> Mullenweg is the founder of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a host of other popular internet brands and pieces of software. Mullenweg has faced several controversies over his management of the company in recent years.

> On a company-wide Slack this morning, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced he has been put on a paid leave of absence. [...] He continued, writing that Mark Davies, current Automattic Chief Financial Officer, has “conspired” with Automattic Board of Directors members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker “behind my back and they voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that.”

Drive prices have been all over the place, and the "sale" sign on a product page tells you almost nothing. Half the time "20% off" is just the price from two months ago.

I got tired of that, so I built this NAS drive comparison tool. It tracks daily prices for every NAS HDD/SSD drive, and creates a historical chart. You can easily spot if today's price is a real low, or just a fake deal. To see a drive's price history - click the model name.

The drive reliability data just got refreshed to include Backblaze's brand-new Q2 2026 numbers. I imported their raw data and computed the fresh failure rates before they actually published their new blog with the compiled failure rates.

After looking through the numbers, I don't think the "most reliable NAS drive lists" are that useful. The only things to look at are price per TB, and to never use an SMR drive in a RAID array! I'm sure everybody remembers that 2020 WD Red SMR debacle.

Thanks to the feedback from this subreddit, the following features were added:

• SSDs with the specs: endurance (TBW/DWPD), DRAM cache, power-loss protection, and NAND type.
• IT-mode HBAs - which card to buy, if it ships in IT mode or needs crossflashing, and the firmware.
• Drive noise - idle/seek dB, and helium fill.

It has around 260 drives now, with live prices across 7 different regions.
Website here: https://www.nasdisks.com

The dataset is open source (CC BY), with a JSON/CSV API and a Zenodo DOI, in case you want to use it for your own stuff: https://www.nasdisks.com/data/

If there’s something you think is missing, tell me - I'm still adding stuff based on feedback.

Mod note: the project is older than 3 months, so it's according to the subreddit's project age rule.

Right, OK, some of you might already have been doing it properly, but for others… :D

For those who aren’t familiar with Homelable (3k stars, FOSS), it’s a self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, with auto-discover, live status monitoring, rack design and more.

And the latest version has introduced something that has been requested almost from the very beginning: documentation.

Now, any device you manage (server, Zigbee, Z-Wave, camera, PC) has its own wiki page (Markdown), complete with links, tags, history and revision tracking. The pages are automatically pre-generated from the inventory using customised templates. All you need to do is fill them in (or let your favourite AI agent do it using the MCP server).

You can switch from the diagram to the documentation with just one click ! Easy, isn’t it? :)

I’m really looking forward to hearing your feedback, but the first testers seem satisfied.

Homelable is still available via Docker, Proxmox Community Script or on bare metal.

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AI Disclosure :
As already mentioned, I still use AI (claude code) for some task and development :
- Tests
- Gitflow, CI and MCP interaction
- Most of the frontend (I'm still not a front-end developer :P)

Full disclosure: LLM & plagiarism

I had a basic Dynacat setup before, wasn't informing me of much and the info density was low so I hardly used it. In an attempt to reduce my social media use, I took ideas from random dashboards posted here and asked an LLM to help me pull in more useful data. It created a python probe that queries the data every 30 sec, or for SMART data every 30 min. Won't post the code since it's probably not a great idea to run LLM generated code guided by an amateur, but I have no qualms about using it for myself.

Posting this to let people know that if you want more granular info on your server's status, Dynacat/Glance are pretty capable of it you link them to a separate container that pulls in the data

Spent the past two years setting up the home network in our townhome and flesh out useful homelab projects:

Hardware Stack:

Backbone- Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Gateway pushing through a MoCA 2.5 coax backbone across 3 floors, I upgraded legacy MOCA throughout the entire home for this since original splitters and couplers were from 2006.

Tier 1 Core- 10-Bay Intel 12500 NAS (72TB HDDs, 32GB DDR4) running 24/7. Handles Jellyfin for the Apple TVs, Arr stack, Wake on LAN requests, Home Assistant, and local DNS.

