1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,720 We love building home servers, and apparently so do you. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,440 They're great, but what are you supposed to do with them? 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,920 Okay, you might need the odd virtual machine or storage vault or media streamer, 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,960 and that would explain, you know, something like this, 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,040 but what is this and this and this? 6 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:25,160 Y'all clearly either got too much money or you just love your day job managing IT 7 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,160 so huggy muggy much that you just can't wait 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:33,160 to do it some more when you get home. I mean, that's clearly the vibe with our first setup here. 9 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:36,520 This looks incredible. You just spent some time on this. 10 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:42,080 Got a little bit of consumer level gear down there, an old nook and what seems to be just like an office UPS, 11 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,080 but like, what does he need a Fortinet firewall for at home? 12 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,040 You're like my mate Kevin, shout out Kevin. He loves his Fortinet. 13 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:56,760 Comes with back doors pre-baked in baby. This dude is a total, total dark. 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,800 Like in a good way though. This is his toys. This is his outside. 15 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,200 You don't touch grass, you touch cables. Seems like you're doing good work. 16 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,920 He's doing interesting stuff. And I'm doing an interesting segway to our sponsor. 17 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,120 This is the back of it. Do we have a front picture? Yeah, do we? 18 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:18,560 Wait, this is kind of what? Is this even plugged in? This is all zip ties though. 19 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,640 Oh no. How do you have this many zip ties for cable management 20 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,880 and still end up with it looking like this? 21 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:30,240 Oh man. You need so many tips. 22 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:34,440 Tech tips even. Don't put your access point on a metal surface. 23 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:39,600 Yep. I mean, this looks like a cobble together rack for learning, which is totally respectable. 24 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,400 If they're doing it for learning, maybe learn how to not use zip ties. You can even see that the problem has already propagated 25 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,560 because these were the first two cables he had and then he had to add a third. 26 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,680 So he just zip tied over the existing two plus the third. 27 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,760 Oh no. Is this in a shipping container? 28 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,800 Yeah, a steel box. Whoa, buddy. 29 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:04,080 Dude. Dude, I love it. 30 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,240 That is awesome. Look at the surface just sitting on the side there 31 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,320 on the back shelf. This is sick. 32 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,760 Yo. We've got a little workstation too. Start doing this. 33 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,760 This is the dream. Dude, this is like so clean. 34 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,360 Yeah, look, it's got the tool organizers, everything's in like nice little buckets. 35 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:26,480 Wait, wait, wait. I wish our server closet could look like. I buried a hundred meters of fiber up the driveway. 36 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,920 Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, that's the coolest one by far so far. 37 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:31,760 You win. 38 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:39,000 Wait, is it before and after? I thought this was a shelf. Sorry, I thought you were getting to the post. 39 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,560 No, this is the shelf. No, this is the post. Oh, this is the whole thing. 40 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,560 This is respectable. He's running Proxmox, a lot of Proxmox out here. 41 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,320 What is your setup dude? What is he doing? Before and after. 42 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,760 Oh, it's just before or after. I mean, it's not much better. 43 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,160 Is this like a Faraday cage he's built? 44 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,480 Oh, oh, these might be like small cells. 45 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,160 They are. He works in the cellular space and does a lot of testing. If you're not familiar, 46 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,040 it's basically like your own mini cell tower. Which is extremely illegal. 47 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,600 Well, unless you have a Faraday that. Yeah. 48 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,280 I mean, I don't think that's how that works, but. I don't know. 49 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,080 That is sick. That is so cool. 50 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:24,360 This is really sick. I'm gonna write this one down. But why do you have two, 51 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,600 what appear to be identically configured switches up here? 52 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:33,160 I think they're the same. They're just different labels of different generations. Yeah. Is this like a fully redundant, 53 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:38,480 like high availability setup at home? So what do you do with all this networking? 54 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,720 There is no servers in here. Is there not? 55 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,880 There's none. R slash home lab. It's not like R slash battle station 56 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:50,880 where you just, you know what they're doing with it. There's a VR headset. They're, you know, doing some stuff. 57 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,400 This is like, look at all the stuff I have. 58 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,280 Guess, bitch. 59 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,920 Wow. That's a lot of storage. It's a lot of two and a half inch Bay storage. 60 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,600 Wow. These are like sass drives. 61 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,760 Yeah. The, the frequency in there keeps teenagers away. 62 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:13,480 Yeah. This one's really clean. It is. 63 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,800 Show me, show me your back fat. So I like, Jesus. 64 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,240 Okay. He's got a lock. It's where he keeps the drugs, I guess. 65 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,320 So he keeps the receipts from his wife. Yeah. It cost me 12 bucks. 