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January 22, 2026•12 min read

YouTube Deleted Rewind Videos: Why Self-Hosting Prevents Lost Media

How YouTube's deletion of Rewind videos highlights the importance of self-hosting media. A guide to preserving digital content before it disappears forever.

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January 21, 2026•17 min read

Meetily: Privacy-First Meeting Transcription with Ollama and Gemma 3 4B

Complete guide to setting up Meetily for offline meeting transcription and AI summarization using Ollama with Gemma 3 4B. No cloud required, 100% local processing.

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January 19, 2026•10 min read

I'm Starting to Self-Host My Own 'Internet' (and Why You Can Too)

Two years into building a personal intranet: replacing Netflix with Jellyfin, running local AI models, hosting offline Wikipedia, and reclaiming digital ownership

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January 18, 2026•13 min read

Building a Self-Hosted Streaming Service: FileBrowser + Jellyfin

Complete guide to setting up FileBrowser and Jellyfin together for a powerful self-hosted media streaming platform with advanced file management

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January 15, 2026•10 min read

Open-Atlas-Node: Manage Your Homelab Like a Cloud Provider

Discover how Open-Atlas-Node brings cloud-like server management to your local infrastructure with monitoring, remote control, and web-based SSH terminals

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January 15, 2026•14 min read

How XandAI CLI Handles Code Encoding and Tags: A Deep Dive

Understanding how XandAI CLI processes, encodes, and manages code blocks, inline code, and markup tags in terminal-based AI interactions

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