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How to Temporarily Boost a Tablet?
A dead charging port left an Nvidia Shield Tablet inaccessible—but with a careful power bypass, I revived it just long enough to recover critical files. A risky but effective last resort!
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Build, Experiment, and Innovate. Explore hands-on projects and personal homelabs. From server setups to DIY creations, learn how to innovate and experiment with technology at home.
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What’s the Best Way to Build a DIY Disk Shelf?
Need more storage in your homelab? Learn how the Titanus Disk Shelf project turned a noisy challenge into a quiet, DIY solution - and how anyone can build one too.
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Is a Ubiquiti Switch Too Much for a Home Network?
It's not secret that I am a big fan of Ubiquiti hardware. I've already written about their hardware twice in the past. But this latest upgrade to my home network is elegant superfluousness : the Ubiquiti US-8-150W 8 port POE switch. Why buy this? The Ubiquiti US-8-150W provides two main advantages
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What Happened to CrashPlan? The Best Backup Alternatives
Having used computers for the last thirty years, I've seen my share of disasters. The biggest impact of these incidents is always data loss : hardware can always be replaced but once data is lost, it is gone. That is why data should always be regularly backup. As such, I have
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Is Ubiquiti's UniFi AC the Best WiFi Solution for Your Home?
Wifi is difficult to deploy properly and even more difficult to debug. When living in a small apartment, the solution is pretty simple : place a simple wifi router roughly in the middle of the appartement. However, in a large multi-floor house, getting a strong wifi signal in every room can
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Is the Edge Router X the Best Budget Router for Home Networking?
Solutions to share the Internet on a network have tremendiously evolved in the last twenty years. My first experience was using Wingate, a software proxy that could act as an Internet gateway. Along with the introduction of Internet broadband came the consumer gateways, such as the iconic Linksys BEFSR41. The
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Was the Dell PowerEdge T20 the Best Budget Home Server?
Looking for a budget-friendly home server? The Dell PowerEdge T20 offers a compact, quiet design with solid performance for file storage and virtualization—especially when snagged at a discount.
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Special Flavors of Linux
One of the important aspect of Linux is its Open Source nature: everyone is free to contribute and no one "owns" Linux. This creates a great diversity which is both a strength and a weakness for the operating system. Wars over the best "distro" of Linux are fought with religious
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What to Avoid When Choosing a KVM? A Dell 2161DS-2 Review
Streamline your home lab with the Dell 2161DS-2 KVM switch. Discover its innovative cable management and pitfalls of Java dependency in this retrospective review. Is it still a viable option?
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How Can Cloudflare Improve Your Website’s Speed & Security?
Last year, the development team for Ghost blog announced a partnership with Cloudflare. The goal was to improve the Ghost(Pro) infrastructure, making it faster and more secure. With a little tinkering, Cloudflare can be used with any Ghost blog. Technodabbler received this upgrade a couple of days ago. But
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How Can You Combine Raspberry Pi and LEGO with BrickPi?
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to receive a Lego NXT Mindstorm kit as a gift from my wife. With it, one can build a robot using technical legos, motors and sensors. A special programmable brick is used to control the behavior of the robot. As a programmer,
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How Do You Set Up the Perfect Electronic Workbench?
Curious about electronics but don’t know where to start? With the right tools, a breadboard, and some guided experiments, you can dive into circuits and components—even without an engineering background!
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Is Game Boy Advance Development still Relevant?
Game Boy Advance development offers a rare look at low-level 2D rendering, manual memory management, and hardware constraints. See how it connects to modern engines and why it’s still a valuable learning experience.
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Was the MediaGate MG-35 a Worthy Media Player?
Before streaming ruled the living room, the Mediagate MG-35 bridged PCs and TVs. Discover how this forgotten device shaped home entertainment in the era of torrents and Xvid.
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Project E.U.N.U.C.H.: Cooling Innovation or an Alcholic Joke?
If cooling PCs with water is bold, using frozen alcohol is outright insane. Project E.U.N.U.C.H. dares to push boundaries, running Half-Life on a 486 with frosty ingenuity.