April 8, 2025 • 60 mins
In this LIVE episode, Ed and Stefano take a deep dive into the Unraid 7.10 Beta, unpacking exciting new features like built-in Wi-Fi support, ZFS pools, improved GPU management, and advanced dashboard customization. They discuss the importance of responsive web design for mobile access and how to manage multiple Unraid servers with custom tabs.
The conversation shifts to media management, with updates on new containers and GPU performance testing. The hosts then tackle the frustrations of installing Windows 11 — from Microsoft account requirements to de-bloating tools that clean up the OS.
They share personal experiences with GPU upgrades and transcoding challenges, before comparing Plex and Jellyfin as go-to media server solutions. The discussion expands into open-source AI developments, the buzz around the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2, and plans for a trip to Japan.
Rounding out the episode, Ed and Stefano highlight the latest Unraid updates, share their experiences with Nextcloud migration, and invite community feedback for future topics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
kick back and relax, with ed and stefano unleashed.
Well, hello everyone.
I think we are live.
We are live, I think, stefanoyes, we are definitely live
excellent.
So, anyway, step right up.
All of you nas nerds, dockerheads, data hoarders and
tailscale tinkerers.
Welcome back to ed and StefanoUnleashed.
(00:22):
So this is episode two.
So brace yourself, everyone,because we are live Now.
I tell you, stefano, I ambuzzing, mate.
I'm a little nervous, butmainly excited.
I've got about three appsrunning just to keep my
temperatures in check.
But seriously, shout out toeveryone who caught episode one,
we recorded that one, but nowthe gloves are off and we're
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ready to go live.
How are you doing, stefano?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm good, I'm excited , I got some drink here to keep
the edge off.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, I've got a little bit of some type of
energy drink in my lovely Unraidglass here.
That looks nice.
So, anyway, coming up today,we're going to be diving into
talking about the Unraid 7.10beta, some eye candy on
dashboards, a bit of GPU madness, some new self-hosting tools,
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and I'm going to talk a littlebit about micro usb devices, for
some weird reason as well.
Anyway, today's episode isabsolutely stacked.
So, anyway, shall we move onand start talking about, I think
, the new release of unraidseven yeah, uh, didn't the beta
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3 just drop like the beta 3 did.
I just installed it this morningactually, okay, yeah um, I
think the biggest thing in there.
Well, how can I say the biggestthing I did?
I just installed it thismorning actually.
Okay, yeah, I think the biggestthing in there.
Well, how can I say the biggestthing?
There's kind of three biggestthings really.
But I think what a lot ofpeople will really like is the
Wi-Fi support, because anyonewho's setting up a server and
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they may be kind of in rentalaccommodation and there's no
wired LAN and you don't want torun a huge cable from one room
to another it's going to allowyou to run your server and just
collect, connect it to yourwi-fi.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'm going to try and share my screen and just show
you guys what that looks likeand it actually makes sense for
once, because with the advent oflike wi-fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7, you
know we can still push, you know, like over gigabit speeds with
Wi-Fi 6 and over gigabit speedswith Wi-Fi 7, especially if
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you're on that 6 gigahertz band.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And you know, if you're running a media server
and you're just streaming thingslike Jellyfin NB or Plex, it's
going to be absolutely perfectfor that as well.
You think a lot of us, you know, we're already using Wi-Fi
clients, like an NVIDIA Shield,apple TV, and they're all Wi-Fi.
So I think it's going to workreally, really well.
Now you can see, here we've gotvarious different.
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You know these are my two wiredinterfaces, but here's the
Wi-Fi and you can see here I'mconnected to my wi-fi here
galactica and here are my othernetworks in the local area and
if I click onto info here, wecan see here here's all the
specs, my ip address etc.
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Now I don't actually have awi-fi card for this server, but
what I did is I just plugged inthis here.
I've just actually pulled outthe service.
I've probably probably doesn'treally like that, but it's just
a USB stick I probably had for10 years just plugged it in and
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work straight out the box, soreally awesome.
You know it's pretty cool.
If I ever wanted to take asmall server away, visiting
family or something, I couldbring it down and connect it to
their Wi-Fi and use it locally.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, it definitely gives you a lot more flexibility
for whatever use case.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Sharing less.
And another big feature,Stefano, I think your favorite
feature is foreign ZFS pools.
Yeah, that's definitely one ofthem.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I think that favorite feature is foreign ZFS pools.
Yeah, yeah, that's definitelyone of them.
I think that's a really coolimplementation.
It's kind of funny.
I didn't even realize thatwasn't a thing.
I thought you could justalready do that.
So when they made thatannouncement I was like wait,
what I was like, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, so we can import.
Take a Zpool out of somethinglike TrueNAS and just import it
natively into the Android server.
Just put it in, select all ofthe disks, set it to auto, start
it up.
It will import those drives.
So if you want to switchplatforms, it's very, very easy.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That's definitely really cool.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
A super cool feature.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The QXL stuff, I think is also really interesting
as well.
The fact that you can just haveone graphics card now be used
by multiple VMs is so cool.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
VerXL is it called?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm sorry, VerGL Sorry, VerGL.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, that's super cool.
So basically we're able tosplit up your GPU.
I think it's only AMD and Intelcurrently, correct?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yep, right now, and you know, typical NVIDIA can't
do anything right?
Yeah, I know it's not a goodyear for NVIDIA.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And, you know, still no proper Linux drivers for the
5000 series.
I'll moan about that a bitlater on, though Let me just
check the chat in case peopleare talking to us.
So I want to just say toeveryone there is about a 10
second delay from when you typeto when we'll actually receive
it.
So if we're not answeringstraight away, we're not
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actually being rude and ignoringyou.
It's just that we probablyhaven't actually seen that as
yet.
Well, stefano is, I'm not,stefano is the rude one.
It's not rude, it's honesty.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Does anyone happen to use QXL or Spice really instead
of over VNC?
Do you use Spice over?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
VNC Ed.
Can someone just oh, I don'tuse Spice, sorry, I was just
getting a bit confused with thelive stream there.
Oh really, A bit of a delay.
Personally, I don't use Spice,to be honest, and I don't use
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WebVNC.
I personally use something likeRDP.
I'm a big fan of somethingcalled Splashtop Desktop.
I've been using it forabsolutely years.
I really like it becausethey've got a personal version
where it's free on your ownlocal network and it also does
gpu acceleration if you've gotlike an nvidia graphics card.
So it's really really goodquality.
It's got sound as well and alittle tip for people is sorry.
(06:35):
A little tip for people is ifyou use it over tail scale, then
you can actually use itremotely without having to pay
the huge fee of I think it'sonly 16.99 anyway for the
license to use it remotely um,for the personal version.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But it's a really really easy way to actually
connect to different devices youjust have a list of the ones
spice should do a 3dacceleration as well yeah, I
think it does yeah.
And then with Spice, you know.
So if you have like a Mac Ithink on Mac you have to have
like in Homebrew you do have todownload something so you can
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connect to Spice.
But otherwise it's mostlyubiquitous, maybe even more so
than VNC is.
And that's why I was curious,because I've been, I use Spice
when I can and I love it becauseit's got USB redirection and
all that stuff.
I have used Splashtop a littlebit, but I think I definitely
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like Spice more so because it'sall locally controlled and
hosted right.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, I've always found Spice when I try it out.
It kind of doesn't go well tofull screen for me when I try
and use it.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I don't know why, really that's strange.
Might be something I'm doing abit wrong no, no way, you no way
, never, never once now anothercool thing in unraid in the new
unraid is um multi-monitor qxlyeah, that's something.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Is that something you've tried?
I?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
haven't tried it yeah , no, I haven't tried it.
I guess I'm like strangebecause I don't do vms anymore,
like I'm just 100 containers.
I don't even have the vmenabled in my unraid a
configuration.
But you know if if I were goingto for any reason, that would
definitely be something I wouldcheck out because, like you know
, like a lot of systems arelimited to 560x1440.
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And in some cases, especiallywith VNC, it's hard to go to
resolutions beyond 3840x1440.
But if you have.
QXL.
In theory you can do that now,because you just make them split
screens or two differentscreens.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, and I've got a super widescreen monitor, 49
inches wide.
It'd be really nice to be ableto actually have dual monitors
on the VM and just put them sideby side, so it's like 27 inch
either side and it will fill upthe whole monitor.
So I think that'll be prettycool.
Just wondering anyone in theaudience have you actually tried
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out any of the new features,such as Wi-Fi or the virtual
GPUs or the new QXL?
Anyway, there's going to be abit of a delay, so I'll see if
anyone is doing that currently.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
So you said you've tried the new dashboard.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, I know last time I said I don't use
dashboards.
You know confession time Lastmonth I said I didn't use a
dashboard, but I've caved andI've got one set up and I'm
quite loving it.
A little bit I've only had itset up for a few days and
reading a Reddit post.
I will try and bring thatReddit post up to show everyone
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what I'm talking about.
Of course, I won't botherbringing up the Reddit post, but
a lot of people are talkingabout dashboards and I actually
caved and installed one and I'mquite liking it because I've got
multiple servers in the HomeLab.
Being able to actually linkthings using Tailscale into the
dashboard is actually quite anice little touch.
(09:59):
I think I've seen some picturesof people using their
dashboards and they look prettyawesome.
I'm trying to at the moment puta little background picture on
mine.
I believe you've got to createa directory in the app data for
let me tell you which one I'musing.
I've actually forgotten I'musing Homepage.
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I'm not sure if anyone else outthere is using Homepage, but
I've been using it for about twoor three days and it looks
pretty nice and I want toactually add a background image
to it to make it look reallynice and cool, but you know
you're not using dashboards atall, are you, stefano, really?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
No, no, I am not, I am looking.
So I saw that link.
I can't post it in the YouTubechat because I'm not like a mod
or anything, but I am looking atthat dashboard that you just
said that I can't remember thename of, even though I'm looking
right at it, but it's notlisted Homepage.
That looks pretty clean.
I like it.
So far I haven't seen anydashboards that I don't dislike.
I just I don't know, I guess Ijust don't.
I'm not really in Unraid enoughto really need a dashboard, I
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guess.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, I've always kind of thought I don't need
them because I use basicallybrowser browser favorite tabs.
But um, yeah, it does lookquite nice and you know, I can
definitely see.
You know why people like it andit's just quite good fun to
actually customize things andyeah, yeah, there's definitely a
big appeal like that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm looking at dashy right now.
That oh yeah, new plays justmentioned, that's like kind of
old school.
I like that.
It's on github here, let mesend you.
I'm gonna send you a link inchat I'm just gonna share my
screen a moment.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So this is what the dashboard looks like on the
reddit post, and this is the oneI was talking about yeah,
that's pretty clean.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's sick it's.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's nice.
You know, I like the littleicons showing when various
services are up, but you canactually have like a
semi-transparent mess on thedashboard with an image behind,
and that's what I'm gonna tryand set up next week, I think do
like a star wars backgroundthat's a good question, like
star wars or star trek.
(11:59):
Hey, it'll probably changeevery week, you know.
Maybe I can figure out a way tohave it.
So the background changes everyday based on what?
that'd be cool the only thing Idon't like about this is you
have to use yaml files toconfigure everything yeah, yaml
is kind of a pain in the arse itis I don't really like yaml
very much so you could do achanging background where, like
you, start with episode one orthe prequels and then go to the
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originals.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm not sure what happened.
It looks like it's still liveto me.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It does.
Let's just see if it continuesto be live Looks, live to me.
Yeah, are we still there foreveryone?
Hopefully.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, you could.
You know how you release thatmoving image?
I think you did.
On the forums.
You released the moving imageof the AT-AT or whichever it was
On the Unraid dashboard.
Yeah, david was asking ifyou're going to have a Space
Invader guide for installing ahomepage.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I don't know what, sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Are you going to create a guide for how to do the
homepage install?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
If everyone wants that, yeah, you know for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And then I don't know if you saw that link, but Noob
also gave us a link to a Dashydashboard.
You should definitely check itout.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's really cool.
Let's have a look at that.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, I put it in Riverside.
It's really cool.
It's kind of retro.
I think you would love it.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I don't know if I'd use it.
I think this is going to makeme give up my current dashboard,
is it?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It huge delay between us and YouTube, but that's okay
, that's expected.
And, speaking of dashboards,there it is.
There it is.
Yeah, look at that.
Yeah, I love the text that theychose to go with on that one.
It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And I wonder if you upload your own icons or if
they're all kind of.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I would assume that you could upload your own icons,
because, yeah, I mean I wouldassume so Much, in the same way
that you can do custom icons foryour containers, right.
So I would guess.
But you know, kind of circlingback to the beta 3 release,
unraid is finally going to have.
Well, they're finally testingresponsive webpages, and I know
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for what?
Like 10 years now we haven'thad responsive webpages.
You know, as more and morepeople are using mobile devices
to connect to their servers,it's like, hey, now's the time,
don't delay anymore.
And it's good to finally seethat Unraid's going to support
that.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
So hopefully, maybe we'll get an app one day.
Yeah, it's going to be a gamechanger when we've got, like you
know, know the response to webpages for sure.
I personally never reallyconnect to my unraid server
through me, neither a mobiledevice.
