Welcome to the Homelab and Open-Source Software topic!

This is a place to discuss not only open-source projects like Scratch but also Homelab things like Jellyfin.
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A homelab is a personal setup where people run self-hosted servers, experiment with software/operating systems, learn networking, or (like most) just tinker for fun.

Open-Source Software (OSS) is just normal software which has its code publicaly avaliable, meaning anyone can study, modify, share it, and (usually) contribute to development.
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• Talk about your personal homelab rigs (mine's just an old laptop )
  

• Share OSS or projects
  

• And, obviously, ask questions about all of this!
  

I made an open source Scratch mod called LibreKitten, which can run simple websites and APIs. It is also looking for contributors, but I do need to update the development wiki.

o97doge wrote:

I made an open source Scratch mod called LibreKitten, which can run simple websites and APIs. It is also looking for contributors, but I do need to update the development wiki.

Librekitten looks great! It has intrigued me in the past, but I don't have much of a need for Scratch-based servers. Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with JavaScript, so I can't contribute much.

I would like to ask about the server extension. I have some experience with the Flask web-framework, and y'all's server blocks seem to match it similarly. Is the syntax based off of Flask, or is it just coincidence?

Is anyone else the “sysadmin” for their families? I personally run and maintain my family's media server with Jellyfin with hopes to expand to immich in the future.

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TechNerd64 wrote:

Is anyone else the “sysadmin” for their families? I personally run and maintain my family's media server with Jellyfin with hopes to expand to immich in the future.

Yeah, lol. I manage a Jellyfin server for my family.

I put random services on a dell latitude e7240 (2014), which I upgraded with 8gb of lpddr3 ram (which used to be ~6x more expensive compared to now yikes) and some external storage (WD blue ssd… kind of yikes). All the services run on top of proxmox (i think about incus sometimes but i think proxmox works fine)

I also host local LLMs on my m4 mac mini (bought about last year). very good bang-for-buck option especially considering it's Apple. i got the base mac mini and it can run lots of decent dense models (like gemma 3 12b) and MoE models (like qwen3 30b a3b) with 4-bit precision. you can also do some amount of supervised finetuning which i also run a server for

pIacid wrote:

TechNerd64 wrote:

Is anyone else the “sysadmin” for their families? I personally run and maintain my family's media server with Jellyfin with hopes to expand to immich in the future.

Yeah, lol. I manage a Jellyfin server for my family.

What's your stats?

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My newest addition is the every 2026 CS50 Lecture Matches the my username lol

Hi! Just a chain of questions I thought might be relevant here, I'm not sure.
For server-storage purposes in hosting a website, the most common choice is either Firebase or SupaBase. Which is better? I can't really find a straight answer.

In a website which is the practically the best way for AI functions to work? Like what platform: HuggingFace, Google AI Studio, etc…

Thank you!
Sorry if these questions were not very relevant to this forum. New here…

Have a great day!

Nith04 wrote:

Hi! Just a chain of questions I thought might be relevant here, I'm not sure.
For server-storage purposes in hosting a website, the most common choice is either Firebase or SupaBase. Which is better? I can't really find a straight answer.

In a website which is the practically the best way for AI functions to work? Like what platform: HuggingFace, Google AI Studio, etc…

Thank you!
Sorry if these questions were not very relevant to this forum. New here…

Have a great day!

I don't have much of any experience regarding either question, but some googling has helped me with the first one. Personally, if I had to choose between Firebase and SupaBase, I would likely choose Supa because its 1) open-source and 2) able to be self-hosted. Again, due to my lack of experiece, take everything I said with a grain of salt.