Smart TV, Dumb Idea
A DIY Halloween escape room, a 45Drives Creator Summit recap, a Nextcloud-to-OpenCloud migration, and a look at smart TV privacy and the use of AI agents.

BitFlip is an independent podcast about the pragmatic side of infrastructure. We talk about self-hosting, homelabs, open source, and the real-world decisions engineers make every day — without the enterprise fluff.
A DIY Halloween escape room, a 45Drives Creator Summit recap, a Nextcloud-to-OpenCloud migration, and a look at smart TV privacy and the use of AI agents.
The hosts explore mmWave smart switches, Apple’s new home lineup, acquisitions and licensing changes, and Adam’s Starlink Mini plans.
Alex announces his move back to England and how Hermes and Obsidian is helping him to inventory his house and Home Assistant proposes making HACS a first-party thing.
A speedy Jellyfin-compatible media server written in Go called Silo, Valve finally releases the Steam Frame (and the price!), plus QuickBytes on Portainer 3.0, JetKVM Mini, the iPhone Duo, and Immich 3.2.