I might on my tablet sometimes,but I never, I never do on my
phone.
I can barely read the text onmy phone at the best of times.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, there was there's only like a very rare
occasions when I need to do that, and that's like if I'm on, if
I'm traveling, and it's likegreat, my server is not
accessible, or something like.
Or like like jelly fins areaccessible and I need a
troubleshoot, or something likethat.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Or someone saying my voice is a little low.
Yeah, you are a little quiet tobe honest, so hopefully that's
a little, a little better.
I'm sorry, Stefano.
What were you saying?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't really remember.
I know the last thing I saidwas about responsive webpages
and maybe, hopefully, we get anapp one day.
That'd be really cool.
I don't know how an app wouldwork.
Do any other applications havean app?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
There are some apps that you can get for Unraid that
have been around for quite awhile.
I can't remember off the top ofmy head what the name is of
them, but it wouldn't be as goodas a native app from LimeTek
that's kind of built in.
People have done the best theycan to make an app for a mobile
device.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I think it may actually be harder to hear you
now than before.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Really Give me one moment, tell me if this gets any
better.
How's that now?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It doesn't sound like it changed.
So while Ed plays with that,does anybody else have any other
dashboards that you guys use orrecommend?
I feel like this topic comes upa lot.
I see it online on the forumsand then on Reddit about people
asking for dashboards and things.
So if anyone has one, thatwould be cool, because I think
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I'm slowly starting to get.
I guess that seed's beenplanted so I'm slowly coming
around to the idea of maybetrying out a dashboard,
especially maybe on my like mybackup server or something I'm
always afraid to touch myproduction server.
David uses homepage as well.
Yeah, that homepage one'spretty nice Right now.
I think I'm a little bit moreleaning towards Dashy right now.
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And then there's so manydashboard options.
I don't know how you guys couldchoose one, but anyway, I'm
always a little scared to modifyUnraid, especially my main
server that I use every day.
I'm sure the dashboard won'tbreak anything.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It runs in a Docker container.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It does.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's not going to do anything bad at all.
It's basically like a webserver with links to other
things, so you're not going tobreak anything.
It's not a plugin, so if youdon't like it, you can just nuke
it, delete it and it's gone,the one thing, Hopefully
everyone can hear me a bitbetter now, so I'm really sorry
about that everyone sounds goodto me, cool, the one thing I
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wish.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
So Timothy just brought this up and I wish that
Unraid kind of had it too.
So have you ever used Cockpit,like on Fedora?
Yeah, I really wish that withUnraid, since you and I have
multiple servers.
Other, there's tons of peoplethat have multiple servers.
Obviously It'd be really coolto have another tab or an option
to switch to your other serveronce they're connected via SSH
or something.
I know that we technically havethat with Unraid Connect, but I
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think it would be, because Ican imagine a situation where
there's someone who's totallyoffline, like they're in the
woods or they're traveling orwhatever.
It would just be really cool tohave the ability to keep it all
local as well yeah, I'll showyou something now.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
This is nothing like cockpit, okay.
Okay, I'm going to share myscreen.
What I like to do is, on theunraid dashboard at the top is I
have various tabs using thecustom tabs and I have them go
to other servers and if you usetail scale ips, it will work.
It will work with other thingsas well, and things that are not
in your own network.
So if you had a server that wasoutside of your network, it
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would still work.
So I'll just share my screenand show you guys.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
All right, Ed, I got to tell you we got to be on our
most proper behavior.
Okay, the CEO is here, so makesure you behave.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I will be on my very best behavior now.
So you see at the top herebehavior now.
So you see at the top here.
Yes, if I click on base starokay, you know I'm clicking on
the riverside bit.
Let's actually click on thereal screen, not the actual.
I was like I didn't see youclick.
If I had a brain I would bedangerous it's the nerves.
It's the nerves you see,clicking onto it just brings me
kind of straight in, so cool.
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Yeah, I have reset this serverup, so unfortunately it doesn't
have the same buttons, but Inormally kind of duplicate it,
so it's exactly the same.
You see all these other serversalong the top here.
All of these are currentlyturned off so I can't really
show you them, but on everyserver I have these all
identical, so you just clickonto whichever one you want and
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it just goes between each server.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
That's pretty high speed.
Yeah, that's awesome.
It's quite nice.
Do you have a video or a thingto show how to set that up?
You do right, I think you do.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I did a video on my Space Invader 1 channel.
I think I called itTurbocharged Custom.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Tabs.
That's what it was.
Yeah, I'm going to look intothat because I kind of want that
for my setup now.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Because what I did on it as well is I made it so.
When you click the tab, it runsa custom script that will send
a wake on LAN.
Let me try and pronounce thatproperly Wake on LAN.
Yeah, magic packet To a serverthat's asleep, and so I keep all
my servers asleep rather thanoff, and then so from the
dashboard, I can actually clickon it and wake other servers up,
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even when I'm away from home.
So I just tail scale into theserver that's on 24 7 and then
click onto any one of the otherservers and it would wake it up
through the actual gui.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So I thought that was something that is really cool,
like I always I think a magicpackage or wake on on lands,
always like superunderappreciated for what you
can do with it, like being likeyou can turn it on.
You can turn on your serverswith your phone, you can do it
locally over the network.
I mean that like, and that'sexisted for decades, but it's a
feature that often goes kind ofunder the radar and then also
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we'll get left out sometimes onsome other boards and it's like
just keep it included with yournetwork adapter.
There's no reason to exclude it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And the problem is with wake on LAN and sleep is it
is really flaky?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
really it is what I find sometimes has happened for
me in the past.
I put a server to sleep andthen when you wake it up after
sleep, sometimes an HBA cardhasn't woken up properly and
then the drives will actuallydrop out of the array.
Or one of the drives doesn'twake properly and wake in time,
and it is.
It's dropped out of the array.
So you've got to be quitecareful with that.
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I think if you wrote some kindof script to have, when it wakes
, what's it called emtp orwhatever to kind of wait a
little bit before it starts, Ithink it's just like the system
starts too quickly before thehardware is woken up properly.
But it doesn't happen on everyserver and it happened on one of
my servers once before.
But also I find sometimes whenit wakes from sleep it can just
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be kind of a bit flaky, butobviously it's quite hardware
and motherboard related.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
A long time ago, one of my first jobs we had about 20
computers that were stacked ontop of each other and we wrote a
script to turn them on like oneon each side all the way up,
because they were like on astack right and the power
supplies were so loud that whenthey were power on you'd hear
like click, click, click, click,click.
And so we tried to like adjustit a little bit so that way it
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would kind of make a tune.
But it was really hard to dothat, but it was so cool, like
we'd come in in the morning, runthe script, it'd turn on all
the computers and you'd justhear all the clicking noise from
the power supplies coming on.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
That was so awesome One thing I like doing on my
servers I'm a bit of a nerd is Ilove putting beep speakers in
servers.
So you know the little kind ofthing that goes on the
motherboard header with thespeaker thing.
And I made a container ages andages ago.
I've never made a video aboutit, but the software is on
community applications that willconvert an MP3 into beep music,
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and so what I like to do is,when a script runs on my server,
if it fails, I have it play theimperial march do you show me
this?
when I came to visit you, Imight have done I can't remember
because I was like this soundsreally familiar yeah, and if a
script is, um, if it does well,it does the kind of mario
(22:40):
achievement, yeah, and if ascript does well, it does the
kind of Mario achievement.
So you know, when I'm sittingat my desk, if I hear the
Imperial March, I think okay,something's gone wrong.
What is it?
So it's quite nice to have theaudible kind of triggers, anyway
.
So anyway, moving on, there's alot of talk about a new
container called in the ARSseries of apps, called Profiler,
which is used for managingSonar and Radar custom formats.
(23:06):
So I'm not sure if any of youguys are using that for
downloading your DVD collectionthat you have.
I haven't used it myself either, but it seems to be very
popular.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, sonar and Radar themselves are super popular,
which I also have never used,but it's good to see that
there's still contributions tothat and then things to improve
the way that I guess those filesare downloaded and compiled.
So I think what?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
it does is it sorts out various profiles.
So what you're searching foryou can choose it to be I might
be 100% wrong here.
Like I said, I don't use itmyself One that has like a Dolby
Atmos soundtrack or variouskind of quality profiles that
you want like custom quality.
(23:58):
I believe it sorts out andvarious release groups you might
be looking for.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, because the amount of options you have today
are just insane ETS, atmos 5.1,7.1, you know, hevc 256.
So I assume that's what thatprofile handles.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I was really happy when I got my first Dolby Pro
logic system and my kind ofBlu-ray.
A whole load of friends camearound and like had a big 36
inch crt and pro logic, you know.
Then it was like you know, I'mdolby digital 5.1.
Then they brought it out myself.
Now I've got to get morespeakers, you know.
I just really hope they don'tbring out anything else one year
(24:38):
later.
There's a whole new.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Thing.
Next year later another newthing talking about new things.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Do you remember we were talking last time about
gpus?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
yep, and how?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
nvidia is still blowing it yeah, and I told well
, last time I was telling you Icouldn't get a gpu, I had a
couple in the basket and it allwent horribly wrong.
I went to click pay and didn'tget anything.
Well, I managed to get a 5070Ti.
I was like really excited andput it in the Unraid server and
(25:07):
loaded the latest driver and itdoesn't show up.
So I was thinking, why is thecard not showing up?
You know it would show up inLSPCI, in the system hardware.
You'd see it there, but thedrivers just weren't showing up
for the U50 TI.
And I believe the reason forthat is because when the OEMs
(25:28):
bring out their cards, if I hada Founders Edition I believe it
would have actually shown up,but they all have kind of
various ID numbers and becauseit's an OEM and those ID numbers
haven't filtered through to thedrivers, the card doesn't
actually show up.
But if you use the open sourcedriver, it does actually show up
.
But the open source, I don'tbelieve, has CUDA, so then you
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have to download a CUDA packageas well to use it.
So I think, okay, I'm going towait.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, I'm going to show you something else here.
Where is it?
I've also got just got.
Can you see it?
Yeah, I'll put it right backthere.
I've got myself a 9070.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
XT Very cool.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Basically.
I saw a lot of people on theforums having issues passing
that through and I thought Ireally want to try and help get
it passed through.
There's nothing morefrustrating than trying to help
someone on the forums and you'rethinking this might, that might
work, it should work, but youdon't really 100% know.
So I thought yeah, I saw thatcard that actually come down to
the actual manufacturer'srecommended price, which is
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really crazy.
Just a few weeks ago in the ukthose were 900 pounds.
I got that this last week andit was, I think, £550.
So it was almost like half theprice.
So it was really really crazy.
But did they say?
I thought it said puke for asecond, what's that?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, it does Pure.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, it does, doesn't it man?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Good eye.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, it used to say puke when it was £1,000.
Now it says pure, now it's backat the proper price.
Yeah, so I'm looking forward todoing some testing with that
card, seeing the nuances ofpass-through and whether it's
got the reset bug etc.
So I'll be releasing somevideos about those two cards
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very soon.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And then you could do a video about VirGL, showing
that off how that works with AMD.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
That was actually anotherreason I got that card.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I told my wife I need it for science.
She goes didn't you buy agraphics card the other day?
Yeah, yeah, but they'redifferent.
I know she's not watching, soshe doesn't know how much they
cost.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I watching, so she doesn't know how much they cost.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I mean, they're only like what?
1500, I'm sorry, 1500 euros.
No, no, no, they're not.
They're about 50 pounds.
Okay, they're 50 pounds 50hundred pounds.
I'm sorry, I don't understandbut yeah, so I've done a bit of
testing with the pass-through onthe 5070 ti so I wanted to.
Well, basically, my brother, hebought the 4070 Ti and he
doesn't use Unraid, he just usesWindows.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Poor soul.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
And he sent me some screenshots of his pass marks.
I thought, hmm, I wonder if the5070 Ti will beat that.
And I sent him some pictureslast night and it was about a
thousand points more than hisRunning on a VM and his CPU is
faster than mine.
He's got the latest amd cpu.
I'm using a 13 900k andobviously didn't pass through
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all of the cores because, youknow, wanted some for unraid to
use.
I think I was getting what'scalled, which was a little.
I was hoping to get a littlebit more because I think, um,
(28:48):
the kind of average for the cardwas um 7200, so there was a
little bit of a drop off.
But I haven't had a chance.
I've not tried to overclock thecard.
This was the kind of cheapest9070 XT there is.
Maybe the higher scores arebetter versions of this card
Could be.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Maybe they even have custom coolers on them.
That's so hard to tellsometimes.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
So, yeah, I started installing Windows 10.
And sorry, no Windows 11 tomake fresh machines.
I basically installed the OSand then I copied, copied it
after it was installed, so Iknew I'd be wanting to use the
same with the AMD card.
And I remember you told me,Stefano.
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You said Microsoft had made abuild of windows where you have
to have a Microsoft account.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Because at the moment , like I'm not sure if people
know, you can um, press, I think, shift and f10 and you put in,
I think like sort of no bypassor something, and then it
reboots and then you don't haveto put in your microsoft account
.
But they've actually got rid ofthat, I believe, now.
