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Practical technology guides: Android, Windows, self-hosting, smart home, EVs and more — tested, step-by-step, no fluff.
A first-hand comparison of Spotify and Apple Music — sound quality, price, the three-way matchup with Amazon Music and YouTube Music, migrating your library between them, and whether self-hosting your own music library beats both.
3 articles
The guide to replacing Big Tech apps with your own self-hosted server — LLM chat, music streaming, automation, Reddit reading, git hosting, and CI/CD, all run and benchmarked on the author's own homelab.
7 articles
The hands-on guide to turning a Raspberry Pi into a real home server — a NAS, a Minecraft server, a security-camera hub, a retro-gaming box and a headless always-on box — with real setup steps, running costs and where a Pi actually hits its limits, from a working homelab.
7 articles
The English-language guide to installing and running a home EV charger (wallbox) in Germany — real install costs, Netzbetreiber and landlord rules, hardware comparison, and solar charging.
8 articles
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.
Price and sound quality rarely keep people on Spotify -- years of playlists do. A real migration run with two transfer tools, tracking exactly what transferred, what needed manual fixing, and the real free-tier limits on each.
How many players can a Pi really hold? Realistic PaperMC ceilings for Pi 4 vs Pi 5, the Bedrock ARM problem, the tuning levers, and a Docker setup.
An honest per-console, per-Pi playability matrix: which systems run full speed on Pi 3/4/5, which are marginal, and which distro to actually flash.
Android backup isn't one system, it's three, and none of them cover authenticator app seeds. Here is what Google One, Google Photos, and WhatsApp actually save, what gets skipped, and how to migrate phones without losing your 2FA codes.
The hub guide for home EV charging in Germany: the total cost picture (€1,200–3,500 upfront, ~€5.50–7.40/100km running), a six-decision framework (own vs rent, wallbox, electrician, process, running cost, optional solar), and routes to every detailed spoke.
A sourced 2026 comparison of Germany's major public EV-charging networks — EnBW, Ionity, Aral pulse, Tesla Supercharger, Allego, EWE Go, Shell Recharge — covering ad-hoc vs app/subscription pricing, AC/DC surcharges, blocking fees, and how public charging stacks up against charging at home.
Charging your EV from rooftop solar in Germany: why self-consumed solar is worth ~29 ct/kWh more than exporting it, how PV surplus charging works, which wallboxes (go-e, Zappi, KEBA, Fronius, openWB) support it, and a conservative worked example of the ~€200–€350/yr saving.
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