If you work on multiple projects with different clients, you probably know how difficult it is to manage files across external drives, network shares, Google Drive, and other cloud buckets. It's ...

Immich is the best self-hosted Google Photos alternative, offering a free, private, and feature-rich platform to back up and browse your photos using your own storage. With a familiar UI, AI search, ...

Google Photos is a set-it-and-forget-it app. It backs up media from my Android phone in the background, without requiring manual intervention. However, my over-reliance on Google Photos meant I ran ...

Syncthing finally gave me file sync without the cloud vendor lock-in ...

Self-hosting is having a moment, even if it’s hard to define exactly what it is. It’s a niche that goes beyond regular computing devices and networks but falls short of a full-on home lab. (Most home ...

It’s hard to live in today’s world without apps and digital services, but they come at a steep price: your private information. Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, ...

Self-hosting services save you from subscription costs and give you control over your data. While I’ve previously experimented with self-hosted media servers and file storage, I only really dove into ...

Love it or hate it, AI features are winding their way into virtually every aspect of our digital lives — from documents to music playlists, there’s no escape. Concerns about privacy and AI scraping ...