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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 03/10/2026

Large NAS owners: What are you doing when drives fail at the moment? The prices are insane for replacement drives!

Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Gemini 4 - out of the ashes to topping the charts (apparently) and with a 1M context window! You could essentially write a book without it losing context...

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Kernel 7.4 boosting AMD iGPU performance is a big win. Apparently by 18-23%... This combined with Gorgon Halo release is going to be amazing for Local LLMs - just need to fix that pricing and availability....

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 15/09/2026

When I bought my 5090 FE at £2000 it was a stupid financial decision. However, it's now looking like a shrewd investment! What an awful time we live in for consumer electronics. The impact of this is going to be far reaching and impact the consumer for years to come.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Well, that's LG onto the boycott list. What a scumbag move and cover up job. Own up and fix it, don't lie! Question is, which other manufacturers are also doing this...

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 05/09/2026

Check out IPFire - it's a free, open source, linux-based firewall. youtu.be/qjPyh2FsGeM

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A Simpler Alternative to OPNSense & pfSense?

YouTube video by Jim's Garage

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 29/08/2026

Great, good to know.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 29/08/2026

I've never used it before and I've covered all of the usual suspects.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 29/08/2026

Currently building an open source firewall using @ipfire and @Beelinkofficial - great project, really like it

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Loving the @Sabrent Voltik. Up to 100W power (240W total), no interruptions during switch and adding devices, great for a raspberry pi etc

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 01/08/2026

Have you thought about virtualising HA?

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 01/08/2026

There's something special about mini PCs, this Beelink EQi is a lot of fun. Review soon!

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 28/07/2026

I checked out TerraMaster's F4-425 Pro. It's the first time I've used one their devices, I was pleasantly surprised! youtu.be/q-vbm0hOG3w

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A Budget NAS With a Great OS - TerraMaster F4-425 Pro

YouTube video by Jim's Garage

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 22/07/2026

Although the AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ PRO 495 doesn't seem to be much of an uplift from the 395, the bump to 192GB RAM is very welcome! Looking forward to the first commercially available devices.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 20/07/2026

I fixed my DNS using clustering in Technitium, check it out youtu.be/62crffG6Uw8

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Fixing My DNS with Technitium

YouTube video by Jim's Garage

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 09/07/2026

Can you install AMD Ryzen™ AI Developer Center on any Strix Halo, or just AMD developer box? I'm assuming it's only bundled on their device.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 08/07/2026

Technitium clusters are pretty awesome. DNS syncing made easy.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 02/07/2026

Awesome, I'm definitely going to check this out.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 28/06/2026

The last one in my backlog. Next is DNS and technitium

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 28/06/2026

Putting a Strix Halo AI chip into a NAS is something I haven't seen before. The dream AI machine? Let's take a look #minisforum youtu.be/k1pUCchcWxY

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Lemonade-Server on a Strix Halo NAS! This Thing is Wild...

YouTube video by Jim's Garage

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 26/06/2026

Technitium DNS is pretty awesome! Full tutorial in the works.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 21/06/2026

Good shout, I'll get onto it.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 20/06/2026

Time to get back to tutorials and leave reviews alone for a while. I'm conscious that many of my tutorials are out of date now. Where should I start?

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 09/06/2026

I had fun testing out Asus' latest AI products courtesy of the Hailo-10H chip. See here: youtu.be/YdVTi8TPOQ8

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Is Asus' Hailo Edge AI the Replacement?

YouTube video by Jim's Garage

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 30/05/2026

Looking forward to InfoSec Europe next week. Plenty to discuss and hear from industry leaders. Let me know if you're attending

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 24/05/2026

Proxmox 9.2 brings some awesome features. Dynamic load balancing of VMs across the cluster, improved SDN with Wireguard and BGP! Time to play... 🔥

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 20/05/2026

The Nvidia AI situation is wild, how long can they sustain the illusion through investing in their own subsidiaries/"charities" and back charging? This whole thing is looking like a slow motion car crash.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 19/05/2026

The Plex Lifetime Pass is now $749.99. It's officially dead in favour of a subscription model. All hail @jellyfin.org 👑

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 17/05/2026

It's great to see Passkeys having a wider adoption by many major websites. Set it up ASAP!

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 10/05/2026

This was a lot of fun to make!!! Travel routers and mobile homelabs have a lot of options, but which is best!? youtu.be/9lTFn_WyeTc

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When did these become so cool!?

YouTube video by Jim's Garage

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 08/05/2026

What happens when you put a Strix Halo in a NAS? 💥 I don't know but I'm about to find out. An absolutely mad device from @Hi_MINISFORUM can't wait to test the N5 Max!

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 04/05/2026

All 3 hopefully (when steam OS releases publicly). I test on both windows and Linux

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 04/05/2026

Bought a Steam Controller - looking forward to giving this a try. I hope the mouse functionality is good!

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 30/04/2026

Thank you, I will take a look at it.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 29/04/2026

I've definitely caught the travel router (mobile homelab?) bug! This is a Protectli running Proxmox with a virtualised OpenWRT hooked up to a 5G modem. Having a lot of fun with this one!

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 21/04/2026

Currently having a lot of fun with virtualised OpenWRT on a @protectli VP2430.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 18/04/2026

I haven't had a chance to test the N305 - it's a signifcantly more powerful chip than the N150 - I'll put it on my to-do list.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 17/04/2026

Unifi Protect users, which are you using? Shall I do a video on it? I'm thinking of using a remote NAS.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 16/04/2026

Transcoding performance on an N150 in an unprivileged LXC is basically native (as expected). I can do ~5 4K transcodes simultaneously 👍

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 07/04/2026

For those running openclaw in your homelab, what are your use cases?

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 06/04/2026

My first exposure to OpenClaw connected to a self-hosted LLM (Qwen3.5). Wow, there's a lot going on here!

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 29/03/2026

You can put it on the same network and not have to make it externally accessible. Again it's increased security through reduced exposure. Only accessible in docker's own private network.

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 29/03/2026

Own network means you can isolate traffic (more secure)

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Jim @jimsgarage.co.uk · 29/03/2026

You can definitely do it via compose and by default it creates a bridge.

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