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New podcast weblogEpisode one of Michael Redmond’s podcast What are you doing in my garden? A short comedy podcast featuring his comedic musings this week featuring his brief encounter with Joanna Lumley and his short lived relationship with a mad Chiropodists!
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This weeks episode recorded hours before the Euro's final between Spain & England, where he might get the total of "Ive got to say's" from Ally McCoist! Cultural differences between Dublin and London, Bono's apparition from God on a remote mountain in County Wicklow & and astronauts in Scunthorpe! Michael this week talks about the infamous & mesmer…
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Chris gets serious about tracking maintenance and alerts, why Alex is impressed by the RISC-V-powered NanoKVM, how we might end up using Docmost, and a follow-up review of LubeLogger. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fo…
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This week Michael challenges his son Jamie on his controversial views on fig rolls. Jamie's recent trip to Germany supporting Scotland in the Euros. How moving statues of the virgin Mary impacted badly on his career and a new section where he discusses his favourite comedians starting this week with legendary geordie comedian Gavin Webster.…
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Episode 126: Smart But Not Cloudy
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Chris reviews the Aqara G4 Video Doorbell, Brent frees his Garmin from the cloud, and we discuss getting iMessages on Android. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and supe…
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This week Micheal talks about why is it only stand up comedians that are heckled and not opera singers or Orchestra conductors? he also talks about how cheeky his son's Jamies views are on fig rolls!Michael Redmond
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Alex's mini-PC surprise, why we're trying Tube Archivist, Alex's Nextcloud update, and how Chris stacks automations with Bitfocus Companion. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgra…
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In this weeks episode, Michael talks about Chubby Checker, the concluding part of his interview with Gavin Mitchell and the Origins of Riverdance Looking to hear from you let us know what you think of the episodes so far and if you have any feedback or suggestions get in touch X: @waydimg whatareyoudoinginmygarden@gmail.com…
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This week Micheal chats to legendary stage and tv star and iconic barman Boaby also known as Gavin Mitchell who puts Micheal's impression of Humphrey Bogart to shame! and a friendship spanning 25 years. Micheal discusses the second time he met Dame Helen Mirren. And as always finishes up with a nice cocktail this weeks cocktail is a French Martini…
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Episode 124: The End of Ownership
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The "you'll own nothing" trend got worse this week, our thoughts about the Raspberry Pi IPO, poor Nextcloud performance, and Alex's new high-fiber obsession. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 ha…
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In this weeks episode Michael talks about his epic 4 day trip from Dublin to Torremolinos using any form of transport instead of airplanes. Another encounter with Eamon the butcher and some interesting phobias!Michael Redmond
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In this episode Micheal talks about his thoughts on his new found fame in Baden-Württemberg, ageing, Okinawans and playing a brilliant prank on Piers Morgan! His first ever stand up comedy gig in London in the 1980's and his ever present cocktail of the week.Michael Redmond
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Alex benchmarks Intel CPUs (and an Arc GPU) to find the ideal balance of age, power, and speed for your home media server. Plus, our thoughts on Immich going full-time. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Foun…
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In this weeks episode Michael talks about leaving Dublin to go to London in 1987 to try his luck on London's comedy circuit and how this led to a disastrous audition for the role of Joey the Lips in the 1990's cult movie called the Commitments set in Dublin.Michael Redmond
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How Chris created live TV streaming from his local media collection, Alex breaks down the new Open Home Foundation and what it means for self-hosters. Brent's been trying out an open-source AirDrop replacement for all systems, and much more! Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly an…
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In this episode Michael talks about his disgust with Starbucks, the recent mange tout famine in Ireland and how Boaby the barman from Still Game (aka Gavin Mitchell) stole a woman from under his feet and all because of a night in Casablanca.Michael Redmond
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Special guest Casey Liss from the Accidental Tech Podcast joins the show to discuss his homelab, how he uses HomeBridge, and his delightfully complex garage door sensor system. Then Alex and Casey do their "best" to convince Chris the Apple Vision Pro is an excellent remote admin tool. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a l…
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In this episode we talk about How common drink driving was in Ireland in the 1970's and 80's, Soup of the day and the wild rantings of a vegan hating supermarket butcher called Eamon.Michael Redmond