Um, now in the new build itwasn't there in the build that I
downloaded, but it looks likethey're obviously pushing it so
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you have to have a Microsoftaccount in order to install
Windows 11.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, so I think that latest build they removed the
bypass command, so that way itjust doesn't work at all.
I think this is.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I just want to know what everyone in the chat thinks
about it.
Do you actually use a Microsoftaccount or do you prefer to
have a local account with yourWindows machines?
I really don't like a Microsoftaccount.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Do you know if the sticky key thing still works to
get around, Like if you keepdoing sticky keys you can open
up a command prompt?
Do you know if that still works?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I have no idea.
To be honest, I haven't triedAnother way.
I used to get around it before.
I knew the shift and F10 duringthe install.
I would just have a throwawayMicrosoft account.
That was kind of nothing and Iwould just install it and then
I'd just set up a local accountthrough CLI and then log into
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that and then delete theMicrosoft account.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
So I got to tell you something that's extremely
frustrating for me With Windows11,.
So let's say you're in aprofessional environment, right,
and you want to domain join aclean install of Windows 11,
right?
You have the option to eitheruse your Microsoft account or
create a local account throughdomain joining.
Okay.
(31:30):
So if you're domain joining,presumably you're putting this
in like a professionalenvironment, right?
So Microsoft's like, okay, yeah, you know what username do you
want?
Well, I'm just going to do likeadministrator, whatever the
administrator account would becalled, right.
And then it's like okay, whatdo you want your password to be?
So on one page, they ask youfor your password, you type it
in, and then they bring you tothe other, and then you type in
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the password again, right?
Well, if you mistype thatpassword, you have to go back,
type the password in again, goforward, type it in again to
make it match.
All right, not a big deal,right?
A little weird design, right?
Whatever, not a big deal.
Then you go to the next page andit starts asking you for
security questions.
I'm sorry, you want me to havesecurity questions for a domain
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joined system.
There are recovery tools in aprofessional environment.
Why are you asking me securityquestions.
So now, if an administratorsets security questions and then
he leaves and they don't recordthem for whatever reason, three
questions.
Nobody will know what theanswers to those questions are.
And also they're like what'syour mother's maiden name?
I'm domain joining this system.
My mother has nothing to dowith my company that's a really
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good point.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Why?
Why this is you could always dowhat I do stephano and not use
windows.
Yeah, well, no that.
That.
That is a very good, yeah, verygood um point.
When they asked me thosequestions, you know, it says you
know, what city were you?
What was the name of your firstpet?
I always put dog and it goeswhat.
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What city were you born in?
I put city.
What city did your parents meetin?
I put city.
So now, if anyone wants to hackmy account, there you are there
you go, yeah, I do somethingsimilar to.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
It's always like.
And then what's morefrustrating is like, since every
system's different, you neverknow if capitalization matters.
So I always like do alllowercase, never put spaces.
You know, just like, one word,one response.
Because, like, securityquestions don't protect you from
anything.
The only thing they protect youfrom is not getting your
account back.
(33:34):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I remember 1, 2, 3 is good Security question like you
know what was the name of yourfirst school or something, and I
typed it in and my first schoolit was called Saint, something
and I kept typing it in but Iwasn't sure how I actually typed
it in, if I did a capital for Sand then T or I did the whole
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word Saint.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, see, that's a dangerous game.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
And I just couldn't remember how I'd actually
written it down and I think Iactually couldn't get back into
the account at all.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, that's all it does is it prevents users who
are not 100% tech savvy fromgetting back into their accounts
because they forget what theytyped or they type it
differently, like maybe theyspell out Saint completely the
first time and then the nexttime when they go to try to
access their account, they putST, like it's just, it's so
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frustrating and then it makes.
What doesn't make sense is okay.
So Windows has Windows Home ProEnterprise Editions.
Why can't they just behavedifferently?
Why does the Enterprise Editionhave to have the Microsoft's
Game Store and all the apps,like they should?
Each one of those should havedifferent settings according to
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with who is trying to installWindows.
They should stop trying toenforce what they're doing for
home users on enterprise usersand honestly, at this point, I
think Microsoft is just somassive and so disassociated
from their own product thatthings like this will never get
fixed and it's going to continuegetting worse.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Tiffany's saying preach.
I did warn Stefano that whenyou know, if we talk about the
Microsoft account thing, I willget on my soapbox.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I'm actually a little mad right now.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
But yeah, you're actually getting quite worked up
, stephanie, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's so frustrating, I don't understand.
It's like one of the most usedproducts in the world and yet
it's like nobody is thinkingabout these simple things.
And it's like how is thisproduct, how is this acceptable
in 2025?
All right, I can't, I'm gonna.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
There's something I really like with my Windows
installs is I'm not sure ifanyone in the chat has heard of
something called Talon Debloater.
I will try and bring it up andshare my screen.
But it's basically someone'sput together all of the tools
that debloat Windows and youdon't have to run them
individually.
It's just one package.
You install it and it justmakes it look nice.
(35:54):
You see a little sort of spinnywindow and it just strips out
everything out of Microsoft.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
That's not necessary, and it says what browser do you
want?
We recommend Brave, and itinstalls Brave for you as well,
so you just literally run it andthat's all you have to do.
I found that very, very useful.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I'm always scared of using tools like that because
Microsoft, they rename thingsconstantly, they change registry
paths constantly, and it's likeyou finally find that good tool
and they're like, oh, we'regoing to just change the name of
this product and its registryassociation and now it no longer
works.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So yeah, it's called Talon Debloater.
There is a whole website for it, but this is the GitHub for it.
I don't know where the web pageis, but Talon Debloater.
I recommend people checking itout.
It makes Windows much lessbloated, kind of gets rid of all
of the things that you weretalking about, like the kind of
games like Candy Crush and allof the you have Microsoft
(36:49):
Enterprise or Windows Enterprise, but we're going to install
Disney Plus on your operatingsystem, okay, it is pretty crazy
, isn't it?
Okay, even just the regularWindows 10 Pro, why put Candy
Crush on there?
I always remember years ago,candy Crush would just always
reappear.
It's just that one that justwon't go away.
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I'd install it, put aplaceholder for it, then
there'll be a Windows update,then there'll be a placeholder
for Candy Crush again.
I was thinking why.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
I honestly think they should just have just Windows
11 and be done with it, becausethere's no real differences
between the versions, as far asI can see anyway.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
But talking about the debloaters and them going wrong
.
That's why you should berunning vms on your unraid
server.
Stephano, get some windows vms,take a snapshot, then try
something, and if it doesn'twork, you roll back.
It's really easy.
That's what you're meant to dono one, no one runs windows on
bare metal anymore.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Come on dude, I just know I'd rather not things I'd
rather do with myself.
Go touch grass.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah.
So another thing just loopingback to GPU talk as well.
Just something I want tomention to the community is I
recently bought a.
I had an N100, which, if you'veseen the Uncast episode with
the low power server I builtwhich uses about only 20 watts
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21 watts currently and I swappedit out for an n150, which has
got slightly different igpu now.
So if anyone else swaps out andgets a n150, you must have
kernel um 6.11 and above.
So you will need the betaversion of Unraid to get full
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driver support for the iGPU.
But if you're using MB, youwill find that transcoding
doesn't work because MB haven'tupdated their FFmpeg to support
that iGPU, but Plex and Jellyfinit works fine.
So anyone has that issue andyou're trying to do transcoding
(38:57):
in MB.
That's the reason the MB devssay that there is going to be an
update very, very soon.
In fact it may already be out.
I think I checked about twodays ago and it wasn't then.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Is this writing on the wall, Ed, that MB is
probably on its way out finallyfor good after all these years?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I like Envy yeah there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating, I'm just I think
what it is is like you know,obviously you know developers.
They don't have every singlepiece of hardware there is, so
they kind of rely on us guys tosay, hey, this isn't working.
And then they've got to go backand forth between us and say,
can you test this?
You know, because you know,unless you're a billionaire, you
can't buy every single piece ofhardware when it comes out just
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to test with various bits ofsoftware.
So I don't think mb is on itsway out at all.
But what do you think about theplex news, everyone in the chat
as well, the fact that thelifetime has gone up and I think
you have to have a license nowfor receiving a stream as well,
am I right?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
I don't that sounds accurate.
I don't really remember because, like I said I left forever ago
.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
I believe you have to have a license with Plex to
actually receive a stream, butthat's.
But I think if you've got thelifetime pass and you're
streaming to family, they don'tneed to have it.
But I think if you just gotPlex on its own and you're
joining to other things, I thinkyou have to have some kind of
license, which is about £60 amonth.
A lot of people are not veryhappy with Plex.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
David said, the answer to the Plex price update
is Jellyfin.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I think that's a very good answer.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
That's a very good answer.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
It is such an awesome media server.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yeah, don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying that weshouldn't be paying Plex,
because they've given us yearsand years and years of dedicated
software updates and they'vebeen, they've been taking care
of us.
Like we're not saying it's not,not worth it, but it's just.
At what point does it become?
Like, if you have to pay fornow you have to stream to a
friend, right, it's?
It's just those little slow,those changes slowly taking
(41:09):
place and eventually they'relike Netflix where it's like, oh
, you got to pay $15 per streamto everyone, families no longer
included, and they just slowlyerode all of the features.
Right, we see that happen allthe time with everything.
Like Netflix used to be like $5or like, well, $5.99 or
whatever.
That was a great price.
Now it's like what, $34?
Speaker 1 (41:29):
What I don't like about Plex is I don't like it
how they've got their own tvstuff there I just find that
really annoying.
I know everyone tells you oh,you can easily like hide that.
You can do this, you can dothat.
I shouldn't have to.
I don't want to do that, Idon't want this kind of other
things and I also, you know, tobe quite honest, I don't like it
.
How should I put this?
There was a lot of chatter awhile ago about in plex's what
(41:52):
is it terms because they saythey don't um share any kind of
data about you yeah, so it'sreally like what you're watching
that kind of thing.
I know it was probably 18 monthsago.
There was a big uproar.
I remember reading about it onreddit and other places online
that in your plex friends theywere they were getting a
notification saying kind of likeyou know like, oh, stefano
(42:14):
watched game of thrones lastnight.
Why don't you watch it?
I think?
Well, hang on, how did youmanage to send that email out if
you don't know what I'mwatching?
So yeah, that made me losetrust and that was like I've
never used plex, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
But duck, duck, go was like they're like, oh, you
know, privacy, privacy, privacy.
And you'd be like, hey, what ismy location?
And they're like, oh, you'rehere.
It's like, wait, oh, you know,privacy, privacy, privacy.
And you'd be like, hey, what ismy location?
And they're like, oh, you'rehere.
It's like, wait a minute.
You said you didn't know thisinformation and then, but I mean
, that's not really how it works, but like they were still
tracking you even though theywere saying they weren't.
It's kind of the same thing.
It's like you said you weren'tdoing this.
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How do you?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
know Jellyfin is the way forward, I think.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Yeah or MB.
There's again nothing wrongwith MB.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I use MB.
It's actually my media serverthat I use most of the time.
I'm running MB and Jellyfinalongside each other and I am
going to be bringing out a videosoon for migrating from either
MB or Plex into Jellyfin andbringing all your user history
and watch history and migratingthe database into Jellyfin and
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bringing all your user historyand watch history and migrating
the database into Jellyfin so wedon't have to lose all of your
watch history, et cetera.
I wish you had done that.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
I don't know about a year ago, when I switched to
Jellyfin.
That would have been nice.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
I'm sorry, stefano, it's all right.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Nobody's perfect.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
So have you heard that OpenAI, the makers of
ChatGPT, are releasing somethingcalled an Open Weight model
this summer?
Speaker 2 (43:41):
I have heard of it, but I haven't read about it.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
I believe an Open Weight is not an open source
model.
It's kind of like a bit inbetween, but you can run it
locally.
They don't have the kind oftraining data like a full open
source version with, but Ithought that was quite
interesting hearing about that.
I was actually quite surprisedthat they're releasing it, to be
honest, but they wereoriginally meant to be fully
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open source company, hence theword open ar yeah, you know it's
really want to buy like anothermac mini or mac studio,
especially, if you like, if youget like the M3 Ultra right.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
You know it's like two chips fused together and you
slap that sucker with 512 gigsof RAM and it's unified memory.
So you're technically givingyour graphics, your graphics,
512 gigs of RAM and that's likeso much for.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Wow, that's insane, like it's funny how Apple didn't
even think about, accidentallymade that like that.
Yeah, yeah, the unified memoryyou get.
Yes, that's a really yeah, I'dnever, oh, wow, yeah, awesome
like because there's no way theyhad planned originally.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Like oh you know the whole ai thing and unified the
h100 cards.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
You know the nvidia h100.
They've got like 80 gigs of rambut they're 30 000 us.
Even a secondhand a100 with 40gigs you're looking at probably
10 to 15 000 each and I've heardthere's a fake problem with
those cards.
There's a lot of fake nvidiacards like that coming out of
china and being sold on placeslike ebay and things like that.
So imagine buying a graphicscard for like 15 000 ebay to
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find out it was fake afterwards.
