Mayank ☂️

cofounder/ceo @umbrel (we’re hiring) • building a home cloud to put your data back in your hands

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

Umbrel Pro has been a labor of love in the truest sense.

We've been building this for over a year. The level of obsession that went into the materials, the design, the thermals, and the tiniest details is absolutely insane.

It feels like pure magic the moment you hold it, pop open that magnetic lid, and slide in your SSDs.

The team poured absolutely everything into making today a reality. So incredibly grateful to be working with such a world-class group of people.

[Umbrel ☂️ @umbrel]

Introducing Umbrel Pro. The ultimate home cloud server.

Order now for $699 / 599 € / £529.

Ships worldwide, Feb 9.

[enzo @enzo_gte]

I've been using Kimi K3 for ~16 hours now.

The model is clearly good at a lot of different things (especially frontend), but non obvious reason why people are enjoying it so much is that it clearly does not follow the same rules in terms of safeguards and copyright.

Kimi will happily clone MacOSX. If you ask it to help you improve another AI model, it will do it with a smile on its virtual face.

Ask Fable to do the same thing? It literally starts to perceive you as a criminal committing a war crime (like no bro, all I want to do is fine tune an open source model).

After using all three recent releases, Fable, GPT 5.6, and now Kimi, it's clear that the full power of the models has been significantly held back by the safeguard restrictions caused by last months debacle with the USG -- leading to the top models being quite literally lobotomized in some areas, which leads to subpar results as the safeguards pollute its entire thinking and problem solving abilities.

The funny part? Is that you could have predicted this outcome 2-3 years ago when you started to see the rise of Chinese EVs and smartphones compared to western alternatives.

They quite literally tried to copy the Tesla Model S and iPhone as hard as possible and then eventually it started to diverge to the point where their EVs and phones are just genuinely better (which is why we have export controls banning their EVs, because they would literally drive all US manufacturers to ZERO)

There is a very clear behavior difference in Chinese capitalism and American capitalism.

American capitalism tries to protects copyright, patents, etc (oh no, you can't download a book through LibGen, that's ILLEGAL!).

Versus Chinese capitalism actually just does not give a fuck.

"Hey you want a video gen model (Seeddance 2.5) trained on every single anime ever? And you want the main character to look exactly like Messi? Sure, here you go!"

You see what I mean? When one half of the competition is being held up by regulators and restrictions on people who don't understand the technology and the other half has a leader who quite literally today said they are going to set up AI centers around the world to help other countries onboard to their open-source AIs, this is the sort of results that you will start to get.

These models were not smart enough to have this difference in philosophy matter -- but the newest class of models is where this difference makes a big deal. If these models are finally at the point where they are smarter than 99% of humans, why would you want to use the American one who tries to impose its world view onto you versus the Chinese one who will just do what you say without asking any questions?

And this isn't a full on bullpost on Kimi, the model is clearly not as smart as Fable / GPT 5.6 on things like math and science, but it's lack of handcuffs means that it can show the world what the frontier labs are gatekeeping from you and that starts to build customer resentment and loyalty towards the East, which is probably not what the USG wants.

Interesting times. Interesting times, indeed.

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

also funny if you change "more angry" with "nicer", it then loves bomb you every time you interrupt it lol

[jason @jxnlco]

If you have access to GPT Live, test out this prompt.

"Hey, I want you to teach me about a concept. <insert concept> but every time I interrupt you, I want you to get progressively more angry at me and tell me to stop talking and let you finish"

There is an amazing feeling when an A.I. pushes back.

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

@VVV0T1 @umbrel Sorry about that, Could you go to Settings &gt; Troubleshoot &gt; umbrelOS &gt; Download logs, and send us the log file to [email protected]? We'll get back to you with the fix

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

Not really, since it's a backup and not live failover. So if something happens (drive dies, data gets corrupted, hardware fails), you can restore from a snapshot stored on the other Umbrel.

The nice part though is that the second Umbrel can be used as fully functional Umbrel in its own right, beyond just sitting there holding backups

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

Fair, though our philosophy is app-oriented, and umbrelOS itself is actually quite minimal (files, backups, etc. - very foundational features for a home server) plus an app store you install from only if you want to.

Also re security, apps run in sandboxed containers and are isolated by default. They can't access each other unless you explicitly allow it (e.g. mempool talking to electrs talking to your Bitcoin node).

So tbh it can do as little or as much as you want

[Umbrel ☂️ @umbrel]

Introducing Umbrel App Store agent skills.

Ask Claude Code/Codex: "See getumbrel/umbrel-apps repo and build (or test/update/submit) an Umbrel app".

After approving 350+ apps and 5,000+ app updates, we've condensed all those learnings into 4 hyper-focused agent skills right in our app store repo.

So yeah, that's the entire barrier to building high-quality self-hosted apps now. 🫡

[Umbrel ☂️ @umbrel]

You can now connect two Umbrels in different locations and back one up to the other.

This already worked on the same network, but the latest Tailscale update in the Umbrel App Store removes the "same network" part. You can now mount folders from one Umbrel into another in Files, even across the world, and use that as a backup location.

So one Umbrel at home, one at your parents' place, and tada - you now have real offsite backups, fully self-hosted, on hardware you own.

You asked, and it's here!

[Midjourney @midjourney]

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

@LHodlemort @umbrel It's a ~700B params model, and 4x DGX Spark can handle just about 700B - should be possible

[Umbrel ☂️ @umbrel]

Today ~$20k of hardware can run GLM-5.2 locally. Think about it - frontier-class AI, fully local, in your house, sitting on your desk.

Now fast-forward a year. The price only falls from here, and your home server is quietly going to become the most important device you own.

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

damn, the new trump gold card feature is insane

[Second @secondhq]

1/ Bark Wallet is now on the @umbrel app store. A number of adventurous users have already been installing the app and making payments, and with everything running smoothly, it's time for a proper introduction.

[Neil Woodfine @nwoodfine]

It's been a long time coming, but we're finally live. On mainnet. Real bitcoin.

This is absolutely the easiest way to add self-custodial bitcoin payments to your app, with support for all the networks that matter.

[Umbrel ☂️ @umbrel]

HUGGEEEE.

Live now on the Umbrel App Store!

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

@BTCsessions Give it a try on your Umbrel! Plug-and-play experience, isolated by default (since it runs inside an isolated Docker container like all other apps), and access its data (and the files it creates/needs) directly from Files &gt; Apps &gt; hermes

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

ah yes, we'll bring first class support for external drives to the pi soon!!

for now, just be careful - on a reboot, umbrelOS can completely wipe any additional non-primary drive connected to a raspberry pi due to the way our installer currently works for pis

we are overhauling it completely, so for now pls make sure to eject your drive physically before every reboot and OTA update 🙏

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

@Albercoin @umbrel yess, it's coming soon

[Blake Anderson @blakeandersonw]

Most people want to be seen more than they want to create.

It is much easier to get a badge (college, accelerator, seed round, followers, job offer) that confers status than it is to build a great product.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

The Hermes Web Dashboard got a major overhaul: it is now a feature-complete admin panel that you can manage entirely from your browser.

[Mayank ☂️ @mayankdotch]

@overtorment @umbrel yepp it already is in the store https://t.co/ByAZPyL4LM