Brent joins to share part two of his NAS build adventure, and things take a tiny turn. Plus, picking the right encrypted chat app and Chris stacks a few Jellyfin wins.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• uvBeast New V3 365nm Mini - Black Light UV Flashlight — UV On A Different Level Entirely. Same high octane yet low contamination uvBeast UV as the V3 365nm. The viewing quality will really impress you. Filtered 365nm UV is considered as the gold standard sweet spot for UV users. uvBeast optimized 365nm UV is in a different league, with little visible light leak, which is exactly what you want in a UV light
• ODROID-H4 PLUS — Hardkernel is introducing the ODROID-H4, H4+ and H4 Ultra, which is equipped with higher performance and richer interfaces.
• H4 Mini-ITX Kit — The ATX PSU brings 12V to the H4 board.
• Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix — Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push for sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications
• Simplex Chat v6.2.0 — SimpleX Chat and Flux (https://runonflux.com) made an agreement to include servers operated by Flux into the app – to improve metadata privacy.
• Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat | WIRED — Neo-Nazis are joining SimpleX Chat, a relatively unknown app that received funding from Jack Dorsey and promises users there is no way for it or law enforcement to track their identity.
• Watchstate — We have added a WebUI page for Custom GUIDs and stabilized on v1.0 for the guid.yaml file spec. We strongly recommend to use the WebUI to manage the GUIDs
• Jellyfin-Featured-Content-Bar
• Infuse 8 - Now Available — Libraries which used to consist of only a handful of small files can now easily extend to tens of thousands of massive 4K videos. We took a big step towards handling these larger libraries with the addition of Direct Mode earlier this year and 8.0 builds on that same focus with an entirely revamped browsing infrastructure.
• Actual Budget Documentation — Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.
• File Juggler — File Juggler makes it easy to create automatic workflows with files.
• maid: Be lazy. Let Maid clean up after you. — Maid keeps files from sitting around too long, untouched. Many of the downloads and temporary files you collect can easily be categorized and handled appropriately by rules you define. Let the maid in your computer take care of the easy stuff, so you can spend more of your time on what matters.
• organize: The file management automation tool. — Your desktop is a mess? You cannot find anything in your downloads and documents? Sorting and renaming all these files by hand is too tedious? Time to automate it once and benefit from it forever.
• TagStudio: A User-Focused Photo & File Management System — TagStudio is a photo & file organization application with an underlying tag-based system that focuses on giving freedom and flexibility to the user. No proprietary programs or formats, no sea of sidecar files, and no complete upheaval of your filesystem structure.
• I'm a Mess, so I'm Making My Own File Organizer [TagStudio] - YouTube
• remotely-save: Sync notes between local and cloud with smart conflict: S3 (Amazon S3/Cloudflare R2/Backblaze B2/...), Dropbox, webdav (NextCloud/InfiniCLOUD/Synology/...), OneDrive, Google Drive (GDrive), Box, pCloud, Yandex Disk, Koofr, Azure Blob Storage. — This is yet another unofficial sync plugin for Obsidian.
• SSH 138 Boost Barn — Thank you, boosters and members!
• Syncthing-android — Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.
• Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source. — Obtainium allows you to install and update apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.

We geek out over Brian Moses's 2025 DIY NAS build guide, contemplate future builds with the new Raspberry Pi Compute 5 module, and fully embrace our digital hoarding nature with a new app.

Special Guest: Brian Moses.

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• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources (YouTube, Vimeo, and a few hundred others) to your Chromecast. It also allows you to cast local files or render websites.
• Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 — Compute Module 5 is a powerful and scalable system on module with a 64-bit Arm processor @ 2.4GHz, an I/O controller, video and PCIe interfaces, and a range of wireless, SDRAM and eMMC options.
• Compute Module 5 on sale now from $45
• The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Has Arrived
• Raspberry Pi Launches The Compute Module 5 For $45 USD — This modular version of the Raspberry Pi 5 is priced at $45 USD. Eben Upton noted in today's announcement that some 70% to 80% of Raspberry Pi units are going into industrial and embedded applications.
• DIY NAS: 2025 Edition - briancmoses.com — A diminuitive, TrueNAS SCALE machine featuring: 92TB of storage (90TB of HDD, 2TB of SSD), an Intel N100 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 10Gbps networking for under $1,750!
• Topton N18 N100 Mini-ITX NAS Motherboard — 6xSATA3, 2xM.2, 2x2.5Gbps, 1x10Gbps
• Hoarder — Quickly save links, notes, and images and hoarder will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!
• Hoarder - Demo Page
• Open WebUI — Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI interface designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners, including Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
• Smart Home Index — At DataSolace (the maintainers of SmartHomeIndex.com), we believe in providing high-quality, unbiased information about smart home technology and automation.