I don't think I could recoverfrom that.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Yeah, that'd be it.
It'd just slowly fade away likeon Back to the Future, where
the photo just disappears.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Also, we've got Google Summer of Code 2025.
Reading about that I'm not sureif any of you guys in the chat
are following any projectsThings to watch things like
Gnome Buildroot Internet Archive.
Following any projects, thingsto watch things like gnome
buildroot internet archive openrobotics another another cool
thing.
There's a project called opendeep search.
I will try and if I can bringthis up and share my screen,
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which is basically like a kindof ai search engine, but open
source, and I think that soundsreally interesting myself.
So this is open deep searchright, let's try and pronounce
that properly democratizingsearch with open source
reasoning models and reasoningagents.
So I think that's reallyinteresting and something I
would definitely like to try out.
(46:08):
I'm not sure what you guys inthe chat if that's something
that would interest you.
There's always like there'salways this something that would
interest you.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
There's always like there's always.
This is what I love about techthere's always like new things
coming out, things to try, andthis is the whole reason why I
wanted to work as, like, asystem administrator.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Yeah, yeah, you know, like you say, there's something
new containers or an update tosomething.
Ever since I was, like you know, first had something that would
plug into the electric and hada keyboard, always really
excited about updates and likeas soon as I see I've got a
click update yeah, it's like.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
It's funny how, back in the day, when a new windows
version came out, I was like soexcited.
And then, after, after, aboutWindows XP, I was getting more
and more wary.
Windows 7, I was like, okay,this is cool, it's a good update
.
And then 10 was like therelease of it.
It went so poorly I evenskipped over.
I skipped over 8 completely.
I totally forgot it existed.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
I never did.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Yeah, I'm not excited about operating system updates
anymore, like I used to be.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
A friend of mine.
He updated what was beforeVista.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Was it 7 before Vista ?
It was Vista after XP.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
I can't remember.
Wait, I don't remember.
It was XP, vista and then 7,wasn't it?
And then it was 8.
So Microsoft tends to do good,bad, good, bad, good bad.
But, yeah, I remember a friendof mine who's gone ahead, have
(47:38):
you updated to vista yet?
And I was like no, yeah, and oh, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
It's really good, mate.
Yeah, service pack, he wasreally obsessed, you know.
His computer started going to acrawl, yeah, and you know.
And xp was just so good that,like I was like, especially
after service, after servicepack 2, it got great and I was
like there's no reason for me toswitch to Vista, what's the
point?
And so I ended up justinadvertently skipping it.
And then I was really excitedfor Windows 7.
And Windows 7 was great.
Windows 10 ended up being great, even though it started off
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really bad.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Anyone out there or yourself, Stefano, you a
Nintendo Switch fan.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Are you trying to make everybody hate me?
Come on, answer the question.
I have no strong opinions foror against nintendo and well,
there's um.
I think the new nintendo switch2 has been announced I think my
opponent doesn't go too farenough, so it's a quote from
futurama all right, okay, Idon't get it.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, so the nintendo switch 2 has has been announced
and just a totally kind ofirrelevant thing is I'm off to
Japan in about a week's time andI found out that the hotel I'm
staying in in one of the citiesis about three minutes walk from
Nintendo World headquarters.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Walk in there and get yourself an assigned Nintendo
Switch 2.
They're going to walk in there.
The public is not allowed there, unfortunately, but I thought
it'd be quite nice.
I think you'd be allowed therea signed Nintendo Switch 2.
They're going to walk in.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
they're like come on in.
Not allowed there,unfortunately, but I thought
it'd be quite nice.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
I think you'd be allowed there.
You're pretty popular on theinternet.
People have heard of you.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
They'll kick me out Apparently.
In Japan they don't really.
You know I've got.
You know you can see I've gotsome tattoos here, but it's
quite frowned upon to showtattoos in Japan.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
I'm wearing long-sleeved shirts all of the
time, whilst I'm there.
It's associated withcriminality.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Usb-c yeah, was released in2014.
You hate USB-C.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Sorry, I was thinking of micro-USB, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
On my head.
Yeah, you know, you see, like Iwas just really surprised to
hear there are devices now.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
In 2025.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Being released with micro USB.
Yeah yeah, and one of them is aprinter from HP.
How does that kind of notsurprise me?
I'm not surprised by that.
It's probably a couple of pencecheaper.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
Oh my gosh.
Anything that uses micro USBtoday, I mean, tells me
everything I need to know aboutthe company.
They just don't care about theproduct.
It was bad 10 years ago andit's still bad today.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
Anyone in the chat.
You know you're using anydevice with a micro USB.
I've got a few things.
It's normally things that youcharge up with usb usb on the
end and it's like you know forcharging.
But I tell you, when it's a bitdark you're trying to force it
in and then you realize you'vejust broken the port because it
was the wrong way around.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
There's nothing, nothing more yeah, and then the
way that they like close thejacket, I guess like these pins
if you shove it into or like tolike at an angle or just off a
little bit, you bend those pinsand then it's just like.
It's such a I have onemicrophone that uses usbc and
you have to like perfectly slideit in there for it to work and
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not touch it and then, and thenit's fine, but I keep keep
activating my camera.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
And Bill's saying in the chat that he's more excited
about Unraid updates than anyother OS, and I would say what
are you doing, Stephanie?
Speaker 2 (51:00):
The camera's trying to follow me around.
The AI's taking over.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Yeah, and I totally agree.
I am always very, very excitedwhen I see an Unraid OS update.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Because at least with Unraid they're adding actual
useful features.
They're not forcing Disney Plusand Candy Crush down your
throat every time, even afteryou uninstall it 600 times.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
Yeah, so yeah, we always know we're getting
something cool.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yeah, because we ask for it.
We literally ask for updatesand they do it.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
So have you tried anything new in the Home Lab in
the last month, Stefano?
No, I have not.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
No, nope, not a single thing.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
And how about you guys in the chat?
You installed anything new.
I always ask people what's themost kind of ridiculous, clever
or cool thing you've self-hosted?
Let us know in the chat.
What have I installed recently?
Not very much, to be honest.
I haven't really had a lot oftime to install new containers.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
There are so many options these days, so many
options.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Anyway, I wondered if we want to just open up the
floor for any questions andanswers that people might want
to ask Stefano and I, sure Aboutanything really, so I will
bring up the chat window.
Bill's saying he's inspired toset up a new dashboard.
Go for it, bill, and post alink on the forums and show us
what your dashboard looks likewhen you set it up.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Yeah, I'm feeling a little inspired.
Myself.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
Yeah, okay, here's the deal, stefano.
We've both got to show ourUnraid dashboard on the next
Unleashed.
Okay, okay, yeah, deal.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Shake hands.
All right, okay.
So Stefano and I are both goingto set up our dashboards and
get them really cool, and I will.
In the next month, I will makea video for how to install.
I've forgotten the name of whatit's called Homepage.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
I think I'm going to check out Dashy first.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Our paperless Dane Down Under says he installed
paperless last week.
I'm trying to get all thedocuments organized.
Yeah, that's something I really, really want to install.
I installed it for a friend ofmine and he now basically can't
live without it.
It's definitely something Ireally do need to install.
I've got various bits of paperin my office I can see across
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there that are just crumpled upand I have not put them in a
folder yet.
So having a digital copy ofthem would definitely be a good
idea.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
This kind of reminds me of a little bit like GitLab.
This looks awesome.
It reminds me a little bit ofGitLab and how GitLab is kind of
set up.
I'm going to check this out.
I'm going to look at this on myfree time.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
What you can do is you can havelike a share on your Unraid
server and then you set yourscanner to scan to that share
and Paperless will look at thatand it will import and ingest
the document that goes in there.
So say, you get a water bill,and then you can.
You can search it through textand basically bring up documents
.
If you type in water, it willbring up the water bills and
(53:58):
that kind of thing yeah, becauseof all the powerful stuff
that's really fancy yeah,definitely be looking forward to
doing that.
I keep meaning to do it all thetime.
Ronald here says he's into time, precision and set up a load.
Oh, wow, that's really awesome,really awesome.
Ronald, it's pretty complex toyou.
Know how complex is it to setup something like that?
(54:18):
I'm assuming you need specialhardware.
Wow, that's pretty awesome.
And to paperless you can add anAI, a local AI, to it as well
to make the searches moreprecise.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah, that'd be really useful.
So to it as well.
To make the searches moreprecise yeah, that'd be really
useful.
Speaker 1 (54:33):
So I can like kind of parse through all the tags and
build the associations for youand David Smith is saying Ed,
you put out a video recent-ishfor Nextcloud install which
contained all the neededcontainers.
I followed your previous videoguides to install all the parts.
Yeah, nextcloud all in one.
I really like that as a methodof choice for installing
Nextcloud all-in-one.
I really like that it's amethod of choice for installing
Nextcloud, because it is reallywhat the Nextcloud devs
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recommend to install it.
It just installs all of thecontainers for you and it also
installs board backup as well,so you can just choose another
share on your Android server andit will automatically backup
everything the database, all ofthe data, raid server and it
will automatically back upeverything the database, all of
the data.
But if you do that, don't putthe backup on the same pool or
array as what you've got yournormal next cloud on.
(55:19):
Even if you just put anunassigned disk or just a single
drive pool, make sure it's aseparate place for your backup.
Don't just have it like anextcloud share on your array
and a backup share on the array.
If you're going to do that,then specify a specific disk for
the backup share, say disk 8 orsomething, and make sure your
normal Nextcloud share excludesdisk 8.
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Then at least your original andbackup will be on different
disks.
That's what I recommend aboutNextcloud all in one.
David Smith says should I redoor stay on my current version?
Well, if you're talking aboutNextcloud, dave, I would say
it's very difficult to actuallymigrate the data from one
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Nextcloud to another becausemost of us will have Nextcloud
if we haven't used theAll-in-One set up with MariaDB.
The All-in-One uses Postgres,so it's really difficult to
actually bring across thedatabase.
But if you're not reallyworried about just if you've
only got a few users, you canmigrate their data across, reset
up their accounts and then youcan run a command from CLI
(56:26):
inside of the container to thenhave Nextcloud, scan the user's
folders and it will update thedatabase.
But what you will lose is thingslike if you've ever shared out
a link to someone else from yourNextcloud.
Obviously they won't workbecause the database will be
fresh and it will only have thenew files in.
(56:46):
So that's what you've got tothink.
But you know I would migrate toit if it isn't going to be a
big issue for you to start againreally and you don't mind
losing the database but not thedata and tim saying trialing
unraid system is far friendlierthan true.
Now I cannot get activedirectory stable.
(57:09):
Are there plans to improve it?
It is on the roadmap for ActiveDirectory to get improved, so
that is something that will beworked on, but I can't say an
exact time of when that will be,but it's definitely something
that is.
Speaker 2 (57:24):
I'd like to see Unraid move away from maybe not
deprecate Active Directory, butstart using Entra ID or
something in the cloud.
That'd be really cool.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Anyway, I think that brings us pretty much to the end
of this episode of UnleashedNow I really hope you guys
enjoyed the episode.
I really enjoyed interactingwith all of you guys.
Sorry for the little glitchesat various times during the
stream.
I'm sure episode three will beglitchless, so don't forget that
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same time.
Please hit the like button.
If you're not a subscriber,please subscribe to the channel
and don't forget to drop anyideas in the comments.
You know how do you think wecould actually improve the show?
I was wondering as well wecould actually stream to more
than one platform other thanYouTube.
(58:16):
We could maybe stream to Twitchat the same time, or Twitter.
Is that something you'd like,or does that not bother you at
all?
Do you want it just to beYouTube?
Let us know and we will make ithappen.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
I think the one change I would make is maybe
take away slow mode, becauseeven I have to wait 60 seconds
to respond to some people inchat.
Speaker 1 (58:38):
The only problem is, you see, I put it in YouTube,
you have normal and you have lowlatency and you have super low
latency.
So I put it on low latency,which has about a 10 second
delay.
Okay, like ultra low latency,you has about a 10 second delay.
Okay, like ultra low latency,you have about a two second
delay.
But the problem is is becausewhen it's going, you know the
stream's going out to youtube.
It has to then convert it tothe various different, you know,
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resolutions like.
So what can happen is ifsomeone's got spotty wi-fi or
not very fast internet, they canhave a lot of buffering on the
viewer side.
So that's why I thought it bestto choose a bit in the middle.
Let us know as well was thereany buffering for anyone at all
with how it was now?
(59:22):
Maybe next time we'll try alower latency and see if anyone
has issues actually watching.
Speaker 2 (59:29):
Also, we got a super chat.
Speaker 1 (59:31):
Thank you very much.
Thank you, we got a super chat.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for thatSuper chat.
Speaker 2 (59:36):
Pie, pie, yeah, 3.14.
And that's Oz 3.42.
Speaker 1 (59:42):
Thank you very much 3.1421.
And what's the meaning of life42.
Hitchhiker's Guide to theGalaxy?
Of course, all right, all right, thank.
And what's the meaning of life42?
Hitchhiker's guide to thegalaxy?
Of course, all right, all right, thank you.
Thank you everyone for watching, really appreciate you.
