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Homelab

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you need to use Hermes RIGHT NOW!! (goodbye OpenClaw!!)

NetworkChuck makes the case for switching from the OpenClaw agent harness to Hermes, the agent from Nous Research, and walks through installing it on a Hostinger cloud VPS wired to ChatGPT Codex and Telegram. He builds a Hogwarts themed IT agent named Ron Weasley, then shows the five reasons he switched: the vibe, the memory system with hard caps that force curation, the people and story behind the tool, agents that write their own skills via a self improvement loop, and the fact that it just does not break. Live demos have the agent learn the network over Twingate, control a Home Assistant studio, and manage UniFi, crystallizing its own skills as it goes. Cofounder Jeffrey Quesnelle joins to explain the philosophy: give the model hands and get out of its way.

AIDevOpsHomelabMay 20, 2026

28:27

David Bombal

My Dream "home lab"

David Bombal tours Cisco's 20 million dollar AI networking lab to answer the question most AI coverage skips: once you have the GPUs, how do you wire hundreds of thousands of them into one computer. Three Cisco engineers walk through scale up, scale out, and scale across, the new G300 100 terabit and P200 routing switches, why optics are often the most expensive line on the bill, and how a 128 GPU scalable unit plus simulated flows proves designs at much larger scale. The recurring lesson is economic: a 10,000 GPU cluster rents for 175 million dollars a year, so a 5% efficiency loss or one bad cable costs millions. It also settles the InfiniBand versus Ethernet debate (Ethernet wins at scale) and shows security moving off the edge firewall and into the fabric on DPUs and switches.

NetworkingHardwareAIMay 17, 2026

23:30

Data Slayer

The Internet, Reinvented.

Data Slayer argues the internet is not cables or towers but routing, and rebuilds it with Reticulum, a cryptography first networking stack that treats every radio as an interchangeable interface. He hand builds an RNode, then bridges a LoRa only device to a Wi-Fi only device through a dual interface node, proving mismatched hardware can share one network. Scaling up, he runs Reticulum over a long range Wi-Fi HaLow IP mesh on two Raspberry Pi Haven nodes with encryption and route based scaling. The finale routes the Department of Defense mapping app ATAK across that homemade network by hijacking its multicast traffic and fragmenting it to a 500 byte MTU. A build log for a parallel network you own instead of rent.

NetworkingHardwareSecurityFeb 22, 2026

49:12

Learn Linux TV

Complete Kasm Deployment Guide - Proxmox, Cloud & More

Jay LaCroix of Learn Linux TV deploys Kasm Workspaces, the self hostable platform that streams apps and full Linux desktops into a browser tab, four different ways. He builds it in a Proxmox VM (the same recipe as bare metal), hand builds it on an Akamai cloud instance, hardens that instance with a real Let's Encrypt certificate, and finishes with a one click DigitalOcean marketplace droplet. The installer is identical everywhere: download the Linux Server tarball, extract, run sudo bash install.sh, and log in as [email protected]. Along the way he covers the standard new server hygiene (non root user, sudo, hostname, updates, reboot) and the certificate swap that turns the self signed warning into a trusted green padlock.

LinuxHomelabDevOpsJun 10, 2025

49:33

Learn Linux TV

Kasm Workspaces Simplified: The Essential Guide for New Users

Jay LaCroix of Learn Linux TV gives a complete getting started guide for Kasm Workspaces, the container based platform that streams individual apps and full Linux distributions into a web browser tab. He covers what Kasm is and its use cases, the server requirements and supported distributions, the standard installer, and a full tour of the admin console. Then he launches and manages workspaces (Alma Linux, Doom, Firefox), closes sessions, wires up the Open in Isolation browser plugin, adds a third party linuxserver.io registry, removes workspaces, and breaks down the self hosted and cloud pricing tiers. A hands on companion to his separate Kasm review, aimed at anyone ready to self host it.

LinuxHomelabDevOpsNov 14, 2023