I recently purchased a Pioneer VSX-LX505 AV receiver and wanted to integrate it with Apple HomeKit using Homebridge. Since I couldn’t find clear information online confirming whether this setup was possible, I decided to document the steps that worked for me.
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Running a home lab on Proxmox is a great way to self-host services, but keeping track of multiple IPs and ports can get complicated. To simplify access to services, I set up custom subdomains hosted on Cloudflare that are easy to remember and restricted to my private Tailscale network.
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I recently encountered a strange networking issue while running Proxmox on a MacBook Air with a USB-to-Ethernet dongle. Disabling RX/TX checksumming on the dongle forced the kernel to handle checksumming in software, resolving the issue.
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Sometimes my chats with Claude Pro get pretty long, and I start running into usage limits. When that happens, I need to start a new thread—but I don’t want to waste time going back to summarize everything. That’s where I’ve found text replacements on iOS/macOS to be incredibly helpful.
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While there are plenty of tools for creating playlists with individual songs, I’ve found few that make it simple to create playlists with all the tracks from specific albums. This is especially helpful at the end of the year, when “Best of the Year” album lists appear.
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