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