Early Access: Answering your Homelab Questions!
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Early Access: The Perfect Home Server 2024 – 56TB, ECC, IPMI, Quiet & (kind of) Compact
Early Access – Building My Endgame Keyboard | Totem Split Keyboard Review
Early Access – Host Your Own AI Code Assistant with Docker, Ollama and Continue
Early Access – A Perfect Homelab Motherboard That You Can't Buy (ASRock IMB-X1231)
Early Access – Low Idle PSU Efficiency Database!
Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TnPx1h-nUKgq3MFzwl-OOIsuX_JSIurIq3JkFZVMUas
2024-01-13 20:36:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Early Access – This $250 Ryzen Pre-Built is a BEAST Home Server!
Early Access – Upgrading My Home Server With A Mystery Chinese CPU
Matrix is dead. Long live Mattermost!
In an effort to move our Patreon community away from Discord (for a plethora of reasons), I'd created a Matrix server over at https://matrix.notthebe.ee/. However, after a month of using it, I and other community members decided to try out another open-source community platform – Mattermost.
Why?
Matrix is an amazing software product with one big flaw – all clients suck, each in its unique way.
There are dozens of Matrix clients, each one with their own advantages and disadvantages, and neither client is good at everything. Case in point – Element is cross-platform, but has a subjectively confusing interface and doesn't support custom emojis. Cinny, however, does support custom emojis, but only comes as a web app and doesn't support voice calls. And then there are multiple other clients, which also do some stuff well, and completely fall flat when it comes to other stuff – SchildiChat, FluffyChat, and so on.
At the end of the day, it basically means that you have to run at least two client apps in order to get the full feature set.
Why Mattermost?
Mattermost is an open-source alternative to Slack. It's definitely more enterprise/business-focused, but also has multiple advantages over Matrix/Element.
Most importantly – it has one cross-platform client that doesn't suck, and supports both custom emojis and voice calls.
Current known limitations:
- Only one person can screen share at the same time in the voice chat
- Obviously not Matrix, so doesn't have federation with other Matrix servers
If you want to try it out,here's the invite link:
https://chat.notthebe.ee/signup_user_complete/?id=b6q8jbtb3tbbtptuyygzo83u7h&md=link&sbr=fa
2023-04-05 08:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostI need your help!
Hi everyone!
I'm working on a video which involves benchmarking an Intel iGPU. One of the things I want to test is hardware video transcoding.
Unfortunately, there isn't really a 'golden standard' benchmark for hardware video transcoding with QuickSync, so it's hard to compare my results with other CPUs.
So if you have an machine with an non-F series Intel processor running Windows or Linux, and want to contribute to the next video, please do the following:
1. Download Handbrake 1.6.1: https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
2. Download this test file: https://www.larmoire.info/jellyfish/media/jellyfish-140-mbps-4k-uhd-h264.mkv
3. Load the file into Handbrake, choose "Official > Hardware > H.265 QSV 2160p 4K
4. Click "Start" to transcode the video, taking note the average FPS displayed during the process and the time needed to transcode after the process is done (see the screenshots)
Feel free to comment with the results under this post, or send them to me in a DM! ❤️
2023-03-26 14:39:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Early Access – Control Your Home Server Remotely With PiKVM!
It's finally here! Wolfgang's Channel Matrix Server
We now have our very own Matrix server at https://matrix.notthebe.ee/ !
How to join
Option 1: You don't have a Matrix account
Register on https://matrix.notthebe.ee/ with this token: xJuQZFO5sLBuScK- and send me a PM with your username.
Option 2: You already have a Matrix account
PM me on Patreon with your username in the following format: @username:matrix-server.org, and I will invite you to the server
Have a nice day everyone! 💜
Early Access – Ansible Home Server Pt. 2
The series has been resurrected, thanks to Squarespace :)
This video will go live on 12th of January.
2023-01-09 07:46:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Early Access – Building a Power Efficient Home Server!
This video will go live next Wednesday
2022-10-09 16:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Early Access – The Best Budget OpenWRT Router? Fujitsu S920 Review