I know some of you out there,and especially on the east coast
of the united states, have hadto get up very early on your
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saturday to watch us.
So thank you very much for yourtime and look forward to
catching you in the next episode.
Thank you very much.
Goodbye, goodbye everyone.
kick back and relax, with ed and stefano unleashed.
Well, hello everyone.
I think we are live.
We are live, I think, stefanoyes, we are definitely live
excellent.
So, anyway, step right up.
All of you nas nerds, dockerheads, data hoarders and
tailscale tinkerers.
Welcome back to ed and StefanoUnleashed.
(00:22):
So this is episode two.
So brace yourself, everyone,because we are live Now.
I tell you, stefano, I ambuzzing, mate.
I'm a little nervous, butmainly excited.
I've got about three appsrunning just to keep my
temperatures in check.
But seriously, shout out toeveryone who caught episode one,
we recorded that one, but nowthe gloves are off and we're
(00:46):
ready to go live.
How are you doing, stefano?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm good, I'm excited , I got some drink here to keep
the edge off.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, I've got a little bit of some type of
energy drink in my lovely Unraidglass here.
That looks nice.
So, anyway, coming up today,we're going to be diving into
talking about the Unraid 7.10beta, some eye candy on
dashboards, a bit of GPU madness, some new self-hosting tools,
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and I'm going to talk a littlebit about micro usb devices, for
some weird reason as well.
Anyway, today's episode isabsolutely stacked.
So, anyway, shall we move onand start talking about, I think
, the new release of unraidseven yeah, uh, didn't the beta
(01:38):
3 just drop like the beta 3 did.
I just installed it this morningactually, okay, yeah um, I
think the biggest thing in there.
Well, how can I say the biggestthing I did?
I just installed it thismorning actually.
Okay, yeah, I think the biggestthing in there.
Well, how can I say the biggestthing?
There's kind of three biggestthings really.
But I think what a lot ofpeople will really like is the
Wi-Fi support, because anyonewho's setting up a server and
(02:01):
they may be kind of in rentalaccommodation and there's no
wired LAN and you don't want torun a huge cable from one room
to another it's going to allowyou to run your server and just
collect, connect it to yourwi-fi.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'm going to try and share my screen and just show
you guys what that looks likeand it actually makes sense for
once, because with the advent oflike wi-fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7, you
know we can still push, you know, like over gigabit speeds with
Wi-Fi 6 and over gigabit speedswith Wi-Fi 7, especially if
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you're on that 6 gigahertz band.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And you know, if you're running a media server
and you're just streaming thingslike Jellyfin NB or Plex, it's
going to be absolutely perfectfor that as well.
You think a lot of us, you know, we're already using Wi-Fi
clients, like an NVIDIA Shield,apple TV, and they're all Wi-Fi.
So I think it's going to workreally, really well.
Now you can see, here we've gotvarious different.
(02:56):
You know these are my two wiredinterfaces, but here's the
Wi-Fi and you can see here I'mconnected to my wi-fi here
galactica and here are my othernetworks in the local area and
if I click onto info here, wecan see here here's all the
specs, my ip address etc.
(03:17):
Now I don't actually have awi-fi card for this server, but
what I did is I just plugged inthis here.
I've just actually pulled outthe service.
I've probably probably doesn'treally like that, but it's just
a USB stick I probably had for10 years just plugged it in and
(03:37):
work straight out the box, soreally awesome.
You know it's pretty cool.
If I ever wanted to take asmall server away, visiting
family or something, I couldbring it down and connect it to
their Wi-Fi and use it locally.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, it definitely gives you a lot more flexibility
for whatever use case.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Sharing less.
And another big feature,Stefano, I think your favorite
feature is foreign ZFS pools.
Yeah, that's definitely one ofthem.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I think that favorite feature is foreign ZFS pools.
Yeah, yeah, that's definitelyone of them.
I think that's a really coolimplementation.
It's kind of funny.
I didn't even realize thatwasn't a thing.
I thought you could justalready do that.
So when they made thatannouncement I was like wait,
what I was like, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, so we can import.
Take a Zpool out of somethinglike TrueNAS and just import it
natively into the Android server.
Just put it in, select all ofthe disks, set it to auto, start
it up.
It will import those drives.
So if you want to switchplatforms, it's very, very easy.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That's definitely really cool.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
A super cool feature.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The QXL stuff, I think is also really interesting
as well.
The fact that you can just haveone graphics card now be used
by multiple VMs is so cool.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
VerXL is it called?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm sorry, VerGL Sorry, VerGL.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, that's super cool.
So basically we're able tosplit up your GPU.
I think it's only AMD and Intelcurrently, correct?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yep, right now, and you know, typical NVIDIA can't
do anything right?
Yeah, I know it's not a goodyear for NVIDIA.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And, you know, still no proper Linux drivers for the
5000 series.
I'll moan about that a bitlater on, though Let me just
check the chat in case peopleare talking to us.
So I want to just say toeveryone there is about a 10
second delay from when you typeto when we'll actually receive
it.
So if we're not answeringstraight away, we're not
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actually being rude and ignoringyou.
It's just that we probablyhaven't actually seen that as
yet.
Well, stefano is, I'm not,stefano is the rude one.
It's not rude, it's honesty.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Does anyone happen to use QXL or Spice really instead
of over VNC?
Do you use Spice over?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
VNC Ed.
Can someone just oh, I don'tuse Spice, sorry, I was just
getting a bit confused with thelive stream there.
Oh really, A bit of a delay.
Personally, I don't use Spice,to be honest, and I don't use
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WebVNC.
I personally use something likeRDP.
I'm a big fan of somethingcalled Splashtop Desktop.
I've been using it forabsolutely years.
I really like it becausethey've got a personal version
where it's free on your ownlocal network and it also does
gpu acceleration if you've gotlike an nvidia graphics card.
So it's really really goodquality.
It's got sound as well and alittle tip for people is sorry.
(06:35):
A little tip for people is ifyou use it over tail scale, then
you can actually use itremotely without having to pay
the huge fee of I think it'sonly 16.99 anyway for the
license to use it remotely um,for the personal version.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But it's a really really easy way to actually
connect to different devices youjust have a list of the ones
spice should do a 3dacceleration as well yeah, I
think it does yeah.
And then with Spice, you know.
So if you have like a Mac Ithink on Mac you have to have
like in Homebrew you do have todownload something so you can
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connect to Spice.
But otherwise it's mostlyubiquitous, maybe even more so
than VNC is.
And that's why I was curious,because I've been, I use Spice
when I can and I love it becauseit's got USB redirection and
all that stuff.
I have used Splashtop a littlebit, but I think I definitely
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like Spice more so because it'sall locally controlled and
hosted right.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, I've always found Spice when I try it out.
It kind of doesn't go well tofull screen for me when I try
and use it.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I don't know why, really that's strange.
Might be something I'm doing abit wrong no, no way, you no way
, never, never once now anothercool thing in unraid in the new
unraid is um multi-monitor qxlyeah, that's something.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Is that something you've tried?
I?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
haven't tried it yeah , no, I haven't tried it.
I guess I'm like strangebecause I don't do vms anymore,
like I'm just 100 containers.
I don't even have the vmenabled in my unraid a
configuration.
But you know if if I were goingto for any reason, that would
definitely be something I wouldcheck out because, like you know
, like a lot of systems arelimited to 560x1440.
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And in some cases, especiallywith VNC, it's hard to go to
resolutions beyond 3840x1440.
But if you have.
QXL.
In theory you can do that now,because you just make them split
screens or two differentscreens.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, and I've got a super widescreen monitor, 49
inches wide.
It'd be really nice to be ableto actually have dual monitors
on the VM and just put them sideby side, so it's like 27 inch
either side and it will fill upthe whole monitor.
So I think that'll be prettycool.
Just wondering anyone in theaudience have you actually tried
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out any of the new features,such as Wi-Fi or the virtual
GPUs or the new QXL?
Anyway, there's going to be abit of a delay, so I'll see if
anyone is doing that currently.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
So you said you've tried the new dashboard.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, I know last time I said I don't use
dashboards.
You know confession time Lastmonth I said I didn't use a
dashboard, but I've caved andI've got one set up and I'm
quite loving it.
A little bit I've only had itset up for a few days and
reading a Reddit post.
I will try and bring thatReddit post up to show everyone
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what I'm talking about.
Of course, I won't botherbringing up the Reddit post, but
a lot of people are talkingabout dashboards and I actually
caved and installed one and I'mquite liking it because I've got
multiple servers in the HomeLab.
Being able to actually linkthings using Tailscale into the
dashboard is actually quite anice little touch.
(09:59):
I think I've seen some picturesof people using their
dashboards and they look prettyawesome.
I'm trying to at the moment puta little background picture on
mine.
I believe you've got to createa directory in the app data for
let me tell you which one I'musing.
I've actually forgotten I'musing Homepage.
(10:20):
I'm not sure if anyone else outthere is using Homepage, but
I've been using it for about twoor three days and it looks
pretty nice and I want toactually add a background image
to it to make it look reallynice and cool, but you know
you're not using dashboards atall, are you, stefano, really?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
No, no, I am not, I am looking.
So I saw that link.
I can't post it in the YouTubechat because I'm not like a mod
or anything, but I am looking atthat dashboard that you just
said that I can't remember thename of, even though I'm looking
right at it, but it's notlisted Homepage.
That looks pretty clean.
I like it.
So far I haven't seen anydashboards that I don't dislike.
I just I don't know, I guess Ijust don't.
I'm not really in Unraid enoughto really need a dashboard, I
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guess.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, I've always kind of thought I don't need
them because I use basicallybrowser browser favorite tabs.
But um, yeah, it does lookquite nice and you know, I can
definitely see.
You know why people like it andit's just quite good fun to
actually customize things andyeah, yeah, there's definitely a
big appeal like that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm looking at dashy right now.
That oh yeah, new plays justmentioned, that's like kind of
old school.
I like that.
It's on github here, let mesend you.
I'm gonna send you a link inchat I'm just gonna share my
screen a moment.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So this is what the dashboard looks like on the
reddit post, and this is the oneI was talking about yeah,
that's pretty clean.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's sick it's.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's nice.
You know, I like the littleicons showing when various
services are up, but you canactually have like a
semi-transparent mess on thedashboard with an image behind,
and that's what I'm gonna tryand set up next week, I think do
like a star wars backgroundthat's a good question, like
star wars or star trek.
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Hey, it'll probably changeevery week, you know.
Maybe I can figure out a way tohave it.
So the background changes everyday based on what?
that'd be cool the only thing Idon't like about this is you
have to use yaml files toconfigure everything yeah, yaml
is kind of a pain in the arse itis I don't really like yaml
very much so you could do achanging background where, like
you, start with episode one orthe prequels and then go to the
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originals.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm not sure what happened.
It looks like it's still liveto me.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It does.
Let's just see if it continuesto be live Looks, live to me.
Yeah, are we still there foreveryone?
Hopefully.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, you could.
You know how you release thatmoving image?
I think you did.
On the forums.
You released the moving imageof the AT-AT or whichever it was
On the Unraid dashboard.
Yeah, david was asking ifyou're going to have a Space
Invader guide for installing ahomepage.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I don't know what, sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Are you going to create a guide for how to do the
homepage install?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
If everyone wants that, yeah, you know for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And then I don't know if you saw that link, but Noob
also gave us a link to a Dashydashboard.
You should definitely check itout.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's really cool.
Let's have a look at that.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, I put it in Riverside.
It's really cool.
It's kind of retro.
I think you would love it.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I don't know if I'd use it.
I think this is going to makeme give up my current dashboard,
is it?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It huge delay between us and YouTube, but that's okay
, that's expected.
And, speaking of dashboards,there it is.
There it is.
Yeah, look at that.
Yeah, I love the text that theychose to go with on that one.
It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And I wonder if you upload your own icons or if
they're all kind of.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I would assume that you could upload your own icons,
because, yeah, I mean I wouldassume so Much, in the same way
that you can do custom icons foryour containers, right.
So I would guess.
But you know, kind of circlingback to the beta 3 release,
unraid is finally going to have.
Well, they're finally testingresponsive webpages, and I know
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for what?
Like 10 years now we haven'thad responsive webpages.
You know, as more and morepeople are using mobile devices
to connect to their servers,it's like, hey, now's the time,
don't delay anymore.
And it's good to finally seethat Unraid's going to support
that.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
So hopefully, maybe we'll get an app one day.
Yeah, it's going to be a gamechanger when we've got, like you
know, know the response to webpages for sure.
I personally never reallyconnect to my unraid server
through me, neither a mobiledevice.
I might on my tablet sometimes,but I never, I never do on my
phone.
I can barely read the text onmy phone at the best of times.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, there was there's only like a very rare
occasions when I need to do that, and that's like if I'm on, if
I'm traveling, and it's likegreat, my server is not
accessible, or something like.
Or like like jelly fins areaccessible and I need a
troubleshoot, or something likethat.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Or someone saying my voice is a little low.
Yeah, you are a little quiet tobe honest, so hopefully that's
a little, a little better.
I'm sorry, Stefano.
What were you saying?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't really remember.
I know the last thing I saidwas about responsive webpages
and maybe, hopefully, we get anapp one day.
