Before we see what he would upgrade, let's see what he might have lifted from the office.
This one's not from the office, but it's obviously
property of Smashchamps that I bought.
Thank you, because it's not the ones that we get on Tuesday nights.
Because those, what you do is you steal one at a time instead of the whole tube, hypothetically.
Let's get to know Nick Harris through the objects in his home.
This is fun. Oh, that goes together with this.
Or will. Is that the intended final result? No, no, the original idea I thought
was that I could get you to build that today,
and then I'll just do the actual stuff. Wait, I've never actually built a LEGO Star Destroyer.
Wait, is that how the Star Destroyer actually works? Like it uses technique for the inside?
Not in the movies, no. Well, thank you for that.
For the LEGO set, though, is that the inside? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Most of their larger pieces have some sort of frame.
Or else it's going to be heavy as heck if you just fall solid.
Makes sense. I can turn all of this off, pull it out,
ubiquity goes in, we plug it in, turn it on, computers go back.
I don't think we've ever had a networking video go that smoothly.
But I love your optimism. I'm sure it will be fine.
You literally work in the Labs. You know how rarely everything goes smoothly.
What are you talking about? I mean, everyone else has problems.
I just wait for the results to come in. I like your rack, by the way.
I got it from Steven in the lab, actually.
Oh, really? Yeah, he was trying to get rid of it. And you remember when you guys were doing the reviews of people's setups
and he won? Yeah. He's got the crate. Yeah, I got that from him.
As we go through, why don't we find out what each of these computers are for?
You said you don't do VMs, but you do have a Proxmox computer.
Yeah, no, I was lying. OK, what does your Proxmox machine do?
So on Proxmox, I have a Docker host for Pyhole and something else.
I honestly can't remember what was running on it. But then I have a VM for Plex and the R stack for managing my seven movies
that I've ripped. And I have, sure.
There's a VM for Perforce, which is a version control for some Gamedev.
And then there's a VM for, did I say game server or anything?
No. Game server is like Minecraft or whatever. OK.
Yeah, I was going to put home assistant on it, but I'm actually at capacity, so that's
why it's running on the laptop right now.
Got it. I only have 32 gigs of memory in here.
You realize nobody out there is going to feel bad for you saying that, right?
No. That's OK. It's a little bit of an upgrade, eh?
Yeah, it really is. I think the question on everyone's mind right now, though,
is when you go ahead and rack mount this, are you going to rack mount anything else?
Or are you married to this whole tripping over all of my desktops
vibe that you've got going on right now?
You are the only one that has been tripping so far. And I have these little cutouts, so I can put the computers on top,
so I can slide them in. But I didn't want the 1U chassis.
So you prefer instead the 7U chassis?
Yeah. Well, I can move this wherever I want, in case I wanted to get rid of modularity.
Oh, no, you're right. Oh, my god. Why would you say that like that?
Whatever, man. You're right.
Oh, my god. Really?
I mean, you were right about the network cables. You were right about the men.
No, I don't need the affirmation. I just mean, do you have to be that surprised?
No, I didn't have to be. It was natural.
Come on, man. Oh, this is not like a inserts type of rack.
Oh, yeah. I have no idea what kind of rack it is. Do you have lots of hardware?
Sorry? Do you have hardware? Like, do you have screws for it?
Because it doesn't use cage nuts.
Oh, do we just not need screws and just go right? Well, no, we do need screws.
But there's no where for cage nuts, so I can't use the screws that come with any equipment.
Oh, sorry. This is a cage nut.
These?
What are you looking for? Yes, for hardware. I don't know if I actually do.
Or I'm going to have to go spelunking. I didn't think about it.
Or a worst case scenario is, for now, I can take the other piece of wood
and we can just put it in the other one.
Oh, my god. Nick, I really don't want to do that. Can we put things in properly for the first time
in this apartment's life? Every, that's fair.
There's so many computers everywhere. I have rails, but I don't know if I have screws.
OK, in fairness, most of these wires are because of the chute today.
Actually, no, that sits there all the time. The only thing that's extra is this.
But the kitchen table is here, so it covers it.
So we're getting a desk so I can hide all the cables over there. It's the one disadvantage of the clear screwdriver.
It's legitimately harder to find.
I don't know if my UPS is good for all of it now.
Because it's kind of a desktop one. Yeah, but your UPS should have pass-throughs as well
that are not battery backed up. So anything that's not essential to be on the battery backup,
you can just have it just be powered.
And thank you for that.
So the square heads are really uncommon outside of Canada.
It was down to some kind of a dispute between the inventor of the Robertson screw and Henry Ford.
Slot was cheaper, and so therefore ultimately won,
and it was a whole thing. And so Robertson is not common outside of Canada.
