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Kodi's smart playlists let you rethink your library without moving the files
Your movie library can be in five collections at once.
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This cellular Apple Watch Series 10 is $250 off right now
A smart buy
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MSI Crosshair and Stealth: Desktop-replacement power for gaming, AI, and more
This article sponsored by MSI
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My phone runs a local 2B model that searches the web, and Perplexity feels pointless now
A small model that has web is a powerful model
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The latest price hike for the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 makes it 3x more expensive than at launch
It now costs just shy of $400.
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Frigate is the best reason to own a home server, and nothing else I run comes close
Eyes in the sky, walls, and everywhere else.
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The accessory every iPhone owner needs is now at its best price
Track your keys, bags, and luggage for less
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Stop upgrading routers: enable SQM and fix your home's real bottleneck
It's all too easy to fall into the trap of looking for new router models whenever we have issues with our home network. After all, our Internet connection comes in and goes out of that device, so logically, it must be the cause. But what if I told you that a new router probably…
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Windows still uses drive letters from the 1980s, and Linux's single file tree shows what we could have had
The Windows approach is convenient, but Linux seems smarter
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My car's Android Auto runs Home Assistant now, and it talks to my house when I arrive home
My lights, switches, and home alerts now have a place on my car’s screen.
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I added Piper to Home Assistant for local AI voice control, but it turned out to be even more useful
This TTS engine can do more than just voicing my local AI pipeline
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My RTX Spark laptop still doesn't have Copilot+ features, so a local LLM on the same machine built its own from one prompt
It called it "Spark Copilot", and it works similarly to the real thing.
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I turned my Raspberry Pi into a dedicated internet radio for my kitchen, without adding another voice assistant to my home
Just MPD and an AUX cable.
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I tried replacing Obsidian multiple times, but these features always bring me back
I thought I had found an Obsidian replacement, until I missed these surprisingly powerful features.
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Someone got ESP-NOW working on a 2009 Sony Walkman, and it even uses the original Wi-Fi chip
Keeping old hardware alive.
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Someone revived two vintage wind meters from an airport tower using an ESP32-C6
It looks amazing.
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6 things I wish I'd known before turning an old laptop into a home server
Learned these the hard way
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Google Drive stopped sending my folders to Google Photos, so I built a photo backup server that doesn't need Google at all
A DIY photo backup replaces Drive-to-Photos syncing with encrypted local archives, automated cloud uploads, and searchable metadata tagging.
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Forgot your password? Here's to get back into your Windows PC
If you want to unlock a computer without a password, there are multiple options for you to get back into your PC
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I let a local LLM read my Jellyfin watch history, and its movie picks are surprisingly good
Trust the algorithm.