112: Red Light, Green Light

December 15th, 2023  |  58 mins 3 secs

amazon, amd ryzen, apple, chromecasts, connector, controller, couchdb, data signal, designers, developers, domestic automation, door/window sensor, end users, esphome, foss leaders, framework, google, home assistant, iot networks, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, justice department, led, leds, linuxfest northwest, livesync plugin, obsidian, obsidian sync, plex, plug, post, power, push notifications, raspberry pi satellites, relay, remote satellites, s3-box-3, scale, self-hosting podcast, southern california linux expo, sysadmins, texas linux fest, tizen, track, washington post, water leak sensor, websocket api, wled, wyoming integration, zigbee

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.

98: The One with 45Drives

June 2nd, 2023  |  46 mins 19 secs

45drives, affordability, alexa, amazon, celebrity voices, cli tooling, community guidance, connectivity, delete data, design, discontinuation, disk space usage, document management, document scanner, documents, dua-cli, electronic health records, enterprise-level, fast, fasten, financial performance, form factors, home lab server, insurance, joplin, june 7th, jupiter broadcasting, linux, melissa mccarthy, microsoft, nas products, network storage, nextcloud, notes, obsidian, onenote, paperless-ngx, performance models, photos, podverse, purchase, purging, raw drone footage, refund, rework, samuel l. jackson, self-hosting podcast, september 30th, shaquille o'neal, sharepoint, sorting, tailscale, vlog source files, vs code dev containers

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.