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Plex Pass Hits $749. Time for Jellyfin.
Plex tripled the lifetime price to $749. Here's a decision tree plus a working Jellyfin migration plan: Docker, transcoding, clients, watch history.
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ZFS Replication with syncoid + sanoid: The Lazy Admin's Backup
sanoid manages ZFS snapshot policies automatically, syncoid replicates them over SSH to remote pools, together they're the lowest-effort offsite backup strategy for any ZFS user.
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Kopia Repository Server: Multi-Host Backups Done Right
Stop letting every machine write directly to S3. Kopia repository server gives you shared dedup, per-host auth, and sane maintenance, all in one place.
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Sec-Fetch & UA Client Hints in 2026: What Actually Leaks
Ran 9 real headless tools against an echo server. Sec-Fetch alone catches almost none of them. Here's what actually leaks, WAF rules that work, and where Anubis fits in.
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Kdenlive Basics: Effects You Actually Use
Kdenlive cheat-sheet for the effects you actually reach for every edit: blur for privacy, audio ducking, titles, transitions, and the render dialog.
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OpenTelemetry for Self-Hosters: Traces, Metrics, Logs Without the Datadog Bill
OpenTelemetry plus the Grafana LGTM stack gives you Datadog-class traces, metrics, and logs for $0/month. Deploy an OTel Collector and instrument your app fast.
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ZFS Send/Receive Over WireGuard for Off-Site Replication
Pipe ZFS incremental snapshots through WireGuard to a friend's NAS or a remote VPS. Encrypted in transit and at rest, no rsync.net bill or vendor lock-in.
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K3s vs K0s vs MicroK8s: Lightweight Kubernetes for Home Labs
K3s, K0s, and MicroK8s all slim down Kubernetes for home labs and edge, but they make very different tradeoffs. Here's how to pick the right one without losing a weekend.
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Restic Repository Maintenance: Prune, Check, Forget
Restic forget, prune, and check: right order, real retention flags, cron automation, and why --read-data on a large repo will ruin your whole weekend.
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Blog Comments: Self-Host or SaaS?
Disqus is a tracker farm wearing a comment box costume. Here's every real alternative, self-hosted and SaaS, and which one actually fits your blog.
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CrowdSec Collections & Bouncers: fail2ban for 2026
CrowdSec is fail2ban with community threat intel: scenario collections plus pluggable bouncers for Caddy or Traefik. Block millions of bad IPs from day one.
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mergerfs + SnapRAID: The Poor Man's Unraid
Skip the paid Unraid license. mergerfs + SnapRAID give you flexible JBOD pooling with parity protection on mismatched drives you already own, for free.
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