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The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄

Dec 21, 2025
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The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year's winners.

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WEBVTT 00:00:04.025 --> 00:00:09.885 This is the Great Holiday Home Lab special, Linux Unplugged, episode 646. 00:00:19.705 --> 00:00:23.745 Welcome in to Linux Unplugged's Great Holiday Home Lab. My name is Chris. 00:00:23.925 --> 00:00:24.825 My name is Wes. 00:00:25.205 --> 00:00:26.265 And my name is Brent. 00:00:26.545 --> 00:00:30.345 Hello, gentlemen. Well, we've gone through hundreds of submissions, 00:00:30.645 --> 00:00:33.845 spent hours making our list and checking them twice. 00:00:34.025 --> 00:00:38.365 And this week, we're going to give you the winners for the best overall home 00:00:38.365 --> 00:00:43.565 lab, the most overkill budget blowout, the tiny Titan that does the most with the least. 00:00:43.805 --> 00:00:46.685 And of course, the sipping sage, the most energy efficient build, 00:00:46.765 --> 00:00:48.105 a bunch of other categories. 00:00:49.245 --> 00:00:53.765 And we will get some final winners. We were blown away by the results. 00:00:54.365 --> 00:00:57.845 I mean, really, they were incredible. But before we get into all of that, 00:00:58.185 --> 00:01:02.885 we got to say time appropriate greetings to our virtual lug. Hello, Mumble Room. 00:01:06.754 --> 00:01:10.114 Hello. Hello to all of you. Hello up there in the quiet listening. 00:01:10.234 --> 00:01:12.834 Of course, everybody listening on the live stream, too. 00:01:13.994 --> 00:01:17.994 Appreciate you joining us on a special holiday episode. And a big happy holidays 00:01:17.994 --> 00:01:20.114 to our friends over at Defined Networking. 00:01:20.654 --> 00:01:26.374 Defined.net slash unplugged. 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You can completely control yourself or you can use 00:02:07.934 --> 00:02:10.774 it for free through defined networking for 100 hosts. 00:02:10.934 --> 00:02:12.334 When you go to define.net slash 00:02:12.334 --> 00:02:16.194 unplugged, this is the VPN infrastructure you want to build on top of. 00:02:16.374 --> 00:02:19.454 Start the new year right with a good network infrastructure. 00:02:19.454 --> 00:02:24.574 Go to define.net slash unplugged and define and redefine your VPN experience. 00:02:24.734 --> 00:02:30.474 That is defined.net slash unplugged to redefine your VPN experience. 00:02:31.094 --> 00:02:36.014 Okay, so before we start, guys, I don't want to get too cheesy or anything like 00:02:36.014 --> 00:02:39.954 this, but I did not expect this to be a bit of a holiday treat for us. 00:02:40.254 --> 00:02:40.774 No, me either. 00:02:41.214 --> 00:02:45.934 I was surprised. I mean, it was a task, but it was also really, 00:02:46.414 --> 00:02:52.374 really humbling, awesome, impressive, all of the above to see everybody's various home labs. 00:02:52.914 --> 00:02:58.374 I mean, you had just absolute scrappy budget builds to total barn burner budgets, you know. 00:02:59.647 --> 00:03:03.687 I mean, you know, stuff with all kinds of, like, multi-state replication and, 00:03:03.847 --> 00:03:06.347 I mean, every scale of setup. 00:03:06.747 --> 00:03:12.707 And it was, you know, kind of, you got a little view and window into all of 00:03:12.707 --> 00:03:13.547 these different setups. 00:03:13.707 --> 00:03:17.147 And it's almost like, you know, we finally get to see a bit of their side. 00:03:17.287 --> 00:03:19.907 We're always showing all of our stuff off. It's great. 00:03:20.147 --> 00:03:21.387 That's true. Yeah. 00:03:21.387 --> 00:03:24.407 I really appreciated a lot of the energy that went into these submissions. 00:03:24.407 --> 00:03:30.627 Like some people wrote some like really interesting observations as to why they're 00:03:30.627 --> 00:03:34.407 even self-hosting, what their mission is, a ton of like photos. 00:03:34.567 --> 00:03:39.107 We even received some videos, tours of home labs. Like it was super impressive. 00:03:39.107 --> 00:03:41.287 So thanks to everyone for taking that time. 00:03:41.447 --> 00:03:44.127 I just had a lot of fun. It's better than TV. 00:03:45.067 --> 00:03:48.687 That's for sure. And some of them included some very kind notes that I shared 00:03:48.687 --> 00:03:51.887 with the wife or Easter eggs in the pictures, which made us smile. 00:03:52.027 --> 00:03:54.947 We were messing each other back and forth. Did you see this? Did you catch that? 00:03:55.807 --> 00:03:59.267 Some of you clearly have budgets, and some of you have been able to get by with 00:03:59.267 --> 00:04:00.887 just an unbelievable setup. 00:04:01.167 --> 00:04:05.707 I mean, I'm talking, you know, multi-GPU, tens and tens of terabytes to machine 00:04:05.707 --> 00:04:08.007 rescued from the dumpster, and that's the home lab. I mean, it really, 00:04:08.127 --> 00:04:09.147 and everything in between. 00:04:09.827 --> 00:04:15.047 It was awesome. Some of you are very, very clever out there at sourcing discounted 00:04:15.047 --> 00:04:18.827 or free slash used gear. I was very impressed. 00:04:18.827 --> 00:04:21.347 I've got a few things over the years, but nothing like this. 00:04:21.547 --> 00:04:22.767 No, very, very scrappy. 00:04:22.767 --> 00:04:27.127 It was, it was very surprising to see the trend that, um, many people who got 00:04:27.127 --> 00:04:28.827 free stuff is just from their employer. 00:04:29.287 --> 00:04:32.167 So it's like, oh yeah, you know, every year we throw out a bunch of stuff and 00:04:32.167 --> 00:04:35.627 yet it doesn't get thrown out. It just goes until their employees own labs. 00:04:35.827 --> 00:04:38.907 Oh yeah. Or a lot of people are good at sourcing companies that are getting rid of gear. 00:04:39.507 --> 00:04:45.227 Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's certainly something. Uh, so we have lots of categories that we do want to cover. 00:04:45.307 --> 00:04:48.827 I mentioned some of them at the beginning of the show. Uh, but we're going to 00:04:48.827 --> 00:04:51.347 start with a category that doesn't necessarily have an award, 00:04:51.387 --> 00:04:52.747 but we still think is very impressive. 00:04:52.767 --> 00:04:56.927 And that's going to be the most self-hosted setup, the mostest, right? 00:04:57.147 --> 00:05:00.787 And so that's where we'll start our holiday home lab special. 00:05:31.869 --> 00:05:39.149 All right, Wes Payne, let's start with Dark Owl, who just has a massive self-hosted 00:05:39.149 --> 00:05:41.569 setup. So we put this in the most self-hosted category. 00:05:42.609 --> 00:05:44.469 And you pulled ahead Dark Owl. 00:05:45.069 --> 00:05:48.909 Yeah, okay, so start off here, take a look at the pictures. We've got just a 00:05:48.909 --> 00:05:52.749 nice little rack setup, nothing obscene or crazy, but... 00:05:52.749 --> 00:05:53.969 It's clean and tidy, I like that. 00:05:53.969 --> 00:05:54.589 Clean and tidy. 00:05:55.449 --> 00:05:58.589 Looks like a master power switch down there at the bottom. 00:05:58.589 --> 00:06:05.249 and telco gear and he's got a nice switch there and some clean patches just 00:06:05.249 --> 00:06:08.829 the right cable lengths you know i mean could be slightly tidier but honestly 00:06:08.829 --> 00:06:11.509 my mess would would be worse than that so i can't critique. 00:06:11.509 --> 00:06:15.469 And we've got plenty of b-links going on we got a b-link ser5 for 00:06:15.469 --> 00:06:19.349 a dev portainer setup so we've got dev and prod going on here we'll hear more 00:06:19.349 --> 00:06:24.749 about that in a sec another b-link with 32 gigs of ram uh set up as like a micro 00:06:24.749 --> 00:06:31.189 pc um we've got a prod portainer setup we've got two orange pi zero threes for 00:06:31.189 --> 00:06:34.449 pihole i assume that's redundant pihole so you gotta have that you. 00:06:34.449 --> 00:06:35.249 Gotta ever done a pihole. 00:06:35.249 --> 00:06:38.189 There's also a six bay nas mini itx going on with 00:06:38.189 --> 00:06:41.149 um two four terabyte hard drives to 00:06:41.149 --> 00:06:44.009 two terabyte hard drives and a one terabyte ssd and 32 gigs 00:06:44.009 --> 00:06:48.169 of ram and a synology that's aging off which makes sense you got to do transition 00:06:48.169 --> 00:06:52.629 right but what stood out to me here is the clever part i do like the mission 00:06:52.629 --> 00:06:56.789 which is simple to the point host videos stores paperwork and allows me to play 00:06:56.789 --> 00:07:00.369 which isn't that i mean isn't that when we come down to it often that's sometimes 00:07:00.369 --> 00:07:03.229 it's like you know real work sometimes it's it's a mix a. 00:07:03.229 --> 00:07:03.969 Little bit of both yeah. 00:07:03.969 --> 00:07:08.749 Okay so the clever part of darko set up i have my own certificate authority 00:07:08.749 --> 00:07:14.429 my entire network runs off of the domain home.darkowl.org which i do not buy 00:07:14.429 --> 00:07:19.549 certificates for and does not exist outside my home lab using step c a, 00:07:20.567 --> 00:07:23.607 And I thought if you're going to be an off-grid operator, having your own certificate 00:07:23.607 --> 00:07:26.587 authorities, you don't have to bother with trusting anybody else out there. 00:07:26.727 --> 00:07:28.187 It's got to get you in the contention. 00:07:28.787 --> 00:07:31.727 I like that he was too afraid to tell us how much power it. He didn't want to check. 00:07:31.967 --> 00:07:32.087 No. 00:07:32.527 --> 00:07:33.187 He didn't want to check. 00:07:33.407 --> 00:07:36.047 Dark Owl is also doing some custom stuff, which I like to see. 00:07:36.147 --> 00:07:39.867 A custom node app that will stitch together Docker configuration files. 00:07:40.027 --> 00:07:44.287 So, for example, when Dark Owl adds a paperless NGX container, 00:07:44.487 --> 00:07:49.307 it'll add the port forwarding to HA proxy and add an entry on my Dashie dashboard, 00:07:49.307 --> 00:07:50.747 board which sounds pretty nice. 00:07:50.747 --> 00:07:56.647 So he technically has two nazes two orange pies running redundant pie hole and 00:07:56.647 --> 00:08:00.407 one of his nazes is massive i mean that's a big just in size that's a big unit 00:08:00.407 --> 00:08:07.967 and it's running open media vault uh huh you know i wonder how he likes that b-link sre 5 max that's, 00:08:08.467 --> 00:08:10.767 that's a nice unit i bet he likes that a lot. 00:08:10.767 --> 00:08:11.967 I can see it in your eyes. 00:08:11.967 --> 00:08:12.947 Yeah yeah and. 00:08:12.947 --> 00:08:14.587 Then we did get a fun little oops moment. 00:08:14.587 --> 00:08:15.387 Yeah tell us about that. 00:08:15.387 --> 00:08:19.927 When i decided to add a new production port which we just talked about. 00:08:20.147 --> 00:08:23.647 I copied my original production server configuration so everything looked the same. 00:08:23.827 --> 00:08:27.327 I was then planning on deleting the configurations and starting production from 00:08:27.327 --> 00:08:29.967 scratch, then switch over when everything was up and running. 00:08:30.741 --> 00:08:36.141 However, I messed up the URL and I ended up deleting all the containers off 00:08:36.141 --> 00:08:40.621 my only Portainer server and had to start from scratch. 00:08:40.901 --> 00:08:44.621 Thankfully, all my configurations were in Git and the files back in the Docker 00:08:44.621 --> 00:08:46.061 containers were on my file server. 00:08:46.241 --> 00:08:50.461 Well done. Well, that's not so bad. I bet the heart rate was going, though. 00:08:50.561 --> 00:08:53.121 No kidding. And it's a backup test, I guess. 00:08:53.601 --> 00:08:57.161 Oh, wow. Well, very well done. All right. While we're looking at the self-hosted 00:08:57.161 --> 00:09:00.201 setups with the Mostis, Captain Reginald also came up. 00:09:00.741 --> 00:09:06.181 He's got a Colorado lab, easy for me to say, a Colorado lab that's remote, 00:09:06.181 --> 00:09:12.061 and he's all in on the Ubiquiti Edge router stuff. And this came up a couple of times, actually. 00:09:12.201 --> 00:09:15.821 But he splits inbound traffic from his modem, he routes it to his parents' home 00:09:15.821 --> 00:09:19.561 router, and he forwards all the ports to a hardware SonicWall firewall. 00:09:19.681 --> 00:09:20.281 Oh, fun. 00:09:20.521 --> 00:09:25.121 So Ubiquiti Edge Router X, then to a SonicWall firewall. I haven't looked at 00:09:25.121 --> 00:09:26.621 a SonicWall in about 200 years. 00:09:26.781 --> 00:09:30.241 And then we've also got an old Dell 24-port gigabit switch in the mix. 00:09:30.241 --> 00:09:34.821 I love those old dell 24 if it's the one i'm thinking of from the era i'm thinking 00:09:34.821 --> 00:09:39.521 of they were sleepers they were really good um then of course he's got a true 00:09:39.521 --> 00:09:42.201 nas with an amd phenom in it. 00:09:42.201 --> 00:09:44.821 We're gonna see a plenty of true nas today that was interesting to see. 00:09:44.821 --> 00:09:50.061 28 gigs in that free nas and he's got three 500 gigabyte hard drives he says 00:09:50.061 --> 00:09:53.741 they're cheap to replace it's sort of motherboard limited though and a gtx 560 00:09:53.741 --> 00:09:56.881 in that thing i wonder if that's useful for anything Yeah. 00:09:56.921 --> 00:09:57.381 Be curious. 00:09:57.861 --> 00:10:01.381 Ubuntu server running a VM for Nextcloud. He's got some other things in there, 00:10:01.481 --> 00:10:02.821 like Music Sync and Password. 