Funniest thing about this for me is that any other guide channel would have piecemealed this 12 hours out over two years dropping a few minutes of content every week to squeak out every bit of ad revenue possible. Louis gets a massive thumbs up for not doing that.
Watching Louis struggle with Home Assistant’s UI as much as I did a few months ago when first setting it up was the therapy I needed in my life. That software is both amazing in what it can do and can produce amazingly intuitive and powerful UIs *and* complete shit unless you’re willing to make it your part time job on the side.
After spending weeks of my life trying to learn and understand linux to self host my own server. All I can say is that this guide literally saves you weeks of your life. And I learned new shit here from your efforts. THANK YOU. Your a Hero, a Legend. You acheived what the over pretentious schizo foss community failed to do for years.
There are some channels that really do explain such stuff in digestible way, but really not that many out there. There was one hidden gem where dude explained how to do VLANs, Wi-Fi roaming and other stuff in OpenWrt and showed how it actually works, was amazed how easy it turned out to be
@FUTOTECH FUTO, Louis and all teams and involved in whatever capacity that you were: Bless you, Guys and thank you all, so much. Merry Christmas ❤ xxx
I work in tech for a living and have struggled through accomplishing a lot of the stuff in this vid. I can't imagine how anyone expects a layman to do it. I respect the dedication and appreciate the contribution!
After watching the first half, I realize one I need to do a lot of this and two I gotta do it both because I care and two the amount of effort put into this video
Hi Louis. I don't want to bore you to death with a never-ending story, I just wanted to tell you in person how grateful I am of who you are and all you are doing, through however long this comment will get. So the story; up until relatively recently I met my brother in person approximatelly three times a year, where he would always show me your videos and how you inspired him to become a better DYI electrician, and we would share a laugh by trashing Mac for their stupid fucking engineering descicions at times. It was good tjmes. I wasn't all that into your content at the time, I just enjoyed seeing my brother, who was severely struggeling to find any joy at all in life, find joy through your content. Keywords such as inspiration and ambition finally presented themselves, and they had their origin with you. He would eventually gain the necessary confidence to even land a job and do component-level repairs primarily on macbooks, and for a split second he was managing life. Fast forward to today, after finally beating my life-long alcohol addiction, and I am now setting up my first homelab where I randomly came across your video, and seeing you on the screen triggers all kinds of nostalgia. I only wish that I couldve shared your video with my brother, but that is unfortunately too late. He would have loved this. Thank you for this, I will be sticking around.
This is actually the most honest video on the internet about Linux. Some things work some devs are actually trolls lol. The best part is they are supported by their community sometimes, it's soo funny. Great vid Ross ! Love it
If I may, proxmox over bare Ubuntu server is probably an easier path to getting users to an interface where they can manage VMs, containers, etc. The bridge is auto configured out of the box, etc. etc.
I have always wanted a homelab type of setup but it has always seemed like way too much research. Thanks for making this guide man you are doing something great here.
LETS GO time to slowly go through this, and implement EVERYTHING. I may need some new parts for my home server. But I'm 100% sure it will be worth and there will be so much stuff in here that will make life well worth the time.
I really appreciate the serious dedication and integrity he shows during this guide. I like how unassuming Louis is.. he works his way around Linux really well, and I never new it till today. And a lot of so called TH-cam Linux experts aren't half this good.
Welcome everyone to the wonderful world of self-hosting :) I was not expecting this, but now that I think about it, you self-hosting makes a lot of sense and it aligns a lot with your usual content. Pretty cool
I don’t usually comment, but this video has so much effort and is teaching me so much that I will so the algorithm picks it up. Considering buying an Android.
Louis Rossmann should make an announcement video for this on his own channel. I heard that he was working on this guide from his channel weeks ago, and was checking his channel regularly but didn't see the guide. I didn't know about this channel and feel lucky that the algorithm had the mercy to lead me here. Please, Louis, post it on your other channel lol.
