My self-hosting journey has seen some ups and downs. Although I replaced several productivity apps with their self-hosted rivals, I kept coming back to OneNote (and sometimes, Google Keep) for my notes. I tried everything, from Joplin, Outline, Blinko, and even AppFlowy, but none of them felt robust enough to ditch my cloud convenience. And then I came across Docmost, and it changed everything.

We're living in a time when PC hardware has progressed to the point that things have started to look boring. We have SSDs breaching 14,000MB/s speeds, gaming monitors casually sporting 500Hz refresh rates, and high-end graphics cards rewriting what top-tier gaming means. That said, I'm not fully convinced by many of these technologies and features, especially those that have the word "next-gen" tied to them. Whether it's bleeding-edge Wi-Fi standards or even Ryzen X3D CPUs, I'm still not buying into modern PC hardware.

Since 2016, 70mai has established itself as a leading innovator in automotive technology, and dash cams in particular. There are millions of 70mai dash cams operating in over 100 countries around the world, keeping drivers safe and ensuring that the paperwork and legal issues following a road incident are kept to a minimum.

It's weird when the best news you've heard about a graphics card's price point is when it finally sells for the price it's meant to sell for. However, given how the RTX 5090 has had a really expensive start to its life since it released back in late January, seeing one being sold for its actual retail price of $1,999.99 has been sparse. In fact, I don't recall the GPU ever selling for that price, and if they did, they would have likely been sold on release day and immediately scalped for $9,000 on eBay.

Apple secures a victory in its fight against the UK’s encryption access demands. The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption service, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.“Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected,” Gabbard posted to X on Monday. “As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.”This announcement follows the UK issuing a secret order in January this year, demanding Apple provide it with backdoor access to encrypted files uploaded by users worldwide. In response, Apple pulled the ability for new users in the UK to sign up to its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) encrypted iCloud storage offering, and challenged the order, winning the right to publicly discuss the case in April. Earlier this year, US officials started examining whether the UK order had violated the bilateral CLOUD Act agreement, which bars the UK and US from issuing demands for each other’s data.This pressure from the US sparked reports last month that Britain would walk back the demands it issued to Apple, with one unnamed UK official telling the Financial Times that the UK “had its back against the wall,” and was looking for a way out. While it’s unclear if the UK would negotiate new terms with Apple that avoid implicating the data of US citizens, an unnamed US official told The Financial Times that such negotiations would not be faithful to the new agreement.With the order now reportedly removed, it’s unclear if Apple will restore access to its ADP service in the UK. We have reached out to Apple for comment. The UK Home Office has refused to comment on the situation.

I used to pay a small fortune each month for various services, including Minecraft Realms, Netflix, Apple TV+, iCloud, and Microsoft 365. This added up to more than $50 per month when everything was calculated. That's a lot of money, almost $1,000 per year on services, and if I somehow decided not to pay for one for a month, I would lose access to what was granted. That's no good and led me down the path of self-hosting as much as I could. I managed to save just shy of $80 per month, all said and done, which is a colossal saving, reminiscent of cutting cable.

My Raspberry Pi Zero 2W is an excellent test platform for running self-hosted services with minimal system resources. Previously, it served as a media server with Plex and Jellyfin, and then evolved into a barebones cloud storage system with File Browser. However, File Browser lacked sync properties and was more of a web-based file management utility with remote playback, sharing, and download capabilities. So, I thought of switching to NextCloud, which is an entire self-hosted ecosystem in itself.

While there was an initial rush to get a Switch 2 in hand, it looks like stocks of the console have stabilized just a couple of months from the initial release, as it can be easily ordered from most major retailers, like Best Buy. Naturally, it's always a good idea to get some protection for the handheld console, as it's not a cheap piece of hardware.

Remakes are a mixed bag. Sometimes they get the love and attention the source material deserves, and sometimes they're very clearly a quick cash-in to fill the coffers in the name of nostalgia. Fortunately, the games in the former camp usually do things so well, they stand the test of time and reintroduce an old favorite to a new audience.

I realize that the headline has probably made me a few enemies, but know that I’ve been an avid dark mode user for many years. In dim environments, the darker display offered my eyes comfort. And when checking a mobile notification in the middle of the night, dark mode prevented the screen from feeling like a camera flash going off inches from my face.

One thing I really admire about Raspberry Pi as a collective is how cheap the hardware can get. Grabbing a Raspberry Pi SBC can be both a powerful and affordable way to get started with DIY tinkering. So, every time the foundation brings out something new, I'm always keen to see what's next on the docket.

Being able to copy and paste across all my devices is really important to me, but unfortunately, it is not that straightforward. I often find myself scrambling to get the text I copied on my computer over to my phone. I use an Android phone and a MacBook, so the interconnectivity between the two is minimal. Things were not much better when I was using a Windows PC. Back then, I often emailed text to myself or pasted it into Google Keep just to copy it from there.