00:10:03.101 --> 00:10:05.961 He's got another Ubuntu VM for tinkering and dev work. 00:10:06.441 --> 00:10:08.541 Got to have all his nano configs in one spot. 00:10:08.701 --> 00:10:12.061 I find it interesting to see kind of how people break out. Like, 00:10:12.161 --> 00:10:13.701 do you segment? What do you segment? 00:10:13.761 --> 00:10:18.641 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, interesting. Like, to have like a central nano config and 00:10:18.641 --> 00:10:22.141 project files VM that is sort of like a state, right? 00:10:22.241 --> 00:10:24.961 It's just ready to go. You kind of pop in and start working. 00:10:25.850 --> 00:10:29.290 I don't think I ever would have thought of using a VM for that, but I kind of like it. 00:10:29.750 --> 00:10:32.230 All right, let me run through some of the services he's self-hosting, 00:10:32.290 --> 00:10:33.970 because this is one of the things that pushed it over on my list here. 00:10:34.610 --> 00:10:39.630 Minecraft server, no IP DNS updater for dynamic DNS, Nextcloud, 00:10:40.310 --> 00:10:44.210 Melee, Audiobookshelf, Jellyfin, Pinchflat, MeTube, Firefly 3, 00:10:44.430 --> 00:10:48.530 SyncThing, Dozel, TSD proxy for tail scale container integration. 00:10:48.750 --> 00:10:53.550 And he's also running PyHole with a backup Tailnet subrouter on there. 00:10:54.390 --> 00:10:56.030 And then he has... yeah. 00:10:56.030 --> 00:11:00.590 On a 1b i didn't think those were still useful that's impressive that is impressive. 00:11:00.590 --> 00:11:04.310 That puts in a low power category for that one but it also looks like and we 00:11:04.310 --> 00:11:08.430 all know how this goes i've got one of these he's got a broken server sitting 00:11:08.430 --> 00:11:13.790 around i like that he included this it was a true nes scale third gen intel i7 so it's an older box, 00:11:14.818 --> 00:11:20.318 It was running image and server backup, but the SATA controller failed. 00:11:20.338 --> 00:11:22.178 That's rough. Those sound like important roles. Dang. 00:11:22.558 --> 00:11:26.578 So we're not done yet because he's got a lab in New Mexico on 5G where he's 00:11:26.578 --> 00:11:30.918 got a local laptop running as a server over there running several Docker services 00:11:30.918 --> 00:11:32.298 like Lublogger, SyncThing, 00:11:32.838 --> 00:11:39.978 Uptime Kuma, again, TSD Proxy, and Melee, where he also has a Raspberry Pi 3B running on there. 00:11:40.178 --> 00:11:41.018 Yeah. Come on, Brett. 00:11:41.018 --> 00:11:46.078 And then he's got a kitty of projects, 20 terabytes of loose hard drives and 00:11:46.078 --> 00:11:50.078 SSDs he wants to work on and numerous Windows and Mac OS and old laptops. I know that one. 00:11:51.298 --> 00:11:55.138 Big on the mesh net with tail scale for everything. He says, 00:11:55.278 --> 00:11:59.458 my home lab provides benefits including offsite backups in a different state, 00:11:59.678 --> 00:12:02.078 saving money by not paying for commercial services, 00:12:02.398 --> 00:12:06.898 staying private by keeping my data local, and being a great educational tool for learning Linux. 00:12:07.698 --> 00:12:08.598 Ain't that the truth. 00:12:08.778 --> 00:12:12.258 Mm-hmm. It's great having two lab locations. I love that. 00:12:12.558 --> 00:12:16.298 He says, my best trick is to fix computers for your friends and family. 00:12:16.298 --> 00:12:20.138 And then when they upgrade down the road, they sometimes give you their old 00:12:20.138 --> 00:12:24.558 gear so you can basically run an entire home lab and have backup PCs if one 00:12:24.558 --> 00:12:27.078 goes down off of hardware that you got for free. 00:12:28.213 --> 00:12:32.113 That's what stood out also here. It's a very impressive array of services being 00:12:32.113 --> 00:12:36.953 offered in what seems like a nice setup from a diverse array of stuff. 00:12:37.073 --> 00:12:40.793 And Brent, isn't this a great example of, again, the ingenuity of getting second-hand 00:12:40.793 --> 00:12:42.193 hardware that's still perfectly usable? 00:12:42.653 --> 00:12:46.913 I have 100% done this. It works very well. And most people have old hardware 00:12:46.913 --> 00:12:51.573 that is completely up to this task, just not for their everyday use, right? So why not? 00:12:52.173 --> 00:12:55.893 He did have an oops moment he shared with us. He says, several years ago, 00:12:55.893 --> 00:12:59.753 I was tinkering around trying to figure out how to fully reformat drives in 00:12:59.753 --> 00:13:03.533 the command line on Windows, and I managed to completely brick at least one of them. 00:13:03.713 --> 00:13:09.013 I was also trying to get an ancient NAS from 10 plus years ago to accept some very large drives. 00:13:09.193 --> 00:13:14.233 And while in the deep of the CLI, I managed to also completely brick that. 00:13:14.373 --> 00:13:17.373 So it wouldn't even turn on anymore. That's impressive. 00:13:17.593 --> 00:13:18.913 It's like a firmware brick. 00:13:19.553 --> 00:13:22.593 Well, the Windows command line is powerful. That's what the lesson is. 00:13:22.633 --> 00:13:24.553 Luckily, no data was compromised. Okay. 00:13:24.733 --> 00:13:28.753 Yeah. Wow. How about that? He says he found the show through self-hosted. 00:13:29.073 --> 00:13:31.773 Sad, it's gone, but loves it when we do the Home Lab content. 00:13:32.073 --> 00:13:33.033 Well, thank you for helping. 00:13:33.453 --> 00:13:40.813 Well, there you go. I think, you know, that is an example of a setup that we 00:13:40.813 --> 00:13:43.573 went through that I kind of envy in the sense that he has the two locations. 00:13:43.573 --> 00:13:47.953 I have the studio and I have Joops, but Joops isn't like a fixed thing, 00:13:48.093 --> 00:13:49.793 right? It's more like a mobile thing. 00:13:50.253 --> 00:13:51.533 It's a little sketchy on its own. 00:13:51.533 --> 00:13:54.573 Yeah, the studio is kind of like it's support base in a way, 00:13:54.693 --> 00:13:57.233 right? So it's not really a fair offsite. 00:13:57.313 --> 00:13:58.313 There's plenty of sketch at the studio. 00:14:00.373 --> 00:14:01.813 Let's be honest with ourselves. 00:14:02.033 --> 00:14:02.873 It's fake as we'll hear you. 00:14:03.013 --> 00:14:08.193 Yeah, dude. Jeez, getting by. But then the other thing that I really liked about 00:14:08.193 --> 00:14:14.213 Captain Reginald's setup here, as you notice this, Brent, is he's got some old pies. 00:14:14.213 --> 00:14:20.513 He's got a 1B in production still and a PI 3B still getting used and being used 00:14:20.513 --> 00:14:24.813 for useful stuff like a simple tail scale exit node. That makes a lot of sense. 00:14:26.135 --> 00:14:31.835 I love that. Or a temporary web server. He also uses one of them just as a USB 00:14:31.835 --> 00:14:33.395 power source for a Mesh-tastic node. 00:14:36.035 --> 00:14:40.415 It's just great use of old hardware, which will be relevant, 00:14:40.415 --> 00:14:43.735 I think, in the predictions episode. I'm not giving it away. 00:14:45.355 --> 00:14:46.655 You've been doing your homework. 00:14:46.795 --> 00:14:47.775 I've started a little bit. 00:14:47.775 --> 00:14:48.075 I hate that. 00:14:48.075 --> 00:14:49.635 You boys better get ready because I'm going to. 00:14:49.635 --> 00:14:52.055 When you can't sleep, you start dreaming of predictions. 00:14:52.055 --> 00:14:55.795 I'm going to try to bring the predictions game this year. All right. 00:14:55.795 --> 00:14:58.395 So those were just some of the kind of honorable, not so honorable mentions. 00:14:58.475 --> 00:15:00.435 We also have an honorable mentions category, so don't call it that. 00:15:02.695 --> 00:15:05.155 The not so honorable. No, those are just the big. 00:15:05.155 --> 00:15:06.255 There's plenty of honor involved. 00:15:06.535 --> 00:15:08.415 Yeah. Those are just some of the ones we wanted to pull forward. 00:15:08.735 --> 00:15:10.355 But now we're going to get into the categories. 00:15:17.855 --> 00:15:21.935 Unraid.net slash unplugged. Unleash your hardware. 00:15:22.135 --> 00:15:25.175 Check out Unraid. They really go from strength to strength. And when I was going 00:15:25.175 --> 00:15:30.035 through our home lab holiday submissions, so many awesome setups using Unraid. 00:15:30.155 --> 00:15:33.155 And it just makes sense. You hear us talk about a cool project here on the show. 00:15:33.275 --> 00:15:36.735 You can get right to it with Unraid because they have just such an impressive 00:15:36.735 --> 00:15:40.255 catalog of apps that have been submitted by their community. 00:15:40.475 --> 00:15:43.455 And really, those are getting better, too, with Unraid's new official API. 00:15:43.655 --> 00:15:47.155 That was part of the new 7.20 release that came out just a little bit ago. 00:15:47.155 --> 00:15:51.775 Some ZFS work went in there and TFS support went in there. So you can get grandpa's 00:15:51.775 --> 00:15:53.315 photos off your old hard drive. 00:15:53.735 --> 00:15:56.675 But I think, you know, I mean, also the responsive UI. I mean, 00:15:56.715 --> 00:15:59.755 there's so many things I could talk about, but what just keeps blowing me away 00:15:59.755 --> 00:16:02.575 is the way the community is building around this new open source Unraid API. 00:16:03.055 --> 00:16:07.235 It just unlocks so much custom new dashboards, new ways of automation. 00:16:07.635 --> 00:16:10.495 I really it's scripting home assistant. I mean, I'm just like, 00:16:10.635 --> 00:16:14.555 oh, wow. It's like one. I mean, I know it wasn't a little thing. Right. 00:16:15.255 --> 00:16:21.155 But that one thing just unlocked a whole world. It's so, so great what's going on over there. 00:16:21.355 --> 00:16:24.975 Really just giving you more power, more flexibility. You can start with what 00:16:24.975 --> 00:16:28.795 you have in the closet right now, and it will grow with you if you want to go 00:16:28.795 --> 00:16:30.355 just even further and further. 00:16:30.595 --> 00:16:34.895 And with expanded ZFS support, you can migrate from some of your older systems. 00:16:34.895 --> 00:16:38.635 Like if you had like an Ubuntu system running ZFS, and you want to move it over 00:16:38.635 --> 00:16:42.415 to a proper Unraid setup, well, they make that really simple now. 00:16:42.475 --> 00:16:45.875 It's so great. If you're a home lab enthusiast or if you're just getting started, 00:16:46.015 --> 00:16:48.415 maybe you're a small business that needs some infrastructure for your team. 00:16:49.255 --> 00:16:53.155 Unraid 7.2 gives you the tools to build and scale the way you want. 00:16:53.335 --> 00:16:56.975 There's already well over 25,000 people, that's the last time I checked, 00:16:57.155 --> 00:17:00.095 that are using Unraid 7.2. It's just been a banger release. 00:17:00.235 --> 00:17:04.255 So go download a free 30-day trial at unraid.net slash unplugged, 00:17:04.315 --> 00:17:06.515 see why everybody's loving it, and support the show. 00:17:06.635 --> 00:17:09.915 That's unraid.net slash unplugged. 00:17:24.130 --> 00:17:28.770 Okay, here's where things get a little tough. This is the showdown where we 00:17:28.770 --> 00:17:31.730 have to advocate for category winners. 00:17:31.970 --> 00:17:36.210 We have picked our contenders who we think deserve winners to different categories. 00:17:36.490 --> 00:17:41.050 And Brent, you are going to kick us off with your pitch for who should win the 00:17:41.050 --> 00:17:42.970 Glorious Disaster Award. 00:17:44.210 --> 00:17:47.790 I am this one i particularly felt 00:17:47.790 --> 00:17:50.590 very you know when you go through one of these 00:17:50.590 --> 00:17:53.810 and then you get an instant strong pang feeling 00:17:53.810 --> 00:17:57.170 where you're like wow this fits that category yeah 00:17:57.170 --> 00:18:03.690 well that fit for me when i saw the last photo in their submission and uh so 00:18:03.690 --> 00:18:11.450 i'd nominate for this category distro stew uh distro stews setup seems pretty 00:18:11.450 --> 00:18:15.690 great one of the photos though my goodness it looks, 00:18:16.390 --> 00:18:21.970 i mean i've i've done slightly better than this and that's not saying much expect this, 00:18:23.370 --> 00:18:24.410 actually i. 00:18:24.410 --> 00:18:26.830 Did not expect you throwing distro stew under. 00:18:26.830 --> 00:18:28.910 The bus well i did i did. 00:18:28.910 --> 00:18:33.010 Note the note from distro stew about the fan uh-huh that stood out to me maybe 00:18:33.010 --> 00:18:34.730 i should have picked up on the signal yeah. 00:18:34.730 --> 00:18:36.450 Okay what was the note about the fan do you have it there. 00:18:36.450 --> 00:18:41.470 Yeah the clever part see that hanging fan on the top uh i put it there a while 00:18:41.470 --> 00:18:46.550 back to cool my overheating 24 port data center switch that switch is long gone 00:18:46.550 --> 00:18:49.950 but i kept the fan around who knows what would happen if i remove it. 00:18:51.898 --> 00:18:57.958 And like, to be fair, it's like he has a mini rack with some devices in it and that all looks good. 00:18:58.078 --> 00:19:00.998 And the cables and stuff look fairly organized. 00:19:01.318 --> 00:19:06.478 The angling fan got me to kind of think, oh, what's going on here? 00:19:06.558 --> 00:19:07.958 There's some ingenuity here, at least. 00:19:08.498 --> 00:19:12.498 Then reading that note and knowing it's doing exactly nothing just got me to 00:19:12.498 --> 00:19:14.558 think, this is so perfect. 00:19:14.558 --> 00:19:20.018 But I got to tell you, that last photo of just like, if I had to describe it, 00:19:20.118 --> 00:19:26.158 it's basically looks like a pile of half taken apart computers. 00:19:26.598 --> 00:19:34.578 Many of them seem like their innards have just been sort of taken out of their respective computers. 