6 reasons I'm buying HDDs, not SSDs
…The number of hard drive manufacturers is low, and for the capacities I need, it is even smaller. I'll still put those hard drives into a watchlist and track the price…
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This is the mini PC that finally made me display my home server instead of burying it
…It does have plenty of features that home lab enthusiasts will want, like two Ethernet ports, three SSD slots, and support for up to 128GB of RAM, but again, the price is…
I gave Claude control of my calendar for a week, and it scheduled my life better than I do
…Useful stuff that most calendar apps either won't do or bury behind a subscription. I wanted all of that - and spent a week testing it. I'm just not technically doing…
I couldn’t get Plex remote streaming to work until I made this simple fix
…If your library loads and streams play, your setup is working as intended. Plex OS Windows, macOS, Linux Individual pricing Free, $6.99/month, $250/lifetime Plex is the premier home media…
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I downgraded to free Claude for a week, and it changed how I feel about paying $20 a month
…Sign in to your XDA account Claude is the only AI subscription that's outlasted everything else in my stack this year. I've cycled through and dropped a fair few others…
Claude Cowork handles my admin work so well that I stopped doing it myself
…The setup, the caveats, and who Cowork is actually for Cowork is Claude’s desktop agent - you need the desktop app and at least a Pro subscription , it’s not on the…
Working around Claude's strict limits taught me how to use it properly
…Related I cancelled my ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini subscriptions for Claude — and I should have sooner Wish I did this sooner. Claude's limits have attracted controversy in recent weeks This has…
I built my entire second brain inside VS Code and stopped switching apps entirely
…I don’t have to deal with any middlemen, subscription fees, or a spinning syncing wheel. If I’m out and need to reference a note on my phone, I use a…
I extended my Wi-Fi network with this cheap $10 ESP32
…I flashed the ESP NAT Router firmware and set it up to act as a NAT router — bridging my main network and working as an access point. No subscription, no cloud account…
I replaced my Echo with a $4 ESP32-powered speaker that runs entirely on my local network
…Sign in to your XDA account Alexa feels like it's become a bit of a salesman, interjecting with "by the way" suggestions and pushing subscriptions like Alexa+ on you constantly. Alongside…