HeyJaredNick Lewis
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The 5 self-hosted services that turned my family from skeptics into daily users (opens the original)
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I've been self-hosting for more than 15 years now, and despite my best efforts, my friends and family just don't care about all the cool things on the network. As it turns out, Grafana dashboards are only interesting to me. There are a handful of applications that see a ton of use, however. If you want to self-host services that people will actually use, I'd recommend starting with these 5. Jellyfin is a free, open-source media server that you can use to host movies, TV shows, music, and photos,
5 game-changing ESP32 utilities I wish I knew about on day one (opens the original)
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When I first purchased an ESP32, I started with the hardest tools and only discovered the easier tools later. That led to a lot of unnecessary frustration, since most problems you'll encounter while working on ESP32 boards already have solutions. They're just not in one tidy place. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1 number By creating an account,
I stopped letting my smart TV spy on me—a $50 Raspberry Pi made it dumb again (opens the original)
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Most smart TVs do more than display images and videos—they collect information. Sometimes, that information is just about your viewing habits using automated content recognition (ACR). Other times, your TV records snippets of conversations or information about other devices on the network or in Wi-Fi range. To make matters worse, you often pay for the privilege with ads that clutter up your home screen or inject themselves when you pause whatever show you're watching. If you want to reclaim your
These 4 tiny Linux distros outperform Ubuntu on low-power hardware (opens the original)
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Ubuntu's minimum system requirements—6GB of RAM and 25GB of storage space—are modest compared to Windows, but if you're working with an older PC, even that may be too much. If you've ever tried running the current release of Ubuntu on an old netbook or Optiplex, you've experienced it first hand. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1 number By creati
I built a Raspberry Pi that composes music based on the weather (opens the original)
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Once every hour, the Raspberry Pi sitting on my desk checks the weather and then plays a song about it. It is a bit like a cuckoo clock, except it tells me the weather instead of the time. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1 number By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters;
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