00:19:34.698 --> 00:19:40.458 And yet there are like LEDs on of each of these pieces and they're plugged into cables. 00:19:40.458 --> 00:19:43.938 So they must be doing something right. And it's, I think, 00:19:44.078 --> 00:19:49.958 also just the perspective of the photo just makes it look like someone threw 00:19:49.958 --> 00:19:52.738 a bunch of computers into a pile and then plugged them all together, 00:19:52.738 --> 00:19:57.638 and somehow that's running part of Homelab. So I really love that. 00:19:57.818 --> 00:20:01.558 All right, you're making a good case for Distress 2 to be the Glorious Disaster. 00:20:02.158 --> 00:20:05.538 Wes, do you have a pick for a Glorious Disaster? 00:20:05.678 --> 00:20:11.178 I do, I do. I would like to nominate the one, the only Magnolia Mayhem. 00:20:11.178 --> 00:20:14.478 uh-oh okay um let's 00:20:14.478 --> 00:20:17.638 say let's a little quick blurb here chaotic free bsd 00:20:17.638 --> 00:20:23.478 nix os hybrid from recycled school hardware uh no backup services run honest 00:20:23.478 --> 00:20:27.898 and alive that was my short description that i wrote down but mayhem himself 00:20:27.898 --> 00:20:32.258 just says almost all recycled parts a bsd machine came from a school recycling 00:20:32.258 --> 00:20:36.758 pile for 20 dollars network sweats from an old shipping container isp setup yes, 00:20:38.158 --> 00:20:42.638 the mission even is self-descriptive which I love it's not really a home lab 00:20:42.638 --> 00:20:45.278 so much as it is a cry for help. 00:20:47.134 --> 00:20:47.894 Well, that tells you. 00:20:48.014 --> 00:20:50.534 There's personal trackers. There's LubeLogger. There's Pinchflat. 00:20:50.734 --> 00:20:53.954 Three instances, no less. PodCash, love it. Image. 00:20:54.274 --> 00:20:57.234 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Three instances of Pinchflat? 00:20:57.354 --> 00:20:59.294 I mean, that's what Mayhem says. 00:20:59.514 --> 00:21:03.254 That's a bit of a disaster. Boy, you're making a good case, too. 00:21:03.754 --> 00:21:06.354 I mean, especially because he says it's a cry for help. 00:21:09.634 --> 00:21:12.414 That's a category opt-in if I've ever heard one. 00:21:12.754 --> 00:21:14.334 All right. Well, that's a good 00:21:14.334 --> 00:21:18.674 contender. So we got distro stew and you're putting mayhem under the bus. 00:21:20.310 --> 00:21:21.890 This one's the school bus. 00:21:22.010 --> 00:21:22.090 Yeah. 00:21:22.210 --> 00:21:24.790 Yeah. Mayhem was listening live. This next one's tricky, too, 00:21:24.890 --> 00:21:27.830 because Haleas is also listening live. 00:21:28.270 --> 00:21:32.310 I have to put Haleas up as a contender for the glorious disaster just because 00:21:32.310 --> 00:21:38.470 they have a completely deserted rack with what is classically a to do pile of 00:21:38.470 --> 00:21:43.050 drives on the table, like an NVR located somewhere like in the roof. 00:21:43.050 --> 00:21:48.110 it's kind of wild it's kind of chaotic and I also I identify with it you know 00:21:48.110 --> 00:21:52.390 what I mean like identify with it so I had to kind of put Halea up there, 00:21:54.850 --> 00:22:00.090 I mean the cry for help is a good one Brent I think I actually think it's I 00:22:00.090 --> 00:22:03.970 mean my boy after hearing your guys I think this. 00:22:03.970 --> 00:22:04.590 Is why it was hard. 00:22:04.590 --> 00:22:08.410 I think it comes down for glorious disaster contenders between distro stew and 00:22:08.410 --> 00:22:12.710 mayhem Brent do you want to make a case for distro stew over mayhem just real 00:22:12.710 --> 00:22:16.390 quick just like a anything because i mean that cry for help from me, 00:22:19.110 --> 00:22:20.370 that's a bad home like. 00:22:20.370 --> 00:22:25.910 Distro stew also has a 10 gig switch that is not in use yet he just says. 00:22:25.910 --> 00:22:26.970 It's quite loud and. 00:22:26.970 --> 00:22:27.850 It's just sitting there. 00:22:27.850 --> 00:22:30.190 Oh he has a powered on uh-huh. 00:22:30.190 --> 00:22:36.730 He's also got a a daisy chained uh set of power strips and he says an honest 00:22:36.730 --> 00:22:39.050 spaghetti cable management style. 00:22:39.050 --> 00:22:40.990 Yeah so So there's. 00:22:41.070 --> 00:22:42.810 You know, at least some might. 00:22:43.230 --> 00:22:44.530 Yeah, you can respond. 00:22:44.750 --> 00:22:48.830 Okay, here's Mayhem's oops moment. Collected several one terabyte drives in 00:22:48.830 --> 00:22:51.950 a Z2 raid. Bad things happened. 00:22:52.290 --> 00:22:55.210 Tried to re-silver, which killed the spare. No backups. 00:22:55.890 --> 00:22:58.110 Inadvertently deleted nearly my entire laptop. 00:23:00.692 --> 00:23:02.592 so does that get some sympathy. 00:23:02.592 --> 00:23:07.932 Maybe yeah yeah i feel like we could do the most probably for mayhem over a 00:23:07.932 --> 00:23:12.452 call but i'm not sure right what do you think that's kind of my because whoever 00:23:12.452 --> 00:23:14.552 wins the glorious disaster award and. 00:23:14.552 --> 00:23:16.372 Maybe we'll get to see distros too if. 00:23:16.372 --> 00:23:17.872 That's true goes. 00:23:17.872 --> 00:23:21.212 To planet nix again or scale don't know. 00:23:21.212 --> 00:23:29.872 Which one do you think we could make a bigger impact if we. 00:23:29.872 --> 00:23:34.572 So there's you know potential there to help with uh indoctrination. 00:23:37.632 --> 00:23:38.592 Right we said don't. 00:23:38.592 --> 00:23:39.572 Say that on the show. 00:23:39.572 --> 00:23:47.372 I'm sorry damn it all right i i could i could give it to distro stew you want 00:23:47.372 --> 00:23:51.072 to give it to distro let's give it to stew all right distro stew you congratulations 00:23:51.072 --> 00:23:54.532 are our winner of the glorious disaster, 00:23:57.754 --> 00:24:03.454 We will have to get in touch and schedule a call, perhaps maybe next 28th on the Sunday. 00:24:03.594 --> 00:24:07.934 We'll just do it in the pre-show and do a little consulting with DistroStu. 00:24:08.034 --> 00:24:10.714 All right. So the disaster goes to DistroStu. Congratulations. 00:24:11.274 --> 00:24:12.614 I think it's disaster, Stu. 00:24:13.894 --> 00:24:17.614 Thank you for being willing to submit your home lab and to throw yourself under the bus. 00:24:17.654 --> 00:24:22.274 That's very true. We had fun. All right. So that moves us now on to something a little more positive. 00:24:22.714 --> 00:24:27.334 The setup with the most potential. The one to watch that could get somewhere. 00:24:27.754 --> 00:24:33.854 Brantley, do you have a contender for the category with the most potential? 00:24:34.454 --> 00:24:37.594 I do. I have one contender for this category. 00:24:37.834 --> 00:24:38.034 Okay. 00:24:38.274 --> 00:24:45.234 This is Pixie. So I chose Pixie's submission here because I felt like they were in transition. 00:24:45.734 --> 00:24:48.514 So from one style of HomeLab to another. 00:24:49.314 --> 00:24:53.754 And so he basically says here, let me give you the mission. HomeLab contains 00:24:53.754 --> 00:24:57.954 one TrueNess CE machine. That's a community edition featuring Jellyfin, 00:24:58.094 --> 00:25:01.834 the R, Stack, Tailscale, Handbrake, SyncThing, Calibre, and more. 00:25:02.254 --> 00:25:06.334 The machine is now a production media server for friends. 00:25:06.574 --> 00:25:11.094 The majority of the content is ripped DVDs and Blu-rays that are owned. 00:25:11.654 --> 00:25:16.214 Jellyfin now replaces all the streaming services that we used to use. 00:25:16.354 --> 00:25:17.714 That's the collective of friends. 00:25:18.214 --> 00:25:19.174 Okay, give me their name again. 00:25:20.673 --> 00:25:23.333 This is Pixie, P-I-X-I-E. 00:25:23.513 --> 00:25:25.473 You are winning me over with the media stuff, okay? 00:25:25.993 --> 00:25:33.953 Mm-hmm. The aim is to expand these services when three new 20-terabyte refurbished 00:25:33.953 --> 00:25:38.113 Iron Wolf drives arrive soon to add paperless, 00:25:38.453 --> 00:25:42.713 NG image, and more, or basically whatever you guys keep recommending on the show. 00:25:43.093 --> 00:25:48.453 It says the hardware may look extreme, but it's my old gaming PC replaced by the Steam Deck. 00:25:48.513 --> 00:25:51.313 So basically, they don't need that gaming PC anymore. They got a Steam Deck. 00:25:51.453 --> 00:25:51.953 That's great. 00:25:52.233 --> 00:25:56.493 Got a couple of Raspberry Pis that run a home assistant. Enough said there. 00:25:56.873 --> 00:26:01.913 And the network runs off a stock ISP router and a little Netgear. 00:26:02.353 --> 00:26:07.353 And he says here, I have dreams of bigger and shinier machines, read Unify. 00:26:07.733 --> 00:26:11.673 The extra four terabyte higher drives will get moved to become the in-house 00:26:11.673 --> 00:26:13.153 backups for docs, images. 00:26:13.513 --> 00:26:19.253 And I really would like recommendations for privacy conscious VPSs for those backups. 00:26:21.046 --> 00:26:25.206 I would too. All right. Pixie, that's a strong contender. Wes, 00:26:25.346 --> 00:26:27.066 do you have a contender for the most potential? 00:26:27.266 --> 00:26:29.906 Yes, I do. I would like to nominate Abe. 00:26:30.686 --> 00:26:35.186 Oh, yes. I remember Abe's, all right, give it to me. Why would you nominate Abe for most potential? 00:26:35.406 --> 00:26:40.586 Yeah, well, just to start, you got to check out this sweet 3D printed LabRax 00:26:40.586 --> 00:26:43.826 10U unit going on here because it's just beautiful. 00:26:44.206 --> 00:26:44.566 Abe. 00:26:44.926 --> 00:26:48.046 But then also, okay, so part of, here's the mission statement. 00:26:48.346 --> 00:26:52.386 Part of my home lab is an actual lab where I'm running my mini-me project, 00:26:52.586 --> 00:26:54.306 inspired by the Bobiverse. 00:26:54.626 --> 00:26:57.146 The rest of it are just servers providing services to friends and family, 00:26:57.266 --> 00:26:59.846 but that's books, movies, and shows, password managers, OIDC, 00:26:59.966 --> 00:27:03.166 IRCBots, AGAs, C2M, HA, backups, etc. 00:27:03.486 --> 00:27:05.346 I just got to book two of the Bobverse. 00:27:05.846 --> 00:27:11.066 So then maybe you get what's going on here. Because, inspired by that, 00:27:11.166 --> 00:27:15.366 the project aims to create persistent, autonomous AI agents called ABES that 00:27:15.366 --> 00:27:18.566 manage and optimize a home lab environment. 00:27:18.566 --> 00:27:19.146 So 00:27:19.146 --> 00:27:21.306 Shouldn't you be watching that we gotta watch that. 00:27:21.306 --> 00:27:26.326 Wow hey the ab-verse yeah so. 00:27:26.326 --> 00:27:27.586 Yeah there you go. 00:27:27.586 --> 00:27:31.086 That's strong that's strong thankfully i'm 00:27:31.086 --> 00:27:33.806 very confident in mine mine is very strong too i do 00:27:33.806 --> 00:27:37.146 have a couple of contenders in this one but uh 00:27:37.146 --> 00:27:39.866 i'm gonna have to give it to mega i want to i want 00:27:39.866 --> 00:27:43.806 to submit mega to the most potential here mega is 00:27:43.806 --> 00:27:47.466 16 years old they're building custom python downloaders and 00:27:47.466 --> 00:27:53.506 running home assistant in proxmox they've built the entire thing on rescued 00:27:53.506 --> 00:27:59.966 machines and they are quickly learning sysadmin skills and providing home hosting 00:27:59.966 --> 00:28:06.586 to various members and i think when you talk about potential here and one to watch, 00:28:07.978 --> 00:28:13.338 mega at 16 years old it's really incredible i mean that's really something so 00:28:13.338 --> 00:28:17.298 i don't know how we make a choice here we have pixie abe and mega i've. 00:28:17.298 --> 00:28:20.978 Basically been trying to do this for 16 years i've gotten nowhere close to what 00:28:20.978 --> 00:28:24.958 what they're doing so i feel like that's worth watching. 00:28:24.958 --> 00:28:29.778 Okay so do you you want to get on board with mega are you switching i'm gonna i'm. 00:28:29.778 --> 00:28:35.238 Gonna yeah i'm gonna switch sorry pixie love you but uh i think i'm gonna switch to a mega vote. 00:28:35.238 --> 00:28:39.298 West do you want to try to make a fighting response for Abe? 00:28:39.578 --> 00:28:44.218 Well, you just, I mean, we're in the era of AI, and when you have AI bots that 00:28:44.218 --> 00:28:48.418 are going to improve your home lab, the potential is seemingly endless. 00:28:49.898 --> 00:28:52.638 Okay, it's a good argument. That's a good argument. 00:28:54.998 --> 00:28:58.558 I think these two should get together and do a collaboration. 00:28:59.238 --> 00:29:01.798 That way, we have the best. 00:29:01.978 --> 00:29:06.038 Can we do a dual winner? A tie between Abe and Mega? 00:29:06.258 --> 00:29:07.878 This is the first year, so we're setting precedent. 00:29:08.138 --> 00:29:12.938 I feel like we should because the Babaverse appeal is so strong and I am so 00:29:12.938 --> 00:29:14.838 impressed with what Mega has gotten done. 00:29:14.958 --> 00:29:15.318 Yes, definitely. 00:29:16.458 --> 00:29:22.218 All right. I think we're going to call it. It's a strong double win for the 00:29:22.218 --> 00:29:25.378 most potential. It goes to Abe and Mega. Congratulations. 00:29:25.878 --> 00:29:27.678 You've really built something pretty special. 00:29:31.299 --> 00:29:35.839 All right. So now we get to a category that I find personally very interesting. 00:29:36.199 --> 00:29:37.519 Maybe that's why it's in here. 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:37.939 Yeah. 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:39.479 Who made these categories? 00:29:39.859 --> 00:29:40.359 There's a couple of those. 