 Good morning. Welcome to vlog Thursday 349. Good afternoon to my friends in Europe. I think it is it afternoon in Europe I should have probably looked at the time before I said that But I will probably not be getting messages from the European people going man It's really late time to go to bed which is usually because I do my vlogs later and doing the live stream now seems like it makes sense and I Well, it makes sense in terms of today. Maybe I should do this more often, you know I like to record in the morning because I think my voice sounds better and also Sometimes through the day as you talk your voice gets a little bit more stressed and also you get a bit more tired So if you ever wondered or ever noticed the time most of my Videos when I do show the time are recorded early in the mornings So I could probably do live streams in a morning too. Good morning middle of the day. All right the only people that may be upset is West Coast people because it's what three hours earlier for them I doubt they're giving up this really to watch one 6 p.m. In Myanmar. Okay. Yeah, so as you wander across, you know We can we have the technology Time zone map It's a better time. I know there was a yeah, here we go. We'll just share this tab real quick Share screen because I'm curious so if you were in it's Uh, what are we looking at like Warsaw is 130. So yeah afternoon, uh, France One or Spain Madrid 130. So yeah Lisbon Portugal 1230 so in my UK friends are looking at around 1230. So lunchtime in the UK And we are over here in Detroit. So Eastern Standard Time. Oh 9 30 p.m. So it's not as late over for people in Australia. Oh Some people are in our before generally work starts so 632 a.m. In Illinois Yeah, it's you know, Illinois for those of you that don't know geography for where I'm at Illinois is a relatively close place. So we have Detroit and Chicago's about from a driving standpoint four hours away and it's in another time zone and there's a little small area I believe in Indiana that does not participate in time zones time zone changes The time zone changes are just dumb. I they need to get rid of them. So oh We have some people actually either didn't go to bed yet or woke up early So 430 a.m. in California. All right, what did I have for the topics? I don't think I had too many things Tech talk live Q&A. I didn't put much in here what I'm working on right now though. There are things I'm working on One of them is going to be and let me pull this up because maybe people are interested. I Got behind on some of my reviews. So I've actually had this for a little while and Where did it there to go? It's gonna pull up the my SA 3400 from Synology. So let me copy paste That's not the one Synology There we go. We'll pull up the site for it. I'm finishing up my review on the Synology SA 3400 But one of the interesting things about it is and I just finished this part last night I got sidetracked with like a lot of things as I always do, but all the Pyronex testing I was doing on it and one of the things I found interesting was Synology's actually fixed The problem I ran into before which is IO testing on their virtual machines It was kind of a joke before and I used to complain about their VMs being so slow now. They're VMs get some really Good performance on the IO Which is great. I mean, it's ideal now. There's a couple things where the IOPS seemed higher I have a feeling this is a caching thing. We're using ice guzzie with an external Storage target. I got some a couple times where it was higher But any of the actual thorough put throughput throughput, I always say thorough put it's like throughput. I say that word That's a hard word for me to say the actually Got really good performance on the Synology VMs and this is good because I remember talking to the engineers going What did I do wrong? This was years ago when I first started testing some GPMs What am I doing wrong that the IO performance is this bad and they're like nothing It's the way the underlying system works for working on it That was a couple of years ago. So I wanted to test with this system and in every way the system performs Really well with their virtual machines, which I thought was really cool. Now where this is going to be a More I don't know but I don't look controversial is the right word. I Think this is reasonably priced for an HA system But that is going to set off the homelab people going Tom. It's like $9,000 What do you mean that reasonably priced and I'm like, have you priced out enterprise HA systems with five-year warranties? This is actually a reasonably priced enterprise system for the five-year warranty. I Think it's got a good fit. I have we sell these commercially to clients Well similar models and this is this one of the more latest models that they have but you know when you're tasked with a company going I need a solution that absolutely works that has high availability Availability good speed and I don't want to worry about it and it's easy to manage Synology does fit the bill and it fits the bill for a good price. We're a reseller of a several different, you know things such as true nas and I X systems and we resale 45 drives But you know when people start wanting high availability that complicates things It just complicates them by making them more expensive and you can build and someone's gonna You know mash the keyboard and I'm gonna be diving into I'm gonna be doing a whole deep dive on Seth I don't know when the videos are gonna come out on it because I'm personally doing a deep dive on Seth and Seth definitely solves a problem But still comes with management Complications that you may not get and you don't want to sell a solution to a client that you can't support or in the case of a Lot of what we do we're working with internal IT teams They want something they can support without happen to rely on some third-party company to do the support So they're trying to find it happy balance I think is where Synology kind of fits in because it's an easy interface to use it works well and You're like well. Yeah, I need this is something I can turn over and We'll go here. I want to show you the screen for it But I mean being able to go how do we switch