Homelab

May 17, 2026
in Android, Homelab
4 min read

Freeing the Screensaver: 4K Anime Art on Google TV

My TV spends more time idle than playing content. And every idle minute, Google TV shows me the same curated AI art or Google Photos memories — things I did not choose, do not control, and cannot change.

I wanted my own screensaver. 4K anime art from Wallhaven, video loops from MoeWalls — playing on my TV, not streamed from a cloud service I never asked for.¹

Aerial Views screensaver on Google TV

May 10, 2026
in Self-Hosting, Homelab
11 min read

Breathing Life Into an Old PC: Building a Self-Hosted Media & Manga Server

I had an old PC lying around — one of those machines you keep meaning to throw out but never do. It was slow, loud, and completely useless for modern computing. No one was going to browse the web on it, let alone run any real software.

Then it hit me: I could turn it into a server.

Old PC repurposed as a server