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fd vs find: Rust Speed vs POSIX Power
fd has sane defaults, parallel walking, and respects .gitignore. find is gnarly but ships everywhere. Here's when each one wins.
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Linux Namespaces from Scratch
Containers are just namespaces and cgroups in a trench coat. Build one yourself with unshare and nsenter — no Docker required. Here's what actually happens.
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rclone vs Restic: Sync vs Backup
rclone copies and syncs files to cloud storage. Restic does deduplicated encrypted snapshots. Confusing them costs you restores at 2 AM.
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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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