This is amazing!! There's a bunch of stuff I've been switching over to being self-hosted and or open source over the past year. For example, I switched to Shinobi instead of Synology Surveillance, switched from the Philips Hue app with mandatory account requirement to a Home Assistant instance. Switched my computer over from Windows 11 to Ubuntu and now Pop!_Os. Thunderbird instead of Outlook, no longer updated OnePlus Android 13 to LineageOS, installed OpenVPN on a Debian box instead of relying on port forwarding etc etc. Lots of those switches went extremely smoothly. Will be looking at this guide later on specifically for SyncThing so I can stop using a cloud subscription for camera syncing. And also at the OpenVPN bit since my OpenVPN works, but only properly my phone for whatever reason. On my Linux Mint laptop, I can connect, but not SSH into my locally running server. On my Android phone that works just fine :(
5:35:16 was seriously not expecting a John C Maxwell reference but am not surprised at all by it from Louis. class act this guy, and it’s slowly making more sense as to why. 👏
I recently built a NAS server and have been getting more and more into protecting my data and self-hosting. The one thing keeping me from this was the amount of time I would have to sink into learning everything. I am so excited to start reading the wiki and watching the tutorial videos for a self-managed life. Thank you for the work that you do!
Thank you very much for this amazing and thorough walkthrough. I plan to watch every second of it over the coming weeks and consider implementing it. I think you and FUTO also deserve compensation for content of this quality so I'll be looking into paying for this as well. One suggestion though, while the timestamps are great, it may be very worth the time and effort to split this into separate videos for each subject so that it shows up easier in search results. Don't kill yourself trying to catch up with everything.
@@marcuskissinger3842 My comment got deleted for some reason, but yeah, I dont play Destiny. I preorder it originally but on release day I was ultimately filled with disappointment and regret so I got a refund. Never picked up the series again.
I've been looking for a resource like this for years. the extreme privacy series is a helpful resource but doesn't address home automation and the convenient features of big tech like this. thank you 😊
@@shadidqazi9315 syncthing-fork has always been superior on android. Syncthing stopped dev on android because of google play bullying. The program is written in Go and it compiles directly to basically anything with 3 words of input so it isn't a big deal. They haven't been updating the "android wrapper" and considered it too much work to keep it for android
Is there a discussion thread somewhere on this? Just getting started and already I'm wanting to hear other people's thoughts on things, like the use of P.F. Sense since you mention you're using it due to self-inflicted vendor lock-in. Makes me wonder if it's best when starting fresh
Also: Rossman repair group has a forum but this content is nowhere on it. Seconding the request for a (public enough to avoid being a silo) way to discuss and get updates to the workflows as time passes
You can use Host Overrides to specify your DNS names. Annoying? Yes, but realistically you don't have that many devices in your home network now do you? And it keeps you on the prefered DHCP version. (I think PfSense should 100% support the DNS registration thing. However IMO using host overrides vs sticking with an end-of-life option is the lesser evil)1:47:20
In beginning you mentioned PBX or asterisk. Let me tell you... Asterisk documentation is... uh. It exists. I had to set it up for certain thing, and boi, it was hell. I would actually prefer to write voice chat app of my own over configuring asterisk (I actually did one for work once already, so, frankly I could write it in less than 3 months)
It seems that they also changed their docs website over to another one where all the forums link to old pages so you can't actually find anything. Still wasn't too hard to set up for internal phone use. Getting it to work with my external DID number over NAT was a pain tho, bring on ipv6 lol.
@deepspacecow2644 i ended up setting up realitme with golang api to setup endpoints. Was easier. But still not all tables from realtime work. Setting up docker builder for it didnt work out too well too, since lts certified still changes build settings, so reusing options files didnt work somewhat often for updating it. Dialplans were tough to understand from docs, had to learn from youtube. Forget rinning from docker without host network, it needs big udp range, docker wants proxy for each port, its docker thing. It was ment and hope was it was one maybe two evenings project. Nope. Oh. And CDRs didnt work for some time for some bizzare reason, when the table was setup same as others. Only, and only positive thing I have to say about it is that it hats the consolewhere verbose mode for pjsip actually dumped sip frames, and in general verbosity in console is well done. Even with that. All I remember from the project is 'never f***g again'
he made a video on how to do them about 12 years ago on his main channel. the second part 2 of this one also goes over it. They are amazingly bad docs I agree lol but at least not as misleading as some other docs
@@by010 misleading as in, like in his video he shows documentation saying what to do but it's just flat out the wrong thing to do (as he demonstrates with onlyoffice)
The biggest issue I face with using a VPN is - sites will shadowban or outright block me if I register with my VPN, and disabling it defeats the purpose. I've looked around and it seems the only option is to host a server and redirect traffic from it, which is also blacklisted by many companies. Its a shitty situation to be in, and there seems to be no easy solution out.
