This week Noah and Steve discuss picking out a vHost and considerations for deploying it into production.

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02:00

• Types of AI
• Amount of compute required is astronomical
• Foundational model vs tweaking

05:55 Kid Friendly distro? - Chris

• Endless OS
• What age to give kids a computer
• Why give a kid a computer
• Why Endless OS
• OpenDNS Filtering

14:13 Serial Connection To Proxmox VMs - Michael

• Client Setting
• Host Setting
• Enable the serial console
• Proxmox Wiki

17:15 pfSense blocking active connections - Bradly

• Stateful firewalls don't break active connections/sessions

21:00 News Wire

• EXT4 Corruption Bug - LWN

• Gnome 45.2 - Gnome

• Libreoffice 7.6.4 - Libreoffice

• Jellyfin Android TV App - Jellyfin

• Jellyfin Roku App - Jellyfin

• Debian 12.4 - Debian

• Alpine Linux 3.19 - Alpine Linux

• Linux 6.8 Dropping Old Graphics Drivers - Phoronix

• NSA & ESF Recommended Practices - NSA

• OpenZeppelin Vulnerability - Bleeping Computer

• Bluetooth Authentication Bypass - Silicon Angle

• Krasue RAT - The Hacker News

• Automatic LLM AI Jail Break - Robust Intelligence

• EU AI Act - Reuters

• Purple Llama - Info World

• Apple Open Sources AI Tools - The Stack

• Systemd 255 - The Verge - Phoronix

24:00 Beeper Mini

• First impression, really cool but will only work till Apple notices
• Android users clearly want modern features
• 3 days after release, it all came to a halt
• Apple's FUD statement
• Beeper mini enabled security for non Apple users
• Apple's response reduces security and privacy
• Apple's response protects the iMessage lock-in effect
• Issue with other "encrypted apps"
• Focus of Beeper
• Beeper cloud uses its own cloud server
• Give beeper mini a review
• Beeper blog post

37:45 vHost Hardware

• What is a vHost
• What does Steve consider
  • network
  • drives
  • RAM
  • CPU
• Lots of compute nodes vs a few large nodes
• Stage 1 - is it viable
  • $1k-50k quotes
  • Started with 2 vdevs with 3 drives
• Stay under 85%
• Stage 2 Scale up
• DELL EMC POWEREDGE R7425
  • 8 BAY LFF SERVER
  • 2x AMD EPYC 7451
  • H330 3 PCI RISER RPS
• DELL PowerEdge R6525
  • 1U Server
  • 2 x AMD EPYC 7542 2.9Ghz CPU
  • 256 GB No HDD
• Can save a lot buying used
• Local vs Central storage
• Data centralized
• qcow2 on vHost
  • 2 vdevs
  • 2 disks per vdev
• Dell EMC KTN-STL3 drive shelf
  • 15 disks in 2U
  • Requires LSI SAS9200-8e
• NetApp DS4246
  • 24 disks in 4U
  • Requires LSI SAS9200-8e
  • QSFP SFF-8436 Mini SAS SFF-8088 Cable
• Don't store Nextcloud data on OS qcow2 disk
• There will always be a single point of failure
• Change ZFS settings based on data being stored
• Easiest way to get a vHost up and running
• KVM vs "appliance OS"
• Bridging vs MAC vTap
• RAM is likely your biggest constraint
• Ubuntu libvirt doc

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