this over with a nice menu Well, I can click switch over and it will switch to a new system. How do we monitor the HA in there? Well, let's monitor HA for ice cuisine NFS and hit apply. All right, I've done it I've now monitored it like this is going to be substantially easier than Managing a Ceph cluster for example So while yes, there are ways you could do this isn't the same answer when people say well building applications and Kubernetes I just followed the script and that's the problem people who follow a script to set things up without completely understanding it Are good at getting it set up Managing it and dealing with updates and challenges that come when things go wrong. That's where you are a different Different type of IT tech at that point, you know, you're trying to sell a serviceable and supportable solution So that's one of the reasons we talk about Synology and things like that and The could you build a Ceph cluster for 10,000 plus dollars? Sure Could you manage and maintain it over the next five years for $10,000 when survive all the updates? Synology updates go really smooth for the most part. I I've not had problems with them but I always follow all their best practices, but it's just something I'm going to talk about in the review and You know, I'm my overall on this system has been it's been running for a little while and I Think it runs great like all the tests I've done. I've done the failover testing and everything else So I'm finishing up the review on it. I got it targeted for a bunch of Virtual machines right now and I got virtual machines running on it as well And I just thought it was a cool system the virtual machine manager in Synology though. It feels so basic I mean it works. I just don't think I would run a Bunch of mission critical things on here, but maybe I don't know I have not I've tested it and never had a problem with it Well, I kind of have a problem. I can show you but this is more of a Debian problem I think and it's it worked the VM works fine But if we go to connect to it, let me see if it's still doing it. I have no control over the screen I don't know why the council access breaks and I I don't know maybe it works and I didn't try it yet Maybe it works in Firefox, but this is a problem. I've run into before where just the council access breaks, you know But that's it everything else works fine, you know, even if I pull this out and try to change settings in here. It's just Not Do I yeah, it's just kind of There we go, but I rebooted it That's fine. I don't care so I did it I managed to reboot it It's accepting inputs. It just stops here, but it works sometimes it does differently It will actually show me what's on the screen, but it doesn't always I haven't figured out why at all And I I mean I could contact Synology on it, but I don't know That's the only that's only bug. I've run into with it so far but hey overall, I think it's still a Pretty good system and the VMs boot really fast Well, he said Linux ones I set up on here and I can SSH into I'm fine. So that works You know Here's a question, I don't have an answer to let's I Can you can switch this over in real time? Let me just Where is this at? Let's make sure I have a backup first just in case I screw this up. I always like to back everything up This is one of the VMs Running on that running on this feel free. I know it's early, but feel free to throw questions at me if you have questions while I'm Testing all this does it shut down? I do this or is it just running a backup? I Like better when backups shut down first It did not so I should probably I should probably back that up while it's off. Oh well too late now At least I have a backup. I guess it doesn't matter if it's really off or not But this is the this is targeted with ice cuz he here It's not bad like they said the performance is good when you use as an ice cuz he target. I mean I've been meaning to do some Real sonology I've never run and I don't really have an interest in run the X phenology. I If I'm gonna take and hack something together, I'm just gonna go back to true NAS I'm gonna go back to running Linux on it with Houston. So if I want a storage server I don't like hacking together an X phenology system It's not really interested me much It's it's one of those things that you know first if it's a analogy hardware The advantage because analogy hardware is not the highest performing fastest hardware as everyone will be very quick to point out in the video But the I Just don't know how stable it is or how quality is X phenology if I'm gonna use a analogy device I'll definitely be using sonology on it because that's the real reason you buy sonology is for the sonology software Granted they're not an open source ecosystem and they're built on a lot of open source tools But they themselves are closed But they provide and the reason we like them is they provide a really nice turnkey solution So it just works for people who want an easy management interface Just to get things done in a reliable way and I got to admit my Synology is that we have out in the field for clients and even the ones we use at our office to do things like I back up my entire G-suite on a sonology. It just works so well it I can't Though I mean I can tell you about other solutions that work as well as that But they're more expensive and you have to buy storage with sonology. You are backing up yourself all your you know Mailboxes and G-suite stuff. It's it just works so well In Xcp and G is your way to restore into over the environment or just delete the original one I mean you can reload over the top of an Xcp and G I don't I don't understand the question maybe but if I wanted to reload it, I would just Reload it. I mean, it's it's just hardware. So I don't think I understand the goal It's not or what you're trying to ask Any particular tool recommendation or scanning code repost for secrets. Ah, no, I'm not the best At that right there so using vault encrypt secrets. I want to make sure I don't miss anything Not I can't I mean there's plenty of high-end commercial tools, but I'm positive. There's definitely some open source ones I just don't do that So I've not it's not a task that I've usually had to do I've always built my own Scripts and everything so I just know there's not secrets in them So I've never had to go back and scan for them, but I'm I feel confident There's some good secret scanning stuff out there to do that if analogy didn't have surveillance station. Would you really use it? Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'm that's one of those things that About analogy is surveillance station is one of more popular things we sell we saw a ton of surveillance station because it's I think one of the more flexible Reliable systems out there that is very reasonably priced so surveillance station is awesome Besides surveillance station the example I'm giving right now with this high availability system that is Another use case someone wants a high availability system for a reasonable price Here we go. Here's a high availability file and block storage solution that has a lot of features on there The other thing we've recommended a lot is the active backup So because Synology has active backup active backup for Microsoft 365 active backup for Google workspace These are all three all these three reasons right here are Reasons we sell a lot of Synology people who want those things now what I use less of is going to be the Synology Or is that probably in their software list here? That's all the specs if you look at Synology solutions The I use their backup solution file storage. So if you want it as a NAS I think they work really well for that if you someone says I need a high availability NAS and this is my budget Synology is probably going to meet the demands for that even if you bought two Synologies and set up the HA between them once again, so they're gonna meet it So those things are all really solid and well supported on Synology. I don't use Synology office. I've never recommended it I don't know that it's bad or good. I think it supports open document formats Maybe I should take a closer look at it, but I just never really dove into it Getting people off of Microsoft Office not easy. It usually integrates with their line of business application So I've never really recommended Synology as an office solution so those are the Other side of it up for a lot of home users. I like Synologies as well and the reason why is people who? You may complain all the same about this and it depends on where you are on the technical scale Are you a technical person who doesn't mind tinkering with things a lot more? Well, awesome Linux and true NAS are for you, you know, or just you know, either we're building things natively in Linux or building them in true NAS But if you're someone who goes I just wanted to work and that's where the whole conversation ends I just wanted to work. I I I build something else for a living in technology. I'm a wiring person I'm a whatever and I don't want to tinker with it. I just want my things to work Synology becomes very easy in terms of that. So it comes down to, you know, your kind of feelings on it VM on it if I installed a backup software in my hoodoo environment instead of figuring out how to uninstall it until I restart a backup Stalled I'm missing something here. I'm not sure what you're trying to do You can back up VMs inside of XC PNG. So I don't own I guess I just understand your question Instead of figuring out how to uninstall it until I restore the backup So could you run? I mean it runs VMs. So the your question is not making a lot of sense to me Maybe a forum post and I'll answer whatever you're asking on there Joining have you tried XC P 8.3 Bedia any cool features you like? It works really well The I think I have a few systems running it. Let me see which ones I have connected right now So this is another one of those little ace magic boxes. I'm testing and This is running version 8.3 as well. So, yeah, this right here The the 8.3 works great. Let me show you here What is it so the networking on here actually probably go the host so I can show you the connections I mean zoom in and make this easier to see Even the two and a half gig works fine with 8.3. I've had no problem with two and a half gig. It works really well I'm not you know, they call it beta doesn't feel beta. I'll just throw it out there It's really stable and works really really well. So definitely Yeah, hands down I don't feel I feel like it's so stable, it's not beta now as far as other things that are kind of cool I It's not that much different. So it's not it's not that but this is one feature that is definitely So hold on This is the new and you can use this not on the beta But this comes by default set up on the beta This is XO light and XO lights getting a lot better. So that's one thing I would say I like a lot is the XO light working so XO light is Under construction There's very little you can do in here, but at least you have council access I can Log in to systems use them I think I can Can I start a change date? Let's go ahead and reboot this one So I can do some basics on here But that's really it for now. They they're coming along slowly with it I love that they're working on it, but it is taking a little while because yeah No alarms all good cool But yeah, all this is under construction. So before I talk about just how cool it is. I won't lie. This is definitely a Beta feature but at least you can see what's running I can change state you can migrate them coming soon and it can fig That's so everything's coming soon snapshot export Coming soon Well, at least I can start and stop the VMs so you can use this to start and stop things kind of as needed So I would say that's pretty cool. I love my Synology for surveillance station backing up on photos. Yeah, I agree What's your suggestion replace Google photos? Honestly since we're talking about Synology Synology is really easy to do that with Granted, you're just moving from one proprietary ecosystem to one you control because Synology's photos is not open source But it works and it doesn't have a license attached to it because it's tied to your Synology hardware So that's probably like the easiest solution I found and I actually use it because I wanted to make sure that I didn't tell people it's a good solution without using it myself I actually