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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Is this still considered a #homelab ?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

15 days

OK this is getting out of hand...

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

9 months

I don’t need USB flash drives anymore!

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Techno Tim

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1 year

As an experiment I decided to shutdown one of my 1u servers running Proxmox to see if my Intel NUC could handle the workload. To my surprise it was able to handle all 6 VMs without a sweat! My 1u server was pulling 140 watts! Intel NUC is only pulling 26 watts! Going to let

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3 years

“Hobbies”

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8 months

So I decided to make my NAS a little faster...

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3 months

I did a thing

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Techno Tim

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9 months

I wish macOS would just copy Windows 11 File Explorer. It really is the best experience for local files. Files on macOS is not even "good".

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

4 months

For those asking, yes I still have a HomeLab...

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Hey all, I'm thinking of writing a book. Would you read it? 🤣 #homelab

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@TechnoTimLive

4 months

Wife: Why can't I control the fan with Siri but I can control the lights? Me: Well, I was configuring our new home cluster, after tearing down the old one. I decided that instead of putting a dedicated Kubernetes node on that VLAN, I would use Multus with mac-vlan to assign an

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@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Yes! Proxmox finally has an official Dark Mode!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

10 months

Just a quick update on the #homelab NUC cluster has been successfully running my workloads from my 1U servers for over a month and testing out my new 48 Port PoE 2.5 Gbe switch! Need to find a new job for my 1Us!

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8 months

My storage server eats 14TB drives for breakfast!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

I like Windows I like macOS I like Linux I like iOS I like Android They are not mutually exclusive.

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

8 months

I shuffled half of my rack around just to get my Aggregation Switch in the right place, 1u at a time. 😅

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Today I learned that UniFi PoE injectors have a reset button on them to reset an access point so I don’t have to climb up a ladder! Today I also learned that this doesn’t work with most of their access points and I will still have to climb up a ladder! 🪜

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Anyone ever get tech burnout? How do you deal with it?

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@TechnoTimLive

5 months

I went all out and replaced all 48 cables...

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 years

Now that I have everything moved to the new rack, "Light Mode" or "Dark Mode"?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

6 months

So this just happened! Thank you all so much! Unbelievable!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 years

O Christmas Tree?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

6 months

This is probably the most important tutorial I've ever written.

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Testing a new device… what should I run on it?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

9 months

New toy!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 years

We did it!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

It does exist! 45 Homelab!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

8 months

What’s running in my HomeLab?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

6 years

Seriously, people are so nice! The #SmallStreamersCommunity has to the the #BestCommunity out there. So nice. So supportive. So welcoming. Thank you! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤 #twitch #SupportSmallStreamers #SupportSmallerStreams #TwitchFam ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

9 months

Oh, if you're looking for the documentation on how to set up netboot xyz (step by step) as well as how to create a Windows PXE boot disk, it's all documented here!

Meet netboot xyz - Network Boot Any Operating System

Imagine all of your favorite operating systems in one place, available anywhere on your network, and you’ll never need to use your flash drive again. That’s the promise of netboot.xyz, a network boot...

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Somehow this is my job right now and it’s awesome

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

So this is what one monitor feels like….

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

6 months

When my wife asks how long the internet will be down when working on my HomeLab... My response vs reality: 2 seconds = 5 minutes 2 minutes = 15 minutes 10 minutes = 1 hour 30 minutes = All day

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

7 months

Since many of you have asked, here's the list of self-hosted services I am running in my HomeLab along with network diagrams and related tutorials!

HomeLab Services Tour 2024 - What Am I Self Hosting?

What a year of self-hosting! Join me as we walk though my entire infrastructure and services that I have running in my HomeLab! This time I also include network diagrams and dive deep into which...

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

8 months

This past week I got to test out a Switch with RGB from Ubiquiti, yes RGB. They call it Etherlighting and have even made their own patch cables to emphasis the effect. Are they any good? 👉

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

The trip to Micro Center was awesome! Pics in case you’ve never been to one.

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

It's almost cluster time!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

10 months

@MKBHD Which bougie hotels charge for internet??

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Today I learned that you can sort your virtual machines in Proxmox by name instead of ID. It changed my life. #homelab

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@TechnoTimLive

1 year

It's taking all of my willpower not to press update.... at work... in the middle of the day....