66 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,240 You, you spent, well, I probably did. 67 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:34,080 Why is it Christmas lab? Ah, with better cable management than most of the things 68 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,600 that we've seen so far. And you notice like the lack of zip ties. 69 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,760 It's a Christmas tree. It's a Christmas tree. I mean, that's more use than some of the people 70 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,400 who are doing for their home Labs, it seems like. I almost wish it was AI, 71 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:50,280 because somehow it's more painful for me that the human effort, rather than the electricity, 72 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:54,240 was wasted building this. This is why your support tickets aren't being answered. 73 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:59,240 This is your home lab? 74 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,600 This is nicer than our infra. They'll technically a home lab, 75 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:08,240 but I think home data center is more appropriate. Why are you making me feel inadequate like this? 76 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,280 Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm a... 77 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:16,400 Danny, let's go to the bathroom for a minute. I just need everybody to leave. 78 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,880 Wow. Wow. What? 79 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,720 What do you have plugged into this? What is all this stuff? 80 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:28,360 So in the comments, Jeff, who's the OP is the CTO of SureScripts. 81 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:33,520 Oh, okay. What are you doing in your house? 82 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:34,360 Dude. 83 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,200 Cool. Okay. Oh, I love it. 84 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,280 Very DIY, very functional. 85 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:47,840 At least the small out of the way. Yeah. Oh, look it. 86 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:50,960 See, look, he's got a diagram. Wow. 87 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:55,320 Now we can see exactly what's going on. I saw repository. I saw repository. 88 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,360 Yeah. Sure. Very modest, very functional. 89 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,440 Yeah. Full view of the home lab. 90 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,720 Oh, I like this guy's got captions. Wow. Oh, it's in a built-in. 91 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:12,440 No way. Oh, that's sick. Custom soundproofing for silence 92 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,880 and integration with home automation and energy management. 93 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:21,280 That's kind of cool. That's pretty cool. How do you have that much networking in your home? 94 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:23,520 Really? You're gonna ask that question? 95 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:30,200 Hey, look. This has to be a whole house control or something. 96 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,360 Yeah, like he's got a smart house. It's all like control four. That's why there's so many Ethernet cables. 97 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,160 He's built it dedicated new. When they built the house, they put the closet in. 98 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,160 This is... You knew what you're about, 99 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,120 and I respect that greatly. Apparently the servers are inaudible. 100 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,880 Stable 30 degrees Celsius. Two and a half gig to all rooms. 101 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:52,320 Yeah, that's what you need. A leak sensor above the rack to shut off the AC. 102 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,400 Starts out as I want an S. This is how we started. 103 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,400 I think this is called gateway drug. Bruh. 104 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,040 Wow. What a battle station. 105 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,360 Yeah. I've never understood monitor setups like this. 106 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,560 No, because it's too much. You can't, you cannot use that much monitor. 107 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,880 It's not even efficient. Like this actually makes you slower unless you're like a stock trader. 108 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:25,160 Aren't those for like doing car detailing? What? Oh, those light bars? 109 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:29,080 Yeah, they're like the heck light. This whole subreddit is just like wealth shaming. 110 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,160 Like it actually is. Four, four, four. 111 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,360 That looks awesome. Is this the same dude? 112 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:42,400 The CTO. The same guy? This is this freaking guy? I understand why this guy is so into it 113 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:46,880 because he's the CTO of another company. So at some point, I'm imagining he used to actually 114 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,760 get to do stuff and now he just tells people to do stuff. 115 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:55,920 This is like Linus who doesn't get to do things around the office because he has people for that now. 116 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,280 And this guy goes home and like, I remember when I started. 117 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,680 Huh? Seven terabytes of RAM. Huh? 118 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,640 What are you doing? When is too much? This. 119 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,640 $40,000 ago. This is a rhetorical question. 120 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,880 15,000 watts? What? 121 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,720 What are you even doing? I need to like check myself before I end up like this. 122 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,200 75 to 90% of it is off most of the time. 123 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,880 So he just, he just has it. Yeah, I have a whole lab. 124 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,320 But I don't use it, but I have it. 125 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,920 48 node cluster in the garage. 126 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,280 Whoa. On $20 shelves. 127 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,960 Yeah, with $2 power strips. Oh my goodness. 128 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:51,840 The shelves are not. How have they not melted? Now that looks like something that I would build. 129 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,760 Spoiler, it doesn't perform great. 130 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:00,240 Self-destruct after 20 to 24 nodes. I mean, this is a way of finding that out. 131 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:06,560 You use cheap old hardware, you try stuff, and hey, at least we know what this was actually for. 132 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:09,880 He actually did something with it. Yeah. I love it then. 133 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:11,560 Yep. Officially love it. 134 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:19,680 Whoa, designed my own storage chassis with 56 drive bays. 135 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:24,800 Okay, that's pretty cool. Nice. This is some Frankenstein level stuff. 