That'd be really cool.
I don't know how an app wouldwork.
Do any other applications havean app?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
There are some apps that you can get for Unraid that
have been around for quite awhile.
I can't remember off the top ofmy head what the name is of
them, but it wouldn't be as goodas a native app from LimeTek
that's kind of built in.
People have done the best theycan to make an app for a mobile
device.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I think it may actually be harder to hear you
now than before.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Really Give me one moment, tell me if this gets any
better.
How's that now?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It doesn't sound like it changed.
So while Ed plays with that,does anybody else have any other
dashboards that you guys use orrecommend?
I feel like this topic comes upa lot.
I see it online on the forumsand then on Reddit about people
asking for dashboards and things.
So if anyone has one, thatwould be cool, because I think
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I'm slowly starting to get.
I guess that seed's beenplanted so I'm slowly coming
around to the idea of maybetrying out a dashboard,
especially maybe on my like mybackup server or something I'm
always afraid to touch myproduction server.
David uses homepage as well.
Yeah, that homepage one'spretty nice Right now.
I think I'm a little bit moreleaning towards Dashy right now.
(16:24):
And then there's so manydashboard options.
I don't know how you guys couldchoose one, but anyway, I'm
always a little scared to modifyUnraid, especially my main
server that I use every day.
I'm sure the dashboard won'tbreak anything.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It runs in a Docker container.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It does.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's not going to do anything bad at all.
It's basically like a webserver with links to other
things, so you're not going tobreak anything.
It's not a plugin, so if youdon't like it, you can just nuke
it, delete it and it's gone,the one thing, Hopefully
everyone can hear me a bitbetter now, so I'm really sorry
about that everyone sounds goodto me, cool, the one thing I
(17:05):
wish.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
So Timothy just brought this up and I wish that
Unraid kind of had it too.
So have you ever used Cockpit,like on Fedora?
Yeah, I really wish that withUnraid, since you and I have
multiple servers.
Other, there's tons of peoplethat have multiple servers.
Obviously It'd be really coolto have another tab or an option
to switch to your other serveronce they're connected via SSH
or something.
I know that we technically havethat with Unraid Connect, but I
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think it would be, because Ican imagine a situation where
there's someone who's totallyoffline, like they're in the
woods or they're traveling orwhatever.
It would just be really cool tohave the ability to keep it all
local as well yeah, I'll showyou something now.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
This is nothing like cockpit, okay.
Okay, I'm going to share myscreen.
What I like to do is, on theunraid dashboard at the top is I
have various tabs using thecustom tabs and I have them go
to other servers and if you usetail scale ips, it will work.
It will work with other thingsas well, and things that are not
in your own network.
So if you had a server that wasoutside of your network, it
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would still work.
So I'll just share my screenand show you guys.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
All right, Ed, I got to tell you we got to be on our
most proper behavior.
Okay, the CEO is here, so makesure you behave.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I will be on my very best behavior now.
So you see at the top herebehavior now.
So you see at the top here.
Yes, if I click on base starokay, you know I'm clicking on
the riverside bit.
Let's actually click on thereal screen, not the actual.
I was like I didn't see youclick.
If I had a brain I would bedangerous it's the nerves.
It's the nerves you see,clicking onto it just brings me
kind of straight in, so cool.
(18:37):
Yeah, I have reset this serverup, so unfortunately it doesn't
have the same buttons, but Inormally kind of duplicate it,
so it's exactly the same.
You see all these other serversalong the top here.
All of these are currentlyturned off so I can't really
show you them, but on everyserver I have these all
identical, so you just clickonto whichever one you want and
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it just goes between each server.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
That's pretty high speed.
Yeah, that's awesome.
It's quite nice.
Do you have a video or a thingto show how to set that up?
You do right, I think you do.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I did a video on my Space Invader 1 channel.
I think I called itTurbocharged Custom.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Tabs.
That's what it was.
Yeah, I'm going to look intothat because I kind of want that
for my setup now.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Because what I did on it as well is I made it so.
When you click the tab, it runsa custom script that will send
a wake on LAN.
Let me try and pronounce thatproperly Wake on LAN.
Yeah, magic packet To a serverthat's asleep, and so I keep all
my servers asleep rather thanoff, and then so from the
dashboard, I can actually clickon it and wake other servers up,
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even when I'm away from home.
So I just tail scale into theserver that's on 24 7 and then
click onto any one of the otherservers and it would wake it up
through the actual gui.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So I thought that was something that is really cool,
like I always I think a magicpackage or wake on on lands,
always like superunderappreciated for what you
can do with it, like being likeyou can turn it on.
You can turn on your serverswith your phone, you can do it
locally over the network.
I mean that like, and that'sexisted for decades, but it's a
feature that often goes kind ofunder the radar and then also
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we'll get left out sometimes onsome other boards and it's like
just keep it included with yournetwork adapter.
There's no reason to exclude it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And the problem is with wake on LAN and sleep is it
is really flaky?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
really it is what I find sometimes has happened for
me in the past.
I put a server to sleep andthen when you wake it up after
sleep, sometimes an HBA cardhasn't woken up properly and
then the drives will actuallydrop out of the array.
Or one of the drives doesn'twake properly and wake in time,
and it is.
It's dropped out of the array.
So you've got to be quitecareful with that.
(20:55):
I think if you wrote some kindof script to have, when it wakes
, what's it called emtp orwhatever to kind of wait a
little bit before it starts, Ithink it's just like the system
starts too quickly before thehardware is woken up properly.
But it doesn't happen on everyserver and it happened on one of
my servers once before.
But also I find sometimes whenit wakes from sleep it can just
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be kind of a bit flaky, butobviously it's quite hardware
and motherboard related.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
A long time ago, one of my first jobs we had about 20
computers that were stacked ontop of each other and we wrote a
script to turn them on like oneon each side all the way up,
because they were like on astack right and the power
supplies were so loud that whenthey were power on you'd hear
like click, click, click, click,click.
And so we tried to like adjustit a little bit so that way it
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would kind of make a tune.
But it was really hard to dothat, but it was so cool, like
we'd come in in the morning, runthe script, it'd turn on all
the computers and you'd justhear all the clicking noise from
the power supplies coming on.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
That was so awesome One thing I like doing on my
servers I'm a bit of a nerd is Ilove putting beep speakers in
servers.
So you know the little kind ofthing that goes on the
motherboard header with thespeaker thing.
And I made a container ages andages ago.
I've never made a video aboutit, but the software is on
community applications that willconvert an MP3 into beep music,
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and so what I like to do is,when a script runs on my server,
if it fails, I have it play theimperial march do you show me
this?
when I came to visit you, Imight have done I can't remember
because I was like this soundsreally familiar yeah, and if a
script is, um, if it does well,it does the kind of mario
(22:40):
achievement, yeah, and if ascript does well, it does the
kind of Mario achievement.
So you know, when I'm sittingat my desk, if I hear the
Imperial March, I think okay,something's gone wrong.
What is it?
So it's quite nice to have theaudible kind of triggers, anyway
.
So anyway, moving on, there's alot of talk about a new
container called in the ARSseries of apps, called Profiler,
which is used for managingSonar and Radar custom formats.
(23:06):
So I'm not sure if any of youguys are using that for
downloading your DVD collectionthat you have.
I haven't used it myself either, but it seems to be very
popular.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, sonar and Radar themselves are super popular,
which I also have never used,but it's good to see that
there's still contributions tothat and then things to improve
the way that I guess those filesare downloaded and compiled.
So I think what?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
it does is it sorts out various profiles.
So what you're searching foryou can choose it to be I might
be 100% wrong here.
Like I said, I don't use itmyself One that has like a Dolby
Atmos soundtrack or variouskind of quality profiles that
you want like custom quality.
(23:58):
I believe it sorts out andvarious release groups you might
be looking for.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, because the amount of options you have today
are just insane ETS, atmos 5.1,7.1, you know, hevc 256.
So I assume that's what thatprofile handles.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I was really happy when I got my first Dolby Pro
logic system and my kind ofBlu-ray.
A whole load of friends camearound and like had a big 36
inch crt and pro logic, you know.
Then it was like you know, I'mdolby digital 5.1.
Then they brought it out myself.
Now I've got to get morespeakers, you know.
I just really hope they don'tbring out anything else one year
(24:38):
later.
There's a whole new.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Thing.
Next year later another newthing talking about new things.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Do you remember we were talking last time about
gpus?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
yep, and how?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
nvidia is still blowing it yeah, and I told well
, last time I was telling you Icouldn't get a gpu, I had a
couple in the basket and it allwent horribly wrong.
I went to click pay and didn'tget anything.
Well, I managed to get a 5070Ti.
I was like really excited andput it in the Unraid server and
(25:07):
loaded the latest driver and itdoesn't show up.
So I was thinking, why is thecard not showing up?
You know it would show up inLSPCI, in the system hardware.
You'd see it there, but thedrivers just weren't showing up
for the U50 TI.
And I believe the reason forthat is because when the OEMs
(25:28):
bring out their cards, if I hada Founders Edition I believe it
would have actually shown up,but they all have kind of
various ID numbers and becauseit's an OEM and those ID numbers
haven't filtered through to thedrivers, the card doesn't
actually show up.
But if you use the open sourcedriver, it does actually show up
.
But the open source, I don'tbelieve, has CUDA, so then you
(25:49):
have to download a CUDA packageas well to use it.
So I think, okay, I'm going towait.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, I'm going to show you something else here.
Where is it?
I've also got just got.
Can you see it?
Yeah, I'll put it right backthere.
I've got myself a 9070.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
XT Very cool.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Basically.
I saw a lot of people on theforums having issues passing
that through and I thought Ireally want to try and help get
it passed through.
There's nothing morefrustrating than trying to help
someone on the forums and you'rethinking this might, that might
work, it should work, but youdon't really 100% know.
So I thought yeah, I saw thatcard that actually come down to
the actual manufacturer'srecommended price, which is
(26:34):
really crazy.
Just a few weeks ago in the ukthose were 900 pounds.
I got that this last week andit was, I think, £550.
So it was almost like half theprice.
So it was really really crazy.
But did they say?
I thought it said puke for asecond, what's that?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, it does Pure.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, it does, doesn't it man?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Good eye.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, it used to say puke when it was £1,000.
Now it says pure, now it's backat the proper price.
Yeah, so I'm looking forward todoing some testing with that
card, seeing the nuances ofpass-through and whether it's
got the reset bug etc.
So I'll be releasing somevideos about those two cards
(27:20):
very soon.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And then you could do a video about VirGL, showing
that off how that works with AMD.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
That was actually anotherreason I got that card.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I told my wife I need it for science.
She goes didn't you buy agraphics card the other day?
Yeah, yeah, but they'redifferent.
I know she's not watching, soshe doesn't know how much they
cost.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I watching, so she doesn't know how much they cost.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I mean, they're only like what?
1500, I'm sorry, 1500 euros.
No, no, no, they're not.
They're about 50 pounds.
Okay, they're 50 pounds 50hundred pounds.
I'm sorry, I don't understandbut yeah, so I've done a bit of
testing with the pass-through onthe 5070 ti so I wanted to.
Well, basically, my brother, hebought the 4070 Ti and he
doesn't use Unraid, he just usesWindows.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Poor soul.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
And he sent me some screenshots of his pass marks.
I thought, hmm, I wonder if the5070 Ti will beat that.
And I sent him some pictureslast night and it was about a
thousand points more than hisRunning on a VM and his CPU is
faster than mine.
He's got the latest amd cpu.
I'm using a 13 900k andobviously didn't pass through
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all of the cores because, youknow, wanted some for unraid to
use.
I think I was getting what'scalled, which was a little.
I was hoping to get a littlebit more because I think, um,
(28:48):
the kind of average for the cardwas um 7200, so there was a
little bit of a drop off.
But I haven't had a chance.
I've not tried to overclock thecard.
This was the kind of cheapest9070 XT there is.
Maybe the higher scores arebetter versions of this card
Could be.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Maybe they even have custom coolers on them.
That's so hard to tellsometimes.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
So, yeah, I started installing Windows 10.
And sorry, no Windows 11 tomake fresh machines.
I basically installed the OSand then I copied, copied it
after it was installed, so Iknew I'd be wanting to use the
same with the AMD card.
And I remember you told me,Stefano.
(29:33):
You said Microsoft had made abuild of windows where you have
to have a Microsoft account.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Because at the moment , like I'm not sure if people
know, you can um, press, I think, shift and f10 and you put in,
I think like sort of no bypassor something, and then it
reboots and then you don't haveto put in your microsoft account
.
But they've actually got rid ofthat, I believe, now.
Um, now in the new build itwasn't there in the build that I
downloaded, but it looks likethey're obviously pushing it so
(30:06):
you have to have a Microsoftaccount in order to install
Windows 11.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, so I think that latest build they removed the
bypass command, so that way itjust doesn't work at all.
I think this is.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I just want to know what everyone in the chat thinks
about it.
Do you actually use a Microsoftaccount or do you prefer to
have a local account with yourWindows machines?
I really don't like a Microsoftaccount.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Do you know if the sticky key thing still works to
get around, Like if you keepdoing sticky keys you can open
up a command prompt?
