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In this episode, we get to speak with Jared Rhodes: Microsoft MVP, and Pluralsight Author. We discuss what it takes to build a HomeLab. We review the technology, hardware, software, and economic logistics to get you started.
[00:00:00] Brian Hinton: [00:00:00] Hey, welcome
[00:00:02] Frederick Weiss: [00:00:02] And
[00:00:15] Brian Hinton: [00:00:15] good
[00:00:17] Frederick Weiss: [00:00:17] ha.
[00:00:21] We'll answer them in the order they are received. And additionally, if
[00:00:39] Brian Hinton: [00:00:39] Brian. Yeah,
[00:00:42]Yeah, we'd like to thank the return of auth0 as this season
[00:01:04] Developer resources and streams. They also run avocado labs, which is an
[00:01:18] Frederick Weiss: [00:01:18] Yeah,
[00:01:23] We have Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author. Jared Rhodes, welcome to the
[00:01:46] Yeah, we had a bunch of amazing guests. We had a Baskar Rao Dandlamudi .
[00:01:56] Brian Hinton: [00:01:56] Yeah. It was
[00:02:00] Frederick Weiss: [00:02:00] Yeah.
[00:02:06] How, how are you surviving with the COVID? I know you can't do any of
[00:02:21] Jared Rhodes: [00:02:21] So yeah,
[00:02:26] And I personally did the really shunned away from doing any of the, the
[00:02:46] I've, I've cut down every tree in my yard and dug plenty of holes.
[00:02:54] Brian Hinton: [00:02:54] like you
[00:03:05] There it looks like there's a monkey, a flashlight and a
[00:03:10] Frederick Weiss: [00:03:10]
[00:03:12] Brian Hinton: [00:03:12] No, no,
[00:03:24] Okay. Oh, camera monkey and fly and
[00:03:26] Jared Rhodes: [00:03:26] fliers.
[00:03:41] I can just. Override the firmware. And I also want to rip it apart to see
[00:03:52] Frederick Weiss: [00:03:52] I
[00:03:55]Jared Rhodes: [00:03:55] Xamarin
[00:03:58] Frederick Weiss: [00:03:58] I do not.
[00:04:00] Jared Rhodes: [00:04:00] us, Jared. I
[00:04:07] Frederick Weiss: [00:04:07] Yeah.
[00:04:13] Brian Hinton: [00:04:13] Oh, okay.
[00:04:20] That's great. It's very interesting.
[00:04:24] Jared Rhodes: [00:04:24] I don't
[00:04:37] Brian Hinton: [00:04:37] Yeah. We
[00:04:47] Frederick Weiss: [00:04:47] I dunno.
[00:04:54] Like, they were just so excited about it. Like,
[00:04:56] Brian Hinton: [00:04:56] okay. I
[00:05:07] Frederick Weiss: [00:05:07] put up
[00:05:13] They are his spirit, animals and Alton Brown Alton Brown is also
[00:05:28] Jared Rhodes: [00:05:28] like?
[00:05:32]Usually if there was a, someone had to step out, I would step in at the
[00:05:48] Brian Hinton: [00:05:48] I don't
[00:05:49] Yeah.
[00:05:53] Jared Rhodes: [00:05:53] I said, I
[00:06:13] So she didn't like it. What about your experiences
[00:06:16] Frederick Weiss: [00:06:16] with the
[00:06:33] So, do you have any such advice.
[00:06:36] Jared Rhodes: [00:06:36] No, no,
[00:06:58] Wait, we skipped out. So