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POC Radios for Kids, Off-Site Backups, Remote Gaming and Frigate 0.18 with Mike Wieger – HGG689 (opens the original)
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Do kids need a full smartphone just to stay in touch? Mike Wieger joins me for HGG689 with a different answer: push-to-talk-over-cellular radios built around simple family communication. We also dig into practical off-site backups with Unraid, TrueNAS, ZFS and Tailscale, Apollo and Moonlight for using one gaming PC from almost anywhere, and Frigate 0.18 for a much easier local-camera and NVR setup. For a broader setup walkthrough, see the complete guide to Frigate and Home Assistant. Chapters /
How Do You Keep Off-Site Backups Safe? A Community Guide (opens the original)
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A Home Server Show flashback sparked by Kevin Schoonover: what actually makes an off-site backup safe? We’re collecting real-world strategies for protecting backup copies from fire, theft, hardware failure, loss and location-wide disasters.
Cloud Storage Know IT Guyde: OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox or Something Else? (opens the original)
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As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Cloud storage has changed a lot since I first built the Cloud Storage Know IT Guyde. Back then, the idea was pretty simple: collect as many cloud storage services as I could find, put them into one place, list how much free storage they offered and try to keep the list current. That worked for a while. It also produced a page full of names like Cubby, Pogoplug, Wuala, Copy and Ubuntu One. Some disappeared. Others were acquired or changed d
Windows Know IT Guyde: Upgrade, Repair, Replace or Keep What You Have (opens the original)
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I’ve been writing and talking about Windows on The Average Guy for a long time. Years ago, I built separate Know IT Guydes for Windows 8 and Windows 10. The idea was pretty simple: put useful information in one place and keep updating it as Windows changed. The keeping-it-updated part didn’t exactly go according to plan. So I’m doing things differently this time. Instead of creating another Guyde tied permanently to one version of Windows, this is the Windows Know IT Guyde. Windows versions will
Mac mini M4 vs RTX 3060 PC for Local AI: What I Learned Running Both (opens the original)
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Quick answer: After running local AI on both a Mac mini M4 with 32GB of unified memory and a Windows PC with a Ryzen 5, NVIDIA RTX 3060 and 128GB of RAM, I would choose the Mac mini if I wanted a quiet, efficient, always-available local AI box. I would keep the RTX PC when CUDA/NVIDIA compatibility, Windows workloads or GPU-specific experimentation mattered more. Neither replaces hosted models for every job, but both taught me that local AI hardware should be matched to the work rather than boug
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