Do you know if that still works?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I have no idea.
To be honest, I haven't triedAnother way.
I used to get around it before.
I knew the shift and F10 duringthe install.
I would just have a throwawayMicrosoft account.
That was kind of nothing and Iwould just install it and then
I'd just set up a local accountthrough CLI and then log into
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that and then delete theMicrosoft account.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
So I got to tell you something that's extremely
frustrating for me With Windows11,.
So let's say you're in aprofessional environment, right,
and you want to domain join aclean install of Windows 11,
right?
You have the option to eitheruse your Microsoft account or
create a local account throughdomain joining.
Okay.
(31:30):
So if you're domain joining,presumably you're putting this
in like a professionalenvironment, right?
So Microsoft's like, okay, yeah, you know what username do you
want?
Well, I'm just going to do likeadministrator, whatever the
administrator account would becalled, right.
And then it's like okay, whatdo you want your password to be?
So on one page, they ask youfor your password, you type it
in, and then they bring you tothe other, and then you type in
(31:52):
the password again, right?
Well, if you mistype thatpassword, you have to go back,
type the password in again, goforward, type it in again to
make it match.
All right, not a big deal,right?
A little weird design, right?
Whatever, not a big deal.
Then you go to the next page andit starts asking you for
security questions.
I'm sorry, you want me to havesecurity questions for a domain
(32:22):
joined system.
There are recovery tools in aprofessional environment.
Why are you asking me securityquestions.
So now, if an administratorsets security questions and then
he leaves and they don't recordthem for whatever reason, three
questions.
Nobody will know what theanswers to those questions are.
And also they're like what'syour mother's maiden name?
I'm domain joining this system.
My mother has nothing to dowith my company that's a really
(32:42):
good point.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Why?
Why this is you could always dowhat I do stephano and not use
windows.
Yeah, well, no that.
That.
That is a very good, yeah, verygood um point.
When they asked me thosequestions, you know, it says you
know, what city were you?
What was the name of your firstpet?
I always put dog and it goeswhat.
(33:04):
What city were you born in?
I put city.
What city did your parents meetin?
I put city.
So now, if anyone wants to hackmy account, there you are there
you go, yeah, I do somethingsimilar to.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
It's always like.
And then what's morefrustrating is like, since every
system's different, you neverknow if capitalization matters.
So I always like do alllowercase, never put spaces.
You know, just like, one word,one response.
Because, like, securityquestions don't protect you from
anything.
The only thing they protect youfrom is not getting your
account back.
(33:34):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I remember 1, 2, 3 is good Security question like you
know what was the name of yourfirst school or something, and I
typed it in and my first schoolit was called Saint, something
and I kept typing it in but Iwasn't sure how I actually typed
it in, if I did a capital for Sand then T or I did the whole
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word Saint.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, see, that's a dangerous game.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
And I just couldn't remember how I'd actually
written it down and I think Iactually couldn't get back into
the account at all.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, that's all it does is it prevents users who
are not 100% tech savvy fromgetting back into their accounts
because they forget what theytyped or they type it
differently, like maybe theyspell out Saint completely the
first time and then the nexttime when they go to try to
access their account, they putST, like it's just, it's so
(34:26):
frustrating and then it makes.
What doesn't make sense is okay.
So Windows has Windows Home ProEnterprise Editions.
Why can't they just behavedifferently?
Why does the Enterprise Editionhave to have the Microsoft's
Game Store and all the apps,like they should?
Each one of those should havedifferent settings according to
(34:47):
with who is trying to installWindows.
They should stop trying toenforce what they're doing for
home users on enterprise usersand honestly, at this point, I
think Microsoft is just somassive and so disassociated
from their own product thatthings like this will never get
fixed and it's going to continuegetting worse.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Tiffany's saying preach.
I did warn Stefano that whenyou know, if we talk about the
Microsoft account thing, I willget on my soapbox.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I'm actually a little mad right now.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
But yeah, you're actually getting quite worked up
, stephanie, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's so frustrating, I don't understand.
It's like one of the most usedproducts in the world and yet
it's like nobody is thinkingabout these simple things.
And it's like how is thisproduct, how is this acceptable
in 2025?
All right, I can't, I'm gonna.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
There's something I really like with my Windows
installs is I'm not sure ifanyone in the chat has heard of
something called Talon Debloater.
I will try and bring it up andshare my screen.
But it's basically someone'sput together all of the tools
that debloat Windows and youdon't have to run them
individually.
It's just one package.
You install it and it justmakes it look nice.
(35:54):
You see a little sort of spinnywindow and it just strips out
everything out of Microsoft.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
That's not necessary, and it says what browser do you
want?
We recommend Brave, and itinstalls Brave for you as well,
so you just literally run it andthat's all you have to do.
I found that very, very useful.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I'm always scared of using tools like that because
Microsoft, they rename thingsconstantly, they change registry
paths constantly, and it's likeyou finally find that good tool
and they're like, oh, we'regoing to just change the name of
this product and its registryassociation and now it no longer
works.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So yeah, it's called Talon Debloater.
There is a whole website for it, but this is the GitHub for it.
I don't know where the web pageis, but Talon Debloater.
I recommend people checking itout.
It makes Windows much lessbloated, kind of gets rid of all
of the things that you weretalking about, like the kind of
games like Candy Crush and allof the you have Microsoft
(36:49):
Enterprise or Windows Enterprise, but we're going to install
Disney Plus on your operatingsystem, okay, it is pretty crazy
, isn't it?
Okay, even just the regularWindows 10 Pro, why put Candy
Crush on there?
I always remember years ago,candy Crush would just always
reappear.
It's just that one that justwon't go away.
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I'd install it, put aplaceholder for it, then
there'll be a Windows update,then there'll be a placeholder
for Candy Crush again.
I was thinking why.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
I honestly think they should just have just Windows
11 and be done with it, becausethere's no real differences
between the versions, as far asI can see anyway.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
But talking about the debloaters and them going wrong
.
That's why you should berunning vms on your unraid
server.
Stephano, get some windows vms,take a snapshot, then try
something, and if it doesn'twork, you roll back.
It's really easy.
That's what you're meant to dono one, no one runs windows on
bare metal anymore.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Come on dude, I just know I'd rather not things I'd
rather do with myself.
Go touch grass.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah.
So another thing just loopingback to GPU talk as well.
Just something I want tomention to the community is I
recently bought a.
I had an N100, which, if you'veseen the Uncast episode with
the low power server I builtwhich uses about only 20 watts
(38:15):
21 watts currently and I swappedit out for an n150, which has
got slightly different igpu now.
So if anyone else swaps out andgets a n150, you must have
kernel um 6.11 and above.
So you will need the betaversion of Unraid to get full
(38:35):
driver support for the iGPU.
But if you're using MB, youwill find that transcoding
doesn't work because MB haven'tupdated their FFmpeg to support
that iGPU, but Plex and Jellyfinit works fine.
So anyone has that issue andyou're trying to do transcoding
(38:57):
in MB.
That's the reason the MB devssay that there is going to be an
update very, very soon.
In fact it may already be out.
I think I checked about twodays ago and it wasn't then.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Is this writing on the wall, Ed, that MB is
probably on its way out finallyfor good after all these years?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I like Envy yeah there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating, I'm just I think
what it is is like you know,obviously you know developers.
They don't have every singlepiece of hardware there is, so
they kind of rely on us guys tosay, hey, this isn't working.
And then they've got to go backand forth between us and say,
can you test this?
You know, because you know,unless you're a billionaire, you
can't buy every single piece ofhardware when it comes out just
(39:42):
to test with various bits ofsoftware.
So I don't think mb is on itsway out at all.
But what do you think about theplex news, everyone in the chat
as well, the fact that thelifetime has gone up and I think
you have to have a license nowfor receiving a stream as well,
am I right?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
I don't that sounds accurate.
I don't really remember because, like I said I left forever ago
.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
I believe you have to have a license with Plex to
actually receive a stream, butthat's.
But I think if you've got thelifetime pass and you're
streaming to family, they don'tneed to have it.
But I think if you just gotPlex on its own and you're
joining to other things, I thinkyou have to have some kind of
license, which is about £60 amonth.
A lot of people are not veryhappy with Plex.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
David said, the answer to the Plex price update
is Jellyfin.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I think that's a very good answer.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
That's a very good answer.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
It is such an awesome media server.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yeah, don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying that weshouldn't be paying Plex,
because they've given us yearsand years and years of dedicated
software updates and they'vebeen, they've been taking care
of us.
Like we're not saying it's not,not worth it, but it's just.
At what point does it become?
Like, if you have to pay fornow you have to stream to a
friend, right, it's?
It's just those little slow,those changes slowly taking
(41:09):
place and eventually they'relike Netflix where it's like, oh
, you got to pay $15 per streamto everyone, families no longer
included, and they just slowlyerode all of the features.
Right, we see that happen allthe time with everything.
Like Netflix used to be like $5or like, well, $5.99 or
whatever.
That was a great price.
Now it's like what, $34?
Speaker 1 (41:29):
What I don't like about Plex is I don't like it
how they've got their own tvstuff there I just find that
really annoying.
I know everyone tells you oh,you can easily like hide that.
You can do this, you can dothat.
I shouldn't have to.
I don't want to do that, Idon't want this kind of other
things and I also, you know, tobe quite honest, I don't like it
.
How should I put this?
There was a lot of chatter awhile ago about in plex's what
(41:52):
is it terms because they saythey don't um share any kind of
data about you yeah, so it'sreally like what you're watching
that kind of thing.
I know it was probably 18 monthsago.
There was a big uproar.
I remember reading about it onreddit and other places online
that in your plex friends theywere they were getting a
notification saying kind of likeyou know like, oh, stefano
(42:14):
watched game of thrones lastnight.
Why don't you watch it?
I think?
Well, hang on, how did youmanage to send that email out if
you don't know what I'mwatching?
So yeah, that made me losetrust and that was like I've
never used plex, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
But duck, duck, go was like they're like, oh, you
know, privacy, privacy, privacy.
And you'd be like, hey, what ismy location?
And they're like, oh, you'rehere.
It's like, wait, oh, you know,privacy, privacy, privacy.
And you'd be like, hey, what ismy location?
And they're like, oh, you'rehere.
It's like, wait a minute.
You said you didn't know thisinformation and then, but I mean
, that's not really how it works, but like they were still
tracking you even though theywere saying they weren't.
It's kind of the same thing.
It's like you said you weren'tdoing this.
(42:47):
How do you?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
know Jellyfin is the way forward, I think.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Yeah or MB.
There's again nothing wrongwith MB.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I use MB.
It's actually my media serverthat I use most of the time.
I'm running MB and Jellyfinalongside each other and I am
going to be bringing out a videosoon for migrating from either
MB or Plex into Jellyfin andbringing all your user history
and watch history and migratingthe database into Jellyfin and
(43:14):
bringing all your user historyand watch history and migrating
the database into Jellyfin so wedon't have to lose all of your
watch history, et cetera.
I wish you had done that.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
I don't know about a year ago, when I switched to
Jellyfin.
That would have been nice.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
I'm sorry, stefano, it's all right.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Nobody's perfect.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
So have you heard that OpenAI, the makers of
ChatGPT, are releasing somethingcalled an Open Weight model
this summer?
Speaker 2 (43:41):
I have heard of it, but I haven't read about it.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
I believe an Open Weight is not an open source
model.
It's kind of like a bit inbetween, but you can run it
locally.
They don't have the kind oftraining data like a full open
source version with, but Ithought that was quite
interesting hearing about that.
I was actually quite surprisedthat they're releasing it, to be
honest, but they wereoriginally meant to be fully
(44:05):
open source company, hence theword open ar yeah, you know it's
really want to buy like anothermac mini or mac studio,
especially, if you like, if youget like the M3 Ultra right.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
You know it's like two chips fused together and you
slap that sucker with 512 gigsof RAM and it's unified memory.
So you're technically givingyour graphics, your graphics,
512 gigs of RAM and that's likeso much for.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Wow, that's insane, like it's funny how Apple didn't
even think about, accidentallymade that like that.
Yeah, yeah, the unified memoryyou get.
Yes, that's a really yeah, I'dnever, oh, wow, yeah, awesome
like because there's no way theyhad planned originally.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Like oh you know the whole ai thing and unified the
h100 cards.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
You know the nvidia h100.
They've got like 80 gigs of rambut they're 30 000 us.
Even a secondhand a100 with 40gigs you're looking at probably
10 to 15 000 each and I've heardthere's a fake problem with
those cards.
There's a lot of fake nvidiacards like that coming out of
china and being sold on placeslike ebay and things like that.
So imagine buying a graphicscard for like 15 000 ebay to
(45:09):
find out it was fake afterwards.
I don't think I could recoverfrom that.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Yeah, that'd be it.
It'd just slowly fade away likeon Back to the Future, where
the photo just disappears.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Also, we've got Google Summer of Code 2025.
Reading about that I'm not sureif any of you guys in the chat
are following any projectsThings to watch things like
Gnome Buildroot Internet Archive.
