I stopped paying for 3 cloud subscriptions after installing Immich and Vaultwarden on my mini PC.

I stopped paying for 3 cloud subscriptions after installing Immich and Vaultwarden on my mini PC.

Modern digital life means paying monthly or sometimes annual subscription fees for a range of services you need, whether it’s cloud photo storage, a password manager or file syncing tools. All of these software services are steadily increasing in price every year. In fact, a budget-friendly minicomputer running a few lightweight Docker containers can completely … Read more

I gave up dual booting for WSL and VMs and my PC stopped crashing every time I updated Windows.

I gave up dual booting for WSL and VMs and my PC stopped crashing every time I updated Windows.

Microsoft released a security patch that bricked my trusty Ubuntu partition. In August 2024, a Windows update using the Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) patch flagged vulnerable GRUB bootloaders, locking out thousands of dual-boot users worldwide. I was one of the few users who got the “Security Policy Violation” error instead of the login screen, … Read more