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Two months of smart-plug data from my home mini PC: 22 kWh and CA$3.08 in August, priced against DigitalOcean, Hetzner and Oracle's free tier in 2026.

Qwen3.5 9B through Ollama (GGUF and MLX), llama-bench, mlx-lm and rapid-mlx on an M3 Ultra.

Apple's M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio versus 128GB Strix Halo mini PCs for local LLMs, from a 256GB M3 Ultra owner.

SpiderCat jailbreaks almost any Kindle on firmware 5.16.3 to 5.19.5 by opening a book.

LG TVs got caught logging audio and scanning your LAN.

Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits.

How to run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally on Mac, Linux, or Windows: hardware that fits 167GB, llama.cpp setup, and realistic speed expectations.

RomM 5 turns a mini PC into a self-hosted retro game library with browser play and save sync.

Direct torrent and magnet link for Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 open weights, plus what's actually inside the 1.56 TB and why you can't run it at home.

Coral is unsupported and cloud cameras keep leaking data.

How I reverse engineered the iPod Classic's undocumented Mikey chip to get Apple's inline earphone remote working in Rockbox, 15 years into the port.

Sanctuary jailbreaks a Kindle from the device browser, no computer needed.

Valve's Steam Machine is $1,049.

Learn how to set up a free Minecraft PE server using Oracle Cloud's

Learn how to create your own free VPN server using Oracle Cloud's

Oracle quietly halved its Always Free Ampere A1 tier to 2 OCPU and 12GB RAM.

Strix Halo mini PCs doubled in price in six months.

Gemma 4 26B-A4B runs at usable speeds on CPU-only mini PCs.

Repurposed a broken Stirling-engine chassis as a desk toy that spins when Claude Code is busy and dies when I lock my Mac.

A guide to migrating from Docker Compose to K3s for home labs.

A comprehensive guide to setting up a high-availability PostgreSQL

Everything you need to run a Minecraft server on a mini PC in 2025: hardware picks, performance tuning, and the cheap-electricity setup that works.

Build a power-efficient homelab that runs DayZ, Project Zomboid, Valheim and more on a single mini PC without inflating your electricity bill.

How I turned an old iPhone 8 into a solar-powered OCR server using Apple's Vision framework.

SoundLeaf is a native iOS client for Audiobookshelf. iPhone & iPad app with offline listening, smart downloads, and customizable themes.

How mini PCs are enabling a quiet revolution in self-hosting, making it practical and affordable to own your digital life

Skip the Mac Mini.

Turn an old Kindle into a low-power e-ink dashboard.

A comprehensive comparison of the best mini PCs for home labs in

Jailbreaking my old Kindle Paperwhite 7th Gen into a minimalist e-ink dashboard.

Three ways to host a free Minecraft Pocket Edition (Bedrock) server, on a cloud VPS, a Raspberry Pi, or Aternos, with port-forwarding and PocketMine-MP setup.

A practical prompt engineering guide for developers using ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Claude.

Set up a self-hosted WordPress blog on Google Cloud's free e2-micro instance with Cloudflare DNS, nginx, MySQL, and PHP.

The six Linux commands I run when something feels slow on a server, with htop, top, ps, free, df, and nethogs examples and the flags I actually use.

Build a fast Node.js + TypeScript REST API with no web framework, using find-my-way, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, and nginx as a reverse proxy.

How to use sshuttle to turn any SSH server into a poor man's VPN, with install steps for Linux/macOS, real-world usage, and DNS-over-tunnel setup.

The Linux file commands I use every day, from cp and mv to chmod, find, tar, and zip, with copy-pasteable examples and the pitfalls I've hit personally.

Step-by-step guide to accessing Nvidia GeForce Now from India using a VPN or a self-hosted EU server with sshuttle, plus latency and cost trade-offs.

Wire a DHT22 to a Raspberry Pi, log readings to InfluxDB via Telegraf, and graph room temperature and humidity in real time on a Grafana dashboard.

The seven Linux text-manipulation commands I actually use daily, with copy-pasteable examples for cat, less, diff, sort, head, tail, grep, sed, and vim.

Step-by-step guide to integrating Azure AD with AWS Cognito as an external IDP, covering both SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect with attribute mappings.

The ten Linux commands I actually use every single day, with real examples, gotchas, and the small habits that made me fast at the terminal.

Headless Raspberry Pi setup in five steps with Raspberry Pi Imager, SSH, Wi-Fi pre-configured, and four ways to find the Pi's IP on your network.