In Episode 3, Adam is on vacation (or something like that), but Alex, Geoff and Stephen are here to close out our "meet the hosts" segment as we talk to Stephen about his tech origin story — from disassembling the family PC as a kid to enterprise storage work and eventually founding his own MSP.

Then we dig into MinIO's troubled relationship with the open source community, how it affected two of the hosts directly, and whether alternatives like Garage and SeaweedFS are worth exploring for home lab S3 storage.

Next, Geoff walks us through his email journey — from Gmail to ProtonMail to FastMail to MXRoute — and how a newly discovered API in MXRoute let him ditch his SimpleLogin subscription entirely. We also get into email aliasing, privacy, and why self-hosting email is a hill none of us are willing to die on.

We close out with our new Quick Hits segment: SnapRaid 14 ships with a GUI, a critical Jellyfin security patch, GitHub Copilot training opt-out, the Trivy/Dockhand compromise, and the FCC's controversial router ruling.

Topics: MSP, Minio, S3 object storage, Garage, SeaweedFS, MXroute, email, SimpleLogin, Snapraid, Jellyfin, GitHub, Trivy, FCC, routers

In this episode of BitFlip, Alex, Adam, Geoff, and Stephen talk through Adam’s tech journey from old game consoles and early PC gaming to enterprise storage, FreeNAS, iXsystems, and now Unraid. It is a fun look at how childhood hobbies can turn into a career in infrastructure and support.

The crew also dives into the strange and expensive world of in ear monitors, the growing frustration with the Nvidia Shield, and why good home media hardware still feels harder than it should be. There is plenty of nostalgia here too, with side trips into old Linux distros, XBMC, and the joys of tinkering.

To close out the show, the hosts unpack the latest self hosted community drama around Booklore, open source ownership, forks, and what happens when trust breaks down between a maintainer and their users. It is a mix of practical tech, opinion, and the kind of conversation that happens when a few infrastructure nerds get together.

Topics: gaming, retro gaming, linux, unraid, zfs, headphones, IEMs, audio equipment, Nvidia Shield, Apple TV, Booklore, Grimmory, drama

Welcome to the first episode of the BitFlip Show, a new podcast about self-hosting, Linux, homelabs, and open source technology. Host Alex (formerly of the Self-Hosted podcast and now at Tailscale) is joined by Adam Morales from Lime Technology (Unraid), Stephen (an MSP operator running real-world infrastructure), and Geoff, a lawyer-by-day and passionate Linux homelabber. In this episode, the panel introduces the show, shares how they each got into computing, and dives into Geoff’s journey from building an HTPC NAS to running a fully Linux-powered homelab with Proxmox, Docker, and automation.

The conversation also explores some of the most interesting debates in the self-hosting community right now: running Docker on Proxmox, homelab best practices vs pragmatism, the new MacBook Neo announcement, and the rise of AI “vibe coding.” The hosts break down the recent Huntarr controversy in the self-hosted ecosystem and discuss the risks of AI-generated code, open-source responsibility, and what the future might look like for developers and homelab enthusiasts.

If you're interested in homelabs, Docker, Proxmox, self-hosting apps, Linux infrastructure, and the future of open source, this show is for you. Subscribe for new episodes every two weeks as the BitFlip team explores the tools, debates, and ideas shaping the modern self-hosting community.

Topics: self-hosting, Linux, homelab, Proxmox, Docker, open source, Unraid, Home Assistant, AI coding, vibe coding, Huntarr controversy, MacBook Neo.

BitFlip is almost live. This is a short teaser ahead of the full show launch on Friday, March 6, 2026.