Breaking free from Google's grip: Our surprising journey and the tools that made it possible. Plus, Brent's NAS feature stirring up debate, s clever tool for distributed video encoding, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Perplexica — Perplexica is an open-source AI-powered searching tool or an AI-powered search engine that goes deep into the internet to find answers. Inspired by Perplexity AI, it's an open-source option that not just searches the web but understands your questions.
• Replacing Google with SearXNG as the default in Chrome — No tracking. No ads. Search as it was. Now when you enter a search query in the Chrome address bar it will route through your SearXNG instance automatically.
• An Example configuration.nix file for PMS - Perfect Media Server
• handbrake-web — HandBrake Web is a program for interfacing with handbrake across multiple machines via a web browser. It consists of two components: the server and one or more worker(s).
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From Nextcloud Breakup to Blissful Reunion: Chris's journey back to a smarter setup. Plus, Jellyfin's game-changing features and a beloved self-hosted app get the upgrade we've all been waiting for.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Jellyfin 10.10.0 — This major release brings several new features, improvements, and bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience. With our faster release cadence between 10.9.0 and 10.10.0, this release should be far less daunting, so please read on for a quick peek at what's new and some important-to-know breaking changes!

"The" self-hosted app to archive your favorite YouTube channels and easily integrate into Jellyfin/Plex. Plus, our favorite WordPress alternatives and an update on No Google October.

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• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• macOS Window Manager | BentoBox 🍱 — A window manager that boosts productivity by snapping windows into predefined zones, like a Japanese bento box organizing meals.

Ditching Google Search for an entire month! We reveal the tool that's helping us break free. Plus, a special guest shares his home lab to data center journey. And, Chris raves about the ultimate Jellyfin client (and confesses to an accidental network camera purchase).

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• streamyfin: A Jellyfin client build with Expo — Welcome to Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin client built with Expo. If you're looking for an alternative to other Jellyfin clients, we hope you'll find Streamyfin to be a useful addition to your media streaming toolbox.
• SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. — Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
• SearX Search Provider - Chrome Web Store — A configurable browser extension that sets SearX as your default search engine.
• xSearch for Safari on the App Store — xSearch is a Safari extension that enables you to seamlessly switch between multiple search engines with ease, and even search directly from Spotlight, making your browsing experience more efficient and efficient.
• how do i make searx my default search engine? — In Firefox 89+ (no ... menu), here are two methods to add a site's search engine plugin from the address bar
• Wyze Cam v4 — 2.5K QHD resolution, Enhanced Color Night Vision, and motion-activated spotligh
• docker-wyze-bridge — Create a local WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, or HLS/Low-Latency HLS stream for most of your Wyze cameras including the outdoor, doorbell, and 2K cams.
• Self-Hosted 133 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters! 🚀