Some wikis have a way to ask questions, like Framework's repair guides, for instance. Have you considered doing something like that for yours? The video's a bit painful, but I'm reading through your guide, and you may have a point about VPNs, and I'd been meaning to build my own router, but this will save a ton of time. Are you sure about the old desktop? What about the power bill? I had been pretty ignorant about the hardware, so a lot of this is new information to me, and I really like that the writing style is entertaining. Additional note: I want my HomeAssistant to integrate with some Google Assistant hardware I've got laying around. Google's docs say it needs an Internet connection to do that. Any thoughts there? Is there an assistant alternative you can suggest (all my devices are plumbed into HomeAssistant but I use Google Assistant for the voice interface)? Also, what are your thoughts on application firewalls as an alternative to VPNs?
Yes, mediawiki is miserable though. Even just getting a markdown file in there was a fight. I intend to go through it and make a way for that. I am taking a short break before digging into making it editable and coming up with spam controls. don't get me started on getting images to import properly... With the old PC, yes it will use more power but it's a Good gateway drug to get your foot in the door before you start buying more expensive stuff. if power is a concern, start with a minipc, and make sure it uses good intel NIC chips in it rather than cheap realteks. if they don't specify what they use, don't buy. it will be pain. with regards to google assistant, i have no thoughts, i don't use any of that stuff.
while this definitely isn't a good recommendation for your average person, Louis, I genuinely think you should consider picking up a Mikrotik to play with. I think you'd enjoy it, but there is a learning curve coming from other systems/interfaces
It doesn't, but if you are following along the way I am setting it up, it does. You would have to set up the first router to have your new router in the DMZ, or to pass through whatever traffic comes in on port you choose for the VPN to your 2nd router. For instance, if 2nd router is 192.168.1.31 on the network of the first router, on the 1st router you'd have to tell it to pass the port 1194 traffic to 192.168.1.31, and on the 2nd router you'd have to tell it that anything coming in on port 1194 is allowed for the VPN. It's a pain in the ass, but it is doable.
Okay this may seem like a really stupid question but I’m a full Apple user. Mac, iPhone, iPad. I do have spare devices where I can install Linux. Will this guide help me shift completely from iCloud? I’m genuinely asking here
man this really is just a fuck ton of linux tutorial videos combined into 2, thanks for the info Louis, even tho im not setting up a homelab soon so far this info has been great just to have it get hammered into my brain a bit i use arch btw ;^P
Great content! Could you please add links where we can download these videos for an offline backup to use later? (Downloading videos is against YT's TOS, kind of as expected...)
I feel like this. But they miss so many steps. I have not coded since 2008. I read it. But most guides assume you can code. Finally someone comes to the rescue.
Funniest thing about this for me is that any other guide channel would have piecemealed this 12 hours out over two years dropping a few minutes of content every week to squeak out every bit of ad revenue possible. Louis gets a massive thumbs up for not doing that.
Or making you pay for half of the content on a patreon or other program to get all of the details
We're not here to do things the annoying way; we're here to do them the right way!
No NetworkChuck was harmed in this.
That's a lot of dedication right there, 7 fucking hours worth of tutorials and it's only the part 1
Watching Louis struggle with Home Assistant’s UI as much as I did a few months ago when first setting it up was the therapy I needed in my life. That software is both amazing in what it can do and can produce amazingly intuitive and powerful UIs *and* complete shit unless you’re willing to make it your part time job on the side.
bro finally a video I can point my friends to instead of giving them a list they'll never read(though a 7 hour video isn't much better lmao)
After spending weeks of my life trying to learn and understand linux to self host my own server. All I can say is that this guide literally saves you weeks of your life. And I learned new shit here from your efforts. THANK YOU.