find it works really well now If you're like Jay From learn Linux TV. He's talked about this He just dumps all this photos into he when he goes on vacation for example He's gonna grab all his photos and he just has a hierarchical structure And there's plenty of tools out there that like if you just want to view it But even Jay's like I don't know I just create our organized Hierarchal structures for all the photos I take so that may or may not be practical that I think about the Synology thing is it has all the object recognition It isn't near as good as Google, but it's pretty good and you can load all your photos It's got an app to auto back them up right to the Synology from your phone So I would say yeah, um it works. Well in terms of that. So Synology photos I'll give a thumbs up for downside is of course you now have to buy a Synology to make it work. So I I I'm not in love with proprietary ecosystems, but the at least with Synology your data format is not Changed so the features of Synology doesn't mean you can't later go I don't want to use the Synology anymore and just take all the data that you have accumulated and send it somewhere else Also if anyone wants to send an email and let me throw this up on here to Vlog Thursday at learningsystems.com regarding this I Know there's a few other Let me find it. There we go. There's a few other open source tools out there for photo management I goofed I'm not which ones I tested but none of them I liked when I tested on a while ago but if there's someone that knows which one is actually good and In complete that would be awesome if there if there is a web-based one that ties to your phone that auto backs things up If I don't know if one exists just yet or not Let's see. What are your thoughts on Libvert and Libvert D using my homelab QMU KVM to run some micro VMs? It works fine. I mean if it works for you use them There's nothing. I don't know anything wrong with them But I'm I've not spent a ton of time looking at Libvert either. I assume you mean Wendell from level one techs Hopefully soon both, you know, I talked to Wendell from time to time. It Wendell's wonderful The challenge usually gets to be Lining it up so we are at somewhere where we can be together to do something We're supposed to collaborate up in Nova Scotia We're talking about doing something but I couldn't go to Nova Scotia because I had crashed my motorcycle So then we were I in one of the times I happen to be going towards where he has his office He was going to be in a different area. So it's gonna happen eventually Photo prism AI object there is an open source self-hosted option photo prism is one of them that looked promising. I'll pull it up the There we go And it's I'll throw the site in here It's photo prism app for those of you that want to look along at it. This is one of them I did think looked interesting. I Don't know How well like everything looks great from a website standpoint like how well does it actually work is the question I have But it it really looks nice It maybe I'll set down and run this at some point So I want to do some object training and I have some of these little computers like the little ace magic one of reviewing and Setting something like that up or I had to look what it what else is supported in here some of these have support for Some of the highs at the tensor For some of the machine learning stuff. I think that'd be kind of cool, too I like photo prism. You can open VPN network and dump photos Yeah back when I Picasso was awesome into a Google destroyed it. So Ditch my UP alarm CCTV something open source. I have no suggestions for open source surveillance. I Don't know any good. There's lots of open source surveillance. There's a few of them out there I don't know any of them that I would actually say are good Oh, but good is a relative term. Some people go man. I like tinkering with all this And I like setting all this up manually then those may be for you But if you go I want something that works and has easy notifications to my phone and I can easily view it and manage it I've not seen an open source one that compares to like the one we talked about earlier analogy surveillance station I like this analogy surveillance station because it just works and it doesn't have recurring license fees And it's kind of an easy turnkey solution. I There's the open source ones out there Hold on This is one that you might be interested in is frigate Frigate NVR monitor your security cameras to locally processed AI. I think frigate looks kind of cool It's got some neat features. You can combine frigate with there's another one out there that has a weird name If you start digging around and for videos on things like frigate, but once again You're talking about something that's not easy. It's not like just this turnkey It's kind of a DIY project not but like that may be exactly what you're looking for So that's what it what it comes down to is what are you looking for turnkey easy to work? Like the UV system, but by the way, none of these are alarm systems. So the alarm part is not That's not easy. How do you keep your video lights for reflecting on glasses? Oh? So the way this works is I Actually don't look at the screen very often. I dead eye the camera, but it depends on which camera I actually have more than one camera in here. So the screen Is I'm putting my finger on top of the screen this the bottom of the screen I because my screen is movable is at the very edge of the camera and the camera set backwards this is actually a studio Canon studio camera. So it's not a webcam. Obviously. That's why it looks good and that camera set back and Zoomed in as far as it will go. It also does this. So if I have you know, use my coffee it'll actually focus and still give me Even though it's the camera's further away than you think but that's also Eliminates the look that it that it makes it it doesn't let you realize when I'm looking at the screen as easily So it's like right now my gaze is at the screen my gaze is there So it changes a little bit, but if I use my other camera, it's actually in a Teleprompter with a screen that reflects so I can look in if I'm doing a zoom or a call I can always dead. I