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Scrypted vs Frigate for Self-Hosted Cameras
Scrypted bridges your IP cameras to HomeKit and Google Home. Frigate adds AI object detection on your own hardware. Here's how to pick, or run both at once.
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mtr vs traceroute: Packet Loss
traceroute lies. mtr tells the truth. Here's how to read packet-loss reports like an oncall engineer and stop blaming your ISP for the wrong hop.
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ESPresense: Room-Level Bluetooth Presence in Home Assistant
Track which room you're in with cheap ESP32 nodes and BLE signal distance, real room-level presence for Home Assistant automations that actually work.
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Hetzner vs DigitalOcean vs Vultr
Picking a cheap VPS for home-lab overflow, off-site backups, public endpoints, CGNAT escape. Real tradeoffs, honest picks per scenario.
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ZFS Encryption vs LUKS
Native ZFS dataset encryption vs LUKS under your pool, which layer to encrypt at, performance trade-offs, key management, and raw send/recv.
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iperf3 + nload: Network Diagnosis
Your gigabit link drops to 200 Mbps and you don't know why. iperf3 measures throughput honestly, nload visualizes traffic, together they find the bottleneck fast.
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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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OpenConnect vs AnyConnect
OpenConnect replaces the bloated AnyConnect client on Linux. Run ocserv for a self-hosted Cisco-compatible VPN server, no 200MB installer required.
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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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