4 things I do on a new Windows PC to tighten my security
…Windows 11 already includes most of the protections you need, but some important settings depend on hardware, edition, or setup choices, so they're worth checking. So I take a few minutes…
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I moved everything to Proxmox and learned that fewer boxes doesn't mean more reliable
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I stopped buying cheap USB-C cables after learning what USB4 can actually do
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Your home server needs Ethernet, but not for the reason you think
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After a year of self-hosting LLMs, I realized the real bottleneck isn’t the GPU
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My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
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I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
…control entire smart home setups using trigger-action rules, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that you can use the entities imported from TrueNAS to design automation chains. No, I’m…