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Special guest Casey Liss from the Accidental Tech Podcast joins the show to discuss his homelab, how he uses HomeBridge, and his delightfully complex garage door sensor system.


Then Alex and Casey do their "best" to convince Chris the Apple Vision Pro is an excellent remote admin tool.
Special Guest: Casey Liss.
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Unraid: Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted
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⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ, Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM | Meetup — Join Jupiter Broadcasting and System76 in the parking lot of Bellingham Technical College after the LinuxFest Northwest conference! Let's eat, drink and be nerdy!LinuxFest Northwest — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical CollegeBaseus PD 100W USB C to USB C Cable — 5A Fast Charging USB C Cable with LED Display.HDMI Dummy Plug — Headless Ghost, Display EmulatorSplitscreen brings a multimonitor setup to Apple’s Vision Pro — new app called Splitscreen takes things a step further, by allowing you to add a second macOS display to your Vision Pro — even if it uses a different Apple ID.Splitscreen App — Right now Splitscreen only allows you to create one extra virtual display. If you also use Mac Virtual Display that means you can have up to two Mac displays on your Apple Vision Pro.

Alex goes head-to-head with budget VPS providers, which gets us into a classic debate.


Plus we sit down with Adam Morales from Unraid to get the inside scoop on recent changes and exciting upcoming features.
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Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Support Self-Hosted
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⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.LowEndTalkConfiguring Proxmox For Hetzner - YouTube — Throughout the video, we delve into the nitty-gritty of Proxmox configuration, highlighting key steps such as booting from the drives, setting up network devices, and managing SSH access over Port 2222. I'll walk you through running and connecting to your virtual machines, ensuring you understand every command and its purpose.Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts — Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VEMigrate to Proxmox VE — This article aims to assist users in transitioning to Proxmox Virtual Environment. The first part explains the core concepts of Proxmox VE, while the second part outlines several methods for migrating VMs to Proxmox VE. Although it was written with VMware as the source in mind, most sections should apply to other source hypervisors as well. Dockge — A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager.

Alex rolls back a major server upgrade, and we have fun playing with local large language models.
Special Guest: Wes Payne.
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Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. This Week in Bitcoin: A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.Support Self-Hosted
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⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Training AI to Play Pokemon with Reinforcement Learning
Open WebUI — Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted WebUI for various LLM runners, supported LLM runners include Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs.Ollama — Get up and running with large language models, locally.Alex's Nix Nvidia Config
tlm — Local CLI Copilot, powered by CodeLLaMa.LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs — 🤖 - Run LLMs on your laptop, entirely offline
👾 - Use models through the in-app Chat UI or an OpenAI compatible local server
📂 - Download any compatible model files from HuggingFace 🤗 repositories
🔭 - Discover new & noteworthy LLMs in the app's home pageHugging Face — The Home of Machine Learning
🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇 — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!

Alex's new Epyc server build, and Jon Seager from Canonical joins us to chat about Nix in the homelab, packaging Scrutiny, and how Nix fits with existing infrastructure management tools.
Special Guest: Jon Seager .
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Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. This Week in Bitcoin: A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.Support Self-Hosted
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⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Jon Seager's BlogJon's NixOS configuration flake ❄️ — This repository contains a Nix Flake for configuring my machines.Juju — Juju is an open source orchestration engine for software operators that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure using charms.Charmhub — The Open Operator CollectionNerding out about Nix and NixOS with Jon Seager, Canonical - YouTubePackaging Scrutiny for NixOS · Jon Seager — In a recent (well, recent-ish) episode of the Self Hosted Show, there was some talk of a hard drive monitoring tool called Scrutiny. Scrutiny is a hard drive monitoring tool that exposes S.M.A.R.T data in a nice, clean dashboard. It gathers that S.M.A.R.T data using the venerable smartd, which is a Linux daemon that monitors S.M.A.R.T data from a huge number of ATA, IDE, SCSI-3 drives. The code is available on Github.Contributing Scrutiny to nixpkgs · Jon SeagerPackaging a go app for NixOS — When I found that one of the apps I use daily on my servers was not available in nixpkgs, I thought I'd take a stab at packaging it. KTZ Systems YouTube - An Epyc Homelab Monster: the Perfect Media Server mega upgrade — With 24 cores and 48 threads, the EPYC 7402 is a monster of a CPU. Paired with the Supermicro H12SSL-i motherboard, and more PCIe devices than you can shake a stick at. Today, Alex builds the homelab box to end all boxes.KTZ Systems YouTube - My Perfect Media Server isn't so perfect anymore... — I gave a consumer platform the old college try, but it just didn't work out. Find out why in part 1 of a new series on the channel about upgrading the servers at Badger Labs.ansible-role-docker-compose-generator — An Ansible role which procedurally generates docker-compose.yml filesAutomatic Ripping Machine (ARM) Scripts — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it.🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!2024.3: Drag 'n Drop it like it's hot! 🎉 - Home Assistant — A first experimental version of the section dashboard that supports drag ’n drop. A tremendous step forward and an even bigger milestone for Home Assistant!