Your a Hero, a Legend. You acheived what the over pretentious schizo foss community failed to do for years.
lmfaooo perfectly said
There are some channels that really do explain such stuff in digestible way, but really not that many out there. There was one hidden gem where dude explained how to do VLANs, Wi-Fi roaming and other stuff in OpenWrt and showed how it actually works, was amazed how easy it turned out to be
@FUTOTECH FUTO, Louis and all teams and involved in whatever capacity that you were:
Bless you, Guys and thank you all, so much.
Merry Christmas ❤ xxx
RTFM but the FM is 1000 pages long 😉
Looking forward to seeing what all is in it!
Or when the FM requires you to read another FM.
I work in tech for a living and have struggled through accomplishing a lot of the stuff in this vid. I can't imagine how anyone expects a layman to do it. I respect the dedication and appreciate the contribution!
After watching the first half, I realize one I need to do a lot of this and two I gotta do it both because I care and two the amount of effort put into this video
Hi Louis.
I don't want to bore you to death with a never-ending story, I just wanted to tell you in person how grateful I am of who you are and all you are doing, through however long this comment will get.
So the story; up until relatively recently I met my brother in person approximatelly three times a year, where he would always show me your videos and how you inspired him to become a better DYI electrician, and we would share a laugh by trashing Mac for their stupid fucking engineering descicions at times. It was good tjmes. I wasn't all that into your content at the time, I just enjoyed seeing my brother, who was severely struggeling to find any joy at all in life, find joy through your content.
Keywords such as inspiration and ambition finally presented themselves, and they had their origin with you. He would eventually gain the necessary confidence to even land a job and do component-level repairs primarily on macbooks, and for a split second he was managing life.
Fast forward to today, after finally beating my life-long alcohol addiction, and I am now setting up my first homelab where I randomly came across your video, and seeing you on the screen triggers all kinds of nostalgia. I only wish that I couldve shared your video with my brother, but that is unfortunately too late. He would have loved this. Thank you for this, I will be sticking around.
Kudos for this mega masterclass. Amazing!
This is actually the most honest video on the internet about Linux. Some things work some devs are actually trolls lol. The best part is they are supported by their community sometimes, it's soo funny. Great vid Ross ! Love it
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING LOUIS AND FUTO
If I may, proxmox over bare Ubuntu server is probably an easier path to getting users to an interface where they can manage VMs, containers, etc. The bridge is auto configured out of the box, etc. etc.
Proxmox is great
I was thinking the same thing, plus you get zfs doing ProxMox. However I actually learned a few things watching him set it up within Ubuntu server.
I also highly suggest promox it’s a nice interface to use and easy to restart something if you mess up
despite this being a beginners guide, I still learned a lot just from this guide. props to you!
Youre the man for dropping this content for free. Thanks for the empowerment!
Starting to watch now.
Will watch and follow along this weekend.
Thank you Luis.
I have always wanted a homelab type of setup but it has always seemed like way too much research. Thanks for making this guide man you are doing something great here.
Louis Rossman, you're my hero.
I thought that you disappeared, but oh my god you were cooking all along!
LETS GO time to slowly go through this, and implement EVERYTHING.
I may need some new parts for my home server. But I'm 100% sure it will be worth and there will be so much stuff in here that will make life well worth the time.
I really appreciate the serious dedication and integrity he shows during this guide.
I like how unassuming Louis is.. he works his way around Linux really well, and I never new it till today. And a lot of so called TH-cam Linux experts aren't half this good.
Welcome everyone to the wonderful world of self-hosting :)
I was not expecting this, but now that I think about it, you self-hosting makes a lot of sense and it aligns a lot with your usual content. Pretty cool
This is great so far... Classic Rossmann humor 😂
I love you
This will mark the beginning of my self-hosting journey. Because of you 😤 thank you for your time and service sir ❤
The words "crucial" and "essential" occur exactly 0 times in the written guide. I gues you really made a point of that! 😂
If you ever date someone using these words, they're a robot.
'Unsung hero' is on my chatGPT bingo card. It constantly suggests that.
@FUTOTECH to be fair, we're here to learn self servicing, so...
