How-To Geek: This Excel tool can predict future trendsâbut you probably never knew it existed: “When you track data over time, patterns often repeat themselves. Ice cream sales naturally rise during hot summer months and dip during the winter, garden harvests follow similar seasonal cycles, and retail store revenue predictably spikes during the holiday shopping rush. This repeating pattern is called “seasonality,” and Excel’s Forecast Sheet tool is designed to detect it automatically without you needing to build complex formulas.”
I have some of my Homepod mini’s unplugged because of this problem…
“Starting off simply, clean the display. If it’s a HomePod that’s sat on a shelf for a long time, it can get a layer of dust on the top, which can trigger a false touch.”
“Toggle off Touch and Hold for Siri” or change the hold duration through Accessibility settings.
“It is possible to disconnect the touch panel from the display entirely”
What Is Filtr?: “Filtr is brand new feature that extends Wiprâs blocking to all apps on the device. It acts at the network level, but it can access none of your data.”
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Hermes Agent: “Not a coding copilot tethered to an IDE or a chatbot wrapper around a single API. An autonomous agent that lives on your server, remembers what it learns, and gets more capable the longer it runs.”
Exit 8 (2025): “A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.”
Skinamarink (2022)
In Fear (2013): “Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.”
The Blair Witch Project (1999): “Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.”
As Above, So Below (2014): “When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.”
Vivarium (2019): “A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.”
Timecrimes (2007): “A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.”
Severance (2022): “Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.”
The Deep House (2021): “While diving in a remote French lake, a couple who specialize in urban exploration videos discover a house submerged in deep waters. Their dive turns into a nightmare when they discover the house was the scene of atrocious crimes.”
So this post is really just saying it exists. It doesn’t really give any details on where it’s available, unless TeknoParrot does have it.
“While I can’t share it for obvious legal reasons, it’s still nice to know the game is out there for those willing to go looking for it.”
“While sharing the ROM isn’t something I can do, it’s also not something I’d recommend you do either, just for the record. That said, there is actually a fairly active community dedicated to preserving and playing older arcade games, with TeknoParrot being one of the most popular emulators used for that purpose.”
Chris’ Blog: Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled: I’m looking forward to mods \ remakes of this one. I forgot playing it until i saw the article, so definitely looking forward to it.
This definitely reminded me to look at other games that were decompiled \ ported to other locations from N64.
I know running a mail server is pretty much never recommended, but I’ve always been curious when i see email settings on self-hosted things, since I’ve tried Gmail SMTP in the past with mixed results. So i wanted to see how this would be.
Mail-in-a-Box: “Mail-in-a-Box lets you become your own mail service provider in a few easy steps. Itâs sort of like making your own gmail, but one you control from top to bottom.”
Upgrading an electrical panel: There is no way in hell i would attempt that myself đ
An extensive router rack can be difficult: I don’t agree with this one… pretty much mentioning that replacing a router &\or modem is complicated?
A smart water monitor shouldn’t be attempted alone: Definitely agree to have a plumnber do this..
Installing an entire security system on your own: I have\had a security system that I’m replacing, so i was able to use the existing wires through the walls to put my own cameras.
Immich: “Self-hosted photo & video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.”
Home Assistant: “Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.”
Play Store: FitoTrack: “FitoTrack is a mobile app for logging and viewing your workouts. Whether youâre running, cycling or hiking, FitoTrack will show you the most important information, with detailed charts and statistics. It is open-source and completely ad-free.”
Nextcloud: “Nextcloud Hub combines the key Nextcloud products Files, Talk, Groupware, Office, Assistant and Flow, into a single platform, optimizing the flow of collaboration.”
Build an offline Wikipedia: Kiwix Server: “Acting as a dedicated HTTP server, sharing ZIM files, Kiwix Server compresses archives of websites like Wikipedia over a local network, making the content easily accessible on any device with a web browser, whether itâs a phone, laptop, or desktop⊔
Monitor your battery backups with Network UPS Tools: Network UPS Tools (NUT): “The primary goal of the Network UPS Tools (NUT) project is to provide support for Power Devices, such as Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Power Distribution Units, Automatic Transfer Switches, Power Supply Units and Solar Controllers. NUT provides a common protocol and set of tools to monitor and manage such devices, and to consistently name equivalent features and data points, across a vast range of vendor-specific protocols and connection media types.”
Create a network troubleshooting toolkit: NetTool: “A comprehensive toolkit that transforms your Raspberry Pi into a powerful network diagnostic and monitoring station.”
