I'm just getting into the market as I'm retiring and want a hobby to compliment my woodworking. I almost bought a Bambu X1C w/ AMS. Then I found the videos about how Bambu has lied about the data they collect. You have to be connected to the Internet to really use the Bambu effectively. Yes, you can use a SD card or USB, it is not a good long-term solution. Bambu claimed they don't collect personal data or Gcode, but it's just not true. The data they collect and encrypt includes every design you print, whether you want it to be open source or to keep IP control of. Since this KZfaqr called them out on it, Bambu has yet to address it and their refusal previously to disclose what they are taking is shady enough for me to look elsewhere.

I’ve just bought two Prusa Mk4s because I appreciate open source and Made in Europe. Plus, Prusa is such a cool company! Their customer service is amazing!

Hi Alex, great video. How are the temperatures in your 4U? Looks like you're able to use desktop fans in there so I suppose it's not too bad.

Great video , I've just joined the cult of ubiquiti the last few month and I'm slowly upgrading , people who say to just use a single switch and don't daisy chain have never retro fitted networking in a house ? Most of my gear is upstairs so starting with my 10g there , my gear is a ultra router , to a 8 port poe switch , which gives me 3 camera + a AP with a trunk upstairs to a 16 pro max switch , with 2 trunks one to loft a 8 port poe with 2 cameras and a AP and the other to the garage to 8 port poe 1 camera and 1 AP. I need a faster way to get from downstairs to upstairs which is limited to 1 gb . I wish the Flex 10 GbE had a SFP+ port so I could use a SFP+ port from upstairs to downstairs , going from SFP+ to RJ45 is stupidly expensive and cheap to other way around.

Could someone achieve the split DNS concept with just pi-hole? That would be extremely useful for the deployment of 3CX ver20 on premises, since it has a lot of requirements. Im trying to accomplish that, but I have set the have part of split dns since by using only the Local DNS tab of PI-Hole, I m setting up only the internal part and not the external.

Me: My nest cameras are starting to die so I'm going to see what else is out there. *a few days later* Me: just ordered tons of ubiquiti network and camera gear now just watching people talk about their setups.

What's with the power supply on the wall which has a cock and balls logo?

You have a very pleasant way of explaining things and it's just the missing piece in my headscale/tailscale setup that I was looking for, thank you kindly Sir!!!

I think you failed to solidify enough the point of the importance of Prusa's contribution .Prusa should receive royalties from so many companies for seeding the ideas. They chose open source but could have done a "apple" closed patent approach. They have brought 3D printing out of the cave and into the mainstream . They really needed to adapt though into a modern ,efficient manufacturing business utilizing the best /efficient processes to make a product as they left gaping holes in the market place. Bamboo is built upon these concepts so now it comes down to market loyalty which will only last so long. The open source is a great idea but chinese based companies like Bambo will simply wait and "use" the open ideas generated. I have seen multiple ideas snapped (stolen) up by the mainland and reproduced cheaply without any penalty.

The Case is absolutely impressive! 175 Watts is still a lot. With a bad energy contract here in germany it would be around 600€ in Electricity costs alone. Even with a good one it would be around 450€

When printing multi-color models, it's a different story.

I bought a P1 P and it was malfunctioning out of the box. Spent three months going back-and-forth with bamboo labs and finally they just completely cut me off and wouldn’t reply. After I filed a charge back though they then decided they wanted their money or my printer back and they came after me until finally they realized it was a write off for them. Screw them, screw one week response time between emails, screw their closed source screw their cloud system screw their Chinese quality and screw their greediness

This video is only five months old? How is bamboo and upstart when they’ve been out for three years? Also, it’s not fair to review last generation Prusa. Go buy yourself a M4 and do a real comparison. Not that it matters cause it’s clear you’re a fanboy of Chinese closed source garbage. Not to mention their service and support is absolute trash. Thumbs down

I just got a MK4 with all the add-ons, enclosure -- working PERFECTLY out of the box. Lots of things to improve for Prusa for sure (including missing parts I had to print to get the thing together) ... but it was pretty fast. Comparing a MK3 to the X1 isn't really fair though.

Thx for this video.. how would you fiber wire up devices like smart tvs?

1:27 i heard as brand new “cumrag” 😂

Thank you for the video and awesome information. I am looking at this build to upgrade my HomeLab habit (currently have a couple of HP Elitedesk 800 G3 sff). My use case will be the following: - Plex with Arr’s and associated apps - HomeAssistant and associated apps - Frigate and Associated apps - Local LLM - Retro Gaming Is there a list of full build parts (like PSU)? I am currently on OMV but looking at TrueNas or Unraid. Any suggestions? Thanks again!

