John Siracusa

And that's in no small part because I think what I am likely to replace the Synology with, if I were to do it tomorrow, is a Ubiquiti UNAS, which is a giant array of disks, but it's very little else.

I mean, obviously there is a computer in there, but not really from a user's perspective.

By contrast, a Synology will let you, you know, you can run a shell on it.

Well, I mean, you can do that on the UNAS as well, I believe, but you can, you can run stuff on it.

You can install software on the Synology.

You can run Docker containers on it.

And I was running a zillion, like 10 plus Docker containers on my Synology, which by the way, even despite having added third-party RAM to my Synology as an add-on rather than a replacement, um,

That didn't go exceedingly well because while this is a computer and it is meant to serve things, it's not really meant to be a server if you ask me.

And maybe you listening might disagree with me, but that's kind of my perspective on it.

It's supposed to do basic survey stuff but not be like your one server for your small business or for your home or whatever.

and so what i've done is i feel like i've talked about a little of this on the show so forgive me if i'm repeating myself but if you recall way back when a year or two ago i got a little tiny knuck a little tiny uh intel pc that i had shipped off to my dear friend in connecticut with an antenna with the intention of streaming new york giants games from connecticut to me by slurping them up over the air apparently that's my word of the day i'm sorry by scooping them up from the air and um

And, you know, using the absolutely excellent channels app, sending them, you know, sending what the antenna got into my house.

That didn't end up working out because my friend lives far enough into the middle of nowhere, Connecticut, which is a thing, despite what you'd think, that his signal from his house was basically useless.

And I had left the computer, the NUC, there for the longest time because, I don't know, there was no real need to repatriate it, for lack of a better word.

But then it occurred to me, you know what?

You know what a NUC would be really good at?

Running a bunch of Docker containers.

And so I realized my Homelab experience is finally leveling up and I need to do the thing that all self-respecting Homelabbers seem to do.

And now I'm going to get all the Homelabbers yelling at me for saying so.

But nevertheless, it seems like all of the home labbers that I know and respect, like my friend Alex, who's from tail scale, uh, who does incredible videos on the tail scale channel, um, uh, about home lab stuff.