Umbrel – Personal Cloud
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Umbrel – Personal Cloud
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#2if you don't have your data when you don't have access to third parties you don't own your data.
we should start switching to solutions like this to keep control and freedom
you can find their opensource repos here: https://github.com/getumbrel
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#3Seems to be a hardware + software thing.
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#4Seems to be a hardware + software thing.
Here's a comparison on running it on your own hardware vs. theirs: https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/wiki/umbrelOS-on-Umbrel-...
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#5SSH is my "personal cloud"...
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#6Looks like they're selling an N150 based "Mini PC" for $500.
You can get a very similar 16GB RAM, 1TB storage Minipc in the same form factor from Amazon for around $260 so looks like you're paying almost twice the price for the NAS-type software?
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#7Looks like they're selling an N150 based "Mini PC" for $500. You can get a very similar 16GB RAM, 1TB storage Minipc in the same form factor from Amazon for around $260 so looks like you're paying almost twice the price for the NAS-type software?
Yea you’re definitively paying more for a product vs just a raw computer. I wouldn’t want it as I bought an intel nuc and manage it myself but I could see less tech savvy people who what to get into the space finding this interesting.
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#8SSH is my "personal cloud"...
This seems a lot easier for the average consumer.
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#9There's room for innovation in this space, but making a viable business here will be hard.
The enthusiast market is so wrapped up in Home Assistant and existing NAS boxes that you would need a killer app to aim first for more normie use. It looks like they tried being a crypto node at home solution and are now pivoting to be more general.
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#10There's room for innovation in this space, but making a viable business here will be hard. The enthusiast market is so wrapped up in Home Assistant and existing NAS boxes that you would need a killer app to aim first for more normie use. It looks like they tried being a crypto node at home solution and are now pivoting to be more general.
and HexOS I guess.