34 thoughts on “The Homelab Show: Episode 0 All About Home Labs”
On the pi with business. I was amused to see my local pub is using them connected to the screen the staff use to monitor orders.
The key to handling the issue of virtualized essential stuff like a router or a dns server, is to have two systems. If you want to do maintenance on one, just restore a backup on the other and Bob's your uncle.
First ever time seeing this channel. I hear "hey Jarvis, play Lacuna Coil" @ 2:43 … Yeah, I'm going to like it just fine here. 😆
Super old video by the time I'm commenting on this. But… "Would you rather…" I would rather have educational videos. I don't care if it takes 2 months between them. But it's a weird perspective we have built. You do this as a business. You need to keep cranking out content. But if we take a few paces back and look at the system, it is entirely different. If I go look up a tutorial on how to replace a garage-door, unlock a firmware feature on a vending machine, get bubbles out of fiberglass, or any number of other things, it doesn't matter if the video is 8-years old. It doesn't matter if it took someone 3 months between video updates on their home renovation project that gave instructions along the way. The information is out there forever (YouTube/data-hoarders willing).
Some channels can survive just fine by posting when they have content, and disappearing between videos. Look at Applied Science, The Thought Emporium, Errant Signal, NileRed, Primitive Technology, and others. Sometimes it is months between their posts. But the content is always interesting. Not every channel could get away with it though. So I understand why you produce regularly scheduled(ish) content.
Asustor is fantastic! Probably better than Synology
I've used jitsi.. hate it as a product. Had sooo many problems with folks sharing screens, etc over it.. sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldnt
2 of my favorite!
understanding how everytNice tutorialng works. TNice tutorials is like my 10th ti watcNice tutorialng tNice tutorials lol I’m so basic!
The last 2 years has made RP not a viable solutions. 1. You can't buy any as scalpels discover one more legal way to make a quick profit and charge minimum $100 a piece when you commit to 10 units. 2. Paying $1000 to someone on ebay is just a non-starter. It still doesn't pay for the required accessories like SD cards power suppliesl switches, cables and cases,mwhich all together will very quickly add up close to $180-200 a node. For that kind of money Proxmox running intel/amd computer with 16 cores isn't much more expensive, but faster for sure. 3. Maintaining lxd or Proxmox VM is way easier long term and in case of power outages. It is easier and quicker to shutdown one server than 10-20 PI cluster IMHO. 4. I do use 2 PIies (Pi2 and Pi3) to run my home DNS Unbound + pihole servers. Tbey share one virtual IP and I can bring any of them down for maintenace and the other will take over instantly. The settings are replicated using cron scheduler from master to slavemevery 15 minutes. Easy peasy.
Unfocoused and unstructured. I appreciate the effort, but the "Episode 0: All About Home Labs" title makes me think its a video for absolute beginners. This is more for intermediate folks who understand the lingo.
First
My new workout playlist
I like podcasts because I don’t always have the time to watch videos. I can listen to podcasts in the car while driving for work
Raspberry pi 4 8gb costs $75. Then add power supply, case, sd card and you have a board that can trash its slow mem card. OR, buy an old tiny 1L pc for 100 bucks with x86 and disk and memory included. Any you often can expand that to at least 16GB sometimes 32GB. My optiplex 3050 cost 160 with 8gb ram and 500g hard disk. it uses 12 watts idling. PI is way overrated
So if I'm setting up proxmox, and the board I'm using has 2 m.2 slots, should I do a raid 1 in the bios before installing? Or would that be configured in proxmox?
Nice shot of the Orion Nebula
Damn, LearnLinuxTV is one of the best new tech/homelabs channel I'd discovered when trying to learn Ansible. This channel (Lawrence Systems) I discovered when trying to learn about Graylog. Loving what I'm seeing right now ❤️
I read some reports the netgate implemention of wireguard was a complete mess. The wireguard main dev contacted netgate about the quality of the code and netgate brushed him off.
I loved this show, but Jay was so quite that there wasn't a comfortable volume to effectively hear you both.
This was great. Looking to build my own homelab so this series wiuld be helpful. Keep it up guys
Virtualizing Truenas/Freenas using PCIE passthrough is extremely advantageous for the density and i/o boost you can get from it, especially at the edge and mini iot datacenters. I've been doing this in production on many many HCI nodes for years as part a custom qemu/kvm/libvirt solution which I actually run on my own variation of Alpine Linux.
Awesome! Looking forward to your content.
Audience crossover confirmed, subscribed to both of you!
Can we get Timestamps for the next video?
This is great!
The two titans
This is Great.
This is awesome . I am putting together a home Infrastucture with 1 x Cisco 3560-12PD-S, 2x zyxel gs1900-16, 2x Aruba Ap-515… currently looking for a good firewall appliance
this is awesome, I watch both of you regularly.
QNAP running TrueNAS Core works great 🙂
So glad I found both of you together. Can't wait for more content!
awesome !!! , keep the good work
Sorry, Jay – when your systems are in the cloud you do not have complete control anymore. Now access to your data depends on your LAN, WAN and the provider. You don't have control over 2 of those parts. You only have total control over your systems when they are on-premise.