You had another example of a crappier standard that won because it was cheaper.
Also, can somebody come up with a better idea of how to do auto-leveling cabinet hinges?
It is simultaneously the most frustrating thing to use,
but also genius.
I think if you could do that, Adam, then your talents would be utterly wasted here.
I think that would be your calling. If you could make the Adam hinge.
So I'm going to delegate. Got the Robertson screw, the Adam hinge. It's going to be huge.
I mean, it's going to be a massive hit.
I will be honest with you. If you wanted to pursue that dream
and you had a viable path to it, I'm your first investor, Adam.
Hell yeah. OK? I fully support you.
Let's go. I'm pivoting. I want it. Do you know how many hours I've wasted
trying to get the doors of a stupid freaking cabinet to line up just right?
And it bothers me so much when they don't. Actually, here's a question.
What do you think I actually do every day? I think you do a lot more supervisory stuff these days
because there's like 15, 20 people in Labs.
Well, a little less than that, but. Yeah, I don't know. There's a bunch.
That's all I know. Yeah, is that about right?
Yeah, I was hoping you'd be wronger, but I'm getting surprised.
I do know what people, you know, I do like go to the company
every day and talk to people.
You're into the camera. That is a fraction of what I do.
I have no experience whatsoever with ubiquities unifying NAS.
You're ubiquity. Sorry. I don't want to drop it.
There's no hard drives in it right now. Not the end of the world.
Oh. He bangs. He bangs.
Oh, baby, yeah, he can't move this furniture when it's built.
He can't. I can move it when it's built. It makes him crazy.
I should have planned this out a little better.
You know that Ricky Martin has a micro penis? Is that true? Yeah.
How do you know? Oh, no, no, no, I'm confusing it with the, I can be a hero, baby.
He has a micro penis. In Rikae Glesias? Yes.
Really? I know, right? How do you know that? He talked about it once, and I thought, that's crazy.
And now I just know that forever. Now we know that.
Yeah, thanks. What's a micro penis? I'm going to get it behind you. I mean, it's pretty self-explanatory.
Medical condition, anatomically normal in structure, but significantly smaller than average,
typically measuring less than three inches.
I mean, that seems perfectly normal.
Yeah. Oh, no. No, I'm just, I only have one 10 gig.
So I'm plugging. So this is, you're going to hate this.
So until I run another cable, because I do want cat 6a
everywhere, this is my main link over here.
Wait, this is just going to go across the kitchen? For now.
But I can close it. I think we've seen enough for nows in Mr. Harris' apartment
to know that that cable is going to be there forever.
No, I even have the channels. Look, look, look, look.
You even have the glue. I've already tried to fix that twice,
and I ended up just losing skin. Right, that supports my argument.
Sorry, I thought you were arguing, I never will try.
Why did I think everything was fine? I don't know.
But you do not need cat 6a at all. Cat 5e is perfectly cromulent for two and a half gig.
And this isn't cat 6a anyway, I can tell just from the pixels.
That's cat 6, which is not. I never claimed it was A. Oh.
Well, you said you wanted to get the whole place cat 6a. Eventually.
Right, you don't have a single cat 6a cable in here right now, though.
Not that I know of. No, OK. Unless one of the ones on the couch would.
Which is totally fine, because cat 5e or cat 6
is perfectly fine for two and a half gig. And two and a half gig is realistically
all that 99.9% of people need.
It's 250 megabytes a second.
Like, it's a lot. OK, hold on. I feel like I need to justify my math here.
The reason I divide by 10, because it's actually like eight bits
to a byte, is because there's like overhead.
So in the real world, what you generally get is about divided
by 10. So 10 gigabit is about one Gigabyte a second.
You'll see 1.1 in perfectly ideal conditions, but it just so rarely happens that there's no point even
talking about it. By the way, speaking of mounting things, I'm overriding you.
We're not putting this on top of the mic. Well, that's not wall mounted either.
No, but we're just going to put it lower, because Mr. Taren van Heemert had a really great philosophy
that I live by, and that is that anything fragile
should be stored with as little potential energy as possible.
So I'm going to move it down lower. That's why he's so short.
Thank you. I'm going to put it down here on the shelf at the bottom, OK?
But that's where the true NAS box goes. Yeah, well, we're going to have to find a way to fit them both,
because this is also full of hard drives. And if it falls for whatever reason, then it will be dead.
You don't care. No, I do. OK, no, no, no, we'll put it on the bottom.
I put a chair in the fricking counter.
I don't know what you expect here. OK, this I got to see, Mandalorian bathroom?
Yes, so I expressed when I moved out here to my mother
that for Christmas and birthdays, I don't want stuff anymore.
