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• Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets.
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• Aqara G4 Smart Wireless Video Doorbell — Always around, even when you're not.
• go2rtc: Ultimate camera streaming application with support RTSP, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, WebRTC, MSE, HLS, MP4, MJPEG, HomeKit, FFmpeg, etc. — You can use HomeKit Cameras without Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.), it's just a yet another protocol
• Gadgetbridge — Gadgetbridge is a free and open source Android application that allows you to pair and manage various gadgets such as smart watches, bands, headphones, and more without the need for the vendor application. So in short, you can use Gadgetbridge instead of relying on your gadget's own proprietary app.
• Garmin Protocol
• home-assistant-garmin_connect — The Garmin Connect integration allows you to expose data from Garmin Connect to Home Assistant.
• iMessage on PC and Android - BlueBubbles — Bringing iMessage to Windows, Linux, and Android.
• Install BlueBubbles on Linux
• Estate planning lawyer here — please don't use a safe deposit — Courts require the original will, and if that's in a safe deposit box that the executor doesn't have access to, then the executor is in a tough spot.
• Emergency Access | Bitwarden Help Center — Emergency access allows users to designate and manage trusted emergency contacts, who can request access to their vault in cases of emergency.
• End-of-life disaster response — If you are reading this, I, like Tommy, have disappeared to Froopyland and I miss you already. There's a lot here, but the first order of business is telling people.
• Nix Nextcloud
• keymaster — Home Assistant keymaster integration for Z-Wave enabled locks.
• Minisforum UM690 Pro — MD Ryzen™ 9 6900HX features 8 Cores and 16 Threads based on the highly-reputed Zen 3+ Architecture.
• No Boilerplate - YouTube
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linux Workstations - YouTube — We live in an incredible age, computers have never been so fast, nor storage so cheap, but it doesn't feel like it, right? It's not you, computing has been getting worse. And the problem is LAPTOPS.

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• Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free.

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• Join our Discord — Join our growing community of Self-Hosters!
• London Meetup *PROVISIONAL* — Alex from Self-Hosted will be in the UK in August and is proposing a meetup in London.
• scrutiny: Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring — WebUI for smartd S.M.A.R.T monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds.
• Cartridge — A self-hosted game library made with Laravel + Vue.js.
• Servas — A self-hosted bookmark management tool.
• Pinkt — Pinkt is an unofficial Pinboard Android client. Pinboard is a fast, no-nonsense bookmarking site for people who value privacy and speed.
• Dogsheep — Dogsheep is a collection of tools for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette.
• Gitea Webhook Change — In PR #17482 the Gitea project introduced a breaking change for security reasons. They introduced a new webhook.ALLOWED_HOST_LIST value which needed to be configured in order for webhooks to work.
• Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix — We just wanted to take a moment to welcome Rocket.Chat to Matrix, given the recent announcement that they are switching to using Matrix for standards-based interoperable federation!
• OliveTin — OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
• Did Google just change it’s mind about ending the G Suite legacy free edition? — What if I use G Suite legacy free edition for personal use? If you’re using the G Suite legacy free edition for non-commercial purposes, you can opt out of the transition to Google Workspace by clicking here (requires a super administrator account) or going to the Google Admin console.
• Google Graveyard - Killed by Google
• Send a Boost with a New Podcast App — New Podcasting 2.0 apps with Boost support.

Plus a great way to score cheap drives, a Project Off-Grid update, making your household light switches smart, and Alex's review of the HDHomeRun.

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• Telegram: Contact @hddsale — HDD Sales Telegram Channel
• What SMART Stats Are Telling Us About Hard Drive Reliability — As of September 30, 2019, Backblaze had 115,151 spinning hard drives spread across four data centers on two continents. Of that number, there were 2,098 boot drives and 113,053 data drives.
• How to disable the 3.3v pin on Western Digital USB White Label Drives - YouTube — This is an amazing way to get super cheap storage for your #Plex Media Server. The catch? The shucked #Western #Digital White label drives may not work right out of the box. Don't worry, the fix is simple..
• Amazon.com: StarTech.com 4X SATA Power Splitter Adapter Cable (PYO4SATA): Home Audio & Theater — The PYO4SATA SATA power splitter cable (1-to-4) features a SATA male power connector that connects to a single computer power supply SATA connector and breaks out into four SATA female power connectors.
• OpenLiteSpeed-WordPress - Linode Manager — Blazing-fast WordPress with LSCache, 300+ times faster than regular WordPress
• LinuxServer.io Blog
• ktz. - Alex's Blog
• Shelly 2.5 - Shelly Cloud — Shelly 2.5 comes with a programming/debug header which can be used to flash alternative firmware on the device. It has an ESP8266 inside, with a 2MB flash chip. A USB-to-UART adapter is needed as well as a reliable 3.3V with at least 350 mA drive capability.