On the pi with business. I was amused to see my local pub is using them connected to the screen the staff use to monitor orders.
The key to handling the issue of virtualized essential stuff like a router or a dns server, is to have two systems. If you want to do maintenance on one, just restore a backup on the other and Bob's your uncle.
First ever time seeing this channel. I hear "hey Jarvis, play Lacuna Coil" @ 2:43 … Yeah, I'm going to like it just fine here. 😆
Super old video by the time I'm commenting on this. But… "Would you rather…"
I would rather have educational videos. I don't care if it takes 2 months between them. But it's a weird perspective we have built.
You do this as a business. You need to keep cranking out content.
But if we take a few paces back and look at the system, it is entirely different.
If I go look up a tutorial on how to replace a garage-door, unlock a firmware feature on a vending machine, get bubbles out of fiberglass, or any number of other things, it doesn't matter if the video is 8-years old. It doesn't matter if it took someone 3 months between video updates on their home renovation project that gave instructions along the way. The information is out there forever (YouTube/data-hoarders willing).
Some channels can survive just fine by posting when they have content, and disappearing between videos.
Look at Applied Science, The Thought Emporium, Errant Signal, NileRed, Primitive Technology, and others. Sometimes it is months between their posts. But the content is always interesting.
Not every channel could get away with it though. So I understand why you produce regularly scheduled(ish) content.
Asustor is fantastic! Probably better than Synology
I've used jitsi.. hate it as a product. Had sooo many problems with folks sharing screens, etc over it.. sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldnt
2 of my favorite!
understanding how everytNice tutorialng works. TNice tutorials is like my 10th ti watcNice tutorialng tNice tutorials lol I’m so basic!
The last 2 years has made RP not a viable solutions. 1. You can't buy any as scalpels discover one more legal way to make a quick profit and charge minimum $100 a piece when you commit to 10 units.
2. Paying $1000 to someone on ebay is just a non-starter. It still doesn't pay for the required accessories like SD cards power suppliesl switches, cables and cases,mwhich all together will very quickly add up close to $180-200 a node. For that kind of money Proxmox running intel/amd computer with 16 cores isn't much more expensive, but faster for sure.
3. Maintaining lxd or Proxmox VM is way easier long term and in case of power outages. It is easier and quicker to shutdown one server than 10-20 PI cluster IMHO.
4. I do use 2 PIies (Pi2 and Pi3) to run my home DNS Unbound + pihole servers. Tbey share one virtual IP and I can bring any of them down for maintenace and the other will take over instantly. The settings are replicated using cron scheduler from master to slavemevery 15 minutes. Easy peasy.
Unfocoused and unstructured. I appreciate the effort, but the "Episode 0: All About Home Labs" title makes me think its a video for absolute beginners. This is more for intermediate folks who understand the lingo.
First
My new workout playlist
I like podcasts because I don’t always have the time to watch videos. I can listen to podcasts in the car while driving for work
Raspberry pi 4 8gb costs $75. Then add power supply, case, sd card and you have a board that can trash its slow mem card. OR, buy an old tiny 1L pc for 100 bucks with x86 and disk and memory included. Any you often can expand that to at least 16GB sometimes 32GB. My optiplex 3050 cost 160 with 8gb ram and 500g hard disk. it uses 12 watts idling. PI is way overrated
So if I'm setting up proxmox, and the board I'm using has 2 m.2 slots, should I do a raid 1 in the bios before installing? Or would that be configured in proxmox?
Nice shot of the Orion Nebula
Damn, LearnLinuxTV is one of the best new tech/homelabs channel I'd discovered when trying to learn Ansible. This channel (Lawrence Systems) I discovered when trying to learn about Graylog. Loving what I'm seeing right now ❤️
I read some reports the netgate implemention of wireguard was a complete mess. The wireguard main dev contacted netgate about the quality of the code and netgate brushed him off.
I loved this show, but Jay was so quite that there wasn't a comfortable volume to effectively hear you both.
@16:11
This was great. Looking to build my own homelab so this series wiuld be helpful. Keep it up guys
Virtualizing Truenas/Freenas using PCIE passthrough is extremely advantageous for the density and i/o boost you can get from it, especially at the edge and mini iot datacenters. I've been doing this in production on many many HCI nodes for years as part a custom qemu/kvm/libvirt solution which I actually run on my own variation of Alpine Linux.
Awesome! Looking forward to your content.
Audience crossover confirmed, subscribed to both of you!
Can we get Timestamps for the next video?
This is great!
The two titans
This is Great.
This is awesome . I am putting together a home Infrastucture with 1 x Cisco 3560-12PD-S, 2x zyxel gs1900-16, 2x Aruba Ap-515… currently looking for a good firewall appliance
this is awesome, I watch both of you regularly.
QNAP running TrueNAS Core works great 🙂
So glad I found both of you together. Can't wait for more content!
awesome !!! , keep the good work
Sorry, Jay – when your systems are in the cloud you do not have complete control anymore. Now access to your data depends on your LAN, WAN and the provider. You don't have control over 2 of those parts. You only have total control over your systems when they are on-premise.