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I have been running Nextcloud for years and absolutely love it. Recently, I decided to ditch my standalone instance in favor of the IX app for TrueNAS Scale. After having run it for some time I finally got annoyed enough with some of the warnings that were showing up in “Security & setup warnings.” One of these issues is that …

I am not going to give you an in-depth complaint article on the challenges with Legion Space on the Legion Go, but I will offer you this: it would be much better if they presented you with your library before they presented you with the game store. I understand there is a huge “Library” button right in the middle of …

It wasn’t that long ago that the thought of running a portable device as my primary PC seemed to be impossible, I have been a long standing desktop holdout. Having the ultimate in customization and power seems to always trump the idea of running my day to day life off of a laptop or something else seems to win out. …

After leaving my Retroflag GPi Case on the shelf for years, packed with all the geeky emulation I could ever want. Then, Valve updated their Steam Deck, Asus unveiled their ROG Ally, and Lenovo introduced the Legion Go. This year, I finally decided to indulge myself in handheld gaming once again.

OctoPrint is an excellent piece of software. Out of the box it provides users with a ton of functionality. However, due to its open source nature and its flexibility, many have extended its functionality by creating plugins. With that in mind, let's cover some of the plugins that I feel are the best plugins for the platform.

For those of you looking to up your 3D Printer game, there aren't many upgrades better than adding an OctoPrint to your setup. Like your friend Aladdin, it's a whole new world. To make the experience even better, you can upgrade your OctoPrint with a Hyperpixel4 and subsequently run Octoscreen for the ultimate 3D printing Experience.

I don't know about you, but I tend to work from a number of different computers, most of them Windows. Well, when the time comes that I have to either migrate system settings or configure a new device, Putty settings is always something that seems to get lost in transition. With a little search and destroy, I found a way to easily migrate your Putty Session list for import on another device.

It seems that the weird and strange issues always find their way into my system builds. Recently, a Windows Server build was recognizing my SSD drive as a standard hard disk drive. For some, this may not be an issue as the read/write performance is still there. However, for those that dig a little deeper, Windows will try to use the standard "Optimize" for the drive on a regular basis, something you should not do to an SSD.

For geeks like me, having a server rack in your basement is just about one of the coolest things you can have. In our last server build, we went the rackmount way, leaving the full towers far behind. This route just gave us more from the platform. With that though, having a rackmount server sitting on a table in the middle of the living room or basement isn't the best, nor the brightest idea. However, most server racks are just too big to be useful in a home and building one takes a lot of effort. Enter the Norco C-24U cabinet.

There are a lot of things Windows Server does well. However, coming off of the NAS environment, there are a lot of things that it doesn't. One of these is a simple method for web access to various files and folders, along with the ability to share them via user login or simple url. Until recently, there had been only one real player in this space, OwnCloud. I had fiddled with the product for some time, but features were slow to show and it just didn't work the way I had been hoping it would.