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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Cortexplosion on 2025-12-11 15:18:26+00:00.

I am finally ditching 1Password after the latest price hike. I have a Proxmox cluster and plenty of resources.

I need a self-hosted solution for 5 users. The main requirement is a solid mobile app and browser extension because the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) needs to be high or she will refuse to use it. I do not mind paying a one-time license fee, but I want to own the data and kill the monthly sub.

What are you guys running that passes the family test?

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/ankitdaf on 2025-12-11 13:49:23+00:00.

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Hello awesome people

I was drowning in newsletters, receipts, and "exclusive offer" emails, and was tired of flicking left / right just to keep up with the non-stop flood.

I built out an email agent that runs in my Home lab and cleans my inbox for me continuously and automatically.

I had three constraints:

1. Cost: I didn't want to pay ~$240/year per inbox just to have a clean inbox.
2. Privacy: I wasn't comfortable piping my financial receipts and personal correspondence to a third-party AI cloud.
3. Geekery: I really wanted to understand what all the hype around NPUs was about

So, I built MAE (My Agentic Employee).

It’s a dedicated hardware device (single board computer) that sits on my desk, connects to my GMail server via IMAP, and uses NPU-accelerated inference on a single board computer to categorize and process emails for me.

The Setup:

• Hardware: Radxa Zero 3W (RK3566).
• Cost: One time cost of the board, fan + electricity.
• Privacy: Zero data leaves my local network. The AI runs entirely on the device.

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How it works: I trained a MobileBERT model specifically to classify my incoming stream into 4 buckets:

1. Transactions: (Bills, trades, invoices) -> Marked Read & Archived.
2. Feed: (Newsletters, updates) -> Marked Read & Archived.
3. Promotions: (Spam, marketing) -> Trash.
4. Inbox: (Actual humans, urgent work) -> Left alone.

I labelled 6000 emails for this, and trained the model over two rounds

The Results: After two rounds of training, the model is hitting 98.6% accuracy.

• Inference time: ~700ms per email.
• Resource Usage: ~100MB RAM, 1% CPU load. Temperature is at a stable 40 Celsius
• Life Quality: I now only get notifications for actual emails. I manually check about 3-4 emails a day instead of doom-scrolling through 50.

Next steps :

• Enclosure: I've laser cut some acrylic for the enclosure, planning to set it up along with the rest of my home server setup
• More use cases: I'm thinking of setting up Whatsapp related automation, and curious to know of more ideas

Happy to take in more ideas on what others have done and add it to my setup, or answer questions if you have any ! Sharing some pictures of the setup here, feedback is welcome !

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/dogtrainer0875 on 2025-12-11 11:48:12+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Kai_ on 2025-12-11 07:09:28+00:00.

Wanted to share an unconventional setup that's been surprisingly stable. Not recommending this for everyone, but figured it might be useful for others considering budget builds.

The Hardware

• Nucbox G2 - Alder Lake-N (4 cores), 12GB RAM (~$120 on sale)
• 3× dual-bay USB3 caddies (~$60 total, on sale)
• 6× 8TB WD Blue drives in the caddies
• Total setup cost: ~$180 (drives excluded)

What's Running

Proxmox as the hypervisor, with:

• TrueNAS Scale VM (6.5GB RAM) - ZFS pool with 3× mirror vdevs (21TB usable)
• 13 LXC containers: Pi-hole, Cloudflare tunnel, qBittorrent, Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Caddy, Octoprint, Smokeping, testbed, and several others
• It's also acting as a peer-to-peer file supplier for 14TB worth of ~5000 packages

The "You Shouldn't Do This" Parts

I know USB + ZFS is generally discouraged. Here's what I found:

1. SMART passthrough works pretty well actually - My caddies have decent controllers with UASP support. ZFS sees drive health fine. I watch the SMART statistics carefully, short and long runs are scheduled regularly. So far though, nada.
2. Scrubs have been running well, no errors - I was scrubbing weekly and seeing no hiccups. Last one took 22 hours, zero issues. Moving it to fortnightly.
3. USB3 bandwidth is fine - Sequential streaming for Jellyfin doesn't actually push it that hard, conventional wisdom might be a little biased by enterprise reasoning (same for the 1GB RAM per 1TB storage, which is vernacular but seems to be unfounded)
4. ZFS checksumming compensates - Even without proper SCSI error reporting, ZFS catches corruption via checksums
5. iGPU transcoding is surprisingly good - Most of the time we're watching 4K DV + Atmos passthru, but the little Alder Lake chip punches far above its weight on transcodes too. While running all the above services it still has plenty of time for 4K transcodes.

