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122: Back to the Future

Self-Hosted - May 03, 2024 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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! Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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121: Forbidden Fruit

Self-Hosted - April 19, 2024 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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. Special G...

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120: Can a VPS Replace a Homelab?

Self-Hosted - April 05, 2024 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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.

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Innovating Patient Care

CDW Canada Tech Talks - April 02, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, we discuss technology innovations impacting the way patients are cared for, where they are cared for, and how effective that care ultimately is.   The current state of healthcare. Where are we at and what is currently in flight as far as technology innovation that we are seein...

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119: Why So Many Llamas?

Self-Hosted - March 20, 2024 18:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
Alex rolls back a major server upgrade, and we have fun playing with local large language models. Special Guest: Wes Payne.

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118: How Hard Could it Be?

Self-Hosted - March 08, 2024 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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. Special Guest: Jon Seager .

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The Latest Innovations in AI

CDW Canada Tech Talks - March 05, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes
In this episode, we discuss... The hardware ecosystem from device to data centre and platform NPUs and endpoints Cloud platforms for AI Access to tools Future of AI – Multimodal – Multisensory - sora   To learn more, visit cdw.ca

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117: Unraid as a Service

Self-Hosted - February 23, 2024 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
We chat about VMware's rug pull with Bret, aka Raid Owl, and then get into Unraid's big changes and more. Special Guest: Raid Owl.

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116: Making it all Connect

Self-Hosted - February 09, 2024 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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?

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AI Security and Governance

CDW Canada Tech Talks - February 06, 2024 13:04 - 1 hour
In this episode we discuss... Current state of cybersecurity  Types of AI are impacting cybersecurity How  bad actors are leveraging GenAI to be more productive What is the measurable impact of GenAI to the risk profile of businesses? What keeps you up at night when you think about AI as a ...

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The Rise of FinOps

CDW Canada Tech Talks - February 06, 2024 13:00 - 50 minutes
In this episode, we discuss… The current and expected future state of the economy How that state affects business investment planning Discuss the unique aspects and benefits of CAPEX Discuss the unique aspects and benefits of OPEX How public cloud has changed the way businesses plan spend ...

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115: A NAS in Every Home

Self-Hosted - January 26, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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. Special Guest: Brian Moses.

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114: Unintended Consequences

Self-Hosted - January 13, 2024 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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.

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113: State of the Homelabs 2023

Self-Hosted - December 29, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
We look back at what has changed, what's failed us, and what's sticking around in our homelabs. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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112: Red Light, Green Light

Self-Hosted - December 15, 2023 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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.

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CDW Canada Tech Talks Season 3 Trailer

CDW Canada Tech Talks - December 13, 2023 20:00 - 33 seconds
Join us this season as we engage with industry leaders in technical discussions around key innovations that are affecting all our lives in business, and in many cases our daily lives as well. To learn more, visit cdw.ca

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111: pfSense Makes no Sense

Self-Hosted - December 01, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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. Special Guest: Wolfgang.

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110: Google Photos Replacement

Self-Hosted - November 17, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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. Special Guests: Alex Tran and Brent Gervais.

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109: Alex’s Backups Disaster

Self-Hosted - November 03, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
How we almost lost valuable data this week, and a Chat with Doug and Mitch about their new home lab server.

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108: Year of Voice: A Bigger Deal Than You Think

Self-Hosted - October 20, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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. Special Guests: Brent Gervais,...

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107: Laptop Dumpster Diving

Self-Hosted - October 06, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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106: The Plex Situation Just got Worse

Self-Hosted - September 22, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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.

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105: Sleeper Storage Technology

Self-Hosted - September 08, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
Alex sits down with the lead developer of mergerfs to get an update on the project, Chris has a button-pushing breakthrough and more. Special Guest: Antonio Musumeci.

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104: Name-Not-So-Cheap

Self-Hosted - August 25, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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.

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Episode 19: Identity Orchestration In Multi-Cloud Environments

Navigating the Cloud Journey - August 17, 2023 18:00 - 29 minutes
Operating in multi-cloud environments can create additional complexities around how you manage both human and machine identities. In this episode, Jim talks to Eric Olden , CEO from Strata. They discuss leveraging identity abstraction and resource management across both native and hybrid multi-c...

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103: Archiving the Internet

Self-Hosted - August 11, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
A few tools to build your own Way Back Machine, we check in with the "Year of Voice" and more.

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102: NixOS is a bit Flakey

Self-Hosted - July 28, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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.

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101: Joining the Federation

Self-Hosted - July 14, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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100: Our Essential Apps

Self-Hosted - June 30, 2023 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8.

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Episode 18: Securing Multi-Cloud Environments (Recorded at Cisco Live '23)

Navigating the Cloud Journey - June 29, 2023 18:00 - 24 minutes
For enterprise organizations that are moving to the cloud, they often utilize multiple cloud solutions and vendors. This, naturally requires a different approach to planning. Furthermore, to secure these environments requires a comprehensive strategy that is well documented, flexible, performant...