Escaping the Proprietary Dashboard Trap: My First Few Days with Kiosk Satellite
If you are anything like me, your desk is probably a bit of a disaster zone, cluttered with random stuff, notebooks, and spare screens that beep, blink, or stare back…
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Upgrading Jellyfin to Version 12.0: Migration Guide
Jellyfin 12.0 changes how major updates are numbered, moving away from the old 10.x.y scheme used since 2018. Previously, massive under-the-hood overhauls, like rewriting the entire database structure were bundled…
Why Big Tech’s War on Game Servers Should Terrify Every Home Lab Enthusiast
Coming across the video “They’re Banning Your Home Servers” from creator Loyal Moses discussing the California legislative battle over the “Protect Our Games Act” (AB 1921) immediately caught my eye,…
The Stack: A Tour of My Privacy-First Home Lab
I’ve never been terribly good at letting commercial cloud providers hold onto my life. Between wanting actual ownership of my data, a lingering distrust of corporate telemetry, and the sheer…
I Added Analytics to the Blog: Here’s Exactly What I’m Collecting
I’ve spent years shouting about privacy. And now, I’ve installed a tracker. I know. The irony is thick enough to cut, and the hypocrisy probably looks huge from where you’re…
Simple Tricks to Make Your Docker Setup Safer in Your Home Lab
Docker is great for tinkering, slap containers together and off you go. Then you add Vaultwarden or JumpServer and start worrying about security. Don’t panic: small, sensible tweaks close the…
Hypervisor, VM, LXC and Docker: A Simple Guide
When you first get into self-hosting, the jargon can hit you all at once. Hypervisors, VMs, LXC, Docker/Podman. People talk about them as if they are interchangeable, but they are…