This week Steve and Noah give you tips on hosting your first home server.
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00:58 Intro
Minimum Viable Battle Station
Pelican 1620 Cases
XREAL Air 2 (https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-air-2)
Ergonomics
09:52 Home Server Questions - Dan
Noah's first homelab
Pick an OS with low churn, long term OS
Generational upgrades
Experiment in VMs
Starting with a VM host
Starting with a file server
Don't put 30 drives in one box
Noah's vs Steve's approach
Do it, Document it, Blow it away, Do it again
Know the thing before you automate
Low level tech roles being handed to other business people
Playbooks
Ansible
Steve's OpenAudible-TO-AudioBookShelf (https://github.com/stratus-ss/OpenAudible-To-AudioBookShelf)
48:06 Kubernetes - Jeremy
Kube Dev Lab (https://www.kubedevlab.com/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-cluster/)
Steve's K8s Labs (https://github.com/stratus-ss/k8s-labs)
50:32 News Wire
Calibre 8.0 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/seventeen)
Linux 6.14 - lkml.org (https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/3/24/797)
Gnome 48 - gnome.org (https://release.gnome.org/48/)
Blender 4.4 - blender.org (https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/)
Zulip 10 - zulip.com (https://blog.zulip.com/2025/03/20/zulip-10-0-released/)
EndeavorOS Mercury Neo - endeavouros.com (https://endeavouros.com/news/mercury-neo-with-linux-6-13-7-and-arch-mirror-ranking-bug-fix/)
Finnis 125 - finnix.org (https://blog.finnix.org/2023/03/28/finnix-125-released/)
Serpent OS Rebranded to AerynOS - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/02/before-it-even-gets-a-stable-release-serpent-os-changes-its-name-to-aerynos/)
Rocky Linux Security - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/03/rocky-linux-from-ciq-hardened-takes-enterprise-linux-security-to-the-next-level/)
Chimera Linux Drops RISC-V - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/chimera_linux_riscv/)
Albabat Ransomware - infosecurity-magazine.com (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/albabat-ransomware-linux-macos/)
Hornet Security Module - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Hornet-Linux-LSM)
3 AI Projects Donated to Linux Foundation - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/ibm-to-donate-three-ai-related-projects-to-the-cncf/)
Trend Micro Open Source - prnewswire.com (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trend-micro-to-open-source-ai-model-and-agent-to-drive-the-future-of-agentic-cybersecurity-302405393.html)
Hugging Face Blueprint - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-submits-open-source-blueprint-challenging-big-tech-in-white-house-ai-policy-fight/)
AlexNet Open Source - spectrum.ieee.org (https://spectrum.ieee.org/alexnet-source-code)
Open Source Worth 8.8 Trillion - heise.de (https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html) hbs.edu (https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf#page=31.22)
52:15 Private Search Engine? - Atypical Kernel
SearXNG (https://docs.searxng.org/)
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