00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:43.439 The Sip and Sage. 00:29:43.439 --> 00:29:44.779 I don't remember getting a review document. 00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:51.259 So this is the labs with the best energy efficiency. 00:29:51.819 --> 00:29:55.839 And this is always really interesting because it's fun to figure out how people do this. 00:29:56.199 --> 00:30:01.179 And, Brentley, I'd like to start with you. So who do you have for your contender 00:30:01.179 --> 00:30:05.439 or contenders for best energy efficient sipping sage home lab? 00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:09.439 I have two contenders here. I'm curious if any of ours overlap. 00:30:09.679 --> 00:30:13.499 So I chose Hen Bagel and also Dares 19. 00:30:13.899 --> 00:30:15.659 Do either of you have either of those? 00:30:15.899 --> 00:30:16.679 No, I do not. 00:30:16.979 --> 00:30:20.879 Okay. Well, I chose these because they, well, were clearly sippers, 00:30:21.199 --> 00:30:23.179 but they're both a little bit different. 00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:29.439 So Henbagel here has a Lenovo ThinkCenter M720S. Sound familiar, Chris? 00:30:29.659 --> 00:30:29.719 Yeah. 00:30:31.019 --> 00:30:38.059 It's got 64 gigs of RAM, 4 terabytes, SSD for storage, running Proxmox, 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:40.839 a mix of LXCs, Debian VMs. 00:30:41.019 --> 00:30:45.139 There's a media server also, Raspberry Pi 5. 00:30:45.339 --> 00:30:45.679 Nice. 00:30:45.679 --> 00:30:49.439 It's got one of those MVME hats, so it's running Raspbian. 00:30:50.199 --> 00:30:53.899 There's also a bunch of Docker Compose stacks in there. 00:30:54.019 --> 00:30:58.279 There's another Raspberry Pi 3B. It's basically e-waste from work, 00:30:58.439 --> 00:31:00.059 which is a theme we've seen a lot in here. 00:31:00.199 --> 00:31:04.099 It's currently running Fedora IoT for learning and experimentation. 00:31:05.059 --> 00:31:11.879 There's a free router from Facebook Marketplace running extremely old version of DWRT. 00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:13.499 I've never done that before. 00:31:14.299 --> 00:31:18.199 It's basically pulling triple duty as a router, an access point, and a switch. 00:31:18.199 --> 00:31:20.539 As you do when you're doing energy efficiency. 00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:24.459 There's a mobile home internet gateway in the lab. Yay, triple net. 00:31:24.959 --> 00:31:28.819 And basically backups from a UPS device. 00:31:29.618 --> 00:31:34.298 Pro 1500, and there's also a gaming PC in there, which is not part of the sipping 00:31:34.298 --> 00:31:35.958 part, but he gives some stats on there. 00:31:36.378 --> 00:31:40.178 It says, basically, my Pi 5 is for general infrastructure, running things such 00:31:40.178 --> 00:31:43.118 as Pi Holes, NetServer, ReverseProxy for the home lab. 00:31:43.278 --> 00:31:47.838 Additionally, the Pi 5 runs services like Paperless, Vault Warden, 00:31:47.938 --> 00:31:51.998 LubeLogger, FreshRSS, Melee, and data is backed up to BlackBlaze. 00:31:52.158 --> 00:31:56.018 The Lenovo Tower is my media server, running Jellyfin and a pile of R's. 00:31:56.018 --> 00:32:00.578 I also use it to test distributions and other software stacks and VMs. 00:32:00.738 --> 00:32:02.718 I value simplicity and documentation. 00:32:02.918 --> 00:32:09.058 Short-term goals are drastically increasing my usage of Ansible and other infrastructure 00:32:09.058 --> 00:32:16.498 as code tools, potentially using a self-hosted Forgeo and switching maybe to Podman as well. 00:32:16.998 --> 00:32:21.958 So the clever part here, my pile of interconnected shell scripts that stop all. 00:32:21.958 --> 00:32:25.638 My containers, individually back up all of their data using Restic and start 00:32:25.638 --> 00:32:26.678 all the containers again. 00:32:26.878 --> 00:32:30.418 Each container has its own script detailing which directories it will back up 00:32:30.418 --> 00:32:33.978 and if or how to get the data out of it. 00:32:34.438 --> 00:32:38.758 So basically, there's a restore script for every single service. And they're tested. 00:32:38.898 --> 00:32:42.718 I like that. This is the energy efficient category. Give me the name again just 00:32:42.718 --> 00:32:43.438 so I can make sure I have it. 00:32:43.778 --> 00:32:45.618 This is Hen Bagel. 00:32:45.738 --> 00:32:46.138 Oh, yeah. 00:32:46.338 --> 00:32:46.638 H-E-N. 00:32:47.237 --> 00:32:49.157 Hen Bagel is going to be featured in our outro song. 00:32:49.357 --> 00:32:51.097 Okay. You ready for the number that actually matters? 00:32:51.297 --> 00:32:51.917 Yeah, I am. 00:32:52.557 --> 00:32:56.597 Here's the idle use. Yep. 32 watts. 00:32:56.857 --> 00:32:58.137 That is pretty great. 00:32:58.417 --> 00:33:01.817 That does not include the gaming PC. Okay. They had a little note here. 00:33:01.997 --> 00:33:04.917 My home lab is on wheels, so I can clean the cat hair out from behind it. 00:33:05.037 --> 00:33:06.677 I love that. That was like, that made me laugh. 00:33:06.677 --> 00:33:09.277 There have been numerous cat-inflicted service outages. 00:33:09.917 --> 00:33:14.077 All right, Hen Bagel. That's pretty great. 32 watts is pretty competitive. 00:33:14.617 --> 00:33:18.337 Wes Payne, do you have a contender for the sipping sage? 00:33:18.517 --> 00:33:21.897 Yeah, let's go with the cane CTL, cane control. 00:33:22.877 --> 00:33:24.217 Cane CTL, all right. 00:33:24.677 --> 00:33:30.837 Yeah, okay, so we got some gear here, an Intel Pentium silver board N6005 with six SATA ports. 00:33:31.237 --> 00:33:32.757 Ooh, what? Really? 00:33:32.897 --> 00:33:35.897 Yeah, 32 gigs of RAM, one terabyte SSD for the main storage, 00:33:36.057 --> 00:33:44.197 four terabyte NVMe for fast storage, 2x Seagate IronWolf Pro 18 terabytes for Blu-ray rips. Nice. 00:33:44.917 --> 00:33:48.177 Jellyfin videos, music, and stuff like that's on the fast storage, which is great. 00:33:48.317 --> 00:33:48.457 Yep. 00:33:48.697 --> 00:33:52.297 And it's a backup target. I avoid spinning up hard drives as much as possible 00:33:52.297 --> 00:33:53.477 to minimize power usage. 00:33:53.697 --> 00:33:55.397 Oh, okay. Right there. That's, 00:33:56.347 --> 00:33:59.687 When I see a couple of these people are doing dynamic things to spin things 00:33:59.687 --> 00:34:02.667 up only when they're needed. Yeah, that's commitment. That's sipping. 00:34:03.407 --> 00:34:06.067 Okay, the mission, started as a learning platform, still is, 00:34:06.247 --> 00:34:09.327 three years ago with the main focus to learn more about NixOS, 00:34:09.667 --> 00:34:11.367 self-hosting, and system administration. 00:34:11.367 --> 00:34:12.427 I see why you picked this one. 00:34:12.487 --> 00:34:17.007 Learning to love System D and NixOS. This server now runs my smart home, 00:34:17.127 --> 00:34:22.467 media server, Jellyfin and Navidrome, backup services, document management, and many more. 00:34:23.327 --> 00:34:26.267 Do we have a wattage? Do we have a bottom line number there? 00:34:26.347 --> 00:34:29.727 I know sometimes people included that. That's a pretty impressive setup. 00:34:30.367 --> 00:34:33.127 Yes. I think we've got about 21 watts idle. 00:34:35.747 --> 00:34:39.227 Also, there's some BcacheFS involved here. Yep, idle is 21 watts. 00:34:39.467 --> 00:34:42.267 Come on. BcacheFS too? All right, Kane. 00:34:42.267 --> 00:34:44.447 I think this is a made-up home lab just to hit all our boxes. 00:34:44.667 --> 00:34:47.067 Yeah, here we go. Extra notes. I always wanted to have my own NAS, 00:34:47.167 --> 00:34:51.627 and when I got my first disposable income, I looked for an interesting NAS-fitting 00:34:51.627 --> 00:34:55.187 Linux distributions. I read about NixOS a few years ago, looked for a podcast 00:34:55.187 --> 00:34:58.267 covering the topic, and learned about Linux Unplugged. 00:34:58.367 --> 00:35:02.867 Now it's a NAS Jellyfin server home assistant running BcacheFS and uses a custom kernel. 00:35:03.747 --> 00:35:04.487 Oh, God. 00:35:04.807 --> 00:35:05.507 Chris, did you submit this one? 00:35:05.627 --> 00:35:09.607 I know, that's right. It's speaking to my heart. And I got to play rough because 00:35:09.607 --> 00:35:14.567 I was going to submit DMK USA or Dan because he's got a great setup, 00:35:15.047 --> 00:35:20.147 an entire stack, switches included, Pi, Wi-Fi, everything. 00:35:20.707 --> 00:35:24.827 He says, I don't sacrifice any utility, and he gets it for 34 watts. 00:35:24.987 --> 00:35:28.887 But the problem is, is Hen Bagel's coming in at 32 watts, and Kane's coming 00:35:28.887 --> 00:35:30.867 in at 21 watts, so I need to be competitive here. 00:35:31.047 --> 00:35:36.407 So I'm going to go with my most competitive pick, and that is Kepler. 00:35:38.627 --> 00:35:41.007 Kepler has gone crazy. 00:35:42.366 --> 00:35:45.946 My dream route. Everything is directly DC powered. 00:35:46.226 --> 00:35:51.326 There's no AC to DC conversion happening in Kepler setup. And they have designed 00:35:51.326 --> 00:35:54.266 the ultimate off-road expedition truck. 00:35:54.826 --> 00:36:01.006 Every single watt has been scrutinized as you have to do. Get this. 00:36:02.388 --> 00:36:04.708 15.8 watts at idle. 00:36:05.108 --> 00:36:05.988 Come on. 00:36:06.908 --> 00:36:13.028 That's even when, actually, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 15.8 watts idle for a full media server. 00:36:13.808 --> 00:36:17.188 He's very, very, he went through the details. And I have to say, 00:36:17.308 --> 00:36:22.488 Kepler has, he has designed this entire home lab from a watts first principle. 00:36:22.488 --> 00:36:26.128 And he manages a 15.8. I can't even imagine. 00:36:26.308 --> 00:36:29.268 Mine right now has got to be closer to 70. 00:36:29.868 --> 00:36:34.388 I mean, it's really gotten out of control. And to get the full stack that he's 00:36:34.388 --> 00:36:38.448 achieved for 15.8 watts, I wouldn't have thought possible. 00:36:38.848 --> 00:36:48.228 So I'm putting Kepler down as my contender for the sipping sage. 00:36:48.428 --> 00:36:52.408 Does anybody want to argue 15.8 watts? 00:36:54.328 --> 00:36:59.748 I would like to add to this submission, if you'll allow me to. 00:36:59.828 --> 00:37:00.268 Yeah, yeah, please. 00:37:00.968 --> 00:37:06.808 I had Kepler as my choice, top choice for the Tiny Titan as well. 00:37:07.088 --> 00:37:10.668 It's a tricky overlap between some of those. There is some overlap there. 00:37:10.868 --> 00:37:15.968 But I think that could be argument for winning this particular segment. 00:37:16.068 --> 00:37:20.648 I think that, yes, I'm going to also suggest that. I will also say Kepler had 00:37:20.648 --> 00:37:26.608 the photograph of their home lab that made me the most jealous of any of the home lab photographs. 00:37:27.508 --> 00:37:34.268 mostly because the background is a bunch of like really super sweet car projects 00:37:34.268 --> 00:37:37.228 that are in the loft that they're in they. 00:37:37.228 --> 00:37:41.148 Have this really cool looking pc that's like an open case design. 00:37:41.148 --> 00:37:42.808 That one right yeah. 00:37:42.808 --> 00:37:43.988 That was very cool. 00:37:43.988 --> 00:37:48.528 Basically he says the background shows my workshop and loft i currently live 00:37:48.528 --> 00:37:54.168 in with some motorcycles a honda cb 550 cafe racer and a car a toyota land cruiser 00:37:54.168 --> 00:38:00.128 hj 60 and a fiat panda 141 a as projects what a setup, 00:38:01.187 --> 00:38:05.727 I admit I got entranced by the background and forgot to look at the home lab. 00:38:05.827 --> 00:38:06.927 And then I was like, wait, why am I here? 00:38:08.487 --> 00:38:15.527 I loved Kepler's setup for their home lighting and definitely saw that as the 00:38:15.527 --> 00:38:18.187 potential for what my own home lab could be in the future. 00:38:18.427 --> 00:38:23.627 So I'm going to give a strong vote to Kepler for this one. 00:38:23.627 --> 00:38:26.867 So you're getting on board with the Chris train. I like that. I mean, 15. 00:38:26.867 --> 00:38:27.147 Yep. 00:38:27.547 --> 00:38:32.647 Wes Payne, can you argue with 15.8 watts even? Can you even attempt to argue that? 00:38:32.947 --> 00:38:37.187 Well, see, I do want to, but then I have one that I want to use for Tiny Titan, so... 00:38:37.187 --> 00:38:37.867 You're going to give it to Kepler? 00:38:38.007 --> 00:38:38.267 Yes. 00:38:38.927 --> 00:38:41.547 Congratulations, Kepler. You are our sipping sage. 00:38:46.727 --> 00:38:50.667 All right, now let's get to that Tiny Titan category. We need to just knock this out right now. 00:38:50.827 --> 00:38:55.327 The idea of this category is they do the most with the least hardware. 00:38:55.667 --> 00:38:58.147 Brent, do you have a contender for our Tiny Titan? 00:38:58.147 --> 00:39:05.927 I am going to nominate Dares19, who I thought I was as a sipping sage, 00:39:06.087 --> 00:39:08.847 but really they're using twice as much as calories. 00:39:09.387 --> 00:39:16.687 But what stood out here for me was that this is a pies only setup. 00:39:17.550 --> 00:39:19.210 There are only Pis in this home lab. 00:39:19.210 --> 00:39:19.710 I love that. 00:39:19.770 --> 00:39:23.410 There are many Pis in this home lab. There are six Raspberry Pis, 00:39:23.770 --> 00:39:26.870 and they all are doing something a little different. 00:39:27.070 --> 00:39:30.850 So here we go. One of them is called the Londro Pie. It's in the laundry room. 00:39:31.430 --> 00:39:36.390 It's a Raspberry Pi 4. It's got an NVMe on it as well. There's another Raspberry 00:39:36.390 --> 00:39:39.250 Pi here. It's basically a compute module 4. 