A home server can be built on decade-old hardware, with reused Dell OptiPlex 990 and Precision Tower 3620 PCs and older GPUs still handling media transcoding and roughly 30-billion-parameter AI models…
Udon launched a remote management tool that turns an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 26 or later into a browser-managed home server for containers, self-hosted apps, AI agents, and files. Udon is free…
A forum user reports running an off-grid AI setup with a 3.8 27b Q8 model across five GPUs (1x5060/8GB, 2x3060/12GB, 1x1660s/6GB, 1x1070/8GB) at 550W, powered by a Renogy 2000W inverter, two 220Ah 24V…
A hobbyist detailed a three-node home AI lab built around Ryzen CPUs, an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, and a Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB, running ComfyUI, Open WebUI, ollama, and Home Assistant, with plans to expand…
Three pre-authentication remote kernel exploits, FreeBSD-One, FreeBSD-Two, and FreeBSD-Three, were found in FreeBSD's CTL (CAM Target Layer) High Availability (HA) module, each allowing a root shell o…
A user migrated their last btrfs machine to ZFS after discovering their backups had silently failed for four months, driven by paranoia that an AI agent running in YOLO mode could destroy their system…
Loomcycle released versions 1.9.0 to 1.11.1 with four major arcs: a security hardening pass closing 17 findings, a new CredentialDef system for encrypted per-tenant secrets using AES-256-GCM, cost att…
The Loomcycle project released eight versions (v1.6.1 to v1.8.2) over five days, introducing tenant-scoped Web UI surfaces, supporting TrueNAS deployments, adding vision capabilities across all provid…
A developer rebuilt a home server using an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU with 96 GB of DDR5 to run local LLM inference alongside NAS and VM workloads. The Radeon 780M iGPU achieves 13-15 tok/s on gemma4 and 9…
A home-lab user migrated from TrueNAS to NixOS after TrueNAS's build-system changes, using an AI agent with strict no-change instructions, disko, and a VM rehearsal to safely transfer ~100 TiB of ZFS …
A developer upgraded a TrueNAS NAS with an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU and 96 GB DDR5 for local LLM inference, achieving 13-15 tok/s on gemma4, after rejecting pricier options like NVIDIA DGX Spark and Mac …
TrueNAS CEO Brett Davis said the company is expanding tiering capabilities to help customers optimize storage costs amid memory and SSD price increases driven by AI demand. Davis noted that TrueNAS is…
This article provides a technical guide for installing TrueNAS SCALE on a 16GB partition of a large NVMe drive, rather than using the entire disk, to conserve storage space. It details how to modify t…
The article explains how to install and use open-source Cockpit modules developed by 45Drives on Linux servers, even those not purchased from the company. It focuses on the ZFS management module and t…