Proxmox VE: “Simplify your data center. Secure, flexible, and reliable open-source enterprise solutions. For the highest demands and tight budgets in professional IT environments.”
TrueNAS Core: “From the edge to your data center â transform your data estate. Deliver data sovereignty with TrueNAS Enterprise storage solutions.”
I was looking into this to see if i could get Meshtastic installed on my PinePager, then see about connected a Heltec v3 or v4 & seeing if that works vs. the “official” glytchtech piece.
ars Technica: Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults: “In a campaign that started Sunday, the unknown threat actor abused the mechanism that allows Dashlane users to add new devices, such as computers or phones, to their accounts. By abusing Dashlaneâs programming interfaces for device enrollment, the attackers sent requests to large numbers of existing usersâ registered email addresses.”
Ammar Askar: 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug: “Just by clicking a link, itâs possible for an attacker to steal a GitHub token that can read and write to your repos, including private ones.”
OSHW Lab: piBrick Pocket-CM5: “piBrick Pocket-CM5 is a smartphone-sized handheld PC powered by the Raspberry Pi CM5, featuring a 3.92” AMOLED touch display and a QWERTY keyboard+trackpad from BBQ20."
GitHub: amarullz / piBrick: “piBrick Pocket-CM5 is a smartphone-sized handheld PC powered by the Raspberry Pi CM5, featuring a 3.91” AMOLED touch display and a QWERTY keyboard+trackpad from BBQ20."
Kdenlive: “Free and Open Source Video Editor. Kdenlive is the acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.”
darktable: “darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.”
Blender: “Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipelineâmodeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game asset creation. Advanced users employ Blenderâs API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blenderâs future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase.”
Clear: clear: Clkears the screen. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+L
Copying & pasting text: “Place the cursor where you want to cut the text and then press Ctrl+K. This will cut the text to the end of the line in the terminal. You can also go the other way and cut to the beginning of the line with Ctrl+U. To paste text copied from within the terminal, press Ctrl+Y to paste it.”
Moving around and reading files or folders: pwd, cd, ls
Haven: A genuine hit on SYFY in the 2010s, Haven is loosely based on Stephen Kingâs story The Colorado Kid. The show offers small-town mystery vibes with a supernatural twist, exploring psychic powers and unresolved questions over five seasons. The castâEmily Rose, Lucas Bryant, and Eric Balfourâhad undeniable chemistry.
The Outer Limits (1995 revival): Much like a darker, more mature version of The Twilight Zone, this series revived the 1960s anthology for seven seasons and over 150 episodes through the late 1990s and early 2000s, originally airing on Showtime and later SciFi Channel. Known for its impressive guest roster, you could spot Mark Hamill, Amanda Tapping, Ryan Reynolds, Kirsten Dunst, and Robert Patrick over the years.
Continuum: This lesser-known Canadian time travel show ran as a SYFY original and followed a cop from the future who goes back in time to prevent criminals from changing history. Rachel Nichols stars, and the show explores the chaos and consequences of time travel.
The Triangle: Back when SciFi Channel still took big creative swings with ambitious miniseries, The Triangle focused on the Bermuda Triangle. Written by Rockne S. OâBannon and Dean Devlin, and starring Sam Neill, Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, and Lou Diamond Phillips, it offered high-concept sci-fi adventure.
Relic Hunter: If you ever wondered what a budget 1990s-style live-action Tomb Raider knockoff starring Tia Carrere might look like, this short-lived syndicated show is it. Carrere plays a professor globe-trotting in search of mysterious treasures. The formula is familiar, but the adventure is fun.
Lexx: Even sci-fi diehards sometimes forget Lexx. It ran for four seasons on SciFi Channel around the turn of the millennium, during a period when the network was experimenting with its direction. The show is dark, comedic, sexy, and unapologetically bizarre.
Sanctuary: This SYFY original debuted in 2007 as an experimental web series before getting picked up for TV. Amanda Tapping, post-Stargate SG-1, stars as a scientist who studies unusual and wild creatures. The series was one of the first shot almost entirely using green screen, giving it a distinct, if now somewhat dated, visual style.
Tin Man: Not to be confused with Wicked, this quirky revisiting of the Wizard of Oz concept premiered as a SYFY miniseries in 2007. The cast included Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough, Kathleen Robertson, and Richard Dreyfuss. It drew large ratings and reportedly cost $20 million to produce.
Farscape: Perhaps not âforgottenâ but definitely underwatched lately, Farscape remains a standout sci-fi series. It was the benchmark that put SciFi Channel on the map for original content, featuring a bold mix of puppetry and practical effects that still feel unique, alongside imaginative stories that rival Star Trek and Star Wars.