00:39:39.710 --> 00:39:47.470 The other Pi, number 3, is a Pi 5 with 8 gigs of RAM and NVMe also on there. 00:39:47.550 --> 00:39:50.310 number i don't know what is this for i 00:39:50.310 --> 00:39:52.990 ran out is a raspberry pi 4 with one 00:39:52.990 --> 00:39:55.910 of those poe hats on it nice and uh 00:39:55.910 --> 00:39:58.810 the second to last pi here is another pi 00:39:58.810 --> 00:40:01.950 4 4 gig and the last one is another 00:40:01.950 --> 00:40:04.870 pi 4 4 gig so here's the mission all 00:40:04.870 --> 00:40:07.770 pies run one or two docker compose files 00:40:07.770 --> 00:40:10.890 the home lab is centered around home assistant which lives on pi 00:40:10.890 --> 00:40:14.390 number one along with an nginx proxy linked 00:40:14.390 --> 00:40:17.450 doing a bunch of fancy network stuff that i don't really get 00:40:17.450 --> 00:40:23.310 the second pi is only running pi hole for dns and points to the internal domains 00:40:23.310 --> 00:40:29.570 to pi number one pi number three is the home lab work that runs 20 containers 00:40:29.570 --> 00:40:35.050 such as mealy audiobook shelf music assistant jelly fin and some others. 00:40:36.010 --> 00:40:39.010 Another pi here is uh basically not in 00:40:39.010 --> 00:40:41.870 the laundry room which i think is where their main home lab is but is 00:40:41.870 --> 00:40:48.010 in a central position in the house running zig b mqtt and a little mqtt on there 00:40:48.010 --> 00:40:53.470 okay there's another pie here in his in their parents house in another country 00:40:53.470 --> 00:40:58.570 running tail scale as an exit node and the last pie currently at their sister's 00:40:58.570 --> 00:41:01.110 house and will also be a tail exit node. 00:41:02.012 --> 00:41:02.492 Wow. 00:41:02.732 --> 00:41:04.492 A nice little tail scale setup too. 00:41:04.652 --> 00:41:09.632 That's a strong setup. That's a really strong contender for the Tiny Titan. 00:41:09.752 --> 00:41:13.332 There's some extra highlights here that you'll appreciate, Chris, 00:41:13.352 --> 00:41:15.612 if you'll allow me to just give a little bit more. 00:41:16.392 --> 00:41:20.872 Not necessarily part of the pies, but all of my lights and light switches are smart. 00:41:21.012 --> 00:41:25.512 However, they still work in case the Zigbee controller is down and home assistant 00:41:25.512 --> 00:41:27.492 is down and Wi-Fi is down. 00:41:27.732 --> 00:41:33.552 This is because the Zigbee bindings from switches to lights and because I flashed 00:41:33.552 --> 00:41:34.892 some Shelleys with ESP Home. 00:41:35.092 --> 00:41:39.912 So the home approval factor is through the roof, except during their biggest oops. 00:41:40.132 --> 00:41:43.972 That is something we should talk more about is Zigbee, Z-Wave, and a couple others. 00:41:44.312 --> 00:41:48.692 They do offer the ability to essentially create control groups. 00:41:48.772 --> 00:41:51.252 I'm probably getting this wrong, but control groups where the logic actually 00:41:51.252 --> 00:41:54.732 happens on the devices themselves. And so you don't need a controller operational. 00:41:55.352 --> 00:41:59.732 That is an extremely, extremely strong contender, I think, for the Tiny Titan. 00:41:59.732 --> 00:42:03.472 And Wes Payne, you have yourself quite the task. 00:42:03.772 --> 00:42:08.812 I do. I do. But I think our dear Brentley may have misread the brief because 00:42:08.812 --> 00:42:12.152 it's actually trying to do the most with the least. 00:42:12.692 --> 00:42:16.732 So I would like to submit Tom Chuggler the gear. 00:42:17.152 --> 00:42:22.932 A lonely Raspberry Pi 400 with a 2 terabyte USB SSD. 00:42:23.212 --> 00:42:25.412 But the mission, the mission is broad. 00:42:25.912 --> 00:42:28.432 Cody Media Center with additional services running in Docker. 00:42:28.432 --> 00:42:30.752 Like we got the OS is LibreElec. 00:42:30.992 --> 00:42:34.692 We have things like Samba, PyHole, Transmission, you know, for downloading those 00:42:34.692 --> 00:42:38.232 Linux distributions and Shinobi home security monitoring. 00:42:38.512 --> 00:42:39.812 Ah, that's great. 00:42:40.012 --> 00:42:44.012 Also using GPIO and some Python to add IR remote control. 00:42:44.512 --> 00:42:49.092 Now you've also got to factor in here. I know my idle power. It's three watts. 00:42:49.312 --> 00:42:50.052 Shut up. 00:42:51.113 --> 00:42:52.373 Three watts. 00:42:52.973 --> 00:42:54.533 Tom, how is that? 00:42:54.793 --> 00:42:57.613 And then extra notes. Docker is amazing. At various times, our media center 00:42:57.613 --> 00:43:01.173 has had a web-based game emulator, Minecraft server, and much more. 00:43:01.393 --> 00:43:04.053 The main thing, though, is Piehole keeping the internet clean for the kid. 00:43:04.653 --> 00:43:08.033 Cody doesn't do YouTube that well, so we do have a separate Raspberry Pi OS 00:43:08.033 --> 00:43:10.313 SD card with FreeTube on it for that. 00:43:10.473 --> 00:43:12.573 But he's not doing a different machine. He's just swapping. Same thing. 00:43:12.853 --> 00:43:16.793 And the media center is also a retro game emulator, SD card with retro Pi, 00:43:16.953 --> 00:43:19.953 and a couple of PS2 controllers, plug-in, and play. 00:43:19.953 --> 00:43:22.373 So, like, depending on what they want to do, you swap in SD cards? 00:43:22.573 --> 00:43:22.773 Yeah. 00:43:23.193 --> 00:43:26.073 Huh. So is that two systems total that I counted there? 00:43:26.173 --> 00:43:28.973 No, it's just the one. It's a single Raspberry Pi 400. 00:43:29.313 --> 00:43:29.713 Oh. 00:43:29.933 --> 00:43:30.753 But it's just multi-purpose. 00:43:31.193 --> 00:43:33.433 Yeah, a couple different SD card OSes. 00:43:33.433 --> 00:43:33.973 That's brilliant. 00:43:34.193 --> 00:43:36.433 Swap it. Wow. That's tough. 00:43:36.653 --> 00:43:39.293 So, you know, if you're thinking doing the most with the least, 00:43:39.533 --> 00:43:41.853 I think it's a strong contender. 00:43:41.953 --> 00:43:46.493 That's a strong... Damn, Wes. Well done. All right. Well, my Tiny Titan, 00:43:46.853 --> 00:43:53.393 I do have, see, I have DARS-19 as my runner-up, so I'll give a plus one to DARS-19. 00:43:53.713 --> 00:43:58.333 I will just also mention that I thought the Tiny Titan maybe should go to Simon. 00:43:59.173 --> 00:44:06.353 Simon has a itsy-bitsy rack stack of N100s, and he's done 3D printed enclosures for them. 00:44:06.413 --> 00:44:06.613 Ooh. 00:44:06.993 --> 00:44:08.133 You know, we aren't giving- It's small. 00:44:08.313 --> 00:44:08.993 It's modern. 00:44:09.413 --> 00:44:13.113 We aren't giving hardware awards, but the N100 might have earned itself on with 00:44:13.113 --> 00:44:14.693 just the submissions that we got. 00:44:14.693 --> 00:44:19.293 For real I just thought it was dense powerful and modular but I'm having a hard 00:44:19.293 --> 00:44:23.253 time my only thing is I think I think I want to throw behind oh boy I'm having a, 00:44:24.187 --> 00:44:26.807 I think I'm going to throw behind Tom. I thought I was going to do DIRS 19, 00:44:26.827 --> 00:44:31.727 but if you go by the spirit of the category, Tom is doing the most with the least there. 00:44:32.807 --> 00:44:36.047 Brantley, how do you feel about that? Could you give it to Tom in the spirit of? 00:44:36.427 --> 00:44:37.647 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 00:44:37.907 --> 00:44:40.007 Getting the mileage out of that Pi 400? Yeah. 00:44:40.327 --> 00:44:40.687 Yes. 00:44:40.847 --> 00:44:41.567 That's impressive. 00:44:42.287 --> 00:44:46.647 What would you do with another Pi? That was a question I would want to forward. 00:44:47.107 --> 00:44:49.267 Yeah. I almost want to send him one just to find out. 00:44:49.687 --> 00:44:53.127 Yeah, we'd like to do some Pi redistribution here. There's just something's not right. 00:44:54.187 --> 00:44:56.067 Congratulations, Tom. You are our tiny Titan. 00:44:59.755 --> 00:45:06.215 All right, so now it's a pretty fun category. It's the most overkill budget blowout build. 00:45:06.555 --> 00:45:11.515 I mean, you know, people, they have hobbies. They spend a lot of money on those hobbies. 00:45:11.755 --> 00:45:15.675 Sometimes home labbing is one of them. And, Brentley, who is your contender 00:45:15.675 --> 00:45:17.715 for the most overkill budget? 00:45:18.695 --> 00:45:26.135 There were some super impressive builds with some equally jealous making photos 00:45:26.135 --> 00:45:28.215 accompanying those builds throughout. 00:45:28.215 --> 00:45:35.055 I didn't think a home lab could be so large, but I do have someone who stood out for me. 00:45:35.275 --> 00:45:38.155 Surf Rock 66 stood out for me. 00:45:38.515 --> 00:45:46.155 They built a custom bookshelf that basically hides the entire home lab. 00:45:46.155 --> 00:45:50.995 And if you know how to open the bookshelf, then the bookshelf opens and you 00:45:50.995 --> 00:45:53.115 gain access to the entire home lab, 00:45:53.215 --> 00:45:58.935 which also has built in cooling, has exterior access so you can get to it from 00:45:58.935 --> 00:46:01.915 like outside the building as well. 00:46:03.055 --> 00:46:07.875 And like, there's a heck of a lot of stuff behind that bookshelf. 00:46:08.035 --> 00:46:13.875 And they even submitted a, like a video walkthrough of the entire build and 00:46:13.875 --> 00:46:16.915 what's going to happen in the future to make it even more impressive. 00:46:18.415 --> 00:46:24.215 This was just blew me away. This submission. So I, that's gotta be my choice. 00:46:24.315 --> 00:46:25.395 Surf rock. You blew me away. 00:46:25.835 --> 00:46:30.895 Well, I'll go ahead and reveal right now. Surf rock was my runner up. 00:46:31.946 --> 00:46:35.226 I also had SurfRock in contention for something else, not this one. 00:46:35.426 --> 00:46:35.606 Really? 00:46:35.906 --> 00:46:37.306 But SurfRock definitely stood out. 00:46:37.386 --> 00:46:41.346 You know, what I liked about SurfRock setup, what spoke to me deeply and personally, 00:46:41.366 --> 00:46:46.646 is that they have a custom open LDAP schema just to manage central authentication 00:46:46.646 --> 00:46:49.266 across everything, like their Wi-Fi and everything. 00:46:49.806 --> 00:46:55.646 And that speaks to me because if I had all the energy in the world and time, 00:46:55.946 --> 00:46:59.826 there'd be a lot of things I'd do before I get to setting up a central open LDAP server. 00:47:00.426 --> 00:47:05.286 but it would be one of the things i would get to and i dream about it so i also 00:47:05.286 --> 00:47:10.666 i had surf rock 66 as my runner-up for the most overkill budget and i also i 00:47:10.666 --> 00:47:14.926 do love those uh r740xd's those are uh yeah that's. 00:47:14.926 --> 00:47:17.746 Yeah it doesn't i guess it makes sense to go through the hardware in this. 00:47:17.746 --> 00:47:20.226 Particular category i think it does yeah yeah okay. 00:47:20.226 --> 00:47:23.666 So here's the list of the gear that was at least included in the submission. 00:47:24.586 --> 00:47:30.026 Three PowerEdge R740XDs. So those are two U servers. 00:47:30.246 --> 00:47:34.286 They both run Proxmox and they're wasted from work. Lucky duck. 00:47:34.726 --> 00:47:40.726 A Supermicro 4U 36 Bay TrueNAS got 44 terabytes of spinning, 00:47:41.026 --> 00:47:45.506 seven terabytes of SSDs, basically for VMs and such. 00:47:46.404 --> 00:47:52.984 there are two desktop class pcs running as public minecraft servers two apc 00:47:52.984 --> 00:47:58.884 ups's and extended run cabinets those are also e-wasted from work uh there's 00:47:58.884 --> 00:48:03.244 a brocade icx 6610 l3 switch, 00:48:03.844 --> 00:48:08.584 has 10 gig fiber there's an aruba 2930f 48 00:48:08.584 --> 00:48:11.484 port switch that's also e-wasted from 00:48:11.484 --> 00:48:14.384 work i see a theme here uh so here's 00:48:14.384 --> 00:48:17.224 the mission hidden in a closet behind a custom bookshelf with its own 00:48:17.224 --> 00:48:21.044 external ac so a dedicated server uh 00:48:21.044 --> 00:48:26.624 air conditioning which is very fancy three dedicated power circuits uh 30 plus 00:48:26.624 --> 00:48:31.764 vms and two minecraft servers that they essentially have uh the internet on 00:48:31.764 --> 00:48:37.304 land so they can operate fully offline with those minecraft servers some services 00:48:37.304 --> 00:48:38.404 jellyfin Home Assistant, 00:48:38.844 --> 00:48:41.804 some internal DHCP and file servers. 00:48:43.064 --> 00:48:49.064 QWix, which is with Wikipedia and the Khan Academy, so they can use those being 00:48:49.064 --> 00:48:53.664 personally indexed, Nextcloud, Audiobookshelf, two piles with different upstreams for adults and kids, 00:48:54.384 --> 00:49:00.144 a certificate authority, asterisk PBX for an HTML5 SIP client they developed, 00:49:00.444 --> 00:49:04.944 Vault Warden Fresh RSS, Pinchflat to keep the kids off real YouTube, 00:49:05.224 --> 00:49:10.624 Shinobi nvr apache guacamole for remote access open ldap with a custom schema 00:49:10.624 --> 00:49:17.344 they built plus simple saml php to service oidc and saml wow okay zabbix for 00:49:17.344 --> 00:49:21.844 monitoring those minecraft servers with mumble integration and a bunch of small 00:49:21.844 --> 00:49:24.044 web apps they've developed or deployed. 