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Google is retiring the goo.gl URL shortener: from August 25, 2025 all short links stop redirecting. Here is what happens and how the links are archived.

Dyson poured 2 billion pounds and 700 engineers into a ground-up electric car before scrapping it in 2019. Here is the story of the EV that never launched.

unRaid needs at least 4GB of RAM to run as a simple NAS, but plan for 16GB as a Docker host and 32 to 64GB when running several VMs or game servers.

Every Synology NAS has a firewall, but attackers still reach the login screen. Learn how a scheduled script auto-imports IP blocklists into Synology DSM.

How big does the Unraid boot USB stick need to be? Unraid boots from USB, so the stick only holds the OS: minimum 4GB, maximum 32GB.

By default a Synology NAS silently drops incoming ICMP echo requests, so pings time out. Here is the firewall rule that lets you ping your Synology NAS again.

No, Unraid does not need a GPU to run. But there are several good reasons why many builds include one, from VMs and gaming to Plex transcoding and mining.

Unraid boots entirely from a USB stick. See which sticks are proven reliable and how to reduce write load so your Unraid boot drive lasts much longer.

Learn how to mount an NFS or SMB/SAMBA share from another server on your Unraid box using the Unassigned Devices plugin, including automount and Docker.

Learn how to install Nextcloud as a Docker container on Unraid with a MariaDB database and make it reachable from anywhere through the Nginx Proxy Manager.