John Siracusa

Uh, so tail scale on YouTube, that is, um, uh,

So anyway, Alex is a big fan of Proxmox, a P-R-O-X-M-O-X, which I am not really well qualified to describe, but I would say is basically like an OS that lets you run VMs and LXCs, which is sort of kind of, but not really like a Docker container.

Or, you know, you can run a virtual machine that itself is basically its only purpose is to run Docker containers and so on and so forth.

And so I repatriated the NUC,

I put Proxmox on it.

That's been working pretty well.

It only had, I believe, stop me if this sounds familiar.

When I bought it, I didn't buy it to do this sort of thing.

I bought it to be a channel server.

And so it only had eight gigs of RAM on it, which once you start running five, 10, 15, literally 20 Docker containers,

And by the way, home assistant and pie hole all on this device.

I quickly found that eight gigs of Ram was not sufficient.

And so for the tune of like $180 or something like that, just a few weeks ago, I bought 16 gigs of Ram, which I think a year ago was like literally 30 or 40 bucks or something like

that.

But now it was something to the order of $150.

I believe the CPU is better.

You know, it's a fair question to which, honestly, I don't know the answer.

I have to assume yes.

And I can tell you, based on the behavior of the NUC and the way these containers run on the NUC, it is way faster.

Way, way faster.