00:49:24.965 --> 00:49:34.185 I feel like Sir Frog should come run our infrastructure Wow okay Wes Can you Try to beat that? 00:49:34.185 --> 00:49:38.085 I have a contender Sir Mysterion I. 00:49:38.085 --> 00:49:39.125 Love the name. 00:49:39.125 --> 00:49:44.925 Yeah okay so we have An Intel NUC running It's got 16 gigs of RAM running Proxmox 00:49:44.925 --> 00:49:49.685 We have a desktop Ryzen 64 gigs of RAM Proxmox gaming pass through We have a 00:49:49.685 --> 00:49:52.205 Super Micro CS This is Super Micro 1, 00:49:53.245 --> 00:49:56.545 2X E5s, Xeons I assume in there, 00:49:56.885 --> 00:50:02.305 192 gigs of RAM, I guess that's offline has some offline discs and stuff, 00:50:02.425 --> 00:50:11.965 JBOD and second Supermicro 2X E5 2690 V4s another 192 gigs of RAM this is for 00:50:11.965 --> 00:50:18.785 Proxbox and then Supermicro 3 that's 8X E5 2630 V3s, 00:50:18.925 --> 00:50:25.865 that's got 256 gigs of RAM that's hci hyperconverged proxmox uh plus drdb a. 00:50:25.865 --> 00:50:26.625 Lot of proxmox. 00:50:26.625 --> 00:50:29.705 Uh we've got 10 terabytes of ssd storage usable 00:50:29.705 --> 00:50:33.885 and 38 terabytes of hard drive storage usable the 00:50:33.885 --> 00:50:36.805 mission everything and anything sandbox for work 00:50:36.805 --> 00:50:39.665 sometimes advanced networking ipv6 only when 00:50:39.665 --> 00:50:42.405 i can jellyfin image next cloud home assistant for 00:50:42.405 --> 00:50:45.805 the family cited network ad blocking clusters hyperconverged 00:50:45.805 --> 00:50:49.225 proxmox advanced routing BGP and OSPF starting 00:50:49.225 --> 00:50:55.245 to look into EVPN and VXLAN IAC deployed VMs in NixOS config minimal windows 00:50:55.245 --> 00:51:00.205 unless I have to test something built my own 3D printer for anything else I 00:51:00.205 --> 00:51:04.005 need printed also host some services for a friend such as BeerTube and Mastodon 00:51:04.005 --> 00:51:08.885 that's great some Kubernetes added some Olama and cheap Tesla P4 oh, 00:51:09.985 --> 00:51:15.105 clever parts got also got a NixOS daily driver laptop with full description nice um, 00:51:16.271 --> 00:51:22.651 I think this helps. So I didn't submit it for the sipper because the HomeLab idle is 980 watts. 00:51:24.471 --> 00:51:28.791 That's a baller budget just on the power right there. That's the sip? That's just the sip? 00:51:29.111 --> 00:51:29.831 Oh, man. 00:51:29.971 --> 00:51:33.151 Oh, wow. So when it's cranking like on an old llama job or something, 00:51:33.151 --> 00:51:34.411 it's higher than that. Okay. 00:51:34.711 --> 00:51:38.271 The oops moment. I added enough servers that the breaker kept tripping. 00:51:38.371 --> 00:51:38.631 I bet. 00:51:38.851 --> 00:51:40.411 Had to upgrade to 20 amp circuit. 00:51:40.651 --> 00:51:41.751 My man. All right. 00:51:41.751 --> 00:51:45.691 And the extra notes. Do you know how hard it is to saturate a 40 gig network card? 00:51:46.271 --> 00:51:49.931 Well, I don't know either. Something about multi-core iPerf tests required. 00:51:50.151 --> 00:51:52.171 Don't have the disk bandwidth to make use of it either. 00:51:52.271 --> 00:51:52.911 Yeah, isn't that tricky? 00:51:53.411 --> 00:51:54.271 So, there you go. 00:51:54.451 --> 00:51:55.531 Okay. All right. 00:51:55.751 --> 00:52:00.231 And it's a very, if you look at the picture, it's a very nice little rack set up, and it looks nice. 00:52:01.031 --> 00:52:02.951 Pretty good. Serer Mysterion is pretty good. 00:52:03.131 --> 00:52:11.131 Just a slight point to add to my submission. Surf Rock's idle is 1,500 watts. 00:52:13.231 --> 00:52:16.871 Surf Rock. Wow. All right. 00:52:16.951 --> 00:52:17.271 Yeah. 00:52:17.471 --> 00:52:21.211 That's pretty good. I mean, it's cute that you guys are measuring by power, 00:52:21.311 --> 00:52:23.011 but this was supposed to be the budget blowout. 00:52:23.131 --> 00:52:26.191 So my contender is Optic Tiger. 00:52:26.491 --> 00:52:31.051 And the reason why is we have a dollar figure on just one of the rigs in Optic 00:52:31.051 --> 00:52:33.991 Tiger's setup. It's not $3,000. 00:52:35.031 --> 00:52:38.871 It's not a $6,000 server. It is not an $8,000 server. 00:52:39.311 --> 00:52:43.491 It is not a $12,000 server. No, is it a $14,000 or $15,000 server? 00:52:43.611 --> 00:52:50.491 No, it's not even an $18,000 server. It is a $20,000 custom Epic server with 00:52:50.491 --> 00:52:57.491 an A6000 GPU and 100 terabytes of enterprise SSD storage. 00:52:57.731 --> 00:52:58.231 What? 00:52:58.431 --> 00:53:04.331 He's essentially built himself a tier three data center disguised as a home server. 00:53:04.551 --> 00:53:06.531 I mean, this thing is high end. That's incredible. 00:53:08.665 --> 00:53:12.905 So, now I don't know what his power run rate is, but I know that his entry rate 00:53:12.905 --> 00:53:17.025 for that server is 20 grand plus all the networking equipment, the rack, all of it. 00:53:18.965 --> 00:53:23.125 So, it's a tough call because these are all really good. These are all very good. 00:53:23.785 --> 00:53:27.225 I think you would call that a budget blowout. Yeah. 00:53:27.585 --> 00:53:30.345 I feel like with this with the dollar amount on there kind of gives it, 00:53:30.865 --> 00:53:32.965 I mean, one box is 20 grand. 00:53:34.045 --> 00:53:36.025 Right? What are they doing with it? 00:53:37.185 --> 00:53:39.325 Well probably high performance thought simulating. 00:53:40.845 --> 00:53:41.825 What else do you do. 00:53:42.465 --> 00:53:48.605 So okay anybody I mean can you beat that can you beat 20 grand can you be it, 00:53:49.625 --> 00:53:54.105 going once anybody you want to make a case otherwise I think it could be a contender here it's. 00:53:54.105 --> 00:54:00.685 Very strong I mean custom it just I mean it didn't specifically say monetary 00:54:00.685 --> 00:54:04.465 budget so I'm going to say building a custom bookshelf with your woodworking 00:54:04.465 --> 00:54:06.285 skills is it takes a lot of time. 00:54:06.285 --> 00:54:08.485 Oh my god you know design dedication. 00:54:08.485 --> 00:54:13.785 And and uh therefore you know it's an impressive set of. 00:54:13.785 --> 00:54:18.065 Multi-skills to pull it off but all these home labs are a large time investment, 00:54:18.925 --> 00:54:23.605 so true i think we can go by the budget i tried west pain you got any arguments i. 00:54:23.605 --> 00:54:24.445 Think i have to give it. 00:54:24.445 --> 00:54:25.105 All right i. 00:54:25.105 --> 00:54:25.945 Think i'm in i can't. 00:54:25.945 --> 00:54:30.985 Tiger i think we give it to you for that one $20,000 custom Epic server with 00:54:30.985 --> 00:54:37.665 an A6000 GPU and 100 terabytes of enterprise SSD storage housed in a home lab 00:54:37.665 --> 00:54:40.025 disguised as a tier three data center. 00:54:40.205 --> 00:54:44.865 You, sir, are our most overkill budget blowout for the holiday home lab special. 00:54:53.715 --> 00:55:00.235 Now we get to our final category, gentlemen, and that is the best overall home lab. 00:55:00.475 --> 00:55:03.275 Now, this was so... 00:55:04.095 --> 00:55:05.455 Basically impossible to choose. 00:55:05.615 --> 00:55:09.335 Right? It was impossible. This was so impossible that we realized next year 00:55:09.335 --> 00:55:13.575 what we would like to do if we do this again is do community ranking for some of these. 00:55:13.735 --> 00:55:17.435 Because it was... There are so many good submissions. 00:55:17.975 --> 00:55:22.715 There are so many. And it took us all hours to go through them. 00:55:23.455 --> 00:55:28.975 Like then when I whittled it down to my, to my top list, that was still 30 ish 00:55:28.975 --> 00:55:31.595 picks that I then had to whittle it down from even further. 00:55:33.295 --> 00:55:37.055 Absolutely amazing. The submissions we got from all different ends of the spectrum, 00:55:37.055 --> 00:55:40.675 but we do have to pick one overall winner. 00:55:40.895 --> 00:55:45.575 And so Brent, do you have the best overall home lab contender? 00:55:45.775 --> 00:55:48.695 I found this the most difficult thing to choose. 00:55:48.835 --> 00:55:49.495 Well, yeah. Yeah. 00:55:51.135 --> 00:55:57.875 No, but like emotionally, because I feel like everybody has a different purpose 00:55:57.875 --> 00:56:01.255 for their home lab. And like, who am I to say what the best one is? 00:56:01.295 --> 00:56:08.215 Because I don't know what I'm doing. So I am going to go with the one I fell in love with. 00:56:08.215 --> 00:56:14.675 So I'm going to say Kepler, your little tiny machine that was a 15 watt sipper 00:56:14.675 --> 00:56:18.915 and did a ton of stuff and you're moving it into your off-road expedition truck 00:56:18.915 --> 00:56:21.215 with your sweet loft project, 00:56:21.475 --> 00:56:23.575 you know, car projects that won me over. 00:56:23.815 --> 00:56:27.855 I'm, uh, I'm saying you got a sweet rig there and that's a, that's, 00:56:27.915 --> 00:56:30.195 that's the best home overall home lab I saw. 00:56:30.415 --> 00:56:33.755 I like that. Kepler is a good contender. That's a good one. 00:56:35.112 --> 00:56:36.012 Okay, Wes Payne. 00:56:36.412 --> 00:56:39.232 I would like to submit Dan from Down Under. 00:56:39.472 --> 00:56:40.632 Oh, interesting. Okay. 00:56:40.992 --> 00:56:45.892 Yeah. A sweet rack on wheels. 00:56:46.132 --> 00:56:49.492 I just, I love it. It came in handy for Dan, which we'll talk about. 00:56:49.672 --> 00:56:52.272 And then just a nice little from the top, we've got a patch panel, 00:56:52.432 --> 00:56:57.852 custom rack mount from Things in Rack, POE switch, netgate 1100 router with 00:56:57.852 --> 00:57:00.132 PFSense on there, Raspberry Pi 4, 00:57:00.672 --> 00:57:04.252 some extra stuff for 2U power draws, 2x 00:57:04.252 --> 00:57:07.572 dell wise thin clients and 3d printed rack mount intel 00:57:07.572 --> 00:57:10.912 j 5005 with 4 gigs of ram 512 gig 00:57:10.912 --> 00:57:13.992 sata m2 for you server on 00:57:13.992 --> 00:57:17.492 rails pi kvm inside the case uh there's 00:57:17.492 --> 00:57:20.312 just so much going on here uh there's another azrok going on 00:57:20.312 --> 00:57:23.532 in here but check out the mission various self-hosted 00:57:23.532 --> 00:57:27.412 apps including image nextcloud paperless piehole audio 00:57:27.412 --> 00:57:30.912 bookshelf jellyfin bitcoin node the r suite monitoring grafana 00:57:30.912 --> 00:57:34.252 prometheus scrutiny ghost folio which is investment tracking wow 00:57:34.252 --> 00:57:37.792 grist and node red link warden miniflux tandoor sterling 00:57:37.792 --> 00:57:40.872 pdf beaver habits getia duplicati rustic server 00:57:40.872 --> 00:57:44.052 kubernetes zfs with mirrors used for everything 00:57:44.052 --> 00:57:48.752 there's a fast pool and a slow pool sanoid making hourly snapshots of most volumes 00:57:48.752 --> 00:57:53.352 shared postgres between all services to make good backups easier uh there's 00:57:53.352 --> 00:57:57.512 also of course um so one of the wisest is doing home assistant running haos 00:57:57.512 --> 00:58:01.012 another one is off but It might be the Bitcoin node. 00:58:01.592 --> 00:58:04.232 The Raspberry Pi was doing Zigbee to MQTT. 00:58:04.652 --> 00:58:05.092 Okay. 00:58:05.492 --> 00:58:08.692 There's also, and this is stuff we do, there's a Linode VPS named Outpost, 00:58:08.832 --> 00:58:10.032 which I think is a classy name. 00:58:10.312 --> 00:58:14.512 Synapse Matrix server with a WhatsApp and Signal Bridge. Traffic and Tailscale 00:58:14.512 --> 00:58:16.352 used to provide access to some of the stuff. 00:58:16.812 --> 00:58:21.432 Uptime Kuma, Rally, Nostra Relay, Mumble. Backups with Autorestick to the home 00:58:21.432 --> 00:58:23.512 server. All managed with Terraform. 00:58:23.852 --> 00:58:23.992 Okay. 00:58:24.272 --> 00:58:27.372 So there's a 3D printed rack mounts for non-rack mountable gear. 00:58:27.492 --> 00:58:28.532 It's a really nice little touch. 00:58:29.112 --> 00:58:32.472 idle for all this is like 100 watts, which is, 00:58:33.100 --> 00:58:35.480 That's, you know, being pretty conservative, I think. 00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:36.280 The entire rack? 00:58:36.500 --> 00:58:36.640 Yeah. 00:58:37.780 --> 00:58:41.160 Extra notes. We just moved apartments, and the rack and server were carefully 00:58:41.160 --> 00:58:44.660 transported the day before the move by me to keep it safe. 00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:47.280 It was the first piece of furniture in the new apartment. 00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:50.780 We were on the fifth floor without an elevator, so carrying it was tough. 00:58:51.380 --> 00:58:54.200 The new apartment is just one floor up, so much more manageable. 00:58:54.840 --> 00:58:59.240 Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. That's a good one. The name again, that was Dan from? 00:58:59.420 --> 00:59:00.040 Down Under. 00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:05.760 Down from Down Under. You also were my runner-up for the best home lab. 00:59:06.220 --> 00:59:09.200 Dan from Down Under was my runner-up. So I will say that. I agree. 00:59:09.460 --> 00:59:11.260 I will plus one everything you said. 00:59:11.960 --> 00:59:15.240 I'm going to give a pitch for Firefighting Dad. 00:59:15.980 --> 00:59:21.380 Firefighting Dad, I think, nails the gold standard for a beautiful home lab. 00:59:21.380 --> 00:59:23.780 Because it's not overdone on the hardware. 00:59:23.880 --> 00:59:26.060 It's about a clearly defined mission. 00:59:26.260 --> 00:59:30.680 And he's really striving for digital sovereignty for his entire family. 00:59:31.120 --> 00:59:34.440 and providing a service to the community and one of the things he's done that's 00:59:34.440 --> 00:59:38.580 really cool is he has an open bsd system where he auto has he has scripts that 00:59:38.580 --> 00:59:42.860 auto provision different resources for friends and family so he can just hit 00:59:42.860 --> 00:59:45.260 a button and then provision them what he needs when. 00:59:45.260 --> 00:59:48.420 I saw that it's so cool it was all five fire diet was my runner-up. 00:59:48.420 --> 00:59:50.160 Really yeah we were thinking. 