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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Why Westminster Doesn’t Get Digital Sovereignty
There is a distinct kind of modern exhaustion that comes with trying to engage in civic life as someone who actually cares about where data lives, how infrastructure functions, and…
The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience?
I spent way too much time scrolling through a social media thread this morning about setting up smart home gear for a beginner. You know how it goes. Someone asks…
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…
The Great VPN Humiliation: Why the Government Actually Backed Down
If you woke up on 15 July feeling a strange sense of relief, you aren’t alone. After months of posturing, rhetoric, and vaguely defined threats toward privacy tools, the UK…
The Vicious Circle: Beyond the Political Theatre
Watching a Prime Minister resign in a flurry of headlines is a classic British distraction. While the news cycle fixates on who’s moving into Number 10, the laws they actually…
The “Nude” Ultimatum: My Phone is Not a Government Narc
The UK government has officially gone off the deep end, giving Apple and Google a three-month ultimatum: build device-level scanning to detect “illegal images” or we’ll pass laws to force…