What a beautiful video on self servicing. Thank you for making this, and please shamelessly plug a donation link somewhere in the description.
I don’t usually comment, but this video has so much effort and is teaching me so much that I will so the algorithm picks it up.
Considering buying an Android.
Incredible work for the community!
Babe wake up. FUTO just dropped a based ass series.
BASED AF
Louis Rossmann should make an announcement video for this on his own channel. I heard that he was working on this guide from his channel weeks ago, and was checking his channel regularly but didn't see the guide. I didn't know about this channel and feel lucky that the algorithm had the mercy to lead me here. Please, Louis, post it on your other channel lol.
This is amazing!! There's a bunch of stuff I've been switching over to being self-hosted and or open source over the past year. For example, I switched to Shinobi instead of Synology Surveillance, switched from the Philips Hue app with mandatory account requirement to a Home Assistant instance. Switched my computer over from Windows 11 to Ubuntu and now Pop!_Os. Thunderbird instead of Outlook, no longer updated OnePlus Android 13 to LineageOS, installed OpenVPN on a Debian box instead of relying on port forwarding etc etc. Lots of those switches went extremely smoothly. Will be looking at this guide later on specifically for SyncThing so I can stop using a cloud subscription for camera syncing. And also at the OpenVPN bit since my OpenVPN works, but only properly my phone for whatever reason. On my Linux Mint laptop, I can connect, but not SSH into my locally running server. On my Android phone that works just fine :(
5:35:16 was seriously not expecting a John C Maxwell reference but am not surprised at all by it
from Louis. class act this guy, and it’s slowly making more sense as to why. 👏
I recently built a NAS server and have been getting more and more into protecting my data and self-hosting. The one thing keeping me from this was the amount of time I would have to sink into learning everything. I am so excited to start reading the wiki and watching the tutorial videos for a self-managed life. Thank you for the work that you do!
This is absolutely amazing and I’m so excited
Thank you very much for this amazing and thorough walkthrough. I plan to watch every second of it over the coming weeks and consider implementing it. I think you and FUTO also deserve compensation for content of this quality so I'll be looking into paying for this as well.
One suggestion though, while the timestamps are great, it may be very worth the time and effort to split this into separate videos for each subject so that it shows up easier in search results.
Don't kill yourself trying to catch up with everything.
Love your guerrilla style videos Luis. Thank you for helping me along my cyber journey
Thank you for this Louis! You're a hero and a legend!
Thank you very much for this. We've been anticipating this for a long time. o7
Dgger detectedd
@@marcuskissinger3842 I had to Duck that term, No I'm not a Destiny Fan, I preordered, got burned and never looked back.
@@marcuskissinger3842 My comment got deleted for some reason, but yeah, I dont play Destiny. I preorder it originally but on release day I was ultimately filled with disappointment and regret so I got a refund. Never picked up the series again.
Thx as usual Louis, can't "thank you" enough . . .
2:18:35 Clinton! His meows melt me❤️
One of the most absolutely based videos of all time.
Clinton says yes to self managing applications! 😻
Seriously, thank you so much for this Louis!
thank you so much for this entertaining, louisesque, yet teaching and helpful video
This is going to be a fun set of weekend projects
I can't watch it right now but i'm saving it for later ! Thank you very much for making this !!!!!!!!
I've been looking for a resource like this for years. the extreme privacy series is a helpful resource but doesn't address home automation and the convenient features of big tech like this. thank you 😊
This is first ballot TH-cam Hall of Fame content
Truly thank you so much for this tutorial, can't wait to follow as much of it as I can :)
3:33 - Syncthing for the win! 💪
Didn't syncthing just discontinued android
@@shadidqazi9315 they're recommending the app syncthing-fork in their docs.
@@shadidqazi9315 syncthing-fork has always been superior on android.
Syncthing stopped dev on android because of google play bullying. The program is written in Go and it compiles directly to basically anything with 3 words of input so it isn't a big deal. They haven't been updating the "android wrapper" and considered it too much work to keep it for android
lmfao 38:07 the text search for "arbitration" in the ToS/EULA bless you Louis
Wow this is incredible! Thank you so much for doing this!
