Every homelab eventually asks this question. You get a media library going, you want to watch it on a TV that isn’t hooked to a laptop,…
Two years ago this section of the blog wouldn’t have existed. Now AI tools are just part of how we build things, sitting alongside…
Already running Plex and thinking about switching to Jellyfin? You don’t have to re-rip anything or move any media. Both point at the same…
Installing Jellyfin on DSM with Container Manager: a compose file that does not need host networking, a first-run wizard that never phones home, and…
Installing Plex on DSM with Container Manager and a real compose file: claim tokens, why Plex wants host networking, and where hardware transcoding actually…
Plex and Jellyfin are not two steps in the same build; they are two answers to the same question. What each one costs you,…
RAID is not a backup. Snapshot Replication and Hyper Backup solve two different failures, and an external drive left plugged in solves neither. Plus…
Package Center or Container Manager? One is the appliance path, the other is where the entire self-hosted ecosystem actually publishes. The choice shapes every…
Getting a Synology NAS from box to daily driver: the DSM install wizard, an admin account worth the name, SHR storage, 2FA before anything…
Two things happened to home media servers this summer, and neither one changes what’s running on our NAS, but they’re both worth talking about,…