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Are bald men conspiring against those of us who have hair after years of ridicule and also are they attempting to have the term "Slaphead" outlawed in society..... We also be looking at why short chubby men with fat hairy little legs shouldnt be allowed to wear shorts in public...Michael Redmond
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Episode one of Michael Redmond's podcast What are you doing in my garden? A short comedy podcast featuring his comedic musings this week featuring his brief encounter with Joanna Lumley and his short lived relationship with a mad Chiropodist!Michael Redmond
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Episode one of Michael Redmond's podcast What are you doing in my garden? A short comedy podcast featuring his comedic musings this week featuring his brief encounter with Joanna Lumley and his short lived relationship with a mad Chiropodist!Michael Redmond
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Alex goes head-to-head with budget VPS providers, which gets us into a classic debate. Plus we sit down with Adam Morales from Unraid to get the inside scoop on recent changes and exciting upcoming features. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 cou…
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Alex rolls back a major server upgrade, and we have fun playing with local large language models. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration fo…
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Alex's new Epyc server build, and Jon Seager from Canonical joins us to chat about Nix in the homelab, packaging Scrutiny, and how Nix fits with existing infrastructure management tools. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with …
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We chat about VMware's rug pull with Bret, aka Raid Owl, and then get into Unraid's big changes and more. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integr…
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Alex has been deep-diving into container networking, and Chris is trying to steelman Plex's new rental service. Plus, why are we building our containers with Tailscale networking now, and the latest from the Home Assistant project? Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply …
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Brian Moses joins us and shares his most recent NAS build and love for 3D printers. Then Alex gets into the hardware he's deploying around the house, and why we don't see eye-to-eye on ZigBee. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost…
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Episode 114: Unintended Consequences
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We kick off the new year with new apps in our home lab you’ll want to try and a new way to do networking. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strik…
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Episode 113: State of the Homelabs 2023
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We look back at what has changed, what's failed us, and what's sticking around in our homelabs. Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integrat…
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Alex shares a new build integrating WLED, and Chirs reviews hardware that can get you started with WLED in 45 seconds. Then, one last big update on the Year of Voice and our thoughts on self-hosting push notifications. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 …
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Episode 111: pfSense Makes no Sense
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We break down the state of the pfSense changes and the red flags we see. Plus, we're joined by Wolfgang from Wolfgang's channel to dig into his homelab and much more. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost i…
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Episode 110: Google Photos Replacement
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That man behind the Google Photos killer joins us to chat about the latest release of Immich. Plus, Alex's first impressions of 45Homelab's HL15. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the …
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Episode 109: Alex’s Backups Disaster
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How we almost lost valuable data this week, and a Chat with Doug and Mitch about their new home lab server. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head ove…
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Episode 108: Year of Voice: A Bigger Deal Than You Think
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Home Assistant's founder, Paulus Schoutsen, shares details about the Year of Voice, recent legal actions from Mazda, and the results of a recent third-party audit. Plus, our recommended Nextcloud setup, converting dumb devices into smart ones with ESPHome, and more. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a l…
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Episode 107: Laptop Dumpster Diving
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With a dose of pragmatism and optimism, we chat about making the best out of old hardware and where we draw the line and buy new. Plus, getting practical about your home media setup, bringing Spook into Home Assistant, and more. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever …
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Our thoughts on two recent Plex crackdowns, why the Apple TV just got a lot better, how home Assistant could improve 10 years in, and much more. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the w…
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Episode 105: Sleeper Storage Technology
