30: Automation Entropy Factor
Chris gets left out in the cold after a Home Assistant glitch, and Alex puts a big batch of USB hard drives to the test.
October 23, 202046m 37s
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Show Notes
Chris gets left out in the cold after a Home Assistant glitch, and Alex puts a big batch of USB hard drives to the test
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- selfhostedshow/infra: Infrastructure as Code
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- Auto-mounting network file systems with systemd
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- Some history behind getting ESXi-Arm onto the Pi
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