Most networking equipment isn't exactly designed to be user-serviceable, but the Unifi Dream Machine Pro Max was a little easier to disassemble than most. Honestly, I feared the worst when I looked down the hard drive bays and saw the cooling fans buried at the bottom, but they were attached to a plastic vent that came out after four screws were undone, so that was a pleasant surprise. The worst part was routing the Noctua fan cables back to the headers, as the sleeve around the cables made it a little tricky, so I had to go inside the venting area instead. And the plug needed a little trimmin
I silenced my network stack, and all it cost me was my sanity…While there's a heavy industry push towards AI, the reality is that you can look around your house and see your ceiling fans, motorized patio blinds, garage door, and string lights…
…VLC's ability to stream media over the local network feels almost too simple, especially in a world where everything wants you to set up a server, create accounts, and manage libraries…
…Lower voltage means lower temperatures, lower power draw, and often quieter fans, frequently with no meaningful loss in performance, GPU and card dependent, of course. Related 5 things I wish I knew…
…Fancy materials kept changing the rules every time Every new spool brought another variable to troubleshoot One of the biggest problems with fancy filaments is that they don’t just look different…
…It has CPU, GPU, network, drives, and more options, but I used the network, temperature, and CPU widgets. The weather widget was also cool, so I placed it next to Irene's…
…CPU-heavy workloads that push the cores hard, like rendering, code compilation, 3D modeling, or in a CPU-bound game, can push the fans in these coolers to RPMs that result in…
…Google ships Files by Google preinstalled, and it was a fantastic, lightweight utility that recently morphed into a billboard with an unhelpful homepage. It's filled with prompts to clean out junk…
…You get two 2.5 GbE ports, meaning you can use it as a router, a firewall, or as a Home Assistant controller with one NIC on your IoT device network and…
…It's fantastic, and far better than sharing passwords for your self-hosted services. Related 5 reasons ZeroTier is the best Tailscale alternative for your home lab There's a million ways…
…I don't need to stream outside my home network, and I'd rather have my media playing on a dedicated box with enough power than worry about transcoding and other issues…