Oh wow you do 3D printing too? I just got into it and bought the X1C w AMS and a bunch of filaments, loving this thing so far even tho it’s all proprietary, all the fouled prints I’ve had had been my fault, the prints weren’t sticking to the smooth plate, fixed that by giving the plate a good washing in the sink. I got mine 10 days ago and she’s got 85 hours on her already. I’m hooooooooked!

I came to say that i got lost on the first minute of explanation but my tailscale is still running like a charm on all my devices 😂

Did you have issues with those fanless 8-port aggregation switches? In my network closet, it was frequently overheating with Mikrotik SFP+ connectors (I didn't use fiber at the time). I ended up switching to the more-expensive 32-port model (which has a built-in fan), and that fixed all my issues no matter the connector. I moved the 8-port model to another room where I'm only using 4 ports and haven't had heat issues since. Only 15 of those 32-ports are in used since SFP connectors don't have PoE, but it's already more than the 8 ports I had before, and I seem to be always finding more places to add Ethernet drops in my house. I've already moved 20 wireless IoT devices onto Ethernet, and will do that to more devices that support it. Ethernet EVERYWHERE!

I'm surprised you're good with 10Gb. It wasn't until I setup 25Gb that I finally moved all my files off my main rig and onto my NAS. Before, I only used my NAS as a backup because I was so unsatisfied with the transfer speeds. 25Gb is finally at NVMe speeds with PCIe gen 3. I'm actually running into limitations in my drives now rather than the cable. Also, upgrading everything to jumbo packets for that and my 5Gb Internet seems to have caused issues with some older devices. I left it this way, but I'm aware there are weird issues now for some IoT devices. It's never that simple :/.

I had nothing but issues with the fiber I got from FS. Frequent issues. I recently cleaned all my connectors (Ubiquiti's ones, not FS), and that seemed to have fixed the issues. FS sent me fiber SFP+ and SFP28 adapters that weren't compatible with UniFi gear and were directly shipped from China. That last part is important because when I asked to ship them back for a full refund, they kept asking me to ship them and pay for shipping. It's been over a year, and I have yet to ship these back. They refuse to pay for it even though they sent the wrong ones over. Never using that company again. trueCABLE is local for me, and they're fiber came in much thicker than the stuff I bought from FS. Haven't tried them out yet as I'm gonna be moving house soon, and their cleaner tool fixed the immediate issues I was having. Also, trueCABLE's patch cables fixed all the 10Gb and PoE issues I was having with the Monoprice Slimrun patch cables (all only 1' long). At this point, I'm all-in on trueCABLE. Glad they're local, but I'm surprised how easily switching manufacturers fixed my issues. I had no clue cables could be so problematic. Like you had, I run a over 8 x 10Gb copper links and 4 x 25Gb fiber links with ODM4.

When I was taking a random networking class around 2006, the enterprise gear was all CLI and no unified management. And that's what it was like all around town I was told since those companies provided the Cisco gear we were working with in the lab at school. I'm actually surprised it's normal now to centrally manage everything in the enterprise. I've also heard it costs a bunch of get that functionality whereas UniFi is free.

Me hose happy with gigabit local speeds and 300mbits sppeds from ISP

Too insane

Is there a reason you don't go with IPPC-3000 fans from Noctua with your server?

got abo because of rimworld play in background panel 😁

The 0.1 volt does make a difference, I can't speak for Raspberry Pi, however where I chat mod on Twitch, for a truck driver, we recently swapped a LiveU Solo streaming encoder which was slowing dying for a Jetson Nano. We power it with a large power bank, and were saw regular under volt warnings, Belabox (the streaming encoder software) stats were telling us that it was receiving around 4.8v (despite the power bank claiming it will do 5v), we have got several other devices, including Sony action cams plugged in too, so maybe that lowered the overall voltage output, anyway we borrowed a power bank and saw 5.01v being reported, we're now using a smaller dedicated power bank just for the Jetson and that's giving a steady 4.9v, so definitely in our experience 0.1v can be enough to cure under voltage issues. Glad you find a Pi plug and it solved it, the newer low power SBC are power sensitive for sure. Also I love how 3D printing in being used practically for server/homelabbing, the SSF Dells look so good rack mounted.