The Dresden Files: Adapted from Jim Butcherâs urban fantasy book series, this 2007 SYFY show was well-received by critics and genre fans but didnât draw enough viewers to last beyond a single season. Paul Blackthorne starred as wizard/private eye Harry Dresden. The series ran for just twelve episodes. As one viewer put it: “If the Dresden Files series had been called anything else⊠It was a good series if you’d never read the Dresden Files. It even got me to read the books ⊠after which I found out why so many people didn’t like it. It was horrible as an adaptation. Not actors’ fault, they did the best you could expect.” Even with its flaws, it’s still an interesting watch, especially if youâre curious about Chicagoâs magical underbelly.
Exit 8 (2025): “A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.”
Skinamarink (2022): “Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.”
In Fear (2013): “Driving to a music festival in Ireland, a new couple become lost and are then set upon by a tormentor with an unknown motive.”
The Blair Witch Project (1999): “Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.”
As Above, So Below (2014): “When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.”
Vivarium (2019): “A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.”
Timecrimes (2007): “A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.”
Severance (2022): “Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.”
The Deep House (2021): “While diving in a remote French lake, a couple who specialize in urban exploration videos discover a house submerged in deep waters. Their dive turns into a nightmare when they discover the house was the scene of atrocious crimes.”
I don’t really understand the subject “so good you’ll never need to pay for them”?
ShareX: “ShareX is a free and open-source screenshot and screencast software for Windows. It is published under the GNU General Public License. The project’s source code is hosted on GitHub. It is also available on the Microsoft Store and Steam.” (Wikipedia)
Duplicati: “Secure backup solution for hybrid cloud and on-prem. Unified Data Protection for Hybrid Infrastructure. Secure, monitor, and orchestrate backups across on-premises hardware and cloud workloads from a single, zero-trust console.”
Super Productivity: “Deep work made simple. A productivity system that adapts to how you actually work. Tasks, time tracking, and focus tools in one open-source app â offline, private, and yours to shape.”
OBS Studio: “Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.”
LibreOffice: “LibreOffice is an open source office suite created by you, for you.”
Super Productivity: “A productivity system that adapts to how you actually work. Tasks, time tracking, and focus tools in one open-source app â offline, private, and yours to shape.”
Portmaster: “Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall. Monitor every network connection on your computer and set per-application rules for what to block.”
Mailspring: “The fast, beautiful email client for people who take email seriously. A native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux â with multi-account support, read receipts, link tracking, send later, and more. Free for everything you need. Pro features at $8/month.”
GitHub: Duocervisia / e-paper-esp32-frame: “This project provides a comprehensive installation guide for an e-paper picture frame that updates daily. The frame features a Waveshare E6 full color e-paper display, which, combined with the implemented Floyd-Steinberg Dithering algorithm, creates the illusion of a greater color depth. Users have the ability to convert their own images using the included BMP-Converter. Additionally, the frame can be connected to the internet to display specific images on designated days. The 1000mAh battery is expected to last for approximately 700 days and can be recharged through the ESP32’s type-C port.”
GitHub: EIrno / Cracked-Oura: “Oura ring paywalls the data behind a subscription, but luckily you can export your data from Oura and import it to Cracked Oura. Cracked Oura is an open-source desktop application that provides full access to your health metrics, stored locally on your machine.”
Papermerge: “A document management system for PDF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF â with custom metadata, full-text search, and a tamper-proof audit trail that satisfies GoBD requirements out of the box.”
GitHub: ciur / papermerge: “Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives (Scanned Documents)”
Actual Budget: “Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.
You own your data and can do whatever you want with it. Featuring multi-device sync, optional end-to-end encryption and so much more.”
Open Notebook: “Open Notebook. Take Control of Your Learning. Privately. A powerful open-source, AI-powered note-taking/research platform that respects your privacy”
GitHub: lfnovo / open-notebook: “An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features”
While trying to get my Home Video library working between Plex & Jellyfin earlier this week, i downloaded a number of Apple TV Jellyfin apps, but I’m not sure if Streamyfin was one. I also have a number of the clients on my phone, so i should probably take a look at all of them & see if i can narrow down what i have.
GitHub: yakushstanislav / UltraViolet: “Self-hosted network discovery & search â your own Shodan, on your hardware.”
I thought this was going to be for more local discovery, but i could see use-cases for the public side too.
GitHub: perber / leafwiki: “LeafWiki - Self-hosted wiki. Single Go binary, SQLite, Markdown on disk. No external database required.”
