Self-Hosting

Benchmark your SSD with fio, hdparm, and GNOME Disks. Get Gen5 and Gen4 NVMe speed numbers, spot thermal throttling, and set up smartd monitoring.

Pi-hole, Unbound, DNSSEC: build a private recursive resolver, decide on Pi-hole's own DNSSEC box, and fix the common errors that break validation.

Revive a 2012-2015 MacBook Pro by swapping the HDD for an SSD and installing a lightweight Linux distro. It becomes snappy and usable for years.

DIY NAS comparison: Intel N100 wins for Plex and ZFS, Raspberry Pi 5 wins on idle power. See performance, drives, TrueNAS setup, and cost side by side.

Self-host comments with Remark42, a lightweight open-source engine in Docker that gives you visitor data control without tracking or ad injection.

Alacritty vs Kitty in 2026: emoji and Unicode rendering, benchmarks, latency, memory, maintainer reputation, and the right terminal for you.