would actually see the person and the lighting the trick to lighting is the lighting is up Hi, and at an angle. So if you bring the lights at an angle and think about your your what would this be physics? Angle of incident is equal to the angle of refraction. So you can see right now My screen in the glasses, but the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction because the the lights are Eight nine inches above my head. They're high and they're facing at an angle down So their angle of incidence goes this way an angle of refraction Or yeah angle of refraction angle of incidence someone correct me on my physics It's it's been a minute and I haven't I haven't had formal schooling since 1994 Shinobi that's the other one. I was looking for Shinobi makes a Nbr I remember trying it and one of my staff. I think it actually got it working a While ago. I don't know if that I you know I never really asked if anyone my staff are still using it, but Shinobi is another one that's out there I don't know how good it is it it but once again It comes down to what works for you I'm not one of those people who say you should use this actually it's really weird I would probably get more views because I I feel and I've seen a lot of people do this and not just network chalk A lot of people will say you should do this right now and I am not a pushy person I guess maybe maybe that's my problem because he certainly has a lot more subscribers to me I think people like to be told what to do more so than they think So you you become very popular if you're the definitive You should only use this device now It seems to attract a lot of attention and a lot of views so Yeah, I have softboxes I Probably have somewhere for people that want to know what my studio looks like somewhere Nope, not there. I think I have a studio picture. Hmm. Don't have a recent one Because there's always my my studio my studio is always a working product I mean, I guess you could say this is let me share this you could say this is where I'm sitting right now I'm sitting at this small monitor and there's my camera that's it's actually set back a little bit further now But that's the camera. I'm looking at and there's the microphone. So this is one computer just two screens Blue iris is an open source, but it's another option. My problem with blue iris is it runs on Windows so the The blue iris one I mean a lot of people seem to like it I I've never been a big fan of the fact that the runs on Windows is where I stop with it Because we're leaving a Windows system on all the time just to run your nvr. I don't like that idea personally. So Do this now before it's too late one small trick will solve your Wi-Fi problems. Yeah. Yeah, I avoid a lot of those type of things so, yeah, I Don't know that's not my personality type for those that know me Telling people to think and make a decision for themselves Yeah, it's a very less popular thing. There is no doubt about it You know, you need to learn Linux right now is is definitely where you're gonna get I it's just what you get engagement on and I don't know. There's a there's a Balance to that has to be kept for those type of things. It's it's definitely tricky definitely tricky Good morning, and I know you're a couple time zones on the other side. So You're you're certainly up early my friend if you guys don't follow DB tech go like and subscribe to DB tech He's got some great videos Have you taken with chasm and you know, yes, I tinkered with it. They want to sponsor they do so This is where I don't know if people realize this chasm and they've been reaching out to me They want to they were thrown they want to throw money at me to do a video And I just kind of been busy doing things and I try but it's gonna have it's gonna change I'm gonna do more sponsored videos. I I've been trying to avoid some of the sponsorships But YouTube decided that revenue is not for me and they've cut everyone's ad revenue Well, not everyone's but a massive amount of people have lost Substantially their ad revenue and without the money coming in it takes time and effort to produce these So I may have to do some sponsored content But I'm always very clear and I'm not gonna call out names But some people seem to be a little fuzzier that their videos on such things were sponsored by them I know I talked to the sponsorship people all the time I can you know, they'll pay quite well and what what people don't realize is some of these youtubers are paid $30-40,000 to do a video on something and you go wait that was a sponsored video I'm like, yeah that person was sponsored to talk about chasm to talk about in certain name of thing So I haven't replied I replied to them But I just told them I'm not interested at the moment because they want to sponsor me on a video I mean, that's how I get it. This is definitely how the marketing system works They sponsor video the problem the things that I'm trying to absolutely make clear on my channel all the time Is if a video is sponsored and I have I think two sponsored videos of my entire library of videos They're in a playlist called sponsored videos. So they're easy to find. They're also at the beginning I said this is a sponsored video this vendor paid me to do a tutorial on your project. I Don't mind being paid to do a tutorial on a project. I never call those a review people imply sometimes a sponsored video might be a review Reviews and sponsorships do not mix People may mix them. I do not so all I think chasm is cool That's my long answer for in case people are wondering about behind the scenes of YouTube and things like that I think it's chasm is pretty neat. I just haven't had a strong use case for it I don't sandbox that many things that I mean I have sandboxes I just don't use chasm for it. Maybe in the future. I will it's it's pretty cool product. I like it problem Boris has made it work is Made to work with all cameras and not all security Yeah, I retired in Mexico love it burned out No one reads or a church who downy co love tech and I'm back Best Wi-Fi today. I still think unify is the best bang for the buck Unify still solid home lab. I'm tired. I'm trying to remember all my VM IPs. Do you recommend home lab