Travel computing doesn't need a laptop — the Raspberry Pi 5 proved that to me
Jeff Butts Apr 15, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
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Running OpenClaw in Proxmox taught me that elegance doesn't always beat reliability
…a lighter server-style deployment, but OpenClaw benefits from easy access to its web dashboard while I’m tweaking settings and checking how everything behaves. Having the full Linux Mint desktop made…
I started my home lab with a full-size PC, and now I can't imagine using anything else
…Operating systems like Proxmox, TrueNAS Scale, or even plain Linux like Ubuntu Server were all built and tested first on x86. There's no waiting on an ARM build, and no "works…
Your next "Raspberry Pi project" doesn't actually need a Raspberry Pi
…When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include…
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I used Cockpit instead of a full NAS OS, and my spare Linux box finally made sense for home storage
1d agoI wanted a Synology home server until I realized it was designed to stop me from building one
4d agoI stopped treating old phones like e-waste and started treating them like tiny servers
5d agoI ran Linux for two years without actually understanding it, and WSL2 made that possible
1w agoI put my Steam library on my NAS, and it was both brilliant and stupid
…When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include…
Single-maintainer open source is a ticking time bomb, and Booklore just detonated
Korbin Brown Mar 31, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the…
I ditched my dedicated GPU for integrated graphics and cut my power bill in half
…It was almost required since our existing playback device of choice didn't support all the formats stored on Plex. I ended up using a GPU, starting with an Nvidia GeForce RTX…
I switched from pfSense to OPNsense, and I'm happy with the upgrade
…When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include…
SteamOS 3.8 just dramatically improved a lot of handhelds except the Steam Deck itself
…With many Linux distros moving to Wayland and leaving X11 behind as their display server protocol, SteamOS is now doing the same. Both SteamOS and KDE Plasma, its desktop environment, are now…
4 unique integrations you never thought of using with Home Assistant
…When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include…
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