Following any projects, thingsto watch things like gnome
buildroot internet archive openrobotics another another cool
thing.
There's a project called opendeep search.
I will try and if I can bringthis up and share my screen,
(45:47):
which is basically like a kindof ai search engine, but open
source, and I think that soundsreally interesting myself.
So this is open deep searchright, let's try and pronounce
that properly democratizingsearch with open source
reasoning models and reasoningagents.
So I think that's reallyinteresting and something I
would definitely like to try out.
(46:08):
I'm not sure what you guys inthe chat if that's something
that would interest you.
There's always like there'salways this something that would
interest you.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
There's always like there's always.
This is what I love about techthere's always like new things
coming out, things to try, andthis is the whole reason why I
wanted to work as, like, asystem administrator.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Yeah, yeah, you know, like you say, there's something
new containers or an update tosomething.
Ever since I was, like you know, first had something that would
plug into the electric and hada keyboard, always really
excited about updates and likeas soon as I see I've got a
click update yeah, it's like.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
It's funny how, back in the day, when a new windows
version came out, I was like soexcited.
And then, after, after, aboutWindows XP, I was getting more
and more wary.
Windows 7, I was like, okay,this is cool, it's a good update
.
And then 10 was like therelease of it.
It went so poorly I evenskipped over.
I skipped over 8 completely.
I totally forgot it existed.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
I never did.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Yeah, I'm not excited about operating system updates
anymore, like I used to be.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
A friend of mine.
He updated what was beforeVista.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Was it 7 before Vista ?
It was Vista after XP.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
I can't remember.
Wait, I don't remember.
It was XP, vista and then 7,wasn't it?
And then it was 8.
So Microsoft tends to do good,bad, good, bad, good bad.
But, yeah, I remember a friendof mine who's gone ahead, have
(47:38):
you updated to vista yet?
And I was like no, yeah, and oh, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
It's really good, mate.
Yeah, service pack, he wasreally obsessed, you know.
His computer started going to acrawl, yeah, and you know.
And xp was just so good that,like I was like, especially
after service, after servicepack 2, it got great and I was
like there's no reason for me toswitch to Vista, what's the
point?
And so I ended up justinadvertently skipping it.
And then I was really excitedfor Windows 7.
And Windows 7 was great.
Windows 10 ended up being great, even though it started off
(48:02):
really bad.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Anyone out there or yourself, Stefano, you a
Nintendo Switch fan.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Are you trying to make everybody hate me?
Come on, answer the question.
I have no strong opinions foror against nintendo and well,
there's um.
I think the new nintendo switch2 has been announced I think my
opponent doesn't go too farenough, so it's a quote from
futurama all right, okay, Idon't get it.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, so the nintendo switch 2 has has been announced
and just a totally kind ofirrelevant thing is I'm off to
Japan in about a week's time andI found out that the hotel I'm
staying in in one of the citiesis about three minutes walk from
Nintendo World headquarters.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Walk in there and get yourself an assigned Nintendo
Switch 2.
They're going to walk in there.
The public is not allowed there, unfortunately, but I thought
it'd be quite nice.
I think you'd be allowed therea signed Nintendo Switch 2.
They're going to walk in.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
they're like come on in.
Not allowed there,unfortunately, but I thought
it'd be quite nice.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
I think you'd be allowed there.
You're pretty popular on theinternet.
People have heard of you.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
They'll kick me out Apparently.
In Japan they don't really.
You know I've got.
You know you can see I've gotsome tattoos here, but it's
quite frowned upon to showtattoos in Japan.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
I'm wearing long-sleeved shirts all of the
time, whilst I'm there.
It's associated withcriminality.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Usb-c yeah, was released in2014.
You hate USB-C.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Sorry, I was thinking of micro-USB, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
On my head.
Yeah, you know, you see, like Iwas just really surprised to
hear there are devices now.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
In 2025.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Being released with micro USB.
Yeah yeah, and one of them is aprinter from HP.
How does that kind of notsurprise me?
I'm not surprised by that.
It's probably a couple of pencecheaper.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
Oh my gosh.
Anything that uses micro USBtoday, I mean, tells me
everything I need to know aboutthe company.
They just don't care about theproduct.
It was bad 10 years ago andit's still bad today.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
Anyone in the chat.
You know you're using anydevice with a micro USB.
I've got a few things.
It's normally things that youcharge up with usb usb on the
end and it's like you know forcharging.
But I tell you, when it's a bitdark you're trying to force it
in and then you realize you'vejust broken the port because it
was the wrong way around.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
There's nothing, nothing more yeah, and then the
way that they like close thejacket, I guess like these pins
if you shove it into or like tolike at an angle or just off a
little bit, you bend those pinsand then it's just like.
It's such a I have onemicrophone that uses usbc and
you have to like perfectly slideit in there for it to work and
(50:44):
not touch it and then, and thenit's fine, but I keep keep
activating my camera.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
And Bill's saying in the chat that he's more excited
about Unraid updates than anyother OS, and I would say what
are you doing, Stephanie?
Speaker 2 (51:00):
The camera's trying to follow me around.
The AI's taking over.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Yeah, and I totally agree.
I am always very, very excitedwhen I see an Unraid OS update.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Because at least with Unraid they're adding actual
useful features.
They're not forcing Disney Plusand Candy Crush down your
throat every time, even afteryou uninstall it 600 times.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
Yeah, so yeah, we always know we're getting
something cool.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yeah, because we ask for it.
We literally ask for updatesand they do it.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
So have you tried anything new in the Home Lab in
the last month, Stefano?
No, I have not.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
No, nope, not a single thing.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
And how about you guys in the chat?
You installed anything new.
I always ask people what's themost kind of ridiculous, clever
or cool thing you've self-hosted?
Let us know in the chat.
What have I installed recently?
Not very much, to be honest.
I haven't really had a lot oftime to install new containers.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
There are so many options these days, so many
options.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Anyway, I wondered if we want to just open up the
floor for any questions andanswers that people might want
to ask Stefano and I, sure Aboutanything really, so I will
bring up the chat window.
Bill's saying he's inspired toset up a new dashboard.
Go for it, bill, and post alink on the forums and show us
what your dashboard looks likewhen you set it up.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Yeah, I'm feeling a little inspired.
Myself.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
Yeah, okay, here's the deal, stefano.
We've both got to show ourUnraid dashboard on the next
Unleashed.
Okay, okay, yeah, deal.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Shake hands.
All right, okay.
So Stefano and I are both goingto set up our dashboards and
get them really cool, and I will.
In the next month, I will makea video for how to install.
I've forgotten the name of whatit's called Homepage.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
I think I'm going to check out Dashy first.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Our paperless Dane Down Under says he installed
paperless last week.
I'm trying to get all thedocuments organized.
Yeah, that's something I really, really want to install.
I installed it for a friend ofmine and he now basically can't
live without it.
It's definitely something Ireally do need to install.
I've got various bits of paperin my office I can see across
(53:14):
there that are just crumpled upand I have not put them in a
folder yet.
So having a digital copy ofthem would definitely be a good
idea.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
This kind of reminds me of a little bit like GitLab.
This looks awesome.
It reminds me a little bit ofGitLab and how GitLab is kind of
set up.
I'm going to check this out.
I'm going to look at this on myfree time.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
What you can do is you can havelike a share on your Unraid
server and then you set yourscanner to scan to that share
and Paperless will look at thatand it will import and ingest
the document that goes in there.
So say, you get a water bill,and then you can.
You can search it through textand basically bring up documents
.
If you type in water, it willbring up the water bills and
(53:58):
that kind of thing yeah, becauseof all the powerful stuff
that's really fancy yeah,definitely be looking forward to
doing that.
I keep meaning to do it all thetime.
Ronald here says he's into time, precision and set up a load.
Oh, wow, that's really awesome,really awesome.
Ronald, it's pretty complex toyou.
Know how complex is it to setup something like that?
(54:18):
I'm assuming you need specialhardware.
Wow, that's pretty awesome.
And to paperless you can add anAI, a local AI, to it as well
to make the searches moreprecise.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah, that'd be really useful.
So to it as well.
To make the searches moreprecise yeah, that'd be really
useful.
Speaker 1 (54:33):
So I can like kind of parse through all the tags and
build the associations for youand David Smith is saying Ed,
you put out a video recent-ishfor Nextcloud install which
contained all the neededcontainers.
I followed your previous videoguides to install all the parts.
Yeah, nextcloud all in one.
I really like that as a methodof choice for installing
Nextcloud all-in-one.
I really like that it's amethod of choice for installing
Nextcloud, because it is reallywhat the Nextcloud devs
(54:57):
recommend to install it.
It just installs all of thecontainers for you and it also
installs board backup as well,so you can just choose another
share on your Android server andit will automatically backup
everything the database, all ofthe data, raid server and it
will automatically back upeverything the database, all of
the data.
But if you do that, don't putthe backup on the same pool or
array as what you've got yournormal next cloud on.
(55:19):
Even if you just put anunassigned disk or just a single
drive pool, make sure it's aseparate place for your backup.
Don't just have it like anextcloud share on your array
and a backup share on the array.
If you're going to do that,then specify a specific disk for
the backup share, say disk 8 orsomething, and make sure your
normal Nextcloud share excludesdisk 8.
(55:42):
Then at least your original andbackup will be on different
disks.
That's what I recommend aboutNextcloud all in one.
David Smith says should I redoor stay on my current version?
Well, if you're talking aboutNextcloud, dave, I would say
it's very difficult to actuallymigrate the data from one
(56:02):
Nextcloud to another becausemost of us will have Nextcloud
if we haven't used theAll-in-One set up with MariaDB.
The All-in-One uses Postgres,so it's really difficult to
actually bring across thedatabase.
But if you're not reallyworried about just if you've
only got a few users, you canmigrate their data across, reset
up their accounts and then youcan run a command from CLI
(56:26):
inside of the container to thenhave Nextcloud, scan the user's
folders and it will update thedatabase.
But what you will lose is thingslike if you've ever shared out
a link to someone else from yourNextcloud.
Obviously they won't workbecause the database will be
fresh and it will only have thenew files in.
(56:46):
So that's what you've got tothink.
But you know I would migrate toit if it isn't going to be a
big issue for you to start againreally and you don't mind
losing the database but not thedata and tim saying trialing
unraid system is far friendlierthan true.
Now I cannot get activedirectory stable.
(57:09):
Are there plans to improve it?
It is on the roadmap for ActiveDirectory to get improved, so
that is something that will beworked on, but I can't say an
exact time of when that will be,but it's definitely something
that is.
Speaker 2 (57:24):
I'd like to see Unraid move away from maybe not
deprecate Active Directory, butstart using Entra ID or
something in the cloud.
That'd be really cool.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Anyway, I think that brings us pretty much to the end
of this episode of UnleashedNow I really hope you guys
enjoyed the episode.
I really enjoyed interactingwith all of you guys.
Sorry for the little glitchesat various times during the
stream.
I'm sure episode three will beglitchless, so don't forget that
(57:56):
we go live on the firstSaturday of every month at the
same time.
Please hit the like button.
If you're not a subscriber,please subscribe to the channel
and don't forget to drop anyideas in the comments.
You know how do you think wecould actually improve the show?
I was wondering as well wecould actually stream to more
than one platform other thanYouTube.
(58:16):
We could maybe stream to Twitchat the same time, or Twitter.
Is that something you'd like,or does that not bother you at
all?
Do you want it just to beYouTube?
Let us know and we will make ithappen.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
I think the one change I would make is maybe
take away slow mode, becauseeven I have to wait 60 seconds
to respond to some people inchat.
Speaker 1 (58:38):
The only problem is, you see, I put it in YouTube,
you have normal and you have lowlatency and you have super low
latency.
So I put it on low latency,which has about a 10 second
delay.
Okay, like ultra low latency,you has about a 10 second delay.
Okay, like ultra low latency,you have about a two second
delay.
But the problem is is becausewhen it's going, you know the
stream's going out to youtube.
It has to then convert it tothe various different, you know,
(59:01):
resolutions like.
So what can happen is ifsomeone's got spotty wi-fi or
not very fast internet, they canhave a lot of buffering on the
viewer side.
So that's why I thought it bestto choose a bit in the middle.
Let us know as well was thereany buffering for anyone at all
with how it was now?
(59:22):
Maybe next time we'll try alower latency and see if anyone
has issues actually watching.
Speaker 2 (59:29):
Also, we got a super chat.
Speaker 1 (59:31):
Thank you very much.
Thank you, we got a super chat.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for thatSuper chat.
Speaker 2 (59:36):
Pie, pie, yeah, 3.14.
And that's Oz 3.42.
Speaker 1 (59:42):
Thank you very much 3.1421.
And what's the meaning of life42.
Hitchhiker's Guide to theGalaxy?
Of course, all right, all right, thank.
And what's the meaning of life42?
Hitchhiker's guide to thegalaxy?
Of course, all right, all right, thank you.
Thank you everyone for watching, really appreciate you.
I know some of you out there,and especially on the east coast
of the united states, have hadto get up very early on your
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saturday to watch us.
So thank you very much for yourtime and look forward to
catching you in the next episode.
Thank you very much.
Goodbye, goodbye everyone.
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