I flew up to Canada with a 20TB hard drive. After building a new storage server for a friend, I proved I was faster than the Internet—sorta ;)
Things I mentioned in the video, in order of appearance:
- Pigeons are Faster than the Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pz2kMxCu8I
- 45Drives Beast: https://45drivesstudio.com/configure/studio-beast?utm_source=Geerling&utm_medium=Geerling_Beast&utm_campaign=Geerling_Beast
- 45Drives Dead Silent Server: https://45drivesstudio.com/configure/silent?utm_source=Geerling&utm_medium=Geerling_Silent&utm_campaign=Geerling_Silent
- ServerPartDeals: https://serverpartdeals.com
- Sean Hodgins: https://www.youtube.com/c/SeanHodgins
- ORICO Hard Drive Case: https://amzn.to/4vtzj9o (As an Amazon Associate, I earn for qualifying purchases)
Huge thanks to 45Drives for paying for my travel expenses for this video, and providing the Beast server for Sean! Also thanks to ServerPartDeals for setting Sean up with storage! And finally to Josh from 45Drives and Sean for showing some wonderful Canadian hospitality!
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Contents:
00:00 - Pigeons are Faster than the Internet
00:34 - Station Wagons are, too
01:12 - Oh, Canada
01:56 - 45Drives brought two studio servers
03:29 - Hard drives and SSDs
04:25 - Building the server
05:06 - Server ASMR
05:57 - First boot into Rocky Linux and Houston UI
07:05 - A surprise guest on the CRT
08:38 - Just as Wendell predicted...
10:29 - Did my data snowball melt?
11:55 - Full-size GPUs in the 5U chassis
12:44 - Down to Sean's machine shop for a DIY rackmount
You can finally remotely power on a Mac, even if it shut down normally!
Things I referenced in this video (some links are affiliate links):
- Apple's support article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/125517
- ThirdReality Zigbee Smart Outlet: https://amzn.to/4vxuhse
- How I set up my power monitoring in Home Assistant: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-i-monitor-and-control-all-my-powered-devices-zigbee-ha/
- How to log into a Mac with SSH before FileVault is unlocked: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/you-can-finally-manage-macs-filevault-remotely-tahoe/
- 9to5Mac Article about the feature: https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/11/macos-26-5-adds-new-way-to-control-your-macs-power-state-via-switches/
- Reddit comment where I found this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1txnj04/comment/opyd44t/
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Contents:
00:00 - What it's not
00:44 - Why this feature is actually useful
02:00 - Zigbee power control
03:26 - macOS's new power setting
04:38 - Remote access with FileVault
06:09 - Potential security hole
07:41 - I found a bug
09:36 - prodigalAvian
Ars article on vulnerabilities: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/researchers-disclose-vulnerabilities-in-ip-kvms-from-4-manufacturers/
Thanks to all the KVM manufacturers who sent in review units over the past couple years, many of which were displayed in this video. (Note: None of the companies paid anything for this video, or had any say in its contents.)
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Contents:
00:00 - ALL the KVMs
01:59 - Caution
02:33 - PiKVM
03:17 - BliKVM and BliKVM PCIe
03:49 - GL-iNet Comet and Comet Pro
04:49 - The one that got me an FBI visit
05:39 - NanoKVM Pro and PCIe
06:16 - JetKVM
07:25 - Luckfox
07:39 - LeafKVM
08:20 - TinyPilot
09:13 - Openterface KVM-GOs
10:01 - Pi-Cast
10:27 - DezKVM
11:22 - Which ones do *I* use
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Contents:
00:00 - A $250 price premium
01:20 - Many things are bad
02:22 - Slower performance
03:22 - Some things are good
04:31 - What about artists?
05:02 - What would a graduate choose?
10:17 - A bad value, not a bad laptop
A few things we learned about the Pi 6 and potential for a Zero 3 W.
A link to the AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/1tcyfvk/hello_rengineering_were_eben_upton_ceo_james/
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Contents:
00:00 - Raspberry Pi 6
01:24 - Pi Zero 2W and Zero 3W
02:38 - Microcontrollers
03:23 - Software and support
- OrcaSlicer-bambulab: https://github.com/jarczakpawel/OrcaSlicer-bambulab
- Bambu's Blog post responding to the situation: https://blog.bambulab.com/setting-the-record-straight-on-cloud-access-and-community/
- Louis Rossmann's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLLVn6XT7v0
- My video last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91kfolYkRNM
- Slic3r: https://github.com/Slic3r/Slic3r
- Prusa Slicer (fork of Slic3r): https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer
- Bambu Studio (fork of Prusa Slicer): https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio
- OrcaSlicer (fork of Bambu Studio): https://www.orcaslicer.com
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy
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