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These articles come out of private projects built on open-source software: Home Assistant and IoT devices on the home network, Paperless-ngx for a paperless office, cloud storage with Rclone and Proton Drive. The standards stay the same as at work, but everything runs at home, after hours. Questions and your own experiences are very welcome in the comments of each article.
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RustDesk: Setting Up the Open-Source TeamViewer Alternative
RustDesk is open-source remote support software licensed under the AGPL, free of charge and self-hostable. Learn how to install the client on Windows (including unattended deployment via MSI), how connections work through the public rendezvous server, your own server, or a direct connection, which features are needed for day-to-day support, and where the limits of free use lie.
Performing a BIOS Update Safely: A Guide Using ASRock AM5 as an Example, Including BitLocker Preparation
The complete BIOS update process using an ASRock AM5 board as an example: determine the version, verify the download using a hash, properly suspend BitLocker, boot into UEFI (even if F2 does nothing), update with Instant Flash, and configure settings sensibly after the update.
Running Paperless-ngx with Limited Storage: Offload Documents to a Cloud Service
Paperless-ngx only needs the database, search index, and thumbnails locally; the documents themselves can reside in a cloud service. What the practical test showed and how to set it up with the ready-made template in three commands.
Proton Drive on Linux: Status as of July 2026
The official Linux client has been announced but is not yet available. On servers, Proton Drive can currently be mounted with Rclone; the new SDK indicates the technical direction. What is still missing is machine access limited to individual folders or tasks.
Running Rclone mounts reliably in Docker
For a FUSE mount from a container to work on the host and in other containers, mount propagation, AppArmor, and recovery after failures must work together.
Testing Cold Storage with Rclone: A Practical Test Plan
Before a service reads its files from the cloud through an Rclone mount, you should verify more than directory access. This test plan covers cold reads, warm reads, write operations, cache behavior, file integrity, and failures.
