You have an EPUB collection somewhere on your Mac — bought from various stores, downloaded from public domain sites, converted from PDFs, ripped from your own books with Calibre and a USB scanner. You want them on your Kindle (or …
You have one personal VPS at a budget host, a NAS at home, and maybe a Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole. You want to reach all three from your laptop without exposing SSH on the public internet, without messing with port …
You’ve been paying $40/year for a Bitwarden family plan, or $36/year for an individual one. The product is excellent — there’s nothing wrong with what they’ve built. But you also have a $5/month VPS that’s already running a couple of …
Syncthing’s pitch is “set it up once and your folders are identical across every device.” That’s the truth, but the path to “set up once” has more sharp edges than the docs admit. The classic gotcha — Syncthing falls back …
Plex used to be the answer for “I have a hard drive full of movies and want to watch them on my TV.” Then Plex started showing ads, requiring sign-in, gating features behind subscriptions, and breaking the offline path. Jellyfin …
You’ve bought into one smart-home ecosystem — Hue lights, or SmartThings hub, or Apple HomeKit — and now every new device you consider has to be compatible with that brand. Three years in, you’ve also accumulated a Wyze camera, a …
You decided to leave Google Photos. Either iCloud’s $2.99 plan ran out of space, the AI-summary features finally crossed your threshold, or you just got tired of paying rent on your own family photos. The two self-hosted answers worth seriously …