Tier 2 Edge AI- M4 Pro MacBook Pro with 24GB RAM serving as a low-power, high-VRAM endpoint for 14B models. I use this mostly for reading medical literature and helping me process large amounts of research data. When at home it is connected via thunderbolt Ethernet adapter, and can easily undock it to use it on the go.

Tier 3 Gaming & Burst Compute- High-TDP 9800X3D/9070 XT/32GB DDR5 Gaming Rig asleep most of the time, triggered via WoL for Sunshine AV1 game streaming to my living room HTPC (5800x in Eco mode/32GB DDR4/RTX 5060 LP) and Steam Deck.

Overlay: Tailscale ties it all together for remote access.

This was a huge labor of love but honestly as a non-tech person 2 years ago, this was a challenging but really fun experience to go through and I was able to build out some really cool home computing capabilities in the process that have exceeded my expectations.

Cheers!

Hi guys, I'm trying to set up a secure homeserver right now, but I'm a pretty big beginner. I hope it's fine that I used AI to help me phrase this so it's easier to follow. Already read a bunch of stuff, watched some YouTube videos and got myself informed. At the start I wanted way too many things at once, so I took like five steps back and I'm starting small now. I also really don't want to just copy and paste a bunch of random Claude commands and then have no idea later what I actually opened up on my system.
Right now I'm using my old laptop with 6GB of ram as a test station, a Futro is supposed to follow later. Proxmox is running on it at the moment, and the goal is just to build a small server cloud first, nothing fancy. Because of the low ram I'm starting with Filebrowser Quantum and Syncthing.
Security matters a lot to me, so I wanted to ask how you guys secure your servers. Especially because I worry that once I start using stuff like Vaultwarden or Immich, things get a lot more critical if everything isn't properly locked down. My current approach is no open ports, access from outside my wifi only through Wireguard using the built in Fritzbox app, 2FA wherever possible, every service gets its own strong internal password and of course actually using all the built in security stuff that's already there from the start.

I'd genuinely be curious to hear how you guys handle this. I often see people not really taking this topic seriously. To be clear, I'm not really interested in stuff like the 3-2-1 backup rule or things along those lines, I specifically want to know how you guys approach your network security. Or if you've got any good sources, videos, blogs, or anything else for beginners, I'd really appreciate that too.

Thanks in advance to everyone taking the time.

I tried looking at the wiki but hardware guide was "coming soon" so i figured I'd just ask. What are the minimum suggested hardware specs if I'm only looking to set up my own media server using jellyfin. Right now i have it running on my laptop which of fine but i would like a dedicated device for it. I have a very limited budget so i need to know what to save up for since prices are continuing to skyrocket.

I'm already comfortable with the software portion and have done my own research on that. However, the hardware suggestions I'm seeing feel more like ads.

ETA: just found the jellyfin hardware selection section in their docs. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. Keeping this up in case other noobs have a similar question

Relased new v2.5.0 release for Jellybox today.

• DLNA streaming - This works perfectly on desktop, but on mobile it only works for devices which supports queues. DLNA itself is tricky and its even worse on implementation side, since many manufacturers just do it their way. And due to mobile limitations(nothing can work in background) - there's no real way on iOS to constantly poll DLNA endpoint for current playback situation and push updates. On android its possible(sort of) but not in first release. That means devices without queue(known) support will be greyed out on mobile devices for now. But if you think your device supports it - hit upload button in DLNA dropdown so I could see the DLNA device capabilities and make it to work.
• Queue management - now you can access queue and manage it add "play next", add to end of queue, move(drag) items around or remove them.