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@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Day 292 #100daysofhomelab Installed Ubuntu Desktop on a Proxmox virtual machine and passed all the hardware though so I can use it as a desktop!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

6 months

The Eagle has landed. My Dad aced it!

Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

6 months

This is probably the most important tutorial I've ever written.

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Where my low power peeps at?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

If you were looking to upgrade to Proxmox 8 today, I wrote a quick guide to help! I've already tested it on my production cluster and it works great!

How to Upgrade Proxmox 7 to 8

Proxmox 8.0 has been released (June, 22, 2023) and includes several new features and a Debian version upgrade. Among the changes are:

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

9 months

Back in my tech support days I thought that if I had PXE network boot at home, that I "made it". We'll, that day has come! This past week I learned all about netboot xyz! I can now boot and install any operating system over the network! Check it out!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

#SaturdayMood

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 months

Wife: The garage lights are so finicky. They turn on when I open the garage door but not when I walk in. Me: Yeah, the automation isn’t working because the motion detection stopped working on those cameras. I bought a Zigbee motion detection sensor so we don’t have to rely on

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 month

When Patrick from @ServeTheHome asks if you want a CPU upgrade… he sends the whole tray!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Just slapped these Intel 10G Network cards in my 1U Proxmox servers. #homelab

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Today I decided to share how I set up my VLANs, Firewall rules, Wireless Networks, and Network Security. 👉 #vlan #unifi #homelab

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Here’s the mini PC I went with for my mom. Should I review it? Small banana for scale.

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

8 months

Your 2023 HomeLab Unwrapped

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

9 months

Hardware testing! ✅ Memory test

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@TechnoTimLive

1 month

Me: I moved a lot of apps that were running in Kubernetes over to a new dedicated app server that's running Docker only, using compose. So Plex, Home Assistant, and Scrypted were all moved there and they can share the same video card! Wife: What? Me: Plex will work better and

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

8 months

I’m home!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

6 months

Not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed.

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

👀 Look what just arrived!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 months

I’m not sure why Proxmox settled on sequential numbers for Virtual Machine IDs. If you delete a VM and reuse the ID, all backups from the previous machine now show up for the new machine. Why not a UUID? Am I missing something?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

It’s alive. I’ve finally got my mobile #homelab working! Details soon!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

This is what my workbench looks like after most #homelab projects, no cap

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Over the last few weeks I built a lower power, efficient, and silent Proxmox server! I can run many virtual machine and even pass through the hardware to use it as a desktop simultaneously! Check it out! 👉 #homelab

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Wow, this just happened! Thank you all so much!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 years

Day 221 #100DaysOfHomeLab Making a low power NUC cluster a reality…

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@TechnoTimLive

7 months

What a year of self-hosting! Join me as we walk though my entire infrastructure and services that I have running in my HomeLab!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

10 months

@MKBHD It's crazy to think that we pay for internet multiple times - home - phone - hotel/flying - hotspots I just want one provider, everywhere

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

What a week! I built a lower power, efficient, and near silent server cluster! Although this cluster is small and efficient, it's still powerful enough to run many services running in High Availability mode! Check it out!👉 #homelab

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

3 months

I figured I'd share these images here so they aren't locked in my phone forever, unseen.

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Many have asked how I use tags in Proxmox. Here's how: I have labels for: OS Server role kubernetes role If it's a test machine Here they are expanded:

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

11 months

We’re live, on boat, with @45Drives , @geerlingguy , @CraftComputing , and Wendell from @Level1Techs

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

No sooner than I migrated 1 of my 1u servers to a NUC, I decided to migrate another! I just shutdown another 1u server and saved a total of 200w of power!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

4 years

Finally done! Just converted my desk to a sit/stand desk and replaced my old monitors with 1440p displays! 😅

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

7 months

An obsession or the quest for optimal performance?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

8 months

I’m in the US but will saying “Yes” to this give me better or worse privacy?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 years

OK, who is working on their #homelab today 🙋‍♂️?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

6 years

My advice when trying to grow your Twitch presence: Stay Positive Be Active Play Stream Maintain your personal brand Network Support 🚀🚀🚀 #twitch #SupportSmallStreamers #SupportSmallerStreams #PathToAffiliate #PathToPartner #BestCommunity ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

8 months

It's time of year again! Time for my Server Rack and HomeLab tour! If you've ever wondered what servers, networking, and even low power PCs I am running in my setup, check it out! 👉

