4 affordable streaming services that finally replaced Netflix for me
…With four cinema trips in the bag, as well as access to Mubi's ever-changing roster of films, you're still paying less than the premium tier of Netflix. Mubi See…
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My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…no subscription required The goal was not to replace OTT streaming platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime, but to build a personal library. This included home videos and family recordings, content from…
I don’t pay for Adobe Acrobat, Foxit PDF, or Nitro PDF, I use this free self-hosting tool to edit my PDFs
…I changed the font to something sleek and professional, adjusted the color to a subtle gray so it wouldn't distract from the content, played around with the opacity until it was…
Self-hosted LLM took my personal knowledge management system to the next level
…subscriptions, privacy concerns, or losing access to my own knowledge. Everything is stored as simple files, which makes the system reliable and future-proof. Bidirectional linking is another feature that changed how…
Google's most underrated AI tool is actually a free graphics editing suite in disguise
…It was relaunched as Flow at Google I/O 2025 and pitched as an AI filmmaking tool built for content creators. That framing is still all over the marketing today, which is…
I used a local LLM to turn my NAS from a storage dump into something actually organized
…content = md.convert(str(file_path.absolute())).text_content That extracted text gets trimmed down and sent to Llama 3 running locally on my Mac through Ollama along with the file metadata…
I built my entire second brain inside VS Code and stopped switching apps entirely
…in a Markdown file, Syncthing detects the change and pushes it directly to other devices. I don’t have to deal with any middlemen, subscription fees, or a spinning syncing wheel. If…
NotebookLM's free tier does something Claude can't, and I stopped reaching for Claude because of it
…Web research, document analysis, content drafts, you name it. Then I uploaded a stack of PDFs to NotebookLM for a client project and realized I'd been forcing one tool to do…
Glance is a beautiful, self-hosted dashboard that I've already set as my web browser's home page
…Inside the text file, you can make changes to the elements displayed inside Glance. For instance, you can change the starting day of the week in the calendar widget and set the…
I thought I needed a NAS, then I used this device for Plex instead
…Related I’m back on Plex, and these are the 4 settings I changed right away The home media server landscape has changed a lot since the last time I was immersed…