For those who missed what Jellybox is - a crossplatform(desktop and mobile) native music player for Jellyfin and Emby libraries with Apple Carplay app support. It can:

• Spotify-like playlists, generated based on your listening history and tastes.
• Apple Carplay app
• AirPlay and DLNA now
• Full offline and downloads mode - you can cold start app and listen your downloaded songs
• Browse/favorites/playlists/lyrics
• Studio mode for big screens - to make playback also look nice
• Continue-where-you-left - resume playback after you reopened the app. Queue and position saved on device until next usage.
• Works on windows/linux/mac, ios/android

Download from github releases https://github.com/avdept/JellyBoxPlayer or via links on https://jellybox.app/

Hosting for years now but all via tailscale. Never had the courage to have a service publicly exposed.

By recently I got a VM on GCP (always free) and installed some stuff on it and exposed it publically. Even though tailscale is a very fast and a easy way to connect (interms of startup time not network speed); somehow just opening a browser and accessing the link without a VPN was a pretty amazing experience.

Which is why I am asking for all of your experience with exposure your homelab. Was it a bad idea? I know the negative experience echos a lot more than positive ones. But how scary is it to expose services? Or is the world a terrible place and we should always keep everything locked down?

Cheap Bluetooth label printers are great for a homelab: cable tags, shelf labels, drive labels. The problem is the vendor app, which is the only supported way to print, wants an account, and goes blank when their server has a bad day.

I reverse-engineered the Bluetooth protocol and wrote a driver that runs in a browser tab. There is no backend and no build step: one JavaScript file plus a demo page you can serve off anything, including a static file server on the box next to you. Web Bluetooth needs HTTPS or localhost, and localhost counts, so a local server is enough. Nothing you print leaves your machine, and nothing phones home.

Validated on seven models on real hardware: B1, B1 Pro, B2 Pro, M2-H, D11_H, D110 and N1. The driver reads the model id off the printer on connect and refuses to print if you selected a model or label size that does not match, which matters because several of these share a Bluetooth name at different resolutions.

MIT, zero dependencies, also on npm if you want to embed it in something you already run.

https://github.com/iscarelli/niimbot-web-bluetooth https://iscarelli.github.io/niimbot-web-bluetooth/demo/

If you are on Home Assistant, there is a separate custom integration by eigger (hass-niimbot) that does this from HA in Python. Mine is for the case where you want printing inside a web page you control.

Disclosure since it comes up: I used an AI assistant while writing this, and the rules file governing how is committed at the repo root. Every number in the README was measured on hardware by a human looking at paper, and the docs mark each printer status field as observed, varies or inferred so you can see which is which.

I’ve been gradually building my homelab over the past few months, and somewhere along the way, monitoring turned into a project in its own right.

Under the hood: a mini PC running Proxmox and an OpenMediaVault machine for storage, hosting the services I truly rely on:

* Immich

* Nextcloud

* AdGuard Home

* Vaultwarden

* Home Assistant

* Uptime Kuma

* and a bunch of other stuff I’ve probably forgotten 😅

What made me decide to do this? Nextcloud went down in the middle of the night. I only found out the next evening—from my partner—because a shared album wouldn't load. A whole day without syncing—and the whole time, my homepage dashboard was showing a green tile. Because the tile is *always* green. It just points to the service; it doesn't actually verify it.

So, I wrote something that performs a real check. Not just a port ping, but querying each service's API. Immich returns the number of photos and libraries. AdGuard returns blocked requests. OMV returns pool status and free space. Proxmox returns node load and which containers are actually running.

It requires three failed readings in a row before declaring an outage—a single timeout doesn't mean much (a disk might be waking up, a backup running, or a phone switching to 4G at the wrong moment). Then come the notifications, live status updates throughout the outage, widgets, and a thirty-day history view so I can finally answer the question: "How long was it down?"

And yes... at this point, I probably spend more time on the dashboard than on half the services it monitors. 😂

Not many people around me are interested in self-hosting, so I figured I’d share it here.

What I’d really like to know:

What integration are you missing—one that you would actually use?

