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Monday, October 5, 2026 · non-AI, fresh daily🖥Homelab & self-hosting
🖨3D printing & making
🎮PC gaming
📺Game streaming & GPUs
🎹Synths & music gear
🔬Space & science
🛠Gadgets & hardware
💰Financial independence
🏡Real estate
Homelab & self-hosting
The $5 problem that brought my entire homelab down

I've had issues with my homelab dying in the past for several different reasons.
Services hogging all the RAM have caused things to crash, and I've even had problems with the mini PC overheating. When my self-hosted services stopped working recently, I assumed that it was for a similar reason, ...
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PC gaming
End of Abyss Reviews - Metacritic
In the depths of a mysterious underground compound, a mission to investigate disturbances of unknown origin spirals into a harrowing descent through a broken and abandoned world.
Play as the young combat technician, Cel, as she uncovers the truth behind the facility’s derelict areas and confronts the monstrous creatures that roam them.
PC gaming
PC Gamer - Wikipedia
In issue 255, August 2013, the ...
by the review of the re-released Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, originally given 3% when it first launched. In the US edition, the lowest score awarded was 4%, given to Mad Dog McCree, unseating the previously lowest-rated game, Skydive!, given 5%. There are two main editions of PC Gamer, a British ...

Game streaming & GPUs
CD Projekt Red told Witcher 3 players to install an AMD driver that did not…
Its release notes, article RN-RAD-WIN-26-9-2, are dated September 29 and publish it as an optional release.
For a Radeon owner the gap was not academic. TechSpot benchmarked the remaster across both vendors and said it ran all its AMD testing ...

Game streaming & GPUs
GeForce Game Ready Drivers | NVIDIA GeForce
Tested across thousands of hardware ...
configuration. Game Ready Drivers enable and enhance NVIDIA technologies in the latest games and introduce new cutting-edge features and functionality over time....
Gadgets & hardware
Best New Smart Gadgets for Health and Comfort in 2026 – Archyde
The Ring 5 starts at $399, marking a $50 increase over the $349 launch price of the Ring 4.
Reviewers praise the hardware’s capacity to extract more than 50 distinct biometric metrics from its internal sensor array, though the higher price ...

Real estate
2026 Housing Market Trends: What Buyers and Sellers Should Know
Before diving into the details, here is where the headline numbers stand as of early 2026: The short version: rates are lower than last year but still elevated by historical standards, home prices continue to climb at a modest pace nationally, ...
Synths & music gear
MATRIXSYNTH
video upload by Paweł Spychała "A live ambient performance recorded in Bitwig Studio, featuring two powerful synthesizers: the ASM Hydrasynth Deluxe and the Novation Summit.
Everything was performed and recorded live into Bitwig Studio without overdubs to capture the organic feel of hardware ...

Space & science
A million-sun-mass mystery object found lurking in deep space | ScienceDaily
Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it warped light through gravitational lensing.
The invisible mass, about a million times the Sun’s weight, could be a small clump of dark matter or a dormant dwarf galaxy.

Financial independence
Rising Prices Force Most Workers to Shelve Early Retirement Ambitions …
In a May 2026 MyPerfectResume poll of 1,000 workers, 71% said FIRE is unrealistic for most people today.
“There’s certainly a gap between the appeal of financial independence and workers’ ability to pursue it,” career expert Toni Frana told the outlet.
Focus & productivity
Cooking Oil-Derived Aldehydes: Overlooked Components of the Western Diet…
This hypothesis-driven perspective paper proposes a conceptual framework linking the maternal consumption of oils contaminated with lipid oxidation products to fetal neurodevelopmental vulnerability.
We also identify key research priorities, including improved exposure assessments, the development of reliable aldehyde and other oxylipin biomarkers, and controlled dietary intervention studies.

Synths & music gear
NAMM 2026: Synth and Music Tech News | Synth Anatomy
At the beginning of the year, Apple ...
After Behringer showcased the D Mini as a finished unit at NAMM 2026, and it ... Behringer JT-2 is a new paraphonic analog Synthesizer based on a voice from the legendary Roland Jupiter-8 ...

Financial independence
Year-End Money Moves for 2026
The 2026 limits are $4,400 for self-only coverage and $8,750 for family, plus an extra $1,000 if you’re 55 or older.
Some peeps in the FI crowd treat their HSA like a stealth retirement account. They pay current medical bills out of pocket, save the receipts, invest the HSA, and let it compound for decades. I even touch on HSA withdrawals as one of the tools in Funding the Gap: How to Pay for Early Retirement Before 59½.
Focus & productivity
task: adhd - verify and save About-page content · Issue #26 ·…
Once Ash starts painting a face, the world narrows to just the pigment, the skin, the music, and the design emerging.
Hours feel like minutes. Complexity becomes clarity. This is ADHD at its best: total immersion in a task that genuinely matters. The ambidextrous painting technique is pure ADHD adaptation.

Space & science
NASA’s Webb telescope just discovered one of the weirdest planets ever
Astronomers Just Found a Giant Planet That Shouldn’t Exist · June 11, 2025 Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible.

Gadgets & hardware
ASUS Googlebook 14 first impressions: A new OS meets some serious hardware…
I'm super excited to get the ASUS Googlebook 14 in my hands.
Setting it up is a new laptop experience with some familiar Android and ChromeOS roots. I'm...
Real estate
2009 Tahlequah Ln, Mooresburg, TN 37811 | MLS# 711887 | 54 Photos - Movoto
Enjoy exceptional Cherokee Lake ...
views. Situated on 1.27 acres, this residence is filled with copious windows that flood the interior with natural light while showcasing the stunning waterfront scenery....