Web Site: LeafWiki: “A self-hosted wiki. Single binary, no external database, Markdown on disk.”
I just wanted to save this one because it’s similar to some of the other note-taking apps i use (which is too many…), but using Markdown files, making backup (& migration if needed) extremely easy.
GitHub: afaneca / myfin: “MyFin Budget - Web frontend for the personal finances platform that’ll help you budget, keep track of your income/spending and forecast your financial future.”
Web Site: Myfin Budget: “Take Control of Your Finances with MyFin Budget”
I’ve been trying to get better \ more on top of budget, bills, finances, etc & just started trying to use Actual Budget after not really loving the Budget part of Oikos, so i wanted to give this service a look too.
GitHub: nezhahq / nezha: “Self-hosted, lightweight server and website monitoring and O&M tool”
Web Site: Nesha Server Monitoring: “Open-source, lightweight, and easy-to-use server monitoring and operation tool”
I haven’t found a home lab dashboard that I really love yet, so any time i see a new one mentioned i like to take a look at it.
GitHub: raceApps / nutritrace: “Self-hosted personal nutrition tracker â single Docker container, AGPL-3.0, no telemetry, no cloud sync.”
Along with trying to get a better view & handle on finances, trying to be healthier has been on the list too. After meaning to look into Cracked Oura, i thought this service might be worth a try too.
A coworker mentioned this one to me earlier this week, so i think i have it listed above in my post, but I’m still adding it since Ethan is also including it this week.
fitpub.social/
GitHub: endurain-project / endurain: “Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment”
Codeberg: endurain-project / endurain (Primary host vs. GitHub): “Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment https://docs.endurain.com”
This is the part I’m excited for: “Coreutils for Windows â a set of Linux-like command line utilities that run natively on Windows, now generally available.”
Yeah… i agree with everyone else… why did they think this is what people wanted added to Plex?
GitHub: caronc / apprise: “Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform”
Release v1.11.0: Doesn’t look like there’s any new servers added that i would use, but was worth a look.
GitHub: home-assistant / core: “đĄ Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.”
Web Site: Home Assistant: “Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.”
I do have to sit down with my Home Assistant install & really build out the dashboards in a way that’s actually helpful, so I will probably be digging into that new card picker that was added: “So you can imagine my excitement for my personal favorite of this release: the new card picker. Instead of asking âwhich card type do I want?â, it now asks âwhich thing in your home do you want to show?â, and then suggests cards that actually make sense for it, with live previews using your own data. For someone like me, thatâs not just easier; itâs genuinely inspiring. It nudges me towards combinations I would not have thought of on my own. đĄ”
GitHub: timothepoznanski / poznote: “Poznote is a personal note-taking and documentation platform.”
Web Site: Poznote: “Poznote is a personal note-taking and documentation platform.”
I can’t remember if i did look at this in the past or not, but hopefully i’ll remember going forward that this is a bit more than i need for my home lab. Definitely looks useful if i did have full racks though.
Web Site: solidtime: “The modern Open-Source Time Tracker”
jR4dh3y / BoxBox: “A modern, self-hosted file manager for your homelab. Built in SvelteKit & Go”
Web Site: BoxBox: " The file manager your homelab deserves. Manage Linux servers like local folders. Zero latency, instant sync, chunked transfers, and native code editing right in your browser."
SikamikanikoBG / homelab-monitor: “Plug-and-play homelab dashboard in one container â GPU, local-AI model VRAM, Docker, systemd and host health. One page, no Prometheus/Grafana.”
Web Site: HomeLab Monitor: “One small container for your home lab â GPU, AI VRAM, Docker, systemd and host health, all on one page. Multi-machine since 0.8 â register your other boxes over SSH and see every host’s vitals side-by-side in one cockpit.”
Web Site: Labitat: “A modern, self-hosted homelab dashboard. Live service widgets, drag-and-drop layout, and full PWA support.”
slqdk / NoteControl: “Windows File explorer based notecontrol server with HTML5 as frontend”
“A self-hosted, multi-user notes app for Windows. Notes are plain markdown files on disk, one folder per vault â open them in any editor, sync them with any tool, back them up by copying a folder. The app is just a friendly UI on top.”
Web Site: Odysseus: “Your own AI workspace, running on your hardware. Odysseus is a self-hosted interface for talking to language models â chat, autonomous agents, tools, model serving, email, research, and more. Local-first, privacy-first, and no telemetry. Just you and your models.”
Zoeille / picsou-finance: “Self-hosted personal finance dashboard Track bank accounts, brokerage, crypto, and net worth â all in one place.”