So she's discovered Timu, or Temu, Temu, I think.
Temu. Ubakura. Ubakura, yeah. So I'll just let you see for yourself.
Like how you tell her no stuff, and she's like, Temu. No, but she's now finding things that are useful,
such as, don't I need a shower curtain with a badly printed Mandalorian?
Don't I need chopsticks that are lightsabers? Just like I needed these, I needed chopsticks.
So try and use those. Are these RGB chopsticks?
Yes. Whoa, oh my god, they're huge.
No, I think all the other chopsticks are just micro chopsticks.
They don't turn on. They're probably dead. They've been in there a while.
We're going to be able to, oh, OK.
Yeah, I don't think it's a glow stick. That makes so much more sense, though.
Yeah. Oh my god, my micro hands cannot handle these not
micro chopsticks. Can you hold those? You don't even have that big hands for it. They're not comfortable.
Dude, I got short fingers. I got big palms. Oh yeah, look at that.
You do have big palms. My pinky's the same length as yours.
But my palm starts like an inch below. It's crazy.
Yeah, so. Different bodies are funny.
It's not that good. Think about that for the other way around. I'm all bald.
See, look, I even did a to-do list. Additional drive into NAS.
I didn't do that, but I'm going to work it out anyways.
Oh, I forgot to do that. Oh, actually, no, that's in the. You had a to-do list for today, and you never showed it to us
till now? Yeah, pretty much.
No, no, no, but this is the to-do list after the hardware is built in, because it's all the software
crap I need to do. Got it, OK. All right, I'm working on it. It was for like a patch panel.
Well, where's your patch panel? Do you have a patch panel? It's later.
What? It's for later. What? I don't have a patch panel, though.
Oh, for.
This brings me a bunch of patch cords. And he's like, oh, it's for a patch panel.
Freaking me out, because I'm sitting here going, oh, well, I didn't realize you had a patch panel.
It doesn't have one. Honestly, though, this is going to be a controversial take.
Feel free to come at me in the comments. I think patch panels are overrated for home use,
and even small scale SMB.
Plug me right into the switch. Just terminate the end. Give me your hand.
Do we have patch panels at our SMB? Yeah. Yeah, but we also have a ridiculous amount of networking
compared to, like, I don't know, a little lawyer's office
or something like that. I have never understood what people who have, like, a patch panel at home are doing.
You patch? Yeah. But who cares? How many, like?
The amount of work that you're saving by having the patch panel is more than just a patch panel.
Is more than compensated for by the extra work
that you put in to have the patch panel in the first place. I don't know exactly what to do with all of these.
And Nick, I can't do anything with this until I know where your RGB light strips are going to go.
I don't think you're going to get a plan out of him, Adam. What are you talking about? I think you just need to make decisions for him.
I'm doing the needful. You're doing the what?
You did the thing. You did the thing where you say, I'm doing the needful.
The what? Oh, forget it.
Sorry, what do you need? I need input about where you want to put your lights.
And you have to actually give me input. That's not input. I'm already here.
I know that. All right, put this one somewhere to start.
But what do you want in relation to like your RGB strip? Where are you going to put your RGB strip? I think you should just make the decision.
I want, can we? The RGB strip, at first, I was going to just do up and here.
Up and down. Up and here, up and here.
Y'all going to make me lose my mind, up and here, up and here.
Why would you put it there? To break it up.
All right. No, think about where do you find your lighting a nuisance?
Where are you annoyed? Is it pretty dim in this?
Let me ask you a question, Adam. Were you happier before you asked him for his input?
No, because I was scared and confused. OK, and how do you feel now?
Frustrated and also confused. What happened? I thought this was going in.
I was asking you about it. Here, put this there.
Start to top and down. All the way down, you just want a vertical strip?
You keep asking, you're like challenging what I've been asked. I'm not trying to challenge you, I'm trying to confirm.
What do you want? I want this. Are you sure? I don't want my tone to come across as challenging you.
You guys are great. I am trying to make sure that you're not just half
asking your response and making a bad decision.
This whole thing was a bad decision.
You have a tick where you take off your glasses when you're upset.
What are you doing again? No, they bugged me, that's why.
They're deciding where to put the lights, the other lights.
OK, these lights. I don't want them there, because why would you
put lights under your lights? It would be way better to showcase some nice artwork.
You already have some artwork on the walls, you can fill up a little bit more, right?
So where do you want to put these? I truly, I would put these back in the box and return them.
That's where I want to put them right now.
I never get a useful opinion from Nick, I never get an opinion.
Don't do that, don't do this. So here's my thing, what would be nice
would be to use them to fill the space up here, the issues that you'll be staring at them when you're on the TV,
so you're not going to use them. It would be nice to put them up there, but that's where your art is.
