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I run Sonarr and Jellyfin on my Unraid server, and the one setting I would change first on a fresh install is a folder name. Jellyfin finds shows by looking…
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A network-wide ad blocker for every phone, TV and laptop at home is one small Ubuntu box away. I run AdGuard Home myself, so I look at Pi-hole as the…
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My first reaction to a missing episode used to be to restart something. That is almost always the wrong move. Sonarr and Radarr already know exactly why they skipped a…
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A bookmark in nextDash used to tell you that a page was up. Now it can tell you why it isn’t. v1.28.0 adds a Tests tab to the side panel…
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Jellyfin is my favourite media server I would keep if I could only keep one app on my server, and it costs nothing!I run it and use it regularly, so…
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Unraid has a Use Tailscale switch in every Docker container template. I run a lot of my containers with it, and it is the neatest way I know to give…
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Beszel is the monitoring tool I leave running and forget about, which is the nicest thing you can say about a monitoring tool. It has been on my Unraid server…
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I keep coming back to Prometheus when I think about what I would want to watch a home server with. It is not new and not trendy, but the repository…
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Safari 27.3 is in beta, and the feature I care about is Adaptive Dark Mode: if you turn it on, Safari recolours websites that only have a light theme so…
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A Jellyfin server that transcodes on the CPU is fine until two people press play at once. Then the fans spin up and the video stutters. If your server has…
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I like settings that fail early and loudly. Sonarr and Radarr have one that most people never touch: Minimum Free Space. It decides whether an import is allowed to fill…
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I keep reaching for e-mail or a chat app to move one file from a computer to a phone, and it always feels silly. If both devices are on your…
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This is the release where I moved a lot of your keyboard shortcuts. I don’t take that lightly: if you drive nextDash from the keyboard, your fingers know the old…
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There is a setting in Sonarr and Radarr that sounds like housekeeping, and I’d leave it exactly where it is. It decides whether the app ever looks at your disk…
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I like the idea that Sonarr and Radarr quietly improve my library. I like it less when I forget to tell them where to stop. There is one setting for…
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I like tools that fit in one sentence. ntfy is one: you send a plain HTTP request to a topic, and every phone or browser subscribed to that topic buzzes.…
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I think the Mass Editor is the most underused button in Sonarr and Radarr. Change your mind about a quality profile and the slow way is to open every series…
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When something on my tailnet feels slow, I want to know one thing first: is the traffic going straight to the other device, or around the houses through a relay?…
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I honestly did not see this one coming: the little “Yes, and don’t ask again” option in Claude Code has been writing full commands, passwords included, into a file that…
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Watch feeds had one habit that bothered me: go away for a week and the purple count on a bookmark just keeps growing. v1.26.1 fixes that, and the bell gets…
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When something breaks I used to run docker compose logs and stare at a wall of text from last Tuesday. Now I ask for only the last few minutes, and…
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If you have both Usenet and torrent indexers, Sonarr and Radarr grab whichever release shows up first. I would not leave it at that: a delay profile is a small…
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The biggest change in v1.26.0 is one I will notice every day: new things that need you now wait in a bell in the navigation bar, instead of popping up…
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v1.25.0 is the release where widgets get a lot more to do. The biggest new one is a Tabs widget: several widgets in one tile, with a tab for each.…
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That orange icon in Activity, with the line about a path that does not exist or is not accessible, is one of the most common ways a Radarr or Sonarr…
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I have a MacBook Pro, an iPhone 17 and a long-standing habit of squinting at white websites at night, so the Safari 27.3 beta caught my eye. Apple’s WebKit team…
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I like commands that answer a question I keep asking. docker compose up -d returns the moment the containers are started, which says nothing about whether the database is ready…
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I like reaching my server from my phone without opening a single port on the router. Tailscale already does that for the network. tailscale serve adds the part people usually…
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If I could only get you to do one boring thing with your arr apps today, it would be this: open Sonarr and Radarr, make a backup, and download the…
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v1.24.2 is a tidy-up release: Config → Watch feeds finally looks like the other config sections, and a new install starts calmer. Watch feeds now has two tabs, like the…
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I like Prowlarr because it does one boring job: you add an indexer once, and it shows up in Sonarr and Radarr by itself. When an indexer just does not…
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Bazarr is the one container in my arr suite that I’d call the quiet one. Sonarr and Radarr find the video, Bazarr finds the subtitles, and when it’s set up…
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Before I edit a compose file a third time and hope for the best, I’d run one command first. docker compose config reads the file, fills in every variable, merges…
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I’d switch on one checkbox in Sonarr and Radarr before the next time you clean up your library: Unmonitor Deleted. Without it, a file you delete by hand is, to…
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v1.23.0 adds an assistant to nextDash that answers questions about your bookmarks, Health and containers, and only proposes changes that wait for your click. The MCP endpoint grows from four…
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I think this is the one setting every Sonarr and Radarr install should have switched on, and it is empty by default. Delete a movie or replace a file with…
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I honestly did not expect a loading label to be this expensive. Two independent write-ups say that Claude Code asks a model, about every 30 seconds per background agent, to…
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v1.22.5 is a polish release for the places you open all day: the tag view, the page filter, Recent bookmarks and the action bar. Nothing new to learn, a lot…
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I run Duplicati, and I’ll be honest: the green tick after a backup run tells me the upload finished. It does not tell me I can get my files back.…
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v1.22.4 is about tidying. You can now edit the dashboard right where it sits, search remembers which bookmarks you open at which hour, and there is a checkup for everything…
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Apple just announced a MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen, and I’m already getting greedy. I own an M5 Pro MacBook Pro that cost me a small fortune, and my…
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Docker’s default logging is the kind of default I’d never have picked: every line a container prints goes into one file that never rotates. On a box that runs for…
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A WordPress install with sloppy file permissions works fine right up to the moment it gets abused, which is why I’d rather spend ten minutes on this than find out…
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A docker.img that creeps toward 100% usually isn’t about big images, and I’d bet on a single container writing somewhere it shouldn’t. Since I run Unraid with a long list…
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v1.22.3 is about the first ten minutes. A new install now asks what you want before it does anything, and the usage analytics send less than before, and only if…
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If your disk fills up about twice as fast as your library grows, Sonarr and Radarr are probably copying every import instead of making a hardlink. This guide shows how…
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I love a good “it still works” story, and this one made me grin. Somebody went looking for the oldest program that still opens on Windows 11, no emulators and…
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v1.22.2 is a looks-only release. Nothing new to learn, but some parts of nextDash always felt slightly off the page, and I fixed that under every Signature material. The action…
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I’m more interested in OpenAI’s middle model than in its flagship, and GPT-6.1 Terra is why. Photo: Jernej Furman from Slovenia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons OpenAI’s lineup has…
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v1.22.1 is a small one. I fixed two annoying things and polished the weekly digest and Health. The first fix I wanted gone: a click on a bookmark’s icon now…
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I read the PHP2Shell news twice, because almost everything I run touches PHP somewhere. Two critical bugs got emergency patches on 21 October, and both can give an unauthenticated attacker…
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What I like most about Linus Torvalds using AI is how boringly honest the credit is. Photo: Beraldo Leal from Natal / RN, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons…
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I have an iPhone 17 and no iPad mini, but this one made me look twice: Apple gave the iPad mini an OLED screen, and then quietly split the chip…
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nextDash v1.22.0 is out, and this one you will see the moment you open the dashboard. Every theme was redrawn, and the new default is Aurora Glass. Yes, that includes…
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