KDE Linux drops AUR from its build pipeline over security and reliability concerns
… Malware, outages, and platform-agnostic goals drove KDE to drop AUR from the build pipeline. …
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Ghostty is ditching GitHub over chronic reliability failures, and no one knows where it's going yet
… Sign in to your XDA account Summary Frequent GitHub outages are disrupting work, happening almost daily, and blocking hours. …
A $25 smart plug became my home lab's most reliable emergency fix
… I rarely need the server when I'm traveling, and I don't want to take the risk of inadvertent shutdowns due to power outages or an unintended software update. …
Cloudflare is by far the best service for home labbers and the wider internet, and that should make you nervous
…It is cheap (and mostly free), easy to set up, reliable, and most importantly, it usually works the way we want. When I wanted a reliable DNS solution without the unnecessary overhead…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
… I reside in the countryside, where power outages are frequent. The laptop battery gave me a failover during outages. …
Cloud-connected smart home gear isn't smarter, it's just slower and riskier
… The cloud is a parasite on local hardware; it adds lag, breaks during outages, and gives manufacturers a kill switch to your home. …
My homelab monitoring broke silently until I switched from SMS to ntfy in an afternoon
… That was when I decided to migrate to ntfy , and the biggest difference wasn’t reliability alone but visibility. …
I used Claude Code with a local LLM on Ollama, and it’s surprisingly capable for something that's free
… In March alone, Anthropic faced multiple outages, with the latest one occurring on March 26 , and when that happens, even the best cloud tools become temporarily unavailable while a local setup keeps working. …
I let Claude Code Routines babysit my home lab while I slept, and it caught what my monitoring missed
… They’re great at catching outages, but they’re not always great at noticing quiet weirdness. …
I stopped adding hardware to my home lab when I realized fewer moving parts meant more uptime
… Some workloads really do benefit from physical separation, especially when they serve different roles or have different reliability needs. …