00:59:50.160 --> 00:59:51.880 We're on the same well done gents. 00:59:51.880 --> 00:59:55.300 I decided also to apply the scoring system and we didn't do this a lot but, 00:59:56.050 --> 01:00:00.670 If you total it up, if you go by our scoring system, he got a 54 out of 60. 01:00:01.070 --> 01:00:04.910 He scored a 10 on functionality because he solves routing, storage, 01:00:05.110 --> 01:00:09.310 automation, and education to friends, family, like literally his community. 01:00:09.670 --> 01:00:13.210 Great design, clean, SFF cluster, well organized. 01:00:13.570 --> 01:00:17.850 He's got Tasmoda he's using, really nice. But also the ingenuity around his 01:00:17.850 --> 01:00:21.310 OpenBSD auto provisioning scripts to set up friends and family access to his stuff. 01:00:21.530 --> 01:00:25.110 He's got quite a bit of stuff he's providing for multiple different sets of people. 01:00:25.570 --> 01:00:30.230 and he's doing it all at 450 watts. Yes, that's high, but he's doing a massive 01:00:30.230 --> 01:00:32.610 amount of work at 450 watts. 01:00:32.910 --> 01:00:38.430 And he also gives special attention to documentation, very clear explanation 01:00:38.430 --> 01:00:40.350 of why and how for his end users. 01:00:40.830 --> 01:00:45.310 And then he really focused on digital sovereignty and teaching those lessons 01:00:45.310 --> 01:00:48.370 to his kids in a way that's really classy and it's not overbearing. 01:00:48.530 --> 01:00:50.170 And so I gave him a 10 on that too. 01:00:50.350 --> 01:00:54.190 So it gave him a total 54 out of 60. So firefighting dad, I just was really 01:00:54.190 --> 01:00:58.850 impressed because it nailed that sweet spot, but also it was making an improvement 01:00:58.850 --> 01:01:01.170 on the people around his lives. So that's a great one. 01:01:01.650 --> 01:01:03.850 Firefighting Dad also has a little note here. Every Christmas, 01:01:03.850 --> 01:01:07.330 I make a donation to the open source software that I used for the entire year. 01:01:07.330 --> 01:01:11.030 That list gets longer every year, but that's one way I try to pay it forward. 01:01:11.210 --> 01:01:14.790 That's pretty freaking great. Right? 01:01:15.110 --> 01:01:15.530 Yeah. 01:01:15.850 --> 01:01:16.170 Right? 01:01:16.590 --> 01:01:18.630 Yeah. Hit me in the feels. 01:01:19.710 --> 01:01:20.850 These are all so good. 01:01:20.910 --> 01:01:24.930 They were. They were all so good, but we can only give it to one this year. 01:01:26.090 --> 01:01:32.890 I think it's Dan from Down Under and Firefighting Dad. 01:01:34.346 --> 01:01:38.566 Those are our two top right there, if we give it to both. But I think I kind 01:01:38.566 --> 01:01:41.966 of want to give the edge to Firefighting Dad just because of his impact overall. 01:01:42.406 --> 01:01:45.326 Because it's not just for himself, the family, but his community too. 01:01:45.406 --> 01:01:45.986 Yeah, that's noble. I respect that. 01:01:46.086 --> 01:01:47.506 Right? How do you feel about that, Brantley? 01:01:48.206 --> 01:01:49.206 I said, let's do it. 01:01:49.826 --> 01:01:55.706 Oh, wow. I can't believe we got to consensus. I thought we'd be fighting on 01:01:55.706 --> 01:01:57.026 this forever. So there you go. 01:01:57.266 --> 01:02:03.266 Firefighting Dad, you are the Great Holiday Home Lab, best overall home lab. 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Join me in the crowd. 01:08:08.821 --> 01:08:11.361 Join crowdhealth.com, promo code unplugged. 01:08:25.312 --> 01:08:29.552 Now, one thing that became very clear to us as we were going through these together 01:08:29.552 --> 01:08:34.532 is that we made some categories and there were many home labs that did not fit 01:08:34.532 --> 01:08:36.272 at all into any of these categories. 01:08:36.272 --> 01:08:40.932 So we decided to pull a few of these out as honorable mentions, 01:08:40.932 --> 01:08:45.232 but they're mostly just home labs that blew us away for reasons we couldn't predict. 01:08:45.432 --> 01:08:48.452 And I have a list. Wes, you have a list. And Chris, you have a list, 01:08:48.472 --> 01:08:51.012 too. I feel like we probably have some that overlap. 01:08:51.452 --> 01:08:51.632 Maybe. 01:08:51.812 --> 01:08:54.732 I know I've got a couple that are just like blew me away. 01:08:54.732 --> 01:08:56.092 All right, start us off with one. 01:08:56.452 --> 01:09:01.392 This was a very impressive setup by Barry KK7JXG. 01:09:01.552 --> 01:09:06.112 Oh, Barry was a runner-up I had earlier, so I'm very glad we're featuring Barry. 01:09:07.192 --> 01:09:09.992 And Barry blew me away. They basically said, I got a home lab, 01:09:10.052 --> 01:09:13.712 everybody's going to have a home lab, but I'm going to show you my ham cluster. 01:09:14.952 --> 01:09:19.672 Oh, right. And this was impressive to me for so many reasons. 01:09:19.672 --> 01:09:24.052 One was that it's being used for a competition that's coming up, 01:09:24.152 --> 01:09:27.912 basically a ham competition, and they go into details about that, which I'll read in a sec. 01:09:28.412 --> 01:09:34.432 But also they did some like really nice electronics work to have the entire 01:09:34.432 --> 01:09:41.512 tiny ham rack be powered by only one power supply. And it was splitting the 01:09:41.512 --> 01:09:42.592 power to a bunch of different things. 01:09:44.326 --> 01:09:48.906 Well, basically a bunch of different little one-liter PCs that are doing all this work. 01:09:49.066 --> 01:09:52.526 This thing blew me away. So ham cluster, yes, we don't have a category for that, 01:09:52.626 --> 01:09:54.206 but it was very impressive. 01:09:54.306 --> 01:09:55.326 I guess we might need one. 01:09:55.506 --> 01:10:00.146 Here's the mission. I mean, Homelab is a bit meh, so I thought I'd submit this. 01:10:00.506 --> 01:10:04.846 Basically, they're Ham Radio Club's field network consisting of a three-node 01:10:04.846 --> 01:10:09.646 Proxmox cluster, which will be deployed semi-off-grid in the field. 01:10:09.646 --> 01:10:15.046 Its core purpose is to host a virtual desktop infrastructure for contact logging. 01:10:15.666 --> 01:10:19.706 Logging is the process of recording details of a ham radio contact. 01:10:20.586 --> 01:10:23.846 So call signs, time, frequency, and signal report. 01:10:24.046 --> 01:10:30.026 This January is Winterfield Day, which is one of the largest ham radio field events of the year. 01:10:30.166 --> 01:10:35.866 And my club will have a multi-operator station, which will be supported by this field network. 01:10:35.866 --> 01:10:40.286 Since our logging software is Windows only, I'm using Apache Guacamole to provide 01:10:40.286 --> 01:10:47.866 browser-based cross-platform access to each of the dedicated ResourceLite Tiny10-based VMs. 01:10:48.086 --> 01:10:51.546 Last year's guys groaned when I told them they needed a Windows laptop, 01:10:51.546 --> 01:10:57.946 so I thought they'd get a kick out of logging on with their iPads this year. 01:10:57.946 --> 01:11:05.266 For data protection, the logging databases reside on a CephFS-backed Samba share. 01:11:05.526 --> 01:11:09.066 This setup isolates database transactions from the Wi-Fi network. 01:11:09.066 --> 01:11:14.346 So if radio interference occurs, which is possible around a lot of high-powered 01:11:14.346 --> 01:11:19.926 ham radios, it might temporarily disrupt an RDP session, but it won't corrupt 01:11:19.926 --> 01:11:22.906 the centralized database. At least, that's the plan. 01:11:23.406 --> 01:11:26.486 That is so great. I love that. That's great. 01:11:28.120 --> 01:11:34.140 Very well done. Great suggestion, Brentley. All right. Do you want to hear my honorable mention? 01:11:34.360 --> 01:11:43.660 I loved Master Reboot because, and I quote, I didn't spend a single dollar on my setup, he writes. 01:11:44.020 --> 01:11:47.940 I worked at two companies with three-year hardware refresh cycles, 01:11:47.940 --> 01:11:53.420 and when it was time to recycle the equipment, I first picked up everything coming out of rotation. 01:11:53.840 --> 01:11:57.500 He says, my home lab, though, is a space heater. It runs at 352 watts idle. 01:11:58.200 --> 01:12:01.900 But about six months ago, he swapped video cards. I don't think he loves it. 01:12:02.020 --> 01:12:06.780 But I just, I love the story he gave us about trying to set things up. 01:12:06.980 --> 01:12:11.080 Wasn't the best situation. Kind of dark. He had to forcefully plug in a port. 01:12:11.320 --> 01:12:14.320 And he was kind of given a shove. He's like, why isn't this going in right? 01:12:14.520 --> 01:12:20.380 And turns out he was trying to stick a USB stick into a display port and wrecked his display port. 01:12:20.500 --> 01:12:21.680 And did stick it in that point. 01:12:21.700 --> 01:12:22.180 Yeah, he got it. 01:12:24.940 --> 01:12:28.100 also he just had this great story uh where 01:12:28.100 --> 01:12:31.000 he was talking about trying to uh flash a hard 01:12:31.000 --> 01:12:34.100 drive and i think 01:12:34.100 --> 01:12:38.600 i can find it here he says it's so good i tried to flash a usb stick and i put 01:12:38.600 --> 01:12:42.560 it in my fedora machine and it said nope not our problem so finally i grabbed 01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:47.720 my macbook in desperation i found the usb creator tool for mac i hit one button 01:12:47.720 --> 01:12:51.780 and bam it worked i swear that Mac looked at me and said, amateurs. 01:12:52.060 --> 01:12:57.000 He says, but what would have taken me one hour ended up taking seven hours. 01:12:57.260 --> 01:13:00.320 That's not tech support. That's a hostage situation. 01:13:03.460 --> 01:13:07.800 He says, before I touch anything, too, I send out a telegram message to the wife. 01:13:07.940 --> 01:13:12.340 They say, I pretend like it's Patch Tuesday at Amazon with a big notice. 01:13:12.780 --> 01:13:16.940 Expected downtime imminent. Prepare snacks, alert the teenagers, 01:13:17.100 --> 01:13:20.960 we may lose Wi-Fi for up to 15 minutes. Godspeed. 01:13:21.698 --> 01:13:25.958 That's the message he sends out to the wife via telegram. He included a couple 01:13:25.958 --> 01:13:28.758 of diagrams that he created with draw.io, too. 01:13:28.878 --> 01:13:29.498 They were nice. 01:13:29.638 --> 01:13:33.618 Yeah. So I had to give the honorable mention to Master Reboot. 01:13:34.098 --> 01:13:36.598 Love that story. And not spending a single dollar on the setup. 01:13:36.938 --> 01:13:37.018 Amazing. 01:13:37.578 --> 01:13:39.538 Wes Pano, do you have an honorable mention? 01:13:39.698 --> 01:13:43.018 I do. Let's go with the dude abides. 01:13:43.178 --> 01:13:44.118 Oh, very good. 01:13:44.278 --> 01:13:44.718 Ooh. 01:13:45.958 --> 01:13:50.518 Yeah. I like the dude abides because there's just a suite rack, a huge array of apps, 01:13:50.658 --> 01:13:53.398 lightning nodes in there we can kind of get into some of the 01:13:53.398 --> 01:13:55.958 details there's uh let's see it's a 01:13:55.958 --> 01:13:58.918 15 new star tech rack cabinet enclosed and 01:13:58.918 --> 01:14:01.578 locked a nice ups hp gen 8 01:14:01.578 --> 01:14:04.338 micro server with some xeons 16 gigs of ecc 01:14:04.338 --> 01:14:11.098 4 by 16 terabyte zfs mirror two and a half gig neck jet kvm involved there's 01:14:11.098 --> 01:14:16.858 also lenovo m720q oh that's got a 10 gig sfp plus a whole bunch of nice looking 01:14:16.858 --> 01:14:21.818 unify gear nice a home assistant blue with a zigbee antenna there's some cameras oh. 01:14:21.818 --> 01:14:22.758 Yeah did he include a picture. 01:14:22.758 --> 01:14:25.158 Uh yes yeah i saw a gallery actually yep. 01:14:25.158 --> 01:14:25.858 I saw that. 01:14:25.858 --> 01:14:29.358 With an adorable photo of his daughter hanging out next to the wreck. 01:14:29.358 --> 01:14:31.718 Yeah i saw that too that did speak to me. 01:14:31.718 --> 01:14:36.458 Uh-huh yeah i was really like that also isp modem but i guess there's some double 01:14:36.458 --> 01:14:42.418 nat issues because he's getting eight gigs symmetric from his isp. 01:14:43.055 --> 01:14:44.175 Oh, my goodness. 01:14:44.295 --> 01:14:46.575 But with the double NAT, it's kind of in the four gigs. 01:14:46.815 --> 01:14:46.935 Oh, yeah. 01:14:47.175 --> 01:14:48.775 So, you know, really limping along. 01:14:49.055 --> 01:14:52.875 That's probably fixable, though. You know, maybe not totally solvable, 01:14:53.015 --> 01:14:54.535 but probably pretty solvable. 01:14:54.915 --> 01:14:58.055 The Home Assistant sounds like it's up your alley. 159 devices, 01:14:58.475 --> 01:15:03.415 12 add-ons, zero-tier influx, Grafana, Samba, code server, NextCloud backup, 01:15:04.495 --> 01:15:08.495 Tailscale, ESP Homes in there, Mosquito, Music Assistant, Uptime Kuma. 01:15:08.755 --> 01:15:09.215 Oh, good. 01:15:09.215 --> 01:15:13.695 There's a TrueNAS involved on that microserver for daily photo backup to Backblaze. 01:15:13.835 --> 01:15:18.735 Of course, Proxmox is going on that Lenovo box. A bunch of LXCs on top of that, 01:15:18.955 --> 01:15:19.895 including a backup server. 01:15:20.075 --> 01:15:24.695 And there's like the R stack there, plus a Bitcoin node with Umbral is going on. 01:15:25.035 --> 01:15:25.275 Nice. 01:15:25.475 --> 01:15:29.035 Yeah, I just thought kind of the whole thing looked like a classic Homelab Plus. 01:15:29.255 --> 01:15:29.755 Well done, dude. 01:15:29.755 --> 01:15:33.135 You'll like the clever part. The latest thing I'm proud of is the addition of 01:15:33.135 --> 01:15:37.295 some Zigbee relays to the radiators we have around the house so that I can control 01:15:37.295 --> 01:15:38.575 them via Home Assistant. it. 01:15:38.695 --> 01:15:42.535 We don't have central heating and being able to do this was really cool. 01:15:42.835 --> 01:15:45.915 And all of that at an idle of 183 watts. 