No, not at all, I just don’t expect the level of reliability they provide with how complex the stack is, and that is a complicated stack. (For a literal light bulb).

Reddit is dead to me, and given their stance on their apis, should be dead to pretty much all hobbiests deeply interested in self hosting.

There’s a difference between Matter (the interoperability standard) and Thread (The preferred matter communication protocol) and you’ll see a lot of devices advertised as “Matter over thread” which is important because for those you’ll need a matter bridge device to act as an edge router for the mesh “thread” network the devices create. These can be had cheaply though and if you’re one of the like 1 in 3 Americans with an iPad you already own one.

Hue do be having that “it just works” track record. Which is absolutely divine magic in my opinion because if you took one small look at their back end infrastructure stack you’d never imagine it could be… Reliable… Somehow? Like… Look at this…

I’d recommend against it. Apple’s software ecosystem isn’t as friendly for self hosting anything, storage is difficult to add, ram impossible, and you’ll be beholden to macOS running things inside containers until the good folks at Asahi or some other coummity startup add partial linux support.

And yes, I’ve tried this route. I ran an m1 mac mini as a home server for a while (running jellyfin and some other containers). It pretty consistently ran into software bugs (less maintained than x64 software) and every time I wanted to do an update instead of sudo whateveryourdistroships update, and a reboot, it was an entire process involving an apple account, logging into the bare metal device, and then finally running their 15-60 minute long update. Perfectly fine and acceptable for home computing, but not exactly a good experience when you’re hosting a service.

I get around 980 down 450-550 up on a Wifi 6e 160mhz 6ghz link, if I drop to my 5ghz network with 160mhz I run around 770 down and 375 up.

Any poor quality connector can affect a sector scan and drive performance. Doesn’t matter if it’s connected to a corroded usb port or a bent internal sata, at the end of the day if you’re getting disk errors it’s best to measure using two methodologies/data pathways.