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How a ZFS Home NAS Protects Data, and Why It Is Not a Backup
Checksums, scrubs, snapshots and RAID-Z explained from the OpenZFS and TrueNAS docs, with a mirror vs RAID-Z1 vs RAID-Z2 table and the…
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How to Install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi
Which Home Assistant install methods the official docs support on a Raspberry Pi, the Imager steps, first boot, three first integrations, and…
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Wireshark First Capture: Filters, DNS Lookups and TCP Streams
A question-and-answer guide to a first Wireshark capture: what you may legally capture, capture versus display filters, spotting a DNS lookup and…
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How to Set Up WireGuard to Reach Your Home Network
Keys, two config files, one forwarded UDP port and a routing setting get a laptop onto a home network. A tutorial, plus…
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How to Set Up Pi-hole for Network-Wide DNS Ad Blocking
A step-by-step Pi-hole setup guide: how DNS sinkholing works, the install, pointing your router at it, a test, what can go wrong,…