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Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

#51
It feels like it has a lot of shared territory with FreeNAS or Synology without the hardware.

What support, if any, is there for reading S.M.A.R.T. Stats, ZFS, and BTRFS? You mention CPU temps, but what about things that actually matter in regular use cases?

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

#52
What does the backup experience look like? I feel like that is a major difficulty for people looking to self host, at least for me.

I would not want to lose my pictures, contacts or NextCloud files due to some update failure, hardware failure or my own mistake in managing the system.

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

#53

Looks great on first look, but on closer inspection saw that it's written in pure JavaScript (0% TypeScript) + Bash. Honestly makes me a bit worried about security. Now, I'm not so thrilled about it anymore...

I think you are misunderstanding something about security or typescript...

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

#54

Looks great on first look, but on closer inspection saw that it's written in pure JavaScript (0% TypeScript) + Bash. Honestly makes me a bit worried about security. Now, I'm not so thrilled about it anymore...

Yeah... JS/node/electron - I could do with far less of these things in my life, not more - especially when it comes to security vulnerabilities.

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

#55
In the middle of building a self-hosting setup at home so I went ahead and installed this to give it a trial run. I generally like the interface and think it is a nice take on making self-hosting easier, but I have some pure stream of conscious criticism:

1. There sure are a lot of crypto apps. I'm not vehemently anti-crypto, but it is missing some "obvious" applications and full of those, so I'm curious what the play was there. They're all spread all over the place isntead of in a single category too. There are non-crypto finance apps that are self-hosted (Actual, BudgE, etc.), please don't mix them.

2. Plex and/or jellyfin stand out as huge misses right out of the gate.

3. I am surprised that it doesn't use nginx proxy manager with preset configs to make this all available from a single domain. Needs letsencrypt + a DDNS provider too while you're at it.

4. Why no blog/cms?

5. Can I give it the docker-compose config for an application not on the app store somewhere in GUI?

6. Wait, why is this accessible from Tor? And I can't turn it off? Nope nope nope.

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

#56

Is this an OS or just a distro? They claim you can convert an Ubuntu install by just curl-ing their script, which makes me lean toward distro.

There is an OS in there, at least one, I haven't installed Umbrel but I know this is in it... (I can't believe all these comments and nobody mentioned Urbit yet!)

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

#58

In the middle of building a self-hosting setup at home so I went ahead and installed this to give it a trial run. I generally like the interface and think it is a nice take on making self-hosting easier, but I have some pure stream of conscious criticism: 1. There sure are a lot of crypto apps. I'm not vehemently anti-crypto, but it is missing some "obvious" applications and full of those, so I'm curious what the pla…

> missing some "obvious" applications

what would that be?

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

#59

In the middle of building a self-hosting setup at home so I went ahead and installed this to give it a trial run. I generally like the interface and think it is a nice take on making self-hosting easier, but I have some pure stream of conscious criticism: 1. There sure are a lot of crypto apps. I'm not vehemently anti-crypto, but it is missing some "obvious" applications and full of those, so I'm curious what the pla…

why is there so much crypto stuff? Probably me but by default I don't trust things that are crypto related.

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

#60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 is not an Open Source license.

Fair, one can see this as just source available. But still far more permissive than cloudron's license.

Cloudron is also source available - https://git.cloudron.io
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