Your old Android phone is a better thin client than most mini PCs
…connect to my home server , the performance limitations of using a phone as a desktop client haven't mattered at all. In fact, the long battery life and built-in connectivity have…
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Most Pi-hole setups leak your browsing to your ISP — here's the encryption layer that stops it
…Pi-hole can clean up what you connect to, but it still falls short of hiding it from your ISP or any intermediary. That distinction matters more than most people realize. Fixing…
I upgraded to Wi-Fi 7 and discovered the real bottleneck was hiding in my walls
…Related Wi-Fi signal strength is a terrible indicator of real performance Those bars don't show the full picture Your Wi-Fi's speed doesn't matter if your wiring is…
Your old router is the secret to a stable smart home
…You can either go as a bridge, meaning you connect it LAN to LAN. This means you connect an Ethernet cable from a LAN port on your main router to a LAN…
I tried an open-source Figma alternative, and its AI does what Figma's can't
…The quality of what OpenPencil produces depends entirely on which model you connect, so it's worth being deliberate about picking your model. I had some issues with my Claude key at…
Your home lab probably falls apart for the wrong reason, and these tools fix it
…That matters because home lab problems rarely announce themselves politely. A reverse proxy dies, a container stops responding, or DNS goes sideways, and suddenly half your stack feels haunted. Uptime Kuma gives…
I use HDMI for my gaming PC, and it works just fine with how I play games
…I have an HDMI 2.1 connected to one of the monitor's HDMI 2.1 ports, which is connected to my PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Switch 2. The other…
Running Jellyfin on a NAS with Docker support turned my media chaos into something that actually works
…There’s also the issue of risk concentration. The more roles your NAS takes on, the more important it becomes to your day-to-day setup. Reboots matter more, updates carry more…
I found the best Home Assistant dashboard for my iPad
…fixes practical issues around it. After using it a while, I've basically stopped thinking about the app itself. It doesn't actually matter all that much. What matters, though, is the…
I changed these settings on my ISP gateway and my network finally works like it should
…Lastly, QoS is often disabled or set to some generic profile, and turning it on might squelch any issues you may have with gaming or video traffic when a connection is saturated…