machine is scalable, right? Add more RAM, add more storage. And I mean, what was I doing yesterday with this thing? Like I went to my office, which I, you know, uh, so I wasn't at home. Right. And I was streaming jellyfin, right? And I was using, and one thing we didn't touch on is you can, it actually has a virtual machine platform. So you can create a, uh, uh, say a windows or Ubuntu, you know, Linux, whatever virtual machine and, and, and actually just have that run within the context of the, the home lab as well. You can just remote into it. So I was doing that.
... and things like that. So that's right. Um, whereas the Bata Sera system, if it goes, goes, goes down or the SSD dies, like, I mean, I have backups of all that stuff, but not all the configurations and machine is scalable, right? Add more RAM, add more storage. And I mean, what was I doing yesterday with this thing? Like I went to my office, which I, you know, uh, so I wasn't at home. Right. And I was streaming jellyfin, right? And I was using, and one thing we didn't touch on is you can, it actually has a virtual machine platform. So you can create a, uh, uh, say a windows or Ubuntu, you know, Linux, whatever virtual machine and, and, and actually just have that run within the context of the, the home lab as well. You can just remote into it. So I was doing that. secure, like, you know, tunnel and whatnot. And it was like, this thing's fricking man. Like I repurpose this seven or eight year old computer, right? Like effectively to do all of this stuff ...
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with this thing? Like I went to my office, which I, you know, uh, so I wasn't at home. Right. And I was streaming jellyfin, right? And I was using, and one thing we didn't touch on is you can, it actually has a virtual machine platform. So you can create a, uh, uh, say a windows or Ubuntu, you know, Linux, whatever virtual machine and, and, and actually just have that run within the context of the, the home lab as well. You can just remote into it. So I was doing that. ...
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... And this is one of the, one of the neat thing about Zima OS is that, um, it has like an app store and basically these are all just Docker containers. And these are basically apps that people have created, um, and they maintain, they have a GitHub typically. And the app store on Ziva just makes like a one click install. So you don't have to ask with much, you can sort of point it to different directories or different, um, hard drives and things like that. And I was like, Oh, you know what I should do. I, I have,…
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I bought is continues to receive updates and support and all that. And from all accounts, that is, I mean, they're not abandoning it at all. It's the same platform, basically as the new machine. It'll be interesting to see what they do with the firmware. Like will they, will they create like a Vic 20 mode or, you know, or whatever mode? Like, I mean, to me, that's not what I have the machine for, but I wouldn't mind a Vic 20 mode machine. It's the same keyboard. It's the same layout. Yeah. I wouldn't mind that…
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I can easily disconnect from the system and it's not going to break anything. And I migrate my backups manually because that's the only way I can, you can schedule them, but I'm still sort of figuring out how I'm going to archive the drive layouts and stuff like that. The other cool thing, and this is only for Mac users, is you can actually create a virtual time machine backup system on this. Yeah. And so I allocated enough space to back up my MacBook Pro. It's automatic. It happens in the background. It just,…
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that to me has always been like the that's where the, the assist sys admin side of things, you know, comes into play. It's in those drive mappings and ensuring that this, especially with Docker, because you've got those virtualized containers, like you need to create those relationships. And this, and this particular OS just makes it just dead simple. It's like, well, it couldn't be any easier. That's the reason why I haven't had something like a home lab before is because I didn't want to assist admin. I mean,…
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you can get through the browser on this. And then I used something called AbleSign, which is basically a digital signage service. It's cloud-based. You upload content, whether it's videos, photos, or even websites. And it will display it. And you can put it on a loop and create a playlist. And so for now, because I'm super nerdy, it just has a bunch of-- I'm watching it right now. And it's the desk star user interface from their comm terminals and stuff like that. All that crazy nerdy stuff. But I've got old…
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Right, exactly. And neither do I, right? Like, I mean, it's like, I would expect it to be perfect, too. So I mean, if you look at the packaging, like people have made had had a lot of praise about the packaging and like little things that they include, like little stickers. And they've created like the notion, if I follow correctly, like the notion of like an app store or like a portal to like download, like homebrew and stuff like that. Right. So that's actually like, like, they've put a lot of thought into it,…
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thing too is you can, you can cluster these things. So you get a couple of these centers or a couple of these Dell up to plexus and you can basically throw those resources and pool them with certain software to do bigger tasks. And I've even seen, and this is getting kind of into the crazy territory where there's the NVMe port on my Lenovo. People have actually created a custom interface to put an external GPU into it to do like transcoding of for jellyfish and all that kind of stuff. So run AI models and things…
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