Alex has been playing around at the speed of light while solving Proxmox problems, and Chris has solved a Jellyfin issue. Plus, our thoughts on the new Plex features.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• 4Kn sector disk passthrough in Proxmox — Solving an issue with 4Kn sector disks and passthrough in Proxmox with direct KVM arg injection.
• Release 10.9.11 · jellyfin/jellyfin-web · GitHub — This minor release brings several bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience.
• [Bug]: Jellyfin after update to 0.2.0.8 is not supported (jellyfin 10.9.2) · Issue #188 · jumoog/intro-skipper · GitHub — I can't check it because the plugin is broken
• intro-skipper for Jellyfin — Analyzes the audio of television episodes to detect and skip over intros.
• Plex Photos — Introducing Plex Photos Beta: We are thrilled to announce the release of the Plex Photos Beta, available today for iOS and Android mobile. This new app is designed to provide you with a focused experience to engage with your photo libraries stored on Plex Media Servers. Whether you’re reminiscing over family photos or sharing backups of your professional photography images,
• HEVC encoding is coming to Plex : r/PleX — This feature is still in active development and we do not yet have an estimated window for release
• Home Assistant is 11 years old! — We can’t thank our community enough for the past 11 years. You are the engine driving forward Home Assistant.
• Companion App for iOS 2024.9: Getting ready for iOS 18 — The new iOS also brings a new level of customization to Control Center, for which we are introducing five new controls: Assist, Toggle light, Run script, Activate scene, and Open page.
• ⚪ Bubble Card — Bubble Card is a minimalist and customizable card collection for Home Assistant with a nice pop-up touch.
• WiCAN Pro | Crowd Supply — Advanced OBD scanner for next-generation vehicle diagnostics and Home Assistant integration
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We celebrate five years of the show, chat about self-hosted Lightning, and why Alex loves his NanoKVM. Plus, it is a self-hosted replacement for Amazon Wishlists and more.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• ⚡ Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Deplatformed by PayPal, Antiwar Journalists Speak Out — According to the two organizations, the PayPal ban remains in effect. PayPal had also frozen the outlets’ funds, including $9,348.14 in Consortium’s account, and threatened to seize the money as “damages.”
• Patreon Policy Updates — The Community Guidelines have been rewritten to be clearer and more uniform in terminology, tense, and tone. Trust & Safety moderators have also been equipped with new support language to ensure that their interactions with creators are more educational.
• New Patreon policy updated on tuesday
• 30% fee on Patreon payments through iOS is cause for concern
• Patreon issues are causing paused payouts and canceled subscriptions — Some Patreon creators have noticed a dip in subscribers, and fans have gotten notices that their payments are being flagged.
• 🚨🚨PAYPAL HAS ALL MY MONEY AND BANNED ME!!!! 🚨🚨
• Bitcoin Mining Council Survey Confirms Year on Year Improvements in Sustainable Power and Technological Efficiency — The results of this survey show that the members of the BMC and participants in the survey are currently utilizing electricity with a 63.1% sustainable power mix. Based on this data, the global bitcoin mining industry’s sustainable electricity mix has improved marginally to 59.9% and remains one of the most sustainable industries globally.
• What is the Lightning Network? — Essentially, the Lightning Network is a way to transact bitcoin faster, cheaper, and more privately than on the Bitcoin blockchain.
• ZEUS — Controlling and managing your Lightning node channels has never been easier.
• Onboarding to lightning | ZEUS Documentation — ZEUS' embedded node has many different ways to get onboarded onto lightning with payment channels. This doc details all of the different ways and tradeoffs.
• Start9 | Opening Your First Channel
• Umbrel - Personal home cloud and OS for self-hosting — Store your files, run your own VPN, download and stream media, run a Bitcoin node, and more — all in your home.
• Alby Hub Introduction — Alby Hub is more than a lightning wallet. It's your Hub for instant bitcoin payments across a growing ecosystem of apps and flexible enough to serve your very own use case.
• Alby Hub v1.7.2: Friends & Family App — Friends & Family app let's you quickly onboard your friends and family to Bitcoin and Lightning via your personal Alby Hub instance. They get a wallet without having to understand lightning or have their own channels, and not rely on large custodial services. They can also get their own Lightning address with an Alby Account, or connect their new wallet via the Alby extension. Soon, they will also be able to connect to Alby's new mobile app, Alby Go.
• Lightning liquidity
• How do i get incoming liquidity and start routing payments?
• Racking and stacking an off-site backup server for Jupiter Broadcasting - YouTube — Join me, Chris, and Brent from JB as we fly to Toronto to deploy our shiny new colo server in Canada. We'll be deploying the 45homelab HL15 server.

Prusa's Mk4S 3D printer seems to have hit the mark. Alex gets a tour of an awesome new maker space, we take a look at AdventureLog, and much more.

Special Guest: Jscar_Hawk.

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• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Toronto Meetup, Thu, Aug 29, 2024 — Chris and Alex are slinging servers in Toronto. Come join us after we get our new box racked.

The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Toronto Meetup, Thu, Aug 29 — Chris and Alex are slinging servers in Toronto. Come join us after we get our new box racked.
• Google is no longer making Chromecasts, updates to continue — The Chromecast with Google TV 4K and HD will remain on sale until inventory runs out, but Google is not replenishing stock after that.
• The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for — es, there are some Gemini AI tricks thrown in, and with other hardware upgrades like a built-in ethernet jack, the Google TV Streamer seems poised to be a much better entertainment hub than its predecessor. The only downside? Since it’s not a dongle anymore, you’ll have to provide your own HDMI cable when it ships on September 24th.
• The Magic Behind HexOS — HexOS combines a simplified UI, automations, workflows, and managed services with user-provided hardware to offer elegant home server management for off-the-shelf server appliances, custom-built hardware, and even recycled PCs. Powered by TrueNAS, the world's most deployed enterprise-grade storage platform, HexOS provides a highly reliable and easy-to-use solution to store, use, and protect your data. In this article, we'll take a closer look at how HexOS works to make all of this possible.
• Forgejo v8.0 is available — It comes with a number of new features, as usual. But the most impactful changes are of a different nature: increased stability, less random UI modifications and almost no breaking changes.
• ForgeFed — ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem
• Open Letter to Gitea - Restoring Trust in the Gitea Project — After many days of hard work and preparation by a team of former Gitea maintainers and enthusiasts from the FOSS community, we are proud to announce that the Forgejo project is now live.
• Rallly — Schedule group meetings with friends, colleagues and teams. Create meeting polls to find the best date and time to organize an event based on your participants' availability. Save time and avoid back-and-forth emails.
• Fully automated DNS and DHCP with Ansible, Dnsmasq and Pihole — This post will detail how I solved a few interesting problems as I fully automated DNS overrides and DHCP reservations using Pihole, and the program it's built on top of Dnsmasq.
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