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Home Assistant or Pi-hole goes into a docker-compose.yml, the stack comes up healthy, and device discovery still doesn't work -- no new devices show up. The forum fix is network_mode: host. What it actually does, when it's worth the isolation you give up, and when bridge is still right.
Search results for Tailscale scatter across install guides, pricing pages, and comparisons with no map between them. This hub ties all six — what it is, WireGuard internals, install, exit nodes, pricing, and Headscale — into one decision path from a homelab that runs it.
Added a second person to your tailnet and worried a bill is coming? Tailscale's free Personal plan covers 6 users with unlimited devices per user after the April 2026 rework — the real math on what's actually free and when Standard or Premium pays off.
Money in Germany
Every Riester calculator online gives you a number with no formula behind it. Here's the actual Grundzulage + Kinderzulage + 4%-Eigenbeitrag math, worked by hand for a single earner and a two-child family.
Riester Rente payouts are 84% taxable in 2026, not tax-free. See worked euro examples for the lifelong annuity and the 30% lump-sum option, sourced to current German tax rules.
Cancelling a Riester Rente counts as schädliche Verwendung and triggers repayment of Zulagen, tax benefits, and taxed growth. See the worked euro cost against three penalty-free alternatives.
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Two things flip the old advice in 2026: Spotify now has real lossless audio, and Apple Music is cheaper on most tiers. A decision table routing you to the one factor that should decide it, plus links to the full sound-quality, price, and three-way breakdowns.
Spotify Family now costs $21.99/mo. A real cost and maintenance-time comparison against self-hosting Navidrome on hardware you already own, a dedicated Pi, or a cheap cloud VPS -- and when it's actually worth ditching streaming.
Every self-hosted apps roundup is an unvetted list with no honest 'skip this one.' Six categories actually tested on a homelab — AI chatbot, music, automation, Reddit, Git, and CI/CD — with real hardware cost and one category that isn't worth it for most people.