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 years

It's on the way!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

6 years

We did it Twitch community! I just received the invite to be an affiliate! A huge THANK YOU to everyone who showed up over the last few weeks!!! 🚀🚀🚀 #twitch #SupportSmallStreamers #SupportSmallerStreamers #PathToAffiliate #PathToPartner #BestCommunity ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 years

I just YOLO'd the Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade on 32 servers with Ansible in my home production. 🤞 #100DaysOfHomeLab

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@TechnoTimLive

8 months

As promised in my HomeLab Server Tour 2023 video, I am giving away my rackmount server to anyone in the Twin Cities area. This is local only, sorry, will not ship. Some details about the server * 4u rackmount conversion * Chenbro Rackmount 4U Server Chassis * ASUS Z87-Pro

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

4 newer projects from @45Drives we saw today! ♦️Stornado Gen II 2U SATA (think all SSD) ♦️Homelab HL15 (rackmount or desktop) ♦️ Storinator Jr. (Raspberry Pi) ♦️Storinator Hybrid F8 (mix and match flash and HDD) Which do you choose?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Over the past few weeks I learned all about Terraform and it's awesome! I converted my Cloudflare settings to code and deploy it with CI / CD using GitHub Actions! You can check it out here: 👉 #terraform #cloudflare #github #homelab

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

3 months

Huge thanks to @geerlingguy who helped me get past the finish line on my Raspberry Pi LED upgrade project. I can now power everything from one power supply! 🎉🦜

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

3 months

Current status

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 years

Day 100! #100DaysOfHomeLab 🎉 We did it! It's hard to believe that this challenge started 100 days ago. Still forever grateful for those in this video and all those who joined. This isn't the end, for some it's just the beginning. 🪞 Reflecting on my journey Thank you!

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

5 months

I found a free and open source alternative to AirDrop called LocalSend! It works with Windows, macOS, Android, and even Linux! Join me as I test it on every platform and see if I can transfer a file to every platform using this app! 👉

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

8 months

Have I gone too far in my quest to mount everything to my standing desk?

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

Today I decided to do a little more experimentation with Proxmox! Since moving my Proxmox VMs to my Intel NUC cluster I had to tighten up my resources, specifically RAM. I went from 256GB to only 64GB, so I decided to turn memory ballooning back on for all of my VMs because I

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

8 months

Farewell to my first pc conversion homelab server! May you bring the next person joy with lots of disks in a ZFS pool, SSD storage for virtual machines, or just a nice bare metal machine for whatever you like.

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

I've had a ton of fun setting up and configuring a ZimaBoard and CasaOS over the last few weeks! I decided to walk through over 20 other home server projects you can start today. Check it out! 👉

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 years

Day 191 #100DaysOfHomeLab Finishing touches on my #homelab server rack

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2 years

It's here. The #100DaysOfHomeLab challenge! Who's in?

100 Days of HomeLab

It's here. The #100DaysOfHomeLab challenge! This challenge is meant to accelerate your knowledge in servers, networking, infrastructure, automation, storag...

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

4 months

Me every time I configure UniFi firewall rules for VPN networks 😅

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Techno Tim

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10 months

So many devices, so little time!

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8 months

While RGB and blinking lights are cool, one thing that I actually want is a "Lights Out" mode for these new switches. I know it sounds counterintuitive however now that we have some basic control over these, I think the best option for some is to turn them all off until you

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6 months

Hands down the best keyboard / mouse combo for your workbench if you are on a budget and enjoy simplicity

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1 year

It might be time for a rebrand...

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10 months

I feel like I've uninstalled OneDrive at least 20x on my Windows PC...

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

1 year

What a week! I found this awesome open source software that let's me connect and stream almost ANY camera to ANY Smart Home Hub. No more vendor lock! It's called Scrypted and it's awesome! Check it out!👉

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Techno Tim

@TechnoTimLive

2 years

SO I HAVE THIS THING CALLED A HOMELAB AND I HAVE SOME SERVERS AND MOST OF THE TIME THINGS GO WRONG BUT SOMETIMES THEY GO RIGHT BUT EVEN IF THEY GO WRONG I AM STILL LEARNING ABOUT HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS, CLUSTERING, KUBERNETES, WINDOWS, LINUX, AND NETWORKING

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