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Would be interested to know more about which website you saw the sale on. For research purposes of course, have my email in bio.

Definitely replace the battery, it will make a huge difference in your everyday use.

Not OP, https://healthchecks.io is great for monitoring automated tasks like backup scripts. Also has the option to immediately signal failure and send an alert: https://healthchec…

Any tracker can be turned off if a thief manages to find it - but yeah a notification letting them know they need to look isn’t great. I use an AirTag on my e-bike - there’s quite …

"It’s always DNS" is basically tongue-in-cheek expression, because DNS issues are so frequently the cause of weird outages. Almost anything you do on the internet (or local network…

I'd be curious to know what the actual NAS performance is like (IOPS, latency, etc). Looked into building a DIY NAS a few years ago, but decided to buy (a Synology DS1618+) instead…

You're probably thinking of Delicious Library ( https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2004/11/delicious-library/ ) - that was such a cool piece of Mac software. I think it worked with th…

Agree that the Kasa app is great, but the QC on their hardware is lacking. I bought a four pack, and two of them just refuse to stay connected to my Unifi 6 Pro access points. Afte…

You'd be surprised how popular they are. Certainly they're overpriced, but the noise cancellation/sound/build quality/etc is very good. They've also apparently become something of …

I have the latest Apple TV 4K, and it still uses the Lightning connector to charge the remote.

I bought an HP Laserjet Enterprise M601DN off Craigslist 5 years ago for ~$150 from a business that closed down. Had 250K pages printed when I bought it, and I printed tens of thou…

Keep in mind that unless you're doing something like transcoding for a Plex server, you don't really need much in the way of CPU for a home NAS. I have a Synology DS1618+ that uses…

100% this. The Dell Optiplex Micro line is fantastic. Servethehome has a pretty good article comparing a bunch of different manufactures/models - https://www.servethehome.com/intro…

Take it from someone who has done this - it's a terrible idea. I bought a HP Z620 off of eBay for $500 in 2019. Spec'd with 2x Xeon E5-2680 @2.7GHZ & 96GB of RAM, and had a 1TB SSD…

Here's a HN post from a few months back discussing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26233736

Regarding the very last line of your comment - I use BlockBlock ( https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html ) on every Mac to catch/stop software installing weird startup/…

Yeah they're solid - come with a little dock so it looks like a high-end automation system panel. You can configure the power settings to hold the battery charge around 50% to prev…

Seconding this. I switched from PiHole to AdGuard Home because they have built in DNS over HTTPS support. I run a second instance on my colo server (with only HTTPS exposed) for my…

With the Ikea blinds, the motor is built into the tube the shade rolls around (for roller shades) or in the top of the blind (for the cellular blinds). There is a rechargeable batt…

Love this. My TV setup is super straightforward these days, but I had a nice home theater setup in my previous house and used a rather disappointing Logitech Harmony remote. If you…

Not OP, but various automations that fire off commands based on whatever your TV, receiver, Apple TV box, etc are doing are how I find it most useful. Example: I have some cheap Go…

Not the OP, but it's a feature of the vSphere client ("Client Connected"). https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1022290

On an old Dell Optiplex Micro: - AdGuard for DNS blocking. - HomeAssistant for all of my smart home stuff. - Confluence for my wiki (back when you could get a $10 license, and yes …