Pragmatic IT Solutions
Limit apps to have access to location data. In most cased, the app can be totally blocked from using location information. And why do all the apps actually need to have access to your location? It makes no sense I would say. Here is how to get back control of location sharing for apps!
Limit location access on iOS per app – get control of your privacy Read More
Keep those apps on your Synology NAS running faster and make use of those M.2 NVMe drives in there. Run the complete applications and their workloads from a pool running on those fast M.2 NVMe drives now!
See also:
– Use any M.2 NVMe SSD as Storage Pool on Synology NAS
– Move docker containers to a new volume on Synology NAS
– Github repo with the script from user 007revad
Instead of throwing hardware and resources at AI models, let’s actually try and make them efficient while running it locally without the need for internet connectivity. Ohw, and let’s make it so we don’t need all those very expensive GPU’s either! This is exactly what DeepSeek does with their AI model. This is groundbreaking and performing very well in a self-hosted homelab. The efficient AI model is here!
Command list to install this in your homelab:
DeepSeek AI on VMware Homelab – no GPU needed Read More
- curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
- systemctl is-active ollama.service
- sudo systemctl start ollama.service
- sudo systemctl enable ollama.service
- sudo apt install python3
- python3 –version
- sudo apt install python3-pip
- pip3 –version
- sudo apt install git
- git –version
- ollama run deepseek-r1:7b
- sudo apt install python3-venv
- python3 -m venv ~/open-webui-venv
- source ~/open-webui-venv/bin/activate
- pip install open-webui
- open-webui serve
If you have UniFi equipment, you are (hopefully) self-hosting their Network Application software to manage it all. This is an easy script, written by community member Glenn R. to help you maintain you UniFi Network Application software. Amazing script and makes (UniFi) live easy.
Glenn R. website: https://glennr.nl/scripts
Upgrade UniFi Network Application software with this clever script Read More
In iOS 18 Apple secretly turned the option “Enhance Visual Search”. This option is a major privacy related option, as it shares information from your photo library (yes including location data) with Apple servers. Be aware of this, and preferably…turn it off!
Some things should just be physical! In this video, I show you how I migrated my home assistant install from a virtual server to a physical one. My physical install is based on the odroid n2+ board. Having Home Assistant running independently gives me peace of mind, that it always works and is not dependent on virtualization
Check my video on how to replace the Sonoff USB Zigbee coordinator with the ethernet-based one from SMLIGHT here.
Migrate Home Assistant from virtual machine to physical server (odroid n2+) Read More