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Plex Meta Manager: Posters, Collections, Sanity
Stop staring at a Plex library that looks like a clearance bin. Kometa (formerly Plex Meta Manager) automates collections, posters, overlays, and bulk ratings.
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Syncthing vs Resilio vs Seafile
Dropbox got expensive and your data left the building. Syncthing, Resilio Sync, and Seafile compared, pick the one that fits your threat model.
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SMART Disk Monitoring with smartmontools
Disks fail. SMART tells you when. Here's how smartctl and smartd actually predict failure, and the attributes that matter (most don't).
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Jellyseerr Tagging Workflows for Real Libraries
Stop guessing whose request is clogging your 4K library. Jellyseerr tags + Sonarr/Radarr + Maintainerr = real per-user quota control that actually holds up.
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fio: Real Disk Benchmarking
Stop trusting marketing IOPS numbers. fio measures what your disk actually does on your workload, sequential, random, mixed. Here's how to read the output honestly.
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Boundary vs Teleport
Zero-trust access for SSH, k8s, and databases, HashiCorp Boundary vs Teleport compared on identity, session recording, and self-host fit.
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Whisparr & Mylar3: Specialty *arr Apps Explained
Sonarr handles TV. Radarr handles movies. But who handles comics and adult content? Meet Mylar3 and Whisparr, the *arr apps nobody talks about, until now.
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Dify: Visual Agent Workflows
Dify is an open-source LLM-app builder you can self-host. Visual workflow editor, RAG, agents, tool use, without writing 500 lines of LangChain glue.
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Access Docker socket via TCP
Expose Docker's Unix socket over TCP so remote tools and dashboards can connect, daemon.json config for Linux and Windows.
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Advanced UFW Techniques: Enhancing Firewall Security
Go beyond basic UFW rules, rate limiting, geo-blocking, application profiles, logging, and before.rules tricks for serious firewall hardening.
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Alpine vs. Distroless: Choosing Your Minimalist Base
Alpine gives you a shell and apk; Distroless gives you nothing but the app. Compare attack surface, image size, and multi-stage build complexity.
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Appwrite Backend-as-a-service (BaaS)
Appwrite is an open-source Firebase alternative you can self-host, databases, auth, storage, and functions without vendor lock-in.
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