Over the last few years, I've shifted most of my digital life onto servers I manage. My media streams through Plex, my notes live in a self-hosted editor, my files sync via Nextcloud, and even my ...

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You may have seen plenty of online ads about paid VPN services. However, as we explained in a previous article, it’s not a good idea to tunnel all your internet traffic through a VPN service. Unlike ...

One way to improve e-mail, as I wrote back in October, is to Get More Work Done with Less E-Mail. But since you can’t get away from e-mail completely, you need to get a better handle on spam, e-mail ...

Would you pay $3,600 a year just to store your files? That’s the price Google quoted for 20TB of cloud storage, an eye-watering sum that forces you to question the value of convenience. For many, the ...