Ollama and VS Code’s Continue Extension for Code Autocompletion

AI, Home server /

Welcome, AI enthusiasts! Today, we’re diving into an exciting world where traditional AI frameworks clash with self-hosting options like Ollama. Let’s explore how to harness the capabilities of these cutting-edge models right within your familiar development environment—Visual Studio Code. Setting Up Your Self-Hosting Environment Ollama has options for Windows, Mac & Linux, here I’m using […]

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ZeroTier on Debian: A Simple Way to Access Your Server Remotely

Home server, remote access /

Introduction: Managing a server remotely is essential for flexibility and convenience. ZeroTier simplifies this by creating a secure virtual network that connects your devices as if they were on the same local network. In this guide, we’ll show you how to install and configure ZeroTier on a Debian Linux server, enabling remote access from your

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Seamless News Updates: Integrating FeedCord with Portainer for Discord Channels

Home server, RSS /

In today’s fast-paced world, staying updated with the latest news and updates is crucial, whether you’re managing a community Discord server or simply seeking to streamline your information consumption process. Fortunately, technologies like FeedCord and Portainer have made it easier than ever to integrate RSS feeds seamlessly into your Discord server, all within a containerized

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Media Server Magic: Streaming and Storing Your Entertainment at Home with Jellyfin

Home server, Media Server /

Introduction In the era of digital content, the desire to have complete control over our media is stronger than ever. Enter Jellyfin, an open-source media server that lets you organize, stream, and share your music, movies, and TV shows on your terms. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of installing and configuring

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SearxNG: Elevating Privacy and Customization in Meta Search

Home server, Meta-Search engine, Privacy /

Searx is a privacy focused highly customizable meta search engine. SearxNG is a fork of Searx. What is a meta-search engine? The Meta-search Engine is a search engine that combines the results of various search engines into one and gives one result. It can also be stated as an online information retrieval tool. Installation SearxNG

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AdGuard Home: Unleashing Network-Wide Ad and Tracking Defence

Ad-blocking, Adguard, DNS, Privacy /

Adguard home is network wide DNS filtering software. It is considered a alternative to pi-hole. But it has a lot more features compared to pi-hole as a result it is also slightly resource heavy compared to pi-hole. It has a fancy Web UI. User friendly setup process.And it supports Windows, Mac and Linux unlike pi-hole

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Securing Your Network: Redirecting DNS Queries to Pi-hole, on OpenWrt

Ad-blocking, DNS, OpenWrt, Privacy /

Why bother? To eliminate DNS leaking. By doing so we are forcing every device to go through our DNS filter. Process Intercept and redirect DNS queries. Port forward On the OpenWRT router under Network > Firewall > Port Forwards, I added the following rule: Under the Advanced Settings of the new port forward rule I added: Which indicates

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Pi-Hole-Setup with jacklul’s update script

Ad-blocking, DNS /

Why use Pi-hole? Pi-hole is relatively easy to use, consumes less ram compared to ‘AdGuard Home’ a very common alternative to Pi-hole. Setup process Update all packages Run the official one liner command to install Pi-hole Navigate through the setup process. After install visit http://<IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_PI_HOLE>/admin/ you’ll be greeted with the login page of pihole. You

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