Netflix Swallows Warner Bros: The Streaming Wars Just Got Boring Netflix just dropped $82.7 billion to buy Warner Bros.—and they're promising it'll make streaming cheaper for you. Here's what actually happened the last time streaming services made that promise […]

Kagi Capy UI - 1.0.6 2025-12-05 Hotfix They seem to have updated their selectors and added some new features (yay you can pick the Kagibara as your companion!!). This should get everyone back up and going. Probably be a minor cleanup fix later or this weekend […]

Netflix Swallows Warner Bros: The Streaming Wars Just Got Boring Netflix just dropped $82.7 billion to buy Warner Bros.—and they're promising it'll make streaming cheaper for you. Here's what actually happened the last time streaming services made that promise […]

App Defaults - 2025 https://cool-as-heck.blog/app-defaults-2025

What were your most used #selfhosted services of 2025?

2 of 2 500 characters isn’t enough. I struggled with this on Twitter, too. With over a million followers there, important details often got lost because posts were split into threads. On the Fediverse, it’s worse. Trolls often focus on a single post, twist its meaning, and bury the rest of the […]

Apple vs. India: When Privacy Theater Meets Selective Enforcement Apple is taking a principled stand against India's demand to preload a government surveillance app on every iPhone. Noble, right? Except this is the same Apple that allegedly let Meta bypass iOS privacy protections for years […]

Mastadonn Capy UI Release 1.0.2: 2025-12-1 * Added gradient background effect (kagi-style) - subtle radial gradient from electric blue at top fading to dark * Implemented dual-layer gradient with fixed overlay for atmospheric lighting effect * Added gradient toggle system - users can easily […]

New custom dark theme css for Kagi. I ported my Mastadon Capy UI over. Will be porting a small change back to the mastodon one later. https://github.com/ppb1701/kagi_capy_ui #kagi #themes

When morning comes to early 🥱

Impossible to say why people are returning to torrenting https://www.theverge.com/news/834655/netflix-phone-casting-chromecast-support-killed

For those of you tolerating Liquid Glass and the quite horrific Safari redesign on mobile/tablet: Kagi’s Orion browser actually seems to be an awesome full replacement. No complaints so far. Easy access to tab management, no weirdly hidden buttons or menus you need to tap multiple times to see […]

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today" #foss #digitalsovereignty […]

A Look Ahead to iOS 27: When Your Band-Aid Needs a Band-Aid https://blog.ppb1701.com/a-look-ahead-to-ios-27-when-your-band-aid-needs-a-band-aid #apple #ios #blog

Well rewatching iron blooded orphans. Time to watch epic fights and what feels like almost everyone in the show die. Fun show though 😁 #gundam #ironbloodedorphans

Happy turkey day everyone

Valve's Hardware Gambit: Steam Machines Return With a Vengeance Valve just announced Steam Machine 2.0, Steam Frame VR, and a new controller for 2026. This time feels different—but will it work this time? (Bonus blog before the holiday) […]

A Look Ahead to iOS 27: When Your Band-Aid Needs a Band-Aid https://blog.ppb1701.com/a-look-ahead-to-ios-27-when-your-band-aid-needs-a-band-aid #apple #ios #blog

@ppb1701 @beaware.social great! That's a GREAT deal considering WWE's current pricing.😬😅

@ppb1701 @beaware.social I REALLY hope it ends up with Swerve winning the title back at some point. In my opinion, Joe doesn't need the belt. He's easily one of the GOATs that are still wrestling. He should be elevating other people.🤷‍♂️

Building a Bulletproof Home Server (Blog Series Page) My Journey from a broken Adblocking Server to a fully functional NixOs Home Server running Adguard Home, Syncthing, Nginx, and Tailscale. https://blog.ppb1701.com/building-a-bulletproof-home-server-series

Making it Production Ready: Adding Services and Hardening Part 4 of "Building a Bulletproof Home Server" Series Hardening the server and adding some niceties for the future...all while updating the iso build....the later was when it got a little messy […]

@ppb1701 I've always just used either the plain iso for my servers or the nixos-anywhere kexec image in case the machine is remote only. The iso contents don't really matter in my opinion if you can just push the config. Different story for something I did for work where I included specific […]

Been following along on my Build a NixOs server journey? If you want just burn an iso and install it without grabbing the repo, I've added the current iso to releases on the project: Still a work in progress (likely always will be 🤓 ) but it loads nixos, adguard home, syncthings, nginx […]

Mastodon Capy UI Update ### 1.0.1: 2025-11-21 * Updated quote post styling to use electric blue theme colors (#1e80c7) * Fixed blockquote text and decorative quote marks to match theme * Added CSS variable overrides for --color-quote in all themes (dark, light, high contrast) […]

Making it Production Ready: Adding Services and Hardening Part 4 of "Building a Bulletproof Home Server" Series Hardening the server and adding some niceties for the future...all while updating the iso build....the later was when it got a little messy […]

People who refuse to use Linux because that command line thing is too complicated are using PowerShell script to debloat their Windows 11...

Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]

for the love of all that as holy can we dump dependence on aws and cloudflare🤦‍♂️

For anyone that wants to play what I have so far, just updated the builds for #iOS and #macOS here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/699DaVE9 For free ofc!

From VM To Reality -When Things Break Part 3 of “Building a Bulletproof Homeserver” Series Getting to the real machine and all th hiccups getting there. https://blog.ppb1701.com/from-vm-to-reality-when-things-break-part-3-of-building-a-bulletproof-home-server-series #nixos #adguardhome […]

🤣I had a debate this morning with a guy that said "Linux does NOT have significant performance gains over Windows, the background processes on Windows would be similar to the background processes on Linux" Then went on to say "I LOVE my steam deck!" And when I asked if he thought a windows […]

Problem: You have your printer listed twice for some reason, only one of them works, and you can never remember which one Solution: Delete both and re-add the printer Results: You have three copies of your printer listed

for those following along with the blog series "Building a Bulletproof Home Server" Part 3 should go up Monday. I'll post the link here, but you can always catch any my blogs on http://blog.ppb1701.com

VM Adventures - Getting hands on with NixOS in the VM : Part 2 of "Building a Bulletproof Home Server" series Learning the ropes during my 3 week saga of building a NixOs server […]

VM Adventures - Getting hands on with NixOS in the VM : Part 2 of "Building a Bulletproof Home Server" series Learning the ropes during my 3 week saga of building a NixOs server […]

total side note: but if you are tired of seeing it pop up in your feed (or anything else really that would have consistent keywords) why not just add a filter and they'll largely disappear from your feeds.

The Day the Generator Guy Broke Everything (and Why I Decided NixOS Was Worth Learning): Part 1 of "Building a Bulletproof Home Server" series Why I spent 3 weeks building a NixOs server […]

The Day the Generator Guy Broke Everything (and Why I Decided NixOS Was Worth Learning): Part 1 of "Building a Bulletproof Home Server" series Why I spent 3 weeks building a NixOs server […]

So I did a thing. Made what I've dubbed the Capy-UI variant of the mastodon-bird-ui. It supports light and dark, but in my opinion dark made is where it shines. if you'd like to give it a whirl feel free to it can be found here https://github.com/ppb1701/mastodon-capy-ui/tree/main It's still a […]

Good grief I'm going to have a fun multipart blog adventure set of posts coming as I tidy up my notes. Arch Adguard server -> NixOs Adguard server with git backup and an custom preconfigured iso after a arch croaked. Early pro-tip: Doing so while the machines downstairs and your mostly […]