Vaultwarden has been running on a Raspberry Pi Zero in a drawer for a year, and it’s the most underrated thing I host

Self-hosting a password manager is not a complicated process. I’ve been using Vaultwarden as a locally hosted password manager for almost a year now. It’s not a traditional Docker setup that has multiple containers running alongside the password manager. Instead, I’ve been using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W for the task, and it’s produced better results than I ever expected. Switching from LastPass to Vaultwarden was a great move for protecting my data and keeping it on a home server rather than a cloud solution. Vaultwarden is based on Bitwarden, so I didn’t have to settle for a trimmed-down version that lacks features. My Raspberry Pi quietly works in a corner, serving my passwords on my home systems and remote devices.

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I installed FreeBSD as my daily driver, and it was surprisingly good

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My 7-year-old GPU runs local AI perfectly, and I don’t need my cloud subscriptions anymore

Local AI perhaps represented the first step towards making AI use private, confidential, and independent of cloud infrastructure, but there was always a catch. In the earlier days, running capable models locally either meant owning flagship-class GPUs or accepting outputs that couldn't compete with cloud alternatives. That doesn't seem to...

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3 simple settings I changed to stop my Pixel from overheating

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Boston

The Fire Stick’s Vega OS takes away consumer control but gives back efficiency instead

The Amazon Fire TV Stick has been the undisputed king of affordable streaming. Because it ran on a modified version of Android, users gladly put up with a cluttered, sluggish interface in exchange for ultimate control.

Michael Johnson
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Someone built their own Steam Machine at Valve’s original price point, and it’s a solid contender

Well, the price of the Steam Machine has arrived, and it's not looking pretty. Valve has set the entry-level model at $1,049, and while it's easy to point the finger at the company for setting such a steep price, it claims that it was hapless against RAM suppliers.

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Star Fox is the Switch 2’s most impressive visual showcase yet

The biggest Switch 2 exclusives so far have largely been about scale. Mario Kart World introduced a wide open continent to race across, Donkey Kong Bananza let you smash basically everything around you, and Pokopia brought an expansive Minecraft-style creative experience to the Pokémon universe. Star Fox is different. A...

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This $224 TCL Android tablet is a little different from its competitors, and Prime Day pricing makes it a steal

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Emily Brown
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Windows is getting better because Microsoft stopped reinventing the wheel and copied the best tools from enthusiasts

The Windows design philosophy has typically been to include only a default set of tools with the OS, while letting third-party developers and enthusiasts build tools to add specific features. It worked well for older Windows versions, but users slowly started craving more useful tools natively. These weren’t niche use...

Jane Smith
Los Angeles

I started multi-color printing and watched the purge pile grow bigger than the actual part

Multi-color 3D printing sounds wonderfully simple until you actually watch the printer do it. You load a few spools, assign colors in the slicer, and expect the machine to produce something that looks a little more finished than the usual single-color part. Then the preview shows you another number sitting...

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I drove the Slate Truck — there’s more to it than EV minimalism

With its new pickup, Slate Auto is making a simple bet: price matters more than almost anything else. The company announced today that the American-made electric truck will start at $24,950, placing it squarely in the mid-$20,000 price range it had originally promised and making it the least expensive pickup...

Jane Smith
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Docker Compose gave me back my NAS by making it predictable again

A NAS can start out feeling wonderfully simple. You plug in some drives, create a few shares, point your backups at it, and suddenly your files have a proper home instead of living across random machines and external drives. It feels tidy, practical, and almost boring in the best possible...

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I gave Claude Code access to my NotebookLM sources, and it organized them better than I ever did

Claude Code is marketed as a developer tool, but the further I get into it the more I see how much it can do for people who don't write code. File access on its own opens up a whole chunk of the productivity space that the chat interface alone can't...

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Vaultwarden has been running on a Raspberry Pi Zero in a drawer for a year, and it’s the most underrated thing I host

I installed FreeBSD as my daily driver, and it was surprisingly good

My 7-year-old GPU runs local AI perfectly, and I don’t need my cloud subscriptions anymore

3 simple settings I changed to stop my Pixel from overheating

The Fire Stick’s Vega OS takes away consumer control but gives back efficiency instead

Someone built their own Steam Machine at Valve’s original price point, and it’s a solid contender

Star Fox is the Switch 2’s most impressive visual showcase yet

This $224 TCL Android tablet is a little different from its competitors, and Prime Day pricing makes it a steal

Windows is getting better because Microsoft stopped reinventing the wheel and copied the best tools from enthusiasts

I started multi-color printing and watched the purge pile grow bigger than the actual part

I drove the Slate Truck — there’s more to it than EV minimalism

Docker Compose gave me back my NAS by making it predictable again

I gave Claude Code access to my NotebookLM sources, and it organized them better than I ever did

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