And also then you have to deal with reflections on your TV. The other part is that I could put it in your bedroom,
kind of long there, you could get some cool little gamer lighting by your bed, but I feel like you're just never going to use that.
I like the assumptions he's making about how I live my life.
I mean, is he wrong? No.
OK, well, if we put them here, OK. Do you want them above your desk in your bedroom?
That's a big empty space we could do something fun with. Yeah, but I sleep there.
Dude, you have other lights in there that you turn.
Why not?
Sure, we're putting them there. OK, I'm done. I'm done.
No, we're good. I haven't done it yet. No, I don't mind them here.
When I'm watching TV, yes, I will turn them off.
Sure. But I like the ambience. OK. I can get.
But I like the idea of it kind of like starting there and cascading down instead of just here, so over the door and then.
I like that too. I like that too. Oh, do you?
I do. Yeah, why are you being so? It's I don't know.
I've trained you into being adversarial to me today. I was like, I like that.
You're like, oh, you like that? Yeah, that's really nice for my place.
I'm like, yeah. Is that your Nick Cage impression? Like, you know, all you nicks are the same.
Well, they look a lot bigger when you're holding them. No, I was going to say, it looks the whole thing looks like it's a little off.
Oh, yeah, it's like it's not. I asked you if it was level with the door and you said, yep.
That was when, before you took it off. Well, it'll, you know what?
It'll look more level with the lights on. No, no, it won't. The only thing. Oh, no, there is one thing remaining.
You do need to decide where this is going to go and then, you know, plug it.
I mean, I guess, I don't know. I guess it could go here. I don't know. Adam was keen on mounting it.
I'm not sure if he was. I was like, you know, I'm done with mountain fishing.
Because I feel like we could just put it right here and it would actually look pretty clean and be totally fine.
Oh, we don't have the Velcro part, but. Got a lot of tape.
Um, I might. What do you, what do you think of that?
Just like putting it right here? It's actually pretty central. I mean, I was going to leave it hanging out on top of it.
No. Okay.
No, I've had enough of that. I'm, I will go get your double-sided.
Adam agrees that this looks better now.
I agree. Thank you, Adam. Yeah. And you know what?
I agree that that looks better now.
It's, it's better. God, it's really far off.
But I put about as much care into its placement as Nick did.
Back when I painted houses, that was the bar. When I would put people's houses,
I would have a look at sort of the general state of them and their belongings.
And then I would account for how much time we would need to do a job to what are probably their standards.
The issue worked really well. The issue with all of these like connecting light things is that
whatever half degree off you are, it's just multiplied across the whole thing.
Literally multiplied. And you can't like set them up in a single unit and get them all level.
You just have to like pray in these. I hate the mounting gear.
Sorry, Govee. Natalie has a better mounting system than you.
Oh, he has a power bar at it. I just unplugged the light and the speaker.
Wait, what? Don't you want your light and speakers plugged in for when you would like live here?
No, I'll use the longer one. That only has two because I only need to plug in two things.
What about the test bench? I'll take the power bar from my gaming rig.
OK, sweet. So what we discovered is that my solution...
I'm going to the dollar store! What we discovered is my solution already worked and you said
knowledge for utility and I'm utilizing it, which is what the word utility means.
I can't take this anymore!
We're going to give a domestic call.
No, no, no. The reasoning here is the length is better utilized.
Don't let them in. Don't let them in. Oh, is it locked?
He knows how to... I'll get...
I don't actually want to go to the dollar store if we have enough power bars here.
Did you tell the... Did you say we're just making a video? Sorry, neighbors.
I know, nobody put their head up. We're making a video.
Oh, dude, and now you don't have to have these stupid cables up here. Oh, nice.
Oh, wait. Why would I not plug that right into that?
Oh, my God. Because I'm going to throw up.
This is why you're not going to plug that in there. Because we have a power bar now and that solves our problems.
Yeah, I can't believe that this was not a necessary solution.
There's totally a power plug down there.
That's why that was... Can I get one of those? No, no, no.
The bottom plug turns off with one of the switches.
So I don't use the plugs that can turn off with the switches in case I accidentally hit it.
Let's get a piece of tape and we'll put it on your switch.
That is actually less janky than what you've done.
I do. There is tape on it. Also, the other solution, you just plug the one that doesn't switch into a power bar.
I don't know why no one wants to come over.
Luke keeps declining one-on-ones with me.
What is working? I'm having a blast here. This is great.
I got to do pretty much my favorite thing, which is tidy up and...
You know you're a dad, Wayne. Yeah, well...
Your favorite thing to do... Alright, it does look better.