Guide

July 25, 2026

01:27

Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users — Opt-Out Guide

Step-by-step guide to hardening Plex privacy: opt out of marketing emails, disable sale of personal data to ad partners, stop targeted advertising, turn off playback data collection, hide watch state/ratings sync, disable online media sources, and manage friend visibility. Covers every privacy-related toggle in Plex’s account settings with direct links. By Ethan Sholly on selfh.st, updated March 2025.

June 26, 2025

20:02

Outline Wiki — Docker Compose Install Guide

Complete Docker Compose setup for Outline, a self-hosted Notion-alternative wiki (BSL 1.1 license, ~39.8k GitHub stars). Covers Postgres 18/Redis 7, Slack or OIDC auth, SMTP, local file storage, and Cloudflare Tunnels. Updated for v1.9.0.

May 6, 2025

21:40

Dual Boot Guide: Windows 11 and Ubuntu

A step-by-step guide to installing Ubuntu alongside Windows 11: backing up, shrinking the Windows partition, disabling Fast Startup and BitLocker, creating installation media, and handling Secure Boot, GRUB, and bootloader recovery. Also covers removing either OS later.