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How I turned my Kobo into a client for my self-hosted library
What began as removing recommendations from the home screen became two reading paths: KEPUB in Nickel for books and CBZ over OPDS in KOReader for manga and comics. Backups, commands, decisions and real verification.
The ROM That Was Not LineageOS: Two Days With My Dad's Tablet
A 2013 Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, a USB handshake that always failed, a hub I bought because of a wrong diagnosis, and a ROM that turned out to be something other than what its filename claimed. I ended up restoring stock Android, and that was the right call. Updated September 11th: why it kept booting into recovery, why no app store can work on Android 4.4, and how its flash storage died in front of me.
A Server at Home: What I Took Back From the Cloud, and What I Didn't
How I turned a second-hand mini PC into a home server for photos, music, books and passwords. The alternatives I rejected and why, the honest downsides of each service, and why right now is a bad time to buy hardware. Updated with a 50-day audit of the ad blocker: what I found broken, how to measure it, and the two times I got the diagnosis wrong.
How I Gave My Xiaomi Mi A2 a Second Life with a Custom ROM
Complete guide on how I installed a Custom ROM on a Xiaomi Mi A2 abandoned by the manufacturer. Updated September 2026 with two days of debugging: Error 7, slot retry counters, fastboot 768 MB limit, and a boot hang that turned out to be the wrong filesystem. Updated September 11th with the camera, which does not work: why, and why a Magisk module cannot fix it.
My Local AI Lab on an Old PC: What Actually Worked
A detailed diary of building a private local AI setup on a Ryzen 5 5600 and GTX 1080 Ti: failed installs, model tests, context limits, RAG, agents, email classification, and the decisions that survived real validation.
How I Set Up a Modded Minecraft Server with Docker on an Old PC
Complete guide to deploying a Minecraft server with Cobblemon using Docker Compose on limited hardware. From initial setup to RAM optimization, CLI mod management and admin tricks.