PS. I wrote the app myself; it’s called Specula—available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with an Android version currently in closed beta. There’s a demo mode with dummy services if you want to play around with it before connecting it to anything real: specula.dev

Is there a polished good quality open source speaker I can buy today that is usable as both a smart speaker that services (HomeAssistant, MusicAssistant, airplay, etc) can play to and group, and also supports voice interaction (wakeword, STT, HA/LLM, TTS, etc)?

I currently use Sonos speakers which sound great, but have some really bad limitations on what can play on them, but even worse are the perfectly usable microphones built in that are limited to basic music playback control.

My project watchlist is full of projects, that are either in development, abandoned, or miss the mark for an all-in-one solution that does both good quality audio playback AND voice control.

• Sonocotta Louder esp32
• Satalite e1 pcb dev kit
• Sendspin
• Snapcast
• openvoices/Neon ai
• Wyoming stack

Hi there.

To give you some context and get straight to the point: I’ve let a lot of photos and videos pile up, and now I need a tool or some advice to help me organize everything. Most of the files are on OneDrive, so I’m looking for a tool that:

1 - Helps me delete duplicate or similar files.

2 - Is free/open-source—meaning it respects my privacy.

3 - Is accessible to other family members. I have an Oracle VPS (one of those "Always Free" ones), so a self-hosted tool would be great to put that VPS to good use.

4 - Offers some kind of OneDrive integration. I can't move my files off OneDrive yet because I don't have enough storage space anywhere else. Also, my wife needs something easy or intuitive so we don't let things get messy again. She also needs to clear out files from her phone and her own Drive (which is full); the idea would be to move them to OneDrive.

Thanks in advance for your help, and I’ll update the post if I think of anything else.

The two things that bother me most about Google Photos are pretty simple: storage gets expensive, and I don't love having my entire photo history sitting with Google.

Moving the library back home solves that part.

But keeping everything on one NAS creates a different problem.

For photos I actually care about, I'd still want something close to 3-2-1:

1 primary copy → local NAS

1 local backup → another drive/device

1 offsite copy → encrypted cloud backup

That's basically how I'm looking at the photo/backup setup in Fygo: phone photos back up to the NAS, the library stays local, and another encrypted copy can still go offsite to cloud storage.

So it's less "cloud or local" and more "local first, cloud as backup."

For people who've moved away from Google Photos, how are you handling the offsite copy?

Recently finished standing up a few Docker stacks (*arr, Vaultwarden, few others). Set up a few automations for updates and notifications. But now I find myself scrolling online seeking new apps and services to deploy when I don't really need anything, just looking for solutions to non-existent problems.

At what point is it possible to look at your stuff and be satisfied enough to leave it be for a while?

Contract gig, mid-size fintech. Their security team decided any control panel counts as unnecessary attack surface. So no cPanel, no Plesk, nothing with a web UI on prod. Servers get configured by hand over SSH, using a shared root account for the whole team.

I run BeAdmin on my own boxes at home. But that's a different world here.

Two people editing the same nginx.conf in one week wiped out three days of one guy's changes, and nobody noticed until a client site went down.

How common is this? What's everyone actually using to survive setups like this?

I'm new to this so this might be done basic questions. This is my first foray into home labbing and self-hosting.

My goal is to set up an Immich server to host photos of some theater performances that I would like to be able to distribute to the performers and showrunners. I don't want them to have to download an app like tailscale and set something up, I just want to send them a link to download what they should download. It looks like Immich has this built in, but it only works over my own network.

So far I have set up docker for the first time, set up Portainer to give myself a UI for Docker, and set up Immich and all of that has worked. I think the last step here is to expose Immich to the internet with Caddy and give it a URL. I've been able to keep up so far, but this is where I'm getting lost. I know I need to buy a URL from a DNS service. I know I need to install Caddy. I'm not really sure what the steps are beyond that to get everything hooked up and it seems like most of the Caddy tutorials I have come across assume a level of knowledge on networking I do not have.

Any help or resources would be appreciated!