DNS tea? Yeah, I I set reservations for everything DNS I If I need it depends on what I'm accessing, you know, my fresh RSS feed has DNS the Not many other things do it depends on if I access it a lot like even my salary I don't have DNS on but for anything like for my business, I should say the business side has a series of URLs no one has to memorize IP addresses because it's for all the staff. I'm Maybe I'm just good at memorizing IP addresses. I know the IP address of everything that's important to my network You ain't perfect, but you admit it overall decent tech tuber tries to be honest personally Don't agree with your choices one third of the time But different backgrounds fair enough Lunch break and walking vlog Thursday. Awesome. Long Thursday is gonna go another 15-20 minutes before I have to go because I have a manager meeting today, which is why this is so early Can't confirm not all the jip viewer with a dachi server. No, sir Show me is better than zone-minder probably Yeah, Pio can work as a DNS the DHCP. Yeah Home lab DNS and tail scale a lot of tail scale So absolutely tail scale is definitely awesome So the what I'm going to be doing a big part of today is we have four quarterly management meetings at CNW are for those You that are Wondering what a CNW are is that is the company that I Took and split the tech side of my company versus the creative side, which you're dealing with right now with the YouTube side So instead of being The owner by myself of an IT company I took the IT company and consultancy all my employees all my contracts all my customers and merged them with CNW are and So I am a shareholder in CNW are as in I'm part of the owners and managers of them And yeah, it's it's really cool because I get to do more creative stuff And that's why I've been working on more and more videos and CNW are which I still do consulting under that name So if you if you hire us for consulting or hire me specifically We have a much bigger staff now, but if you hire someone for consulting it always goes through you start with hey I want to hire warrant systems and you end up at CNW are so and we're very clear on that I mean, that's where that it tells you we have the whole process broken down and explained so You could say the company I sold to But emerged with is a better answer because it's not really a sale It's a trade in equity and me and Jason talked about this. I'm very open about how the transaction worked And we've talked about this in our business technicalities, but yeah, it's basically really simple where we went and Put the companies together So, you know because there was different things that CNW are had that were structurally Helpful and the business was growing fast and I didn't want to run it anymore. So now I don't have to do the daily HR Managing people we also have about 30 employees now. So there's a lot more Things going on. We only had previously. I think it was eight or nine of us so now that now we're merged in so there's about 30 people and so growing and Jason's legal is the president of all that So this is and I'll be spending the rest of the day in our quarterly manager meeting where we set forth the policies of the companies and all That fun stuff. So I'm technically an owner, but also an employee of CNW are at the same time. So yes They do employ me if you will as an I draw a paycheck from there, but I also draw Profit sharing because I own shares in the company There a the way if you're not far away shares work and We're a both my companies Lawrence systems, which still exists I own a hundred percent of the shares where an S corp and CNW are is an S corp And I own a percentage of shares and that as well. It'd be fun to see you do a Doug DeMiro You know, I've I wanted to borrow that because I love Doug DeMiro's intros are so good Here's the quirks and features, you know, you will grab something I have sitting here Here are all the quirks and features of my little device here. Oh, if you ever wonder what this is This is where I play Tetris If you if you want to know my favorite game Tetris and yeah, definitely more Tetris The it's this is one of those little Privilege boxes this one. I forgot the name of this one. I don't know There's there's people way better at retro gaming Talking about it than me because I end up watching them to figure out what retro gaming devices By the way, there's a bug in pf sensor tailscare where if you use a custom controller server You can't establish direct connection sometimes because listening port is random. It's on bugzilla. Oh good. Hopefully they fixed that So now if you do CNW artwork, do you get a paycheck for your time? I'm salary So I always get a paycheck for my time I'm I'm salary on I still am paid from both I paid for both companies because technically the way it has to work here And this is the way tax laws work. I I get draws on the profits companies make you can get a draw on that But you have to have or the IRS thinks you're avoiding payroll taxes. You have to have payroll So I am payrolled on Lawrence systems I am payrolled on CNW are along with everybody else and then you also receive percentages and draws That come in from the profits that are above and beyond some of the costs of the company Retroid pocket. Yes. Hello. Currently have a beefy server PC running trunas I want to add more services. It's home assistant. Blah. Blah. I guess everybody are proxbox hosts Then you know Running a separate server for your virtualization versus trunas Not a bad idea The trunas virtualization works, but it's really basic I just don't think they made the most robust choices for virtualization and because of that It may be something that if you want to keep expanding on you'll run into limitations if you do it in trunas Now windel talked about it because if the if the your constraints are I can't afford another machine, etc And that's fine The solution might be run a singular virtual machine in trunas load something like portainer on it and then docker eyes all of your other things portainer makes docker easy to manage and It also means you can still use your standard docker setup scripts that you may find for setting something up But if you're an illustrator of