PhotoPrism offers one path toward that goal of data ownership. With PhotoPrism, your vacation photos don’t become training data for someone else’s business model. They remain what they actually are, your memories, under your control.
Building a NAS in your homelab? Here are the choices of operating systems you can use.
In a previous column, I argued that self-hosting is resistance in an age where ownership is increasingly illusory. There is increasing evidence that self-hosting is becoming popular among a certain kind of user, say the typical readership of ItsFoss. There is a
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In my last column, Ownership is an illusion, unless you self-host, I encouraged readers to go down the self-hosting path. My thesis was simple: ownership of digital assets (movies, music, games, books, software) is an illusion, and that the only way to
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A few months ago, I learned this the hard way: never rely on a cheap DRAM-less SATA SSD in a heavily used system, especially one handling constant OS updates and virtual machines. Despite having an NVMe drive in my rig, I overestimated
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If you are someone interested in self-hosting, home automation, or just want to tinker with your Raspberry Pi, you have various options to get started. But, if you are new, and want something easy to get you up to speed, CasaOS is
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I host nearly all the services I use on a bunch of Raspberry Pis and other hardware scattered across my little network. From media servers to automation tools, it’s all there. But let me tell you, the more services you run, the
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If you’ve ever dipped your toes into self-hosting, you know the struggle is real when it comes to exposing your local services to the internet securely. Let’s say you have Nexcloud deployed on Raspberry Pi but it is on your local network,
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Running a homelab on a Raspberry Pi can be a rewarding yet challenging experience. My journey began with a Raspberry Pi 4 (4 GB) hosting several WordPress websites and a few Ghost blogs. Recently, I became more ambitious, aiming to expand my
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As a kid, I used to be amazed by those movie scenes where someone would tap a few keys on their computer and say, “I’m in!”. That fascination is what got me into wireless network security, back when WPA2 was the standard,
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