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