136 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:29,680 I love it. That is pretty sleek for a custom case. 137 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:34,080 This is really sick though. I mean, I have had thoughts of doing something like this 138 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,640 so many times, and I've kind of been surprised that nobody else has done it. 139 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,720 The big thing is the connectivity, because you can make something 140 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,920 that's like mostly 3D printable. You can make a 3D printed drive enclosure, 141 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:49,600 but how do you connect them all? And this guy made some custom PCBs for it. 142 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,920 That's not something that you can 3D print. No, at least not in its entirety. 143 00:09:57,960 --> 00:09:59,960 No need to pay for birth control anymore. 144 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,880 Oh my. Are you sure? 145 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:11,600 Are you sure? Because when she comes over and sees this, you might be like, wow, that's a big scope. 146 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,720 Siglint, we've got a digital storage oscilloscope. 147 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:19,360 We've got another oscilloscope. We've got a- There's another HP, like the vintage HP stuff. 148 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,280 This is a spectrum analyzer. That is like the best stuff. 149 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,080 National instruments as well. Oh my God. 150 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,440 Well, this is interesting. This looks like a toy. 151 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,080 That is super cool. Monty. 3D printed mini rack. 152 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,640 What am I even looking at? The power supply on the side there. 153 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:42,200 Yeah. A whole bunch of- Like that's pies? 154 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,680 Pie for view modules maybe? Yeah, server rack for pies. 155 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:50,400 That's so cool. And some Intel Nooks as well, seven inches wide. 156 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,960 So it's only about this big, which is a perfectly okay size. 157 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,200 I'm no hardware engineer, so this is likely a fire hazard. 158 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,480 I am feeling very inspired. 159 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,640 Right? Two stuff, what are you gonna do with the stuff though, Dan? 160 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,680 Well, I mean, one of them is a machine learning server, 161 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:13,960 and I use it to learn full stack dev and Broxmox and stuff like that. 162 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,880 And then of course- So what you're saying is- Piracy. Okay. 163 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,720 Everything always comes back to piracy. Oh my God. 164 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,240 Is this a little lightning grid? Is it a little lightning trusses interesting? 165 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,680 Whoa! That is hot. This is kind of up your alley too, eh? 166 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:33,560 Yeah, he's got the- Yeah, mm-hmm. The that. 167 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,960 I wanna do that. Truss. I've never even considered doing truss. 168 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:40,960 Yo! Whoa! What a f***ing nerd! 169 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,640 He's using the truss to mount his monitors. Oh! 170 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:49,040 That stuff's expensive. Yeah, it's pretty, yeah. Why, he's got road cases? 171 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:53,800 That's all audio equipment? Yo! This is what Dan wishes he was. 172 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,360 Oh, right. LTTstore.com. 173 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:05,160 The hat. And the shirt. It's just a blank black shirt, but it's nice. 174 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,600 It's a pie cluster! It's a Kubernetes pie cluster. 175 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,640 See, I love these things. They're so cute when people do pie clusters. 176 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:19,840 They're not cost effective in terms of the performance per dollar 177 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,560 in any way, shape, or form. Yeah, but they're performance per square foot. 178 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:26,640 Nope, still not that. Yeah, they're just cute. 179 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,920 Sharing the heat since between two machines each. 180 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:35,320 And it looks like they just took these- The heat pipes and just friggin' sent it on here. 181 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:39,680 100% unnecessary work. The best kind of work. 182 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,640 I could just put a fan on it. 183 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:48,440 But why? But why do that when I could- I have his heat sinks. Exactly, and these heat pipes. 184 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,680 And I've always wanted to learn how to bend heat pipes. Yeah. I'm in your head. 185 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:54,640 I get you, I see you. I have been you. 186 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:00,720 Home lab meets battle station. Aye! That's cute. 187 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,880 I love it. That's sweet. And the desk lighting. 188 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:09,280 Desk lighting matches the rack lighting. As long as this isn't too loud, I love this setup. 189 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:13,880 Wait, okay. Help me. Wait, is that an alienware? 190 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,440 You're a home labber. You bought an alienware desktop? 191 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:24,680 Mobile home lab. Okay, sick. That is a very rugged crate. 192 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:28,040 That looks military. That's pretty cool. 193 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,080 That's cool. A little for you or so? Yeah. 194 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:35,000 Working overseas for the next year and had a minute or tries most of my normal setup, so I can take it with me. 195 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,040 To do what with? To do what with? 196 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,920 It's like a laptop, but 100 pounds. Why? 197 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,680 What's a grandpa home lab? Whoa, that's ancient. Oh, that is a grandpa home lab. 198 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:53,240 Early 90s? 80s, mid 90s? Yeah, maybe late 80s even. 199 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,760 Are those five inch bays? The color's not right for late 80s. 200 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,800 It was EOL in 2007. 201 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,760 Yeah, this is ancient. It's probably older than me. 202 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,040 Is there a lab here somewhere? I think so. 203 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,120 There's a monitor, there's a switch. There's networking. 204 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:16,200 There's definitely some servers. Oh my God, this is me. 205 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,640 This is what I'm, I'm not this bad, but I'm close to this bad. 206 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:25,200 There is stuff actually running in here. Oh God. 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