I thought I’d share some light-hearted news before I can drop the pessimistic read on the tech sector as a whole. Anthropic hasn’t yet shared any update on when the US government’s suspension of Fable 5 will be lifted, but there are communities voicing support for the repeal of the ban, while sharing memes around its status.
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Steam Machine Out to Have Pie and Eat It Too
Valve announced yesterday the specs and price point of the new Steam Machine. It has been speculated Valve is coming after the console market, specifically, the “couch” market. The first Steam Machine from 2015 was a commercial failure, in large part because the pricing wasn’t agreeable to either console or PC gamers. After the successful run with Steam Deck, Valve is giving Steam Machine yet another go, seemingly for the same reason.
How to Secure Erase Synology DSM FVE Drives
My old post on wiping retired Synology drives covered most use cases with two big caveats: one, Synology has since introduced full volume encryption on DSM, and two, the FVE implementation on DSM does not guarantee clean disposal. I will get into details in the tangent, but the short version is — DSM does not encrypt the whole drive; it still leaves a small area in plaintext. Paired with the unit itself, that area is a significant risk vector.
App to Restart Unhealthy Docker Container
One of the odd features left out of the Docker ecosystem is restart on unhealthy. Docker knows the status of individual containers, but it somehow does not natively support the feature. There are yaml tricks to have a container kill itself if unhealthy, so the Docker engine restarts it based on the policy. The tool I am recommending is a more comprehensive, if not more commonly recommended, method.
App to Span Filesystem Across Storage Pools
The home lab community has long assessed the pros and cons of NAS ecosystems and respective accessories for future expansions. Notably, Synology has been offering expansion units as a companion to their DiskStation lineup. For example, if the main unit only has 5 bays but the spec sheet says it supports up to 15 drives, the implication is that the user may expand the configuration with the compatible expansion unit they offer. That being said, an expansion over a single line of cable also presents a single point of failure — a risk most find outweighs the benefit of additional…
How to Remedy Apple Music Library Issue after Region Change
It has been about two weeks since I migrated my primary Apple account over to South Korea. The migration itself was near instantaneous. What caught me completely off guard was Apple Music’s behavior across the different Music apps. On iOS, the app displayed my library (with albums available in the region). On tvOS, I did need to reboot, but after some time, it was able to rebuild the library for me. It was the macOS Music app that gave trouble. First with “the Cloud Music Library can’t be loaded”, and when I tried to log in again, it simply refused.
How to Skip All Claude Code Permission Prompts on VS Code
Continuing on from yesterday’s Claude Code piece, Anthropic provides an official extension for VS Code. In it, the command-line flags from yesterday do not parse as expected. Instead, the controls you’d want live in the extension’s own GUI settings page.
How to Skip All Claude Code Permission Prompts
In a more closely controlled environment with less risk, say, in a home lab of an enthusiast, the risk of Claude Code accidentally wiping the drive or destroying another repo is minimal. Not that it cannot happen, but a reasonable amount of backup or git versioning practice could mitigate most of the risks from accidental or non-malicious actions. In such a scenario, Claude asking for permissions only slows down making your idea come true.
Cursed Digicam | 呪われたデジカメ Spiel
Chilla’s Art makes chilling, socially aware horror games set in modern Japan, but in the supernatural theme, I am inclined to say many are hit and miss: cryptic messages, ambiguous threats and motives, seemingly unrelated motifs, and unique gameplay mechanics thrown out midway. As indie games, they have their unique flavor, but as horror games, they don’t connect to the foundation to make a statement.
How to Remedy SERVFAIL during Caddy + DuckDNS Certificate Challenge
Caddy is a tool I use for home lab HTTPS management. However, the tool is not bulletproof. It’s not a simple GUI tool to add services and forget. One such problem Caddy can introduce with HTTPS is during the challenge to obtain a certificate. Because the certificate has to be renewed periodically, even if it succeeded at one point, it may fail or give out an error tomorrow.
How to Band-aid Fix Seerr “Movie Not Found” Error
My Seerr started acting up after the migration. In the web UI, it threw “Movie Not Found” errors — not on everything, but, evidently, only on some of the movies in the library and some of the entries in trending. Both LAN and WAN were working fine. The errors weren’t persistent. They came and went, and the number of films affected kept changing.
How to Disable Auto-Lock in Pythonista
Pythonista, coupled with LLM for vibe coding, is a great way to play around with making your apps come true quickly. No need to pay for a developer account or register it. However, being an iOS Python IDE, there are limitations on what it can mimic. One such limitation was disabling Auto-Lock while a script is running. I’d asked LLMs to fix it more than once, only to crash Pythonista every time.
How to Stop All Docker Containers with Single Command
In a home lab environment, the server is bound to go through more changes than conservatively-run enterprise counterparts. It is, after all, part of the experience. And one core difference in approach between the two environments is downtime. In the corporate world, server downtime is lost revenue. In the home lab world, well-architected downtime is yet another small project finished.
How to Migrate Docker Containers from Synology
Synology DSM has been shipped with a Docker Engine for a while, but it failed to keep up with the latest version of Docker Engine, let alone stay within the EOL life cycle. DSM was given an updated 24.0.2 of Docker Engine in February 2025, the version already declared EOL in June 2024. At the time, the latest version of Docker Engine available was 27.5, at least 3 major versions past what Synology offered. In short, running multiple Docker containers as part of a home lab on the DSM platform is unreliable.
How to Scan Local Network for Reserved IP
While routers are becoming ‘smarter’ day by day, some of the rather basic features are pushed back to the “Professional” department. One such feature is LAN management, specifically, static IP reservation. Single-source-of-truth dictates one authority for IP assignment — routers could be that authority. However, practically speaking, none of the consumer-level routers I’ve encountered have managed to ship a proper static IP management. Hence per-device static IP.