Honest Limitations

• Wouldn't trust this for full-throttle random write-heavy workloads, ZFS isn't configured with special vdevs or anything
• RAM is tight - TrueNAS gets 6.5GB, leaves ~5GB for node + containers, however they've never had headroom issues that showed up in swapping. And that's without enabling ballooning on anything
• PCIE passthrough is hardly hot-swap. I tested a physical disconnection a few times early on out of morbid curiosity, and the ZFS did go into its suspended state. Have to reboot the node to bring it back up, which takes several minutes.

Power Consumption

Probably the most important part, from a power/emissions standpoint: RAPL reports ~1.3W for the SoC at idle. Estimating ~30-40W total at the wall including the spinning drives. Haven't verified with a meter, but it seems pretty remarkable. The drives probably spin down for ~75% of the day too, leaving ~3W idle -- a light bulb. It's definitely made me question what else in life might be overengineered due to prevailing wisdom.

Would I Recommend It?

For a home media server where uptime isn't critical? It's been great. The money saved went into better/more drives instead of compute hardware.

For life or death backups? I honestly don't know. One lab isn't a backup strategy anyway, it's just part of your 3/2/1.

Curious if others are running similarly unconventional setups that have surprised them.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/happystore1 on 2025-12-10 21:17:57+00:00.

I bought 2 identical kits of ddr5 memory from Amazon on black friday about 2 weeks ago. I managed to grab the first one while in stock. when I came to order the second kit it was "temporarily out of stock", but I ordered it anyway. now the first kit arrived but no updates regarding the second kit. note that when I ordered the 2nd time it showed "more are on the way" but now the same page says "unavailable". is that a good or bad sign?

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Ivan_Draga_ on 2025-12-11 04:48:17+00:00.

For the first time ever I'm going to be implementing VLANs into my homelab and into my life.

I understand the jist i believe being they are for security, isolation and even organization.

One thing I'm pondering really is lets say I have a DDNS setup as well as VLANs implemented. Is there a reason to even setup static IP addresses for my proxmox VMs anymore or am I just wasting time?

probably ignorance on my end here, but maybe the static IP addresses don't even matter and is that a separate issue than the VLAN topic?

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Bobardeur on 2025-12-10 17:38:20+00:00.

Hello everyone,

I would like building a small Zero-Trust environment at home.

Here is an overview of the configuration I have in mind. I'm not sure about the composition, as this will be my first zero-trust environment.

Hardware

• Netgate 1100 (pfSense+): firewall, VLANs, forced outbound VPN
• Flint 2 (OpenWrt): Wi-Fi 6 with VLAN support
• Raspberry Pi: DNS filtering (Pi-hole)
• Nitrokey HSM 2: internal PKI + mTLS certificate signing
• Server + DAS: storage and internal services

How I imagine it works

• All devices pass through pfSense and are routed through ProtonVPN
• DNS is centralized on the Raspberry Pi for ad/tracker blocking
• Separate VLANs: LAN / IoT / Guests / Servers
• Device and user certificates managed and signed via the HSM
• mTLS required for internal services
• Parental controls possible via VLAN rules or user-specific certificates

The goals I would like to achieve

Isolation, strong security, DNS filtering, and authenticated internal access via mTLS.

Do you think this infrastructure seems like a good start? Do you have any comments? I am new to zero trust and would like to experiment with it.

I was thinking of adding a managed switch as well.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Usual-Fudge7631 on 2025-12-10 09:02:51+00:00.

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According to the current RAM prices I've brought home the gold.

All kidding aside, just purchased this new lab server to run nested esxi as a development enviroment to test vsan, nsxt and stuff like that. I'm already familiar with the supermicro units so quit pleased with there performance so far. For storage I have a 4TB WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD.

Any tips or thoughts on what to do after i've completed vmware with nsxt en encrypted vsan?

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