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Alex sits down with the lead developer of mergerfs to get an update on the project, Chris has a button-pushing breakthrough and more. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, …
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Alex does a significant overhaul of his website and unpacks a new GitHub action workflow. Chris finally achieves complete local voice control of his network, we complain about the state of domain name sellers, and more. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. ⚡…
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Episode 103: Archiving the Internet
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A few tools to build your own Way Back Machine, we check in with the "Year of Voice" and more. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entr…
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Episode 102: NixOS is a bit Flakey
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Alex shares a suite of self-hosted apps that replace Reddit. Chris is struggling with Jellyfin, and we discuss where NixOS is killing it and where we think it falls down. Links: ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boo…
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Episode 101: Joining the Federation
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The advantages of Federating a local and remote Nextcloud, Chris replaces Google Home Hub's photo powers and the new docker-compose feature that will change Alex's entire setup. Links: Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023 — Brent loved his time in Berlin so much, he's going back for more! Berlin Buds Matrix Chat — Join the realtime Berlin chat room…
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We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8. Links: Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.0 — This major release is based on the latest Debian 12 (“Bookworm), and comes with an extensively tested and detailed upgrade path for users of Proxmox VE 7.4 or older versions to enable a smo…
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We dive into Lemmy, a self-hosted Reddit alternative. Plus, a couple of easy-to-deploy tools that make life better. Links: Reddark — These subreddits are going dark or read-only on June 12th and after. Some already are. Click here to find out why. Lemmy 🐀 — A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.…
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We chat with 45Drives about their ambitions to build a home-lab server that bridges the gap between enterprise-level servers and consumer-grade NAS products. And more. Links: Amazon is discontinuing Alexa’s celebrity voices, even if you paid for them — “After three years, we’re winding down celebrity voices,” Amazon spokesperson Eric Sveum says in …
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Episode 97: Tempted by the Fruit of Another
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Alex tempts Chris with his Obsidian ways, our thoughts on Drobo going bankrupt, and Photoprism adding paid tiers. Plus, the slick suite of tools you'll want to run on your LAN. Links: Garden - planning with Canvas — I am using Obsidian to keep track of my gardening stuff. I have notes for all vegetables i am growing, how much i harvested etc...This…
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Why Chris needs ANOTHER Home Assistant instance and a major breakthrough for self-hosters. Links: A Chat about Linus' DATA Recovery w/ Allan Jude - YouTube 2023.5: Let's talk! - Home Assistant — What an exciting release we have for you this month! This release is all about voice (well, almost fully), and I’m super excited we can ship you all this t…
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We debate if users learned their lesson from the Docker Hub drama, and the silent self-hosting winner going from strength to strength. Proxmox gets some big updates. Plus, our thoughts on the state of self-hostable AI tools. Links: Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM — Let's have a local PNW get-together. We're no longer sunset…
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Episode 94: Full Power
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Chris integrates full home power monitoring into Home Assistant, while Alex tames the AI and rushes to replace Dark Sky. Links: Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Two meetups in April! KTZ Systems - YouTube — Creating videos and tutorials about Self-hosting, Homelabs, Networking, Linux, Containers, Home Automation and much more... WAAS: Whisper as a Se…
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Alex goes all in on Rootless Podman, Chris is saving his Nextcloud install from disaster, and a special guest joins us. Links: Secret Management with Ansible Vault and docker-compose - YouTube — Secret management with docker-compose doesn't have to be an enigma. This video shows how I use Ansible and Ansible Vault in conjunction with docker-compose…
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Episode 92: Rip it all Out
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Find out why Alex ripped out everything installed last episode and is starting fresh with new gear, wires, and a new goal. Links: LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023, Bellingham Technical College. LFNW2023: ❝Your Fest is Back!❞ Alex Network Diagram v4 — A updated version of Alex's network diagram. Dell Refurbished — promo code: 7050DELL4…
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Alex has been swapping hardware and standing-up services. It's a network rebuild episode and more! Links: Images for this episode — Alex's Network Diagram and stuffs! SSH 003: Home Network Under $200 Restricting ASRock Rack BMC to dedicated IPMI_LAN port only — During this process I came across a frustrating "bug" in the Asrock Rack BMC implementat…
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