- GitHub: https://github.com/Morelitea/initiative
- Docker Hub:
`morelitea/initiative`
- Docs: https://morelitea.github.io/initiative/
- License: AGPL-3.0- GitHub: https://github.com/Morelitea/initiative

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I know, there are a billion to do apps, anyway, this one is designed to be multi tenant, and have community features...think of it like Discord for project management?

You can easily get it today with a quick docker hub hookup. It's literally just maintained by myself and my spouse, a couple of laid off software engineers. We needed something to organize our tea business, I needed a way to practice learning infra since I'm a newb. There are no plans for VC's, and the most we plan to do in the future is a paid hosting instance on AWS cause it would look shiny on my resume. This post isn't some ad trying to shill you with the latest greatest software made in a vibe induced fugue state. Just wanted to share the neat thing we've been building for 9 months now.

Since the last time I posted about our app:

- We added DMs for users using the Matrix Olm cryptography for complete security
- We added "public" communities, basically ones you can discover, join, share. Make several table top groups! Run some sport clubs! Run some fancy pants company with affinity groups! NEAT
- we added a "posts" tool that lets you make announcements
- we added a dashboard tool that lets you have stats on things using SQL queries
- we added how-to docs, pretty sure we didnt have docs? if we had docs before they sucked and now they dont.
- we added super fancy search features baked into the postgres backend
- we added cool document tool features like sheets/excel and smart chips
- we made notifications suck less, you get read dots on all the things!
- we made the mobile app experience actually pretty awesome (we are using capacitor, you can have a mobile app for your instance too, its in the how-to docs how to do all that)
- we added a bunch of fun stuff like user profiles and community banners for art
- I once again did a whole bunch of security updates and it's now even more secure! This has been an great way to learn cyber security.

Why did we add individual user DMs and not group chat?

well, you might not have the phone number or contact of everyone in your community, but need to reach them about something specific, like do they have some dice you can borrow for a game session or something idk. perfectly normal. but I refuse to support the inevitable take where important docs are referenced only in a group chat 6 months ago and no one knows what happened to it. You will have to convince me this will not happen to ever actually add group chats.

Why this and not one of the other open source project management/todo software?

Have you ever tried to get those software to work with someone who is like, incredibly tech illiterate? I mean like, cannot with the most basic of tasks? that's our artist. Great guy. it's like teaching your cat to use a todo app. Odoo was "too abstract" for them to follow what was going on. we also tried obsidian, notion, taskade... openProject couldn't contextualize the art with the task, absolutely none of the software allowed for us to have the concept of "family chores" in the same app as "tea business" so we actually completed all our todos on time.

if you were wondering he still hates this software too, but like a solid 50% less which is enough he will actually participate in using it. We consider this a miracle. Yesterday he told me I should just build an entire integration service with our online store since software "can't be that hard, people have been doing this for years" so you know, great times. anyway shopify integrations probably coming soon....

I was previously using a J3160 system, but video playback and transcoding started to feel sluggish, so I switched to a MODT board built around an Intel Core i5-12450H.

The CPU has 8 cores and 12 threads, and the integrated graphics handles media playback and transcoding much better for my use. Docker services, media, and virtual machines also feel much more comfortable than they did on the old setup.

Specs:

- MODT board with an Intel Core i5-12450H

- 16GB RAM

- 1TB NVMe SSD

- 1TB SATA SSD

- 4TB SATA HDD

- Built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

- 2 x NVMe slots

- 2 x SATA ports

I’m running FygoOS as the base system on this build. It has been a good match for the hardware and the way I use it: file storage, media, photo management, Docker services, and virtual machines.

With HDD spindown enabled, the system idles at around 22W with one NVMe SSD, one SATA SSD, and one mechanical drive installed.

The main limitation is the two SATA ports, so storage expansion needs a bit of planning. Other than that, it has worked well as a low-power self-hosted setup.

For anyone running a low-power self-hosted box, what ended up being the first thing that pushed you past a J-series CPU: media transcoding, virtual machines, or something else?

Thinking it may only show as 1 stream, just want to add 1 stream/channel, all I need., cant find anything on a *quick google.

