Before WeChat files expire, you can now save them directly to NAS: QNAP will make its official mini program "QNAP Assistant" available in mid-October; in WeChat, you can select photos, videos, and documents in chats and transfer them back to your own machine without saving them to your phone first. But it only backs up files, not chat history; it must stay in the foreground, and the speed is not fast either.

Memory wholesale prices have risen for nine consecutive months, and Q4 contract prices are set to rise further. But breaking down TrendForce’s numbers, the consumer-grade tier is up only 3%–8%; instead, DDR4 spot prices for older platforms are even higher than DDR5. This article does the math on adding memory to a NAS: how much to buy, whether to wait, and which three types of modules to avoid.

On November 1, WavKong V2700 goes on sale for 520 USD. An RPU chip moves base-station digital predistortion into a home router; the official claim is 3 to 10 times faster at medium-to-long range. But it is entry-level MT7981, 256MB memory, four Gigabit ports—whether it’s worth it depends on what wall it’s in.

On October 30, Zspace Z4Air debuts on JD, four-bay at 1899 yuan, with a HiSilicon ARM chip plus a 4TOPS NPU. No spec-sheet talk, just three things: how to read the official 12.8%, where ARM gets stuck as a main NAS, and why that NPU can't run large models.

QNAP released the QuAgent public beta on October 27: get the NAS to work with a single sentence, and it can also read logs to pick out abnormal logins. But it only supports x86 models, and you must first upgrade the system to the QTS 6.1 public beta; you can switch between local and cloud models, but the official docs do not say which is used by default. This article covers the four hurdles I see.

QNAP released the QTS 6.1 public beta on October 13, and the posts are all about the new UI and Passkey. What really affects tinkerers is the list in the release notes: Python, PHP extensions, phpMyAdmin, and MariaDB are no longer supported. Check against it before upgrading.

Pulling four drives from an old NAS and plugging them into a new machine, only to see the drives but not the files, is all too common. TerraMaster's F4-213, which went on sale on October 20, promotes "direct mounting of old drives without formatting"; after reading the official website documentation, it turns out this feature covers a much narrower scope than the promotional wording: it only recognizes single drives, not arrays.

On October 5, 19-year-old Zain Javaid brought Ghost Core out of stealth: screenless, $3499, purpose-built to run AI agents 24/7, with $11 million led by a16z. Meanwhile, there was also the $1799 Oki Home, sold out in three days. This piece neither hypes nor bashes; it just calculates one thing: whether this money is worth spending at home.

Aerial (aerial-tv) is an open-source Android TV launcher on GitHub that does only one thing: replace the TV launcher with a tvOS-style interface and remove recommendation feeds and membership entry points. This article covers how to install the APK, how to enable ADB, and how to revert if you are not satisfied.

Huawei Router X2 Pro opens pre-sales on October 20 and goes on sale on October 26, at 588 yuan per unit. The book-style design solves the placement problem; what really needs to be worked out is who the 2.5G port is for, whether 256MB of memory is enough, and who can benefit from the plus in Wi-Fi 7+.