Bit late I know, recently found your channel, really enjoyed going back to catch up, great content, originally came looking for info on the best platform for a low power but decent homelab, I'm currently running containers on my QNAP NAS but want to get into playing around with things, I use my NAS for client footage that I edit, so I can't really have downtime or risk data lose, really interested to get in Proxmox, some Dell/Lenovo SFF clusters, and various VMs. Anyway, you were talking about your aging 3rd gen CPU for your OpenSense router, you should check at out the Intel N100 CPU, I have PFSense running an a CWWK Mini PC that I got from AliExpress, added my old 256GB NVME drive that had my Windows daily driver on and got 16GB RAM, it's probably overkill for the application, but in the year I've been running it it's been faultless, not had to attend to it once. I had become sick of always restarting the ISP router, and even a consumer Netgear router. Using a Unifi AC Pro for AP, got that used off eBay, and self hosting Unifi Controller on the NAS, works really well. I know now that the N100 has been out a while there's a lot more offerings without going down the AliExpress route, ASRock definitely do a solution, as do Minisforum if you just needed the board. You're right about 8th Gen, it's a good CPU, when UK energy prices were out of control last year I bought a Dell Optiplex 3060 that has a 8100T for 50 quid, I run Linux on it for everyday browsing tasks and the like, I use an AMD 3950X with a 1080Ti for video editing, but being freelance you don't always work every day, so was a waste to run it just for some browsing. What I did learn though is Dell don't update their BIOS microcode, unlike Lenovo, so you can't upgrade the CPU, I was looking at putting a 9500T CPU in it, but since Dell have closed off that route, not gonna work, and it seems like a right odl ballache to get a cracked BIOS update, and jump though all the hoops. I guess that's why for the same 8100T/8500T in a Lenovo goes for double the price, coz you can simply make the whole thing last longer. Also agree on Cameron, I love his long form content, he's always informative, and it's all real world deployment stuff, if it's not for his own flat, it's for family or friends.

I started with a Wanhao i3+, now i have a Prusa i3 Mk3s+. I tought about buying a Bambulab p1p to cut my print time in half because “slow” 24+ hours print times are not the best for iterating things very often. So imagine my joy when i found out you can upgrade from mk3s+ to mk4 with an official Prusa kit. Problem is that the upgrade costs €639 and the Bambu p1p is €649 😂 This makes the bambulab an easy choice

30-40 hours to build a printer....? I build one several years ago and it took about 10h. And from what I heard experienced builders could do it like half that time.

Have you ever thought of having audio books of children's bedtime stories. SOOOTHING

Came for the smokeping help, left with my mind blown about the vscode ssh capability - thank you for that!

14:40 FROM UNDERNEATH?? Never even thought to look due to the absurdity. assumed they were rivets. It was easier taking apart the cage holding the 10 adapters (which isn't even needed).

The results are now published! blog.ktz.me/the-best-media-server-cpu-in-the-world/

The results are now live! blog.ktz.me/the-best-media-server-cpu-in-the-world/

I really appreciate how nerdy you were to fully map out your home network. That's really something. A question. Why didn't you buy a non-K 65w variant of the processor? Wouldn't that have been a better option for your use case?

Thank you for doing a build video without once mentioning bloody "gaming". Thoroughly refreshing. Thank you, sir.

Thanks, sound advice.

Your videos are great. I've came across them exactly for the point you made. Checking if my ISP in Bali is trying to kick the can down the road. I am a European living here with a private VPN home server abroad. The performance has dropped dramatically all of a sudden. The ISP came with a new router and blamed it on a broken sea cable in Singapore that I can't find much info on. Still digging into it further and learning a lot. Cheers mate!

I picked up my Bambu X1C. Here’s all I can say… It’s plug and play. I’ve never printed an item so fast, with such good quality, in so little time. My other two are dinosaurs compared to this.

The only thing I don't like is that the black flap cover doesn't also have indication that the RAM slot is underneath it. And for your own sake, dual channel would probably make a noticable difference in performance. CPU, and GPU especially, can benefit anywhere from 15-30% from the proper dual channel bandwidth.

Great work! I am following you to see what inspiration can I get. I was looking for a Supermicro motherboard and this seems to be the one. Do you know if 14th gen would work just the same with TrueNAS Scale?

Built my unRAID server using Intel® Core™ i7-11700 Desktop Processor 8 Cores 65 w with a Asrock H570 steel legend and an LSI card from art of server and I was gonna spring for a dedicated GPU for transcoding but I discovered quiksync and got it working in no time flat w Plex, so i bought a lifetime Plex pass instead. Been looking for this channel and I couldn’t remember your name lol I need some custom sata cables made for my define r5, I looked it up on you last video description

I have recently discovered your channel and I really love the videos. Really interesting and entertaining content! Keep it up!

Nice video, just missing a top cam 😄!

It's morning :(

I swear you've upgraded with almost all the same hardware I've been looking thinking about. Proxmox server is now an Epyc 7302 in a CX4712 and I've been looking at the X13SAE for my NAS upgrade which will probably go in an HL15. I'll be keeping an eye out in case there is any follow up with the X13 board, even though it's a pretty popular board it's not easy finding much info from homelab users out there about it.

Did that HBA turn out to be OK from your earlier issues, or did you have to get a replacement?

Loving the Silicon Valley reference on the wall 😂