Wooooo! This is GOLD. Thank you so much FUTO. Its gonna be a busy weekend 😅
Is there a discussion thread somewhere on this? Just getting started and already I'm wanting to hear other people's thoughts on things, like the use of P.F. Sense since you mention you're using it due to self-inflicted vendor lock-in. Makes me wonder if it's best when starting fresh
p. s. I realize I'm asking on a TH-cam thread, but this is not exactly the best place for discussing this sort of thing.
Also: Rossman repair group has a forum but this content is nowhere on it.
Seconding the request for a (public enough to avoid being a silo) way to discuss and get updates to the workflows as time passes
Some people like opnsense as an alternative
i 3rd this. could honestly just be its own og online forum.
@@seenochasm7101 maybe a new reddit?
Thank you so much, highly appreciate this guide
I was wondering how to repurpose my old computer and this comes out ❤️
8:37 hey you don't hate us❤
cant wait to see our spicy brownie on here
This is incredible. I will be slowly working my way through this, thanks a bunch!!
Thank you 🙏🏽
I am thinking this should be EPIC< here goes my 6 hour watch! thanks !
Bro this is next level
appreciate what you do! it reminds me fist software i bought FreeBSD at Circuit City
I knew it, 6+ hour video about tech, it had to be Louis
Such a gem 💎
Thanks Louis you the man!!
Excellent
Thank you so much for the hard work on this guide!
This is what I wanted for years. Sick of clouds and functional HW without support. But I didn’t want this 10days before Christmas… 😢
You can use Host Overrides to specify your DNS names. Annoying? Yes, but realistically you don't have that many devices in your home network now do you? And it keeps you on the prefered DHCP version. (I think PfSense should 100% support the DNS registration thing. However IMO using host overrides vs sticking with an end-of-life option is the lesser evil)1:47:20
♥️ U Louis. Gonna watch this in batches.
In beginning you mentioned PBX or asterisk. Let me tell you... Asterisk documentation is... uh. It exists. I had to set it up for certain thing, and boi, it was hell. I would actually prefer to write voice chat app of my own over configuring asterisk (I actually did one for work once already, so, frankly I could write it in less than 3 months)
It seems that they also changed their docs website over to another one where all the forums link to old pages so you can't actually find anything. Still wasn't too hard to set up for internal phone use. Getting it to work with my external DID number over NAT was a pain tho, bring on ipv6 lol.
@deepspacecow2644 i ended up setting up realitme with golang api to setup endpoints. Was easier. But still not all tables from realtime work. Setting up docker builder for it didnt work out too well too, since lts certified still changes build settings, so reusing options files didnt work somewhat often for updating it. Dialplans were tough to understand from docs, had to learn from youtube. Forget rinning from docker without host network, it needs big udp range, docker wants proxy for each port, its docker thing.
It was ment and hope was it was one maybe two evenings project. Nope.
Oh. And CDRs didnt work for some time for some bizzare reason, when the table was setup same as others.
Only, and only positive thing I have to say about it is that it hats the consolewhere verbose mode for pjsip actually dumped sip frames, and in general verbosity in console is well done.
Even with that. All I remember from the project is 'never f***g again'
he made a video on how to do them about 12 years ago on his main channel. the second part 2 of this one also goes over it. They are amazingly bad docs I agree lol but at least not as misleading as some other docs
@@gg-gn3re oh my.. Ive only seen some APIs docs that were worse than Asterisk. What examples come to your mind?
@@by010 misleading as in, like in his video he shows documentation saying what to do but it's just flat out the wrong thing to do (as he demonstrates with onlyoffice)
OpenVPN is great, but wire guard is much faster. Highly recommend switching.
The biggest issue I face with using a VPN is - sites will shadowban or outright block me if I register with my VPN, and disabling it defeats the purpose. I've looked around and it seems the only option is to host a server and redirect traffic from it, which is also blacklisted by many companies. Its a shitty situation to be in, and there seems to be no easy solution out.
Some wikis have a way to ask questions, like Framework's repair guides, for instance. Have you considered doing something like that for yours?