managing docker from the command line Portainer gives you a nice webinar face It also happens to run in docker to manage all of the other docker things that you have So definitely kind of a that's another solution. It comes down to Do you have the budget to buy a second machine? Does that fit within there? It's going to be easier if you buy a second machine, but if that doesn't fit your budget one trunas machine I mean, I like consolidation It it makes things a lot easier But you know that comes down to what do you have access to and how do you want to do it? I like playing with you know having all the machines Because I like I like the diversity of connecting them all together and building up a bit I would definitely run separate kvm. Q me you like proxmox or pier for sure Yeah, it just it gives you a little bit more flexibility and you're never tied to the weird bugs that you may run into There's been bugs over time and maybe they may be getting better But I honestly wouldn't say that You have when you're using something like trunas for your virtualization That their focus is giving you the best virtualization experience They don't have a good backup for it. Um, it's kind of I've got a whole video on it I break down the pros and cons of using it versus if you use xcp and g if you use Um proxmox or something else you're gonna get like all these nice solid virtualization machines that you can back up and restore And deal with it works out really well. Matter of fact one things that I want to point out here And this is going to be in an upcoming video about running xcp and g in your home lab but I want to put this on people's radar for Those that are familiar with xcp and g. Also, I have to leave in about six or seven more minutes but if You want to run xcp and g on a machine without having to worry about having the resources taken up by your zeta orchestra Why this is where people get confused and they don't like sometimes xcp and g because they don't like that There's a separate vm sucking up resources on their system That doesn't have to be the case. I've mentioned this but let's be more concise on it If you decide to run zen orchestra on your trunas box, you can absolutely do that. You can run trunas Because it's an ass. It's running all the time zen orchestra on this system And then from there now you have the ability to Back up restore move files around and everything else or move backups around Manage your system and it doesn't have to run on a separate machine So running this inside a trunas makes the xcp and g really easy Matter of fact because zen orchestra can manage many machines I can reboot I can update my machines and never have to worry about Rebooting zen orchestra because it lives over here on the trunas system And because it's on the trunas system it has fast access to all of the data for the backups So this is another thing I want to throw out there. I just it works really really well Do do do Cool. I have a couple I was I was looking I had a couple of people email me on vlog Thursday But they're not recent. Well, they are but they're not relevant to to read. It's something I'm going to reply to later Anyways, sorry got distracted easily All right I run jellyfin and tailscale on my yeah, it works Some of the trunas apps chart and native are not well implemented. Correct. I will agree with you all day on that Have you come across any issues with n-top ng and pf sense in general? I see massive swap memory usage. I am Utilize version that just some cpu goes to 100 for n-top. Yeah, it's it's cpu intensive It if you have any type of tool that tracks all the connections that you have it's going to be intensive um You you this is like when people are speccing out a pf sense or like tom What do I need for 10 gig pf sense? I'm like minimal cpu. What do I need for a 1 gig pf sense with a thousand users? And I'll go really low cpu and if someone says oh, but I want to run n-top ng All right get get some ram get some past drives to store it n-top ng takes more resources than a thousand users to just running routing routing is really simple n-top ng tracking all the states of all the routing and building metrics around it. It's not simple That's the simplest way. I can say it. It's resource intensive This is true in the enterprise environments where If you have servers that are doing full monitoring and managing they're often separated but feed from Your routing equipment and yeah, it's it's it's tracking connections is resource intensive If there's a whole lab you can virtualize true nas on xpp and g although an ideal if your hardware is limited It does actually work as long as you're passing through the drives properly or the controller So it has access to the so true nas has access to drives. Yes Causes my pf sense my guess is you just don't have enough resources for it any of the machines we have it running on are If you looked sericata is second to n-top in terms of how much processing power is being used So when there's a lot going on on a network you'll watch n-top use even more resources than something like sericata or snort You just need a fast machine to run it. There's that's the one downside of it and it scales based on how many connections you have Having xl on a different hypervisor is better because something goes wrong. Although xl light is When xl lights completely change You can do that, but if very cool unsupported configuration for zen orchestra I mean, this is not a commercial support. This is home lab. So yeah, it's it's not you're not going to get support for this If that's what you're asking is it the official way to do it? No, not at all. I'm talking about how to tinker in your home lab and I maybe I should preface it with that context, but for those you're looking for a Less resource attentive way to tinker with things in your home lab. This is not something i'm going to sell commercially uh to do to do Hyper product like a new tanix they all go They all go down once or hyper converged Yeah, they're hyper converge is a double-edged sword cool magic also. Oh, no the magic quit working um when you build really complicated solutions they There's it's one of those things where a really complicated solution