| • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference
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| • Discussing ideas for an AM morning show format
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| • Review of movie and TV segments, including upcoming surprise review
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| • WireGuard nearly merging into BSD kernel, link provided in show notes
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| • NVIDIA unlocking GPU drivers for pass-through on consumer graphics cards
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| • PCI pass-through complexities
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| • Using dual-booting as an alternative
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| • NVIDIA news and its implications on PC setup
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| • Ubiquity Gear security breach and potential risks
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| • Centralized controllers for IoT devices
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| • Disappointment with Ubiquity's products and support
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| • Decline of quality assurance (QA) in Ubiquity's firmware and software updates
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| • Discussion of the Ubiquity breach and its handling by the company
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| • Alternatives to Ubiquity devices, such as TP-Link
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| • Concerns about the impact on Ubiquity's reputation and user base
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| • Proposal for a community-built open-source solution for wireless networking
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| • Idea of open-source firmware for existing hardware to decouple from cloud services
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| • Discussion of the need for a more powerful, flexible, and secure solution for home and business use cases
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| • A device called Corsair Commander Pro was purchased for fan control but only worked on Windows
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| • The Linux kernel now supports native control of fans via a USB header, thanks to a driver added six months ago
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| • To set up fan control on Linux, you need the 5.9 or later kernel and LM sensors installed
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| • A blog post details the process for configuring PWM profiles and enabling the fan control service
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| • The host uses Arch Linux with a small VM on an ESXi host and praises Linode's support of Linux
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| • Linode is promoted as the cloud server provider used by the podcast, offering fast infrastructure and a wide range of distributions to choose from
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| • Discussion with a volunteer from Discord about their self-hosting setup
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| • Volunteer's hardware setup: Ryzen 3000 series, Proxmox, virtual machines (VMs)
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| • Philosophy on using VMs vs. containers: preference for containerization
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| • Volunteer's setup currently has 6 VMs and 1 LXC container with multiple Docker applications
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| • Discussion about storage setup: moving storage out of the main VM to handle it directly on the host
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| • Issue with running TrueNAS in a VM due to poor performance, including latency spikes and slow Nextcloud access
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| • Discussion of past experiences with Scale, TrueNAS, and Proxmox
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| • Preference for high-performance storage solutions that are easy to manage
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| • Use of bind mounts in LXC containers
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| • Backup strategy using Duplicati and a mix of Backblaze and S3
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| • Consideration of switching to Restic for backups
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| • Discussion of restoring from offsite backups and the importance of having data in multiple locations
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| • Quote from Alan Jude: "If it doesn't exist in three places, it doesn't exist at all."
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| • Discussing backup solutions, including using Backblaze and attempting to roll out a custom solution with Minio
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| • Mention of Kim Sufi, a cheap dedicated server host from France that is part of OVH
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| • Recommendation of the movie "The Social Dilemma" for its critique of social media algorithms
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| • Discussion of self-hosted apps, specifically TTRSS as an RSS reader and NextCloud for file access
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| • Critique of NextCloud's sync functionality, including issues with partial syncs and forgotten login information
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| • Discussion about a project called Plausible, a self-hosted Google Analytics alternative
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| • Features and benefits of Plausible, including beautiful UI and GDPR compliance
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| • Comparison to Google Analytics and the desire to take back control from companies like Google
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| • Conversation about Jake's storage setup, with four terabytes in his current pool
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| • Discussion of Jake's media storage needs and intention not to grow his storage capacity
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| • Course content includes administration, Docker, SQL server, Azure instances, and Visual Studio code integration
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| • Link to course in show notes at selfhosted.show/42
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| • Sponsor: Cloud Guru
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| • Members can support the show and get ad-free feed at selfhosted.show/sre
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| • Post-show discussion of personal topics and interests
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| • Contact page and social media handles mentioned |