The video's a bit painful, but I'm reading through your guide, and you may have a point about VPNs, and I'd been meaning to build my own router, but this will save a ton of time. Are you sure about the old desktop? What about the power bill? I had been pretty ignorant about the hardware, so a lot of this is new information to me, and I really like that the writing style is entertaining.
Additional note: I want my HomeAssistant to integrate with some Google Assistant hardware I've got laying around. Google's docs say it needs an Internet connection to do that. Any thoughts there? Is there an assistant alternative you can suggest (all my devices are plumbed into HomeAssistant but I use Google Assistant for the voice interface)?
Also, what are your thoughts on application firewalls as an alternative to VPNs?
Yes, mediawiki is miserable though. Even just getting a markdown file in there was a fight. I intend to go through it and make a way for that. I am taking a short break before digging into making it editable and coming up with spam controls. don't get me started on getting images to import properly...
With the old PC, yes it will use more power but it's a Good gateway drug to get your foot in the door before you start buying more expensive stuff. if power is a concern, start with a minipc, and make sure it uses good intel NIC chips in it rather than cheap realteks. if they don't specify what they use, don't buy. it will be pain.
with regards to google assistant, i have no thoughts, i don't use any of that stuff.
Love you bro
Also also Tailscale. I'll be using that i think
Tailscale is just a wrapper for wireguard, which is also really simple to set up, and 100% free. May want to look into it as well.
@binaryp69 thanks will look into it
@@binaryp69 people with cgnat can't use wireguard
Louis Rossman on his way to solve tech slop TH-cam videos
Hell yeah.
Thank you so much for this. Is there any way I can donate or something?
donate to the projects used in the video
rossmann has many ways to donate and has for like 15+ years. The project that can use the donations the most is mailcow
Thank you
while this definitely isn't a good recommendation for your average person, Louis, I genuinely think you should consider picking up a Mikrotik to play with. I think you'd enjoy it, but there is a learning curve coming from other systems/interfaces
At 26:23 does the router im creating HAS to be plugged in directly to the modem? Or can it be plugged to a switch that i already have in my room?
It doesn't, but if you are following along the way I am setting it up, it does.
You would have to set up the first router to have your new router in the DMZ, or to pass through whatever traffic comes in on port you choose for the VPN to your 2nd router.
For instance, if 2nd router is 192.168.1.31 on the network of the first router, on the 1st router you'd have to tell it to pass the port 1194 traffic to 192.168.1.31, and on the 2nd router you'd have to tell it that anything coming in on port 1194 is allowed for the VPN. It's a pain in the ass, but it is doable.
@rossmanngroup ok thanks
I thought that is going to be 20 min rant and 7 hours of life streaming from a fishtank.
Thank you!🙏
Okay this may seem like a really stupid question but I’m a full Apple user. Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I do have spare devices where I can install Linux. Will this guide help me shift completely from iCloud? I’m genuinely asking here
Amazing stuff. Thanks for the effort.
To configure virtual machines you could have used cockpit which is a webgui for general server management ;)
there are 1,000,000 ways to do all of these things. this was mine :)
@@rossmanngroup fair enough! keep up the great work!
Absolute beast!
man this really is just a fuck ton of linux tutorial videos combined into 2, thanks for the info Louis, even tho im not setting up a homelab soon so far this info has been great just to have it get hammered into my brain a bit
i use arch btw ;^P
8:43
He provided timestamps; he doesn't hate me!! 😄
Tyabks for the guide!!
Holy fk Thank you Louis ! Pretty impressive
Great content! Could you please add links where we can download these videos for an offline backup to use later? (Downloading videos is against YT's TOS, kind of as expected...)
Use yt-dlp tool. Very convenient. I download all the videos I like.
Just gonna let you know I'm clicking the download button on both parts.
omg use a sunglass when you open a website with light mode is nice idea
When will the Uploads on the other platforms be out?
I'm just worried about the preservation of this video & important resource.
Install VS Code and install extension for YAML files, you will get code highlighting, intellisense, error marks, etc.
This is great
5:02, am i blind, or is there no link to the written guide in the description?
he added it now
I feel like this. But they miss so many steps. I have not coded since 2008. I read it. But most guides assume you can code. Finally someone comes to the rescue.