01:15:46.095 --> 01:15:46.735 Oh, not bad. 01:15:47.015 --> 01:15:47.475 Not too bad. 01:15:47.895 --> 01:15:52.975 I want to give just a quick shout out to PJ. Producer Jeff sent in his setup 01:15:52.975 --> 01:15:55.515 and we've seen this setup and it's impressive. 01:15:55.515 --> 01:16:00.535 And I bet a lot of you out there do this is he has a home theater PC NAS custom 01:16:00.535 --> 01:16:04.675 desktop hooked up to his TV that It also runs image and next cloud. 01:16:04.935 --> 01:16:10.075 So it's his media center box. And also it does a lot of his hosting there. It's pretty great. 01:16:10.715 --> 01:16:14.235 So there's so many good submissions that what we're going to do is some of them 01:16:14.235 --> 01:16:16.835 that didn't make it into today's show, just because we're already running long 01:16:16.835 --> 01:16:20.335 is we'll probably read some of them in a future bootleg feed too, 01:16:20.495 --> 01:16:26.295 because there's too many not to get into, but we have one more treat for everybody. 01:16:26.295 --> 01:16:29.615 And this one is something that's pretty fantastic friends. 01:16:29.875 --> 01:16:31.535 It's time for the boosties. 01:16:40.075 --> 01:16:43.315 And this is just a moment where we can just acknowledge and thank people who 01:16:43.315 --> 01:16:49.135 have supported the show directly with a boost throughout the individual productions. 01:16:49.435 --> 01:16:53.095 And, of course, we have to first start by thanking everybody who's a member. 01:16:53.295 --> 01:16:57.095 That is our ongoing support, and we really appreciate that. This is to acknowledge 01:16:57.095 --> 01:17:00.535 those who also contribute above and beyond each individual production. 01:17:01.915 --> 01:17:05.355 And, as always, I'll butcher some of these pronunciations. 01:17:06.015 --> 01:17:06.695 Please do. 01:17:06.695 --> 01:17:10.935 But because of how the way this works, you've probably already heard him do it before. 01:17:11.875 --> 01:17:12.795 It'll be... 01:17:12.795 --> 01:17:14.395 Will it be the same? We don't know, but... 01:17:14.395 --> 01:17:20.415 Yeah. And so the folks that supported the show with the most sats for 2025, 01:17:21.955 --> 01:17:26.155 Devator comes in at an even 600,000 sats. 01:17:26.155 --> 01:17:26.795 So neat. 01:17:28.715 --> 01:17:31.475 I wonder if they... Did they plan that? That's so perfect. 01:17:31.475 --> 01:17:32.395 That would be impressive. 01:17:33.375 --> 01:17:40.515 Adversary 17, not surprised at all to see them on the list. They come in with 622,839 stats. 01:17:41.735 --> 01:17:44.735 Thank you very much. Now, I know, you know, I know a lot of that. 01:17:44.875 --> 01:17:47.575 I think I recall a lot of that came in during our Texas road trip. 01:17:47.715 --> 01:17:48.495 Yes, definitely. 01:17:49.455 --> 01:17:53.355 Well, huge shout out to adversaries for having me there, too. That's another V4V. 01:17:53.995 --> 01:17:58.515 It's not counted in these stats, but it sure is memorable. So thank you for having me. 01:17:58.815 --> 01:18:01.055 Yeah. Weren't you supposed to boost in, Brandon? Sort of part of that? 01:18:01.475 --> 01:18:02.955 Oh, yeah. Right. I forgot. 01:18:03.495 --> 01:18:07.175 Well, coming in at number three, we have our buddy, Our Podcast, 01:18:07.555 --> 01:18:11.875 Always Generous, with 902,345 sats. 01:18:12.095 --> 01:18:13.415 Fantastic. Thank you, Our Podcast. 01:18:17.326 --> 01:18:26.346 Second from the top here, we've got Blackhost, 957,624 Satoshis. 01:18:26.566 --> 01:18:26.886 Whoa. 01:18:27.486 --> 01:18:29.486 Just under a million. That's wild. 01:18:29.886 --> 01:18:34.306 Heavy lift. And that is something that goes back to the entire community, right? 01:18:34.526 --> 01:18:39.386 It's really, thank you so much, Blackhost. And our number one booster for 2025 01:18:39.386 --> 01:18:48.066 is at 1,066,632 sats, the dude abides. 01:18:49.066 --> 01:18:49.706 Wow. 01:18:55.686 --> 01:19:01.806 Yes, thank you very much. We have an extra batch of fireworks just for you, the dude. 01:19:20.115 --> 01:19:24.855 We really do appreciate that. That is a significant contribution to this show's run in 2025. 01:19:25.575 --> 01:19:29.595 These are some of the folks, along with our members, that made 2025 possible 01:19:29.595 --> 01:19:34.555 and the reason why we had an episode every single week for you. Thank you very much. 01:19:35.095 --> 01:19:40.155 We have also a special little gift for the DudaBides. 01:19:40.315 --> 01:19:46.215 Hybrid Sarcasm, if you remember from last year, suggested that the one who won 01:19:46.215 --> 01:19:51.355 the Boosties would get a free Jupiter Broadcasting Party membership, 01:19:51.355 --> 01:19:56.095 either to use for yourself or to give away maybe to another community member 01:19:56.095 --> 01:19:59.735 or someone you know who would love the show. That is so great. 01:20:00.055 --> 01:20:00.675 Congrats. 01:20:00.675 --> 01:20:04.935 That's amazing. That is community to community gifts. And, Hybrid, 01:20:05.095 --> 01:20:06.275 thank you for doing that. 01:20:06.495 --> 01:20:08.215 Yes, plus one to that. Thank you, Hybrid. 01:20:08.215 --> 01:20:10.375 Yeah, we did not prompt that. Hybrid just stepped up. 01:20:11.455 --> 01:20:15.255 All right. Let's give thanks to the folks who sent us the most boosts in total. 01:20:15.975 --> 01:20:17.335 Are you ready for this category, gentlemen? 01:20:17.475 --> 01:20:21.715 Yeah, coming up, number five is Tomato with 19 boosts. 01:20:21.715 --> 01:20:25.195 All right. Thank you, Tomato, 19 boosts. Tomato, tomato. 01:20:26.635 --> 01:20:31.375 Not surprisingly, the DudaBides comes in next on the list at 20 boosts. 01:20:33.015 --> 01:20:41.475 Number three is none other than turd ferguson with a handsome 23 boost thank. 01:20:41.475 --> 01:20:42.735 You turd appreciate that. 01:20:42.735 --> 01:20:46.955 Number two we've got adversaries 17. 01:20:46.955 --> 01:20:49.315 25 total. 01:20:49.315 --> 01:20:51.375 Boosts very nicely done, 01:20:56.560 --> 01:21:01.260 And our number one sender for the most boosts, ladies and gentlemen, 01:21:01.580 --> 01:21:06.220 goes to the one, the only, Gene Bean. 01:21:11.140 --> 01:21:12.800 With 54 boosts. 01:21:13.120 --> 01:21:13.160 Wow. 01:21:13.840 --> 01:21:18.600 Do you notice how that's more than twice as much as the number two person? 01:21:18.840 --> 01:21:22.100 You know what? I love the engagement. I love it. Thank you, Gene Bean. 01:21:22.200 --> 01:21:23.540 Gene keeps in touch, and it's great. 01:21:23.540 --> 01:21:26.300 And when you see his boost come in, you're always like, oh, good, 01:21:26.360 --> 01:21:27.480 it's a Gene boost, right? 01:21:27.620 --> 01:21:30.340 I always see his smiling face whenever we get that pew from Gene. 01:21:30.620 --> 01:21:35.540 I agree. I agree. All right. Our next category is those of you who set those 01:21:35.540 --> 01:21:39.480 sats on streaming, and you just send the sats as you listen, minute by minute. 01:21:39.880 --> 01:21:43.460 And we really do appreciate that. Brentley, will you kick off the number one, 01:21:43.560 --> 01:21:46.320 or it's not number one, but the first entry. 01:21:46.780 --> 01:21:50.460 Number five. I guess it'd be the number five entry, yes. Will you kick off number five, Brentley? 01:21:50.460 --> 01:21:57.480 The number five most stream sats to the network came from undead fable with 01:21:57.480 --> 01:22:02.240 90 460 sats streamed in total all right. 01:22:04.024 --> 01:22:08.784 Thank you, Undead. Thank you very much. Our good buddy, Odyssey Wester, 01:22:08.844 --> 01:22:10.244 has been around for a long time. 01:22:10.604 --> 01:22:14.224 He sent in, just via streaming while he listened to the show, 01:22:14.484 --> 01:22:19.304 supporting minute by minute, 93,817 sats. 01:22:20.044 --> 01:22:20.864 Nice. Impressive. 01:22:21.424 --> 01:22:23.344 Thank you, Odyssey. Appreciate that. 01:22:23.884 --> 01:22:28.564 And, well, you already know that Gene Bean boosts a lot, but it turns out Gene 01:22:28.564 --> 01:22:33.804 Bean streams a lot in at number three with 116,934 stream sats. 01:22:33.804 --> 01:22:34.624 Thank you, Gene. 01:22:35.784 --> 01:22:37.184 That's on top of the boosts. 01:22:37.224 --> 01:22:41.404 Yes, that's on top of the boost, Gene. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. 01:22:41.844 --> 01:22:49.704 We've got our number two here, Biggles. Biggles is number two with 120,950 stream sets. 01:22:51.324 --> 01:22:52.544 Very, very impressive. 01:22:52.844 --> 01:22:55.224 And this is kind of why I like just taking a peek in here sometimes, 01:22:55.224 --> 01:22:58.624 because, you know, we don't see necessarily a lot of boosts from Biggles, but. 01:22:58.724 --> 01:22:59.124 Yeah. 01:22:59.424 --> 01:23:00.924 Out there streaming. That's great. 01:23:01.344 --> 01:23:04.284 That's a great observation, Wes. Thank you, Biggles. 01:23:04.444 --> 01:23:13.984 And our number one most stream sats listener goes to Squared Triangle, 276,500 sats. 01:23:14.684 --> 01:23:17.324 That's the, that's, thank you very much. 01:23:21.319 --> 01:23:25.459 Thank you, everyone. If you have a membership at linuxunplugged.com slash membership 01:23:25.459 --> 01:23:30.959 or the Jupyter Party, or you stream or send those sats, thank you for making 2025 possible. 01:23:31.479 --> 01:23:34.459 We really appreciate you. Honestly, I wasn't ever sure if it happened. We were sure. 01:23:34.979 --> 01:23:38.599 In 2024 at this time, we're like, will we make it? Will we make it? 01:23:38.699 --> 01:23:41.679 And the audience made sure we made it. Thank you, everyone out there. 01:23:42.199 --> 01:23:46.099 Is there any other categories that we need? Because I see, so we have the stream 01:23:46.099 --> 01:23:48.839 sats and then we have the most streams. That's a different category. 01:23:49.079 --> 01:23:50.339 Yeah, I don't know if it's super meaningful. 01:23:50.339 --> 01:23:51.379 Well, we can give it a quick mention. 01:23:51.499 --> 01:23:54.419 Yeah, definitely. Just people out there who are doing a lot of streaming, 01:23:54.639 --> 01:23:58.659 including Forward Humor, number five, 2.5K streams. 01:23:58.899 --> 01:23:59.359 Very nice. 01:23:59.559 --> 01:24:01.539 Moon and Night, also 2.5K streams. 01:24:01.699 --> 01:24:02.179 Hey, Moon and Night. 01:24:02.319 --> 01:24:04.499 Odyssey Westra, 2.6K. 01:24:04.679 --> 01:24:05.159 There he is again. 01:24:06.059 --> 01:24:07.719 Undead Fable, 2.9K. 01:24:07.719 --> 01:24:08.699 Good to see you again. 01:24:09.019 --> 01:24:12.899 And Dano Selti at 3,120 streams. 01:24:13.139 --> 01:24:15.619 Thank you, Dano. Appreciate you very much. 01:24:16.019 --> 01:24:19.959 Yeah, let's see. Our total number of boosters was something like 238. 01:24:19.959 --> 01:24:20.739 Individuals? 01:24:20.879 --> 01:24:23.879 Yeah. Total number of boosts was 746. 01:24:24.399 --> 01:24:24.679 Wow. 01:24:24.839 --> 01:24:30.399 We had a total number of streamers was 189 and we had 50K streams. 01:24:30.739 --> 01:24:31.699 Thank you, everyone. 01:24:32.379 --> 01:24:32.819 Unbelievable. 01:24:33.199 --> 01:24:36.879 Thank you for, you know, every time we go through this, it really feels like 01:24:36.879 --> 01:24:41.479 we are proving out a model here where a niche that couldn't have been successful 01:24:41.479 --> 01:24:47.299 in magazine and in other mediums because what we talk about and the demographic that we appeal to, 01:24:47.439 --> 01:24:50.739 who prefers free stuff in a lot of cases, It's like we're making it actually 01:24:50.739 --> 01:24:54.939 possible where some of our greatest community resources for media, 01:24:55.079 --> 01:24:55.979 like the Linux magazines, 01:24:56.279 --> 01:24:59.839 weren't able to make a long run of it. I mean, we're doing it. 01:24:59.919 --> 01:25:00.939 We're proving it right here. 01:25:01.279 --> 01:25:04.599 And so much gratitude goes to our members and everybody who supports us with the boost. 01:25:04.919 --> 01:25:08.179 Thank you. Thank you very much. And a round of applause also to anybody who's 01:25:08.179 --> 01:25:11.679 contributed to the show in the community, who has told the show to something 01:25:11.679 --> 01:25:14.959 like a friend because word of mouth is the number one way to spread a podcast 01:25:14.959 --> 01:25:17.879 or spent a little time with your time, talent or treasure, any of those. 01:25:17.999 --> 01:25:21.959 Thank you so much for making 2025 possible. We will have one more episode. 01:25:23.526 --> 01:25:30.966 One more episode. We will be back after the holidays on December 28th, 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. 01:25:31.286 --> 01:25:33.626 Eastern, for our predictions. 01:25:33.886 --> 01:25:34.106 Uh-oh. 01:25:34.326 --> 01:25:35.466 You know what also that means? 01:25:36.226 --> 01:25:36.626 Review. 01:25:36.926 --> 01:25:37.226 Yeah. 01:25:37.946 --> 01:25:39.626 So we have some homework to do. 01:25:39.746 --> 01:25:42.446 We do. You can join us December 28th. 01:25:42.506 --> 01:25:43.866 Boost in those predictions, too, please. 01:25:43.946 --> 01:25:46.726 Get your predictions in. You still have time. And we'll be reviewing the boost 01:25:46.726 --> 01:25:49.666 that you sent in the last week into the show. Thank you very much. 01:25:49.826 --> 01:25:51.446 And we'll see you next week.
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