presents very well like you look at it go Wow, it just does amazing things and it makes my life so easy But when those complicated solutions aren't supported very well or when an update breaks them You know, I always kind of joke read the reddit post when reddit went down because kubernetes updates happened kubernetes updates took reddit down for I think like 16 hours and they have a team of engineers that work with kubernetes It's it's just one of those things that happens. It's a complicated system thinking about adding a home assistant to a home lab Shelly was a company recommended for my smart home needs never heard of them before this week Are they solid looking? I always I don't know who um I I'm all in on home assistant. We'll just say that home assistant's awesome I mean something happens on top to cause cpu to go 10 for hours I'm guessing I'll have to purge package and could be cash something went wrong. Maybe I'm not sure what Went wrong if that happened. Um, so I'm just throwing that out there I work in plc automation, which new software is showing where I can go for more info I don't really I don't work in plc automation. So I don't know I see people here recommending shelly Um, I don't think I had much experience in the shelly stuff. So I my home assistant. Yes, um, but there's There's plenty of channels that I you can watch or reading in the forums about some of the good home assistant stuff But unfortunately, I had to wind this down now because I gotta go to the management meeting which I will be there for a while looking forward to hearing from all of you and uh, Definitely, uh, this is awesome. Love that everyone was able to join this early in the morning Uh, let me know in the comments if you'd like to see some more morning things for me to do there I don't mind. Maybe I should do like the coffee with tom or something like that Here's a weird statistic that I'll share with you before I leave And I this is funny. This is not this. Well, it's discouraging But it's not so discouraging that it makes me stop I want to show people something about the way the live streams work And this is just a weird anomaly to me We'll grab I think we can just click on the uh, analytics Hope not this one I gotta do the Vlog Thursday ones. Here we go. Oh, I actually Grabbed one that worked So let's pull it Come on add so This one I actually got two subscribers from so I get two subscribers on this live stream But let's look at another one. Let's look at this live stream Losing a subscriber most of my live streams Lose me a subscriber. I don't know why and this is a net effect. So there might be um There might be people who subscribe there might people unsubscribed But the net effect was negative one negative one is so common across my live streams And here's like a sunday live stream Negative one you you can grab so many of these. I don't it's just weird how it works out this way Negative one I can go through so many of these and it just Weird how this happens. I don't know if it's a youtube bug Uh, but it it's a weird coincidence that so many live streams are negative one Also, you may have noticed the ad revenue is all over the stupid place um, for some reason on this video. I made A 74 cents and in another video I make 11 dollars. I don't know why Thank you youtube for being a mystery Here's another one 74 cents, but two but this is a plus two and not a negative one If you ever wondered how hard it is to be a youtuber and figure out the stupid algorithm Welcome to my world. It doesn't make it never makes any sense to any of us it's you see these This is what's so weird is it's just back and forth um If you gain subs during live streams as possible, is it just subs expiring since the same day? I don't know Um, they don't tell you any of that like you're seeing the same thing I have access to and this is the thing that youtubers don't have Secret places where we get more information. Uh, we have to deal with it And when we ask the youtube people you can watch us and twitter all complaining about it It's so random So, oh, I mean 15 dollars and gained one subscriber. I don't know. It's just strange But most of the time the majority of them seem to lose me a subscriber But the good news is and let's go back over these are all just live streams here If we look at the live streams that I do for the homelab show Oh, this is actually usually I gain on these. Let me look at another one negative one so Uh plus four and we made six dollars on this live stream Rolling in that youtube ad money the ad money is gone in case anyone's wondering I used to make I used to have less views less subscribers and made Four times what I was making in youtube ad revenue and yeah, youtube decided ad revenue is not going to be shared with a Lot of channels anymore not. I don't know whatever that just means you're going to see a lot more, uh Sponsorship. Oh good. Now we have a new error error loading monetization settings some information may be missing or inaccurate It does this a lot too whatever That's how I feel YouTube may have inaccurate information on their revenue with their creators shocking I think youtube may have created a beast that they that is the answer. I think is the most logical You know sorting out all the bs. I don't think youtube understands the algorithm anymore I think you're right Yes, I talked to him. I I think Lawn has a good grip on it as well. I watched lawn's video on it I did a video on it lawn did a video on it. I agree with him a lot I in it comes back down to what someone said I think youtube's created a beast and they're having a hard time managing But I will be in trouble probably I I do like to be on time for management meetings Oh, look, there there's uh bret because yes bret is still around for those of you That followed my channel for a while He spends more of his time on the business technicality channel But I think me and bret have to go to the management meeting and this he he just looks for me on a live stream and go Hey, that's why tom's not here because bret lives down the street for me and the management meetings also down the street for me Uh, so we're gonna go do that. Thanks everyone for joining and I'll talk to you later