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RAID Is Not Backup: Rebuild Math
Your RAID 5 rebuild on a modern multi-TB drive has a 40-50% chance of hitting a URE before it finishes. Here's the 2026 math and what to do about it.
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RAID 6 vs RAID 10: Two Dead Disks
RAID 6 and RAID 10 both survive two dead disks and both need four drives. But they get there completely differently, and that difference matters.
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Incident Response for Self-Hosters
You've been compromised. Now what? A practical incident response playbook for self-hosters who didn't think they'd need one until right now.
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RAID 0, 1, and 5: Pick One
RAID 0 is fast and terrifying, RAID 1 is boring and beautiful, RAID 5 is the NAS compromise. How to pick the right one for your home lab drives.
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Cloud Gaming Tips That Actually Work
Network setup, latency tricks, display settings, and genre matching, everything you actually need to know to stop fighting your cloud gaming setup and start playing.
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Package Management in 2026: apt, brew, nix, and the Friends We Made Along the Way
apt, Homebrew, Flatpak, and Nix, which Linux package manager actually fits your workflow in 2026, and which one is just dependency hell with extra steps.
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Open Source Licenses Explained: What You Can and Can't Do With Free Software
Nobody reads software licenses. That's fine until you ship a product, get acquired, or build a SaaS on GPL code and receive a strongly worded email. Open source licenses matter, and once you understand the three-sentence version of each, you'll never have to read the full text yourself.
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Vaultwarden Organization Sharing: Password Management for Your Whole Household (or Team)
Stop texting passwords. Set up Vaultwarden organizations to share credentials with family or your team: collections, member invites, roles, and the bw CLI.
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Escaping Zim: Migrate to Obsidian
Migrate your Zim Wiki notes to Obsidian using zim2obsidian, escape a dated GTK app for modern sync, mobile access, and a thriving plugin ecosystem.
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CVE-2026-31431: The 9-Year Linux Root Bug
CVE-2026-31431 (copy.fail) lets any local user become root on virtually every Linux system since 2017. Here's what it is, why it matters, and how to fix it.
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GeForce Now: Cloud Gaming Done Right
GeForce Now figured out what Stadia never did: use games you already own. A Founders tier member's deep dive into the best cloud gaming platform running in 2026.
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OpenCanary: Honeypots for Your Home Lab
A honeypot sits quietly on your network pretending to be valuable. Touch it and you've found an intruder. Deploy OpenCanary in Docker, dead simple.
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