower costs and the knowledge that your data is completely private and not sent off to…
Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
…A Zip drive (as in, the hardware for reading the disks) initially sold for $200 including a 100MB disk, and each new disk would cost $20, which made relatively high capacities much…
I thought my Windows PC was slow until I stopped installing these apps on day one
…On my latest build, I skipped the third-party cleaners and tried Microsoft PC Manager . It’s free, official, and the most honest tool Microsoft has released in years. Unlike third-party…
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Your NAS doesn't need to be all-SSD, and TrueNAS proved it to me
…I wanted a single system that could manage large volumes of data reliably, serve those files across devices, and handle media too while at it, while offering reliability and a hands-off…
I stopped reaching for Raspberry Pi when the $60 board hit $95
…But the economics of tinkering look different now, especially after the RAM apocalypse tightened memory supply and forced Raspberry Pi into repeated price hikes tied to LPDDR4 costs and AI-era competition…
A used Lenovo ThinkCentre is still the best $100 you can spend on a home lab
…It remains the most cost-effective entry point into a serious home lab, and stepping up to the M720q or M920q at $150–$200 puts you in six-core territory, giving you…
It's not just you — MSI's confession proves it's the worst year ever for PC hardware
…SSDs shot up to thrice their usual price , to the point where most 2TB consumer drives now cost $300–$350 (they used to cost around $120). Hard drives did not see as…
N100 mini PCs quietly killed the Raspberry Pi for home servers
…Cost-wise, you’ll find N100 devices for anywhere between $200–300, which is pretty insane considering that’s more or less what a RAM-laden Raspberry Pi can cost you. The…
Your 5-year-old router isn't just slow — it's an unpatched security loophole
…Without airtime fairness and other QoS settings , your router is left on its own to manage slow traffic from smart devices and high-priority traffic from your PC, smartphone, and laptop. It…