We chat about VMware's rug pull with Bret, aka Raid Owl, and then get into Unraid's big changes and more.
Special Guest: Raid Owl.
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Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Trusteebook: TrusteeBook - a simple, easy-to-use workbook that helps you take control of your digital legacy. Get started today, and take $10 off. Promo Code: SELFHOSTEDThe Launch 🚀: Chris guides you through the most interesting stories and clips that set the stage for the rest of the week, while playing some of his favorite value 4 value tracks. Support Self-Hosted
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⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Raid Owl - YouTube — Hi there, my name is Brett and I'm just a nerdy dude who is passionate about home lab stuff, networking, pc builds, and tech in general. I created Raid Owl to provide a creative outlet for my passion and hopefully help people along the way. Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor — Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware's ESXi hypervisor.VMware is "killing off" 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shiftRaid Owl on X — This #30DaysOfLinux challenge is not going as expected…Unraid | Upcoming Changes to Unraid OS Pricing — Again, this change does not apply to any current license holders. You will still be able to access all updates for life, as promised. Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx — As such, starting from today, I will no longer participate in nginx development as run by F5. Instead, I’m starting an alternative project, which is going to be run by developers, and not corporate entities: PurrfectProse — About halfway through January 2024 we reorganized the spare room and Alex pointed out that I’d hardly been reading since Ella had been born and my ‘to read’ staging bookcase was getting perilously full. So a mission began to get back on the wagon. Wyze confirmed a camera issue last week caused 13,000 owners to see videos from other homes — The end result was that for a brief but not revealed period of time, 13,000 Wyze camera owners were seeing thumbnail videos from locations that were not their own. Also, 1,504 users tapped on those thumbnails, which could have expanded it or launched an Event video.R36S Handheld Game Console — On The Go Design: Ultra-compact size and old style design, it is very convenient whether you carry it with you during business trips, travel or camping. Recall the dream of the games anytime, anywhere. CitraVR: Port of the leading 3DS emulator, Citra — designed for playing 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest. — Play 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest.
CitraVR is a GPL-licensed, engineless OpenXR application with all source code publicly available.

Alex has been deep-diving into container networking, and Chris is trying to steelman Plex's new rental service.


Plus, why are we building our containers with Tailscale networking now, and the latest from the Home Assistant project?
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Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Trusteebook: TrusteeBook - a simple, easy-to-use workbook that helps you take control of your digital legacy. Get started today, and take $10 off. Promo Code: SELFHOSTEDThe Launch 🚀: Chris guides you through the most interesting stories and clips that set the stage for the rest of the week, while playing some of his favorite value 4 value tracks. Support Self-Hosted
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⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM | Meetup — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!SCALE 21xYard House MenuSCaLE Chat Room on our Matrix Server — Join our room dedicated to organizing around SCaLE each year.Contain your excitement: A deep dive into using Tailscale with Docker — By putting containers directly onto your tailnet (our term for a Tailscale network), you're able to connect these isolated things together no matter the networking topology that stands in your way.Tailscale for Docker Container - Chris' Note — The basic idea is to create a tailscale service container, that runs along side the main app container. You then set the main app container to use the tailscale container for networking.audiobookshelf-docker-compose.yml — Chris' docker-compose.yml for audiobookshelf that uses a Tailscale service container for networking.2024.2: More voice, more icons, more integrations, more... everything! — In general, contributions to our open-source project have been amazing this month. I’ve never seen so many contributed bug fixes, improvements, and new features in a single release. Like… 21 new integrations! This is, without a doubt, the largest release we’ve ever put out. A big shout-out to everyone who helped! ❤️Companion app for iOS 2024.1: CarPlay is here! — CarPlay support now gives Home Assistant users easy access to their devices and areas and the ability to create custom actions. home-assistant-assist-desktop — Use Home Assistant Assist on the desktop. Compatible with Windows, MacOS, and Linux Plex launches its rental service with some award-winning movies — The new movie rental marketplace from the streaming service gives users 30-day access to premium titles.