Packing the Homelab
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.

5 episodes
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.
The crew tests USB cables with a Tredix tester, breaks down the FCC's move to restrict imported robot vacuums and lawnmowers, unpacks the Windows 11 GDID tracking story tied to a Scattered Spider arrest, and shares AI-coded side projects including a plane tracker and a homegrown Nextcloud calendar replacement.
Linus Torvalds' about-face on AI in the Linux kernel, Jellyfin's leadership shakeup amid AI tensions, and running Hermes agents against home infrastructure.
We discuss our picks of the best self-hosted apps (with Home Assistant and media-related apps off-limits) including Hermes, Frigate, Healthchecks, Pangolin, Pi-hole, and more.
Geoff sounds the alarm on Bambu Lab's legal threats against an open-source OrcaSlicer developer, the crew unpacks the CopyFail and DirtyFrag Linux kernel CVEs and AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery, and Adam reports from an off-grid California compound to explore parallels between physical self-sufficiency and digital self-hosting.