The Adam Times
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Two computers, two auction routers, and a phone as my only internet: the story of my tiny command center

Chapter 1: Origin Every hero story starts with something small.
Mine started with a 2012 MacBook Air nobody wanted. Tired battery, years on its back. To the world it was junk. To me it was the first recruit. I installed Debian on it, set it up to keep running with the lid closed, and gave it a...
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Need guidance migrating to a new minipc server
Hey all!
I have a Lenovo Thinkcentre Tiny (intel cpu) running headless debian 13 with docker and a bunch of services. I bought an mini pc with better specs (also intel cpu, if it matters) and would love to know if there's an easy way to migrate everything, be it disk cloning or whatnot. When...
Homelab
Sharing my journey as a self hosted
TL;DR: I recently started self-hosting and have learned a lot by building things myself rather than following tutorials.
I now run Proxmox with 40 GB RAM and around 2.25 TB storage, several VMs and LXCs, Cloudflare Tunnel, reverse proxies, AdGuard Home, WireGuard, Vaultwarden and other services. I...
Homelab
Please move away from Pterodactyl
What has happened?
Okay, hear me out. In December 2025, the Pterodactyl project ( pterodactyl.io ) was acquired by Infraly, LLC. You may know them from WISP . After years of what felt like near-silence from the maintainers, this acquisition initially seemed like it could be an opportunity for some...
Tunarr is pissing me off.
I'm running Tunarr as part of my *arr stack, along with Plex.
When I first setup Tunarr, I couldn't get it to connect to Plex; whatever, I just added all my media as local libraries. I'm still OK with that setup, but Tunarr just seems to "silently fail" on different occasions. For example I was...

Security
Google halts open-source bug bounty program amid AI spam surge
Google has now suspended submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) after being flooded by AI-generated reports.

Hardware
TITAN Xp Finally Runs on Windows XP Thanks to a Modded NVIDIA Driver
A modder going by SupraGSX has released an unofficial Windows XP driver on GitHub that adds support for NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 10-series "Pascal" graphics cards, including the TITAN Xp.
Called Forceware 382.69, it is a patched version of NVIDIA's 368.81 driver from July 2016 and only works on 32-bit...

Quick reminder to pull out the wireless card out of your LG smart tv 😉
You probably have heard all the LG smart tv shenanigans...
I took the wifi card out of mine today and it was pretty straightforward. So here's your reminder if you've been meaning to do it.

Security
Citrix patches NetScaler SAML zero-day exploited in attacks
Citrix has released emergency updates for a new NetScaler denial-of-service vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-88779 that has been exploited in zero-day attacks, with researchers investigating whether it can also be exploited for remote code execution.
OpenTakeoff: self-hosted PDF measurements for construction, no backend or database
I'm developing OpenTakeoff.
My background is commercial flooring estimating, and this started with a fairly ordinary need: open a PDF plan, measure it and keep the work without another software subscription. It's a free, Apache-2.0 browser app. You can use the public copy or host the static files...

Hardware
Minisforum ESP4B PCIe expansion card - Review
Hi guys today, I'm going to review this curious card from Minisforum that features an AMD B850 Chipset in a PCIe expansion card.
This review is going to be divided in: Box Contents Specs Teardown and Cooling Usage and Feature Overview Compatibility Performance Conclusion Box Contents Minisforum...
Can't transcode movies (jellyfin)
Hey guys, I have a Linux server in my home running jellyfin (with tailscale).
I never had any issue with it, but recently tried to set it up in my grandmother's house as she is ill and watching movies she used to love hopefully helps her distract her mind of the pain. My issue is that my server is...

AI
OpenAI will show visual ads in ChatGPT while you generate images
OpenAI is expanding ads in ChatGPT, and one of the first new formats will show visual ads while you're generating images.

Security
Microsoft: Windows KB5124010 update crashes some games and apps
Microsoft confirmed over the weekend that some games and applications using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding will crash after installing the September 2026 KB5124010 Windows 11 preview update.
Also on this desk
- Racked up my lab r/homelab + r/selfhosted