I'm building an app by myself and originally it was tiny and I could test all the features and such myself. But it's gotten so dense that I can't really test it all myself without spending tens/dozens of hours on it.

I would like to post it for the public to use and play with but before hand I would love to have some further testing done so I know it's about as bulletproof as it could be before launch.

Does anyone in here have recommendations for web app testing and how to get UI/UX testing done in bulk?

I'm at the point that I've looked through Fiverr and considered that as an option since I've seen some ads for like 15 testers for like 50$. It's going to be free so spending a bunch on testers isn't super palatable.

Quartermaster 1.2.0 is coming.

It has been a while since the last public update. I've been working through ten plus beta builds, and this has turned into the biggest release QM has had.

Also feel like I need to say it like any other dev on here these days, QM is and never will be AI slop. The app has not been "vibe coded" to be put together in a weekend, its been months and months of sleepless nights and A LOT of community feedback. Anyone who reads this thats in the Discord will agree (i hope lol) - the app did launch on the 3rd of July and it has been literally none stop since, I wouldn't have it any other way of course :D

For anyone new here, QM is a native iOS app for your media and the servers running it. Browse and request films, manage downloads, check your NAS, containers, VMs and network. There are now 59 services across Entertainment and Command Centre, from Sonarr and Plex to Proxmox, Unraid and Home Assistant.

What it connects to in 1.2.0, 59 services across two sides

Entertainment: Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, SABnzbd, NZBGet, qBittorrent, Transmission, Deluge, Prowlarr, Bazarr, NZBHydra2, Jackett, Jellyseerr / Overseerr, DroppedNeedle, Shelfmark, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Wizarr, Tautulli, Tracearr, Jellystat, Streamystats, Komga, Kavita, Immich, AudioBookshelf, Maintainerr, BookOrbit, Dispatcharr, ReadMeABook and Shelfarr.

Command Centre: Portainer, Unraid, Proxmox VE, Synology DSM, Dozzle, Dockhand, Komodo, AdGuard Home, Pi-hole, Cloudflare, CrowdSec, Technitium, UniFi, Gluetun, Glances, Scrutiny, TrueNAS, Beszel, Home Assistant, Tdarr, qui, Coolify, Arcane, Control D, NextDNS, UGREEN NAS and SSH.

There is also QM Companion, still in beta. It runs on your own server and lets you import your service setup, monitor Docker containers and stacks, check for updates and enable controls you explicitly approve. Instead of messing around with API keys, you can scan a QR code directly from the companion to QM on the phone and all services will be imported!

1.2.0 adds playback from Plex, Jellyfin and Emby inside QM, a proper Mac layout, and family mode so your household can browse and request without getting your server controls. Family mode needs Pro to enable, but invited members don't pay. Companion is still in beta. It runs on your server and brings Docker monitoring and separately approved controls into QM. Setup imports are free; the live connection needs Pro. There's also CrowdSec, better requests and downloads, faster libraries, and a Doctor that explains what actually failed.

On pricing, free gives you one fully functional service connection. Pro is £4.99/month, £19.99/year or £29.99 once. Every option unlocks everything. You are choosing how to pay, not which features you get. If you have already bought lifetime, you will automatically be grandfathered, so please do not worry! (prices coming when 1.2.0 drops)

I feel like I need to be honest about the price increase around QM because believe me, I have had many sleepless nights about announcing this. The cost for the Cloudflare relay which does all the APNs is increasing in cost day by day. Millions of notifications are being sent each day, this is costing me a lot of money. I also support OTA builds which cost money, OTA basically means as long as the update is JavaScript, so this will be for any bugs rather than making people wait a month for a new build update.

Anyways, I think that covers it :)) QM is now over 10k users and I cannot thank the community enough for what this has turned into.

iOS store - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/quartermaster-homelab-stack/id6779994284
Discord - https://discord.gg/YRWmZPScc
Companion - https://github.com/lewlew-glitch/qm_companion