Homelab nerds, unite! (Friends)

Ok Homelabbers, it’s time to unite! Join Adam and his new friend Techno Tim for 1.5 hours of homelab goodness. From networking and WiFi, virtualizing Ubuntu running Docker containers, to Home Assistant and automation, building a Kubernetes cluster, to gutting a perfectly good machine just to build exactly what you need to run the ultimate Plex server — that’s what homelab is about. Let’s do this.

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Featuring:

• Techno Tim – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

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• Ubiquiti / Unifi
• Proxmox
• Ubuntu
• Rocky Linux
• 45drives - Storinator AV15
• Docker
• Portainer
• Kubernetes
• Plex
• Pi-Hole
• Tailscale
• ZFS (OpenZFS)
• Changelog Interviews #475: Making the ZFS file system (with Matt Ahrens)
• Protectli
• Sysracks
• Rackstuds
• ASUS ProArt Z790

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Let's talk!
(00:37) - It's Techno Tim!
(03:02) - What is Homelab?
(04:50) - Our Homelab beginnings
(09:24) - It's all Homelab
(14:04) - The homelab stack
(17:36) - We both love Unifi
(21:22) - POE is awesome
(22:56) - Let's talk about the network
(30:36) - This is your day job, so it's complex
(34:19) - You have CI?!
(38:45) - Just do what you want
(39:54) - I choose Plex
(44:32) - ZFS pool resizing
(47:00) - Why Ubuntu?
(50:50) - Stability and resource efficiency
(54:40) - Mobile/travel routers
(1:01:30) - I believe in this product
(1:02:10) - Discovering. new things
(1:04:59) - The business of YouTube
(1:09:37) - The path of creators
(1:15:26) - Rackstuds
(1:17:25) - Tim's big rack
(1:18:10) - Intel NUC cluster
(1:20:18) - Reducing temperature
(1:21:33) - Power consumption
(1:23:32) - Plans for the fututre
(1:26:16) - Here's some feedback
(1:31:19) - Sam the Cooking Guy
(1:32:53) - Bye friends!
(1:33:13) - Wrapping up