follow your curiosity. it may lead you mysterious, and sometimes unintuitive, places, but one day you will end up exactly where you belong, and you will wonder how you got there(:
is self custody really that hard?
amazing! you will make many people happy😌
historical examples of deflation during periods when debts were not restrictively high
possible but not recommended as external drives were not built to run continuously (higher risk of failing) as is required for servers
Nostriches, meet Umbrel Home — the ultimate home server that puts your data back in your hands.
Run your own Nostr relay, Bitcoin node, cloud storage, media/VPN/home automation server, network-wide adblocker, and 100s of self-hosted apps — all in your home.
Umbrel Home is a palm-sized powerhouse with a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel CPU, 2TB NVMe SSD, 16GB dual-channel RAM, and just 10 watts of power consumption (TDP).
We built Umbrel Home from scratch, addressing all the Raspberry Pi-based home server limitations, and surpassing them in all aspects: up to 3x faster CPU, 6.5x faster SSD speeds, 2x more RAM, and an even smaller form-factor. No more corrupted microSD cards, and no manual assembly and setup.
We’re happy to share that our first batch's production is complete, and we have limited stock ready.
Worldwide shipping begins next month, June 2023!
→ Watch the reveal: https://youtu.be/gIcddM6YFug
→ Pre-order: https://umbrel.com
1) this is just the bitcoin machine with better hardware
2) you could build this easily for half the price
3) 2TB was sufficient for a bitcoin-only product, but not for a home server
4) adding more storage/RAID is an essential feature of home servers and the fact that this is not possible with this product means it will be forever inferior to other home server solutions
i could see this as a gateway home server for people who value convenience, but i think they will quickly run into problems with 1) complexity of software setup and 2) storage size
if someone is too lazy to assemble their own hardware, they will probably struggle with getting the software to do what they want it to do. For example, if i want to self-host my photos library, I probably want to be able to see those photos while away from home, but you can’t access your home server cloud while away from home unless you have a Tailscale VPN set up. Or if i have all my movies on an external drive and i want to be able to watch them on any TV in the house, so then I upload them to nextcloud thinking that is the same as my external drive but in the cloud, but then nextcloud is not optimized for large files or video playback, then i look for apps that are optimized for this function and find there are different torrent-based apps for each type of media [video, music, etc] and they are all somehow inter-related and have weird, scary names(?). And finally when i figure things out and migrated all my photos, videos, and other files, i realize that i’m already hitting 1.9TB of storage and i can’t add any new photos or apps??
i guess the market will be the ultimate judge about whether this is something that people want/value, but these are the reasons why i think this product will end up being unsuccessful
Nostriches, meet Umbrel Home — the ultimate home server that puts your data back in your hands.
Run your own Nostr relay, Bitcoin node, cloud storage, media/VPN/home automation server, network-wide adblocker, and 100s of self-hosted apps — all in your home.
Umbrel Home is a palm-sized powerhouse with a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel CPU, 2TB NVMe SSD, 16GB dual-channel RAM, and just 10 watts of power consumption (TDP).
We built Umbrel Home from scratch, addressing all the Raspberry Pi-based home server limitations, and surpassing them in all aspects: up to 3x faster CPU, 6.5x faster SSD speeds, 2x more RAM, and an even smaller form-factor. No more corrupted microSD cards, and no manual assembly and setup.
We’re happy to share that our first batch's production is complete, and we have limited stock ready.
Worldwide shipping begins next month, June 2023!
→ Watch the reveal: https://youtu.be/gIcddM6YFug
→ Pre-order: https://umbrel.com
1) this is just the bitcoin machine with better hardware
2) you could build this easily for half the price
3) 2TB was sufficient for a bitcoin-only product, but not for a home server
4) adding more storage/RAID is an essential feature of home servers and the fact that this is not possible with this product means it will be forever inferior to other home server solutions
i could see this as a gateway home server for people who value convenience, but i think they will quickly run into problems with 1) complexity of software setup and 2) storage size
if someone is too lazy to assemble their own hardware, they will probably struggle with getting the software to do what they want it to do. For example, if i want to self-host my photos library, I probably want to be able to see those photos while away from home, but you can’t access your home server cloud while away from home unless you have a Tailscale VPN set up. Or if i have all my movies on an external drive and i want to be able to watch them on any TV in the house, so then I upload them to nextcloud thinking that is the same as my external drive but in the cloud, but then nextcloud is not optimized for large files or video playback, then i look for apps that are optimized for this function and find there are different torrent-based apps for each type of media [video, music, etc] and they are all somehow inter-related and have weird, scary names(?). And finally when i figure things out and migrated all my photos, videos, and other files, i realize that i’m already hitting 1.9TB of storage and i can’t add any new photos or apps??
i guess the market will be the ultimate judge about whether this is something that people want/value, but these are the reasons why i think this product will end up being unsuccessful
a week in NYC #proofofwalk 
good to hear brother. glad u got your sats back
is it still floating in the breez?
Well, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m I am here. Hello my fellow plebs. Dr Jack Kruse has arrived
hello
soccer refereeing was one of my first jobs too. it was tough but i loved it. sounds like your son was taught well(:
we all have some desire or craving for “more,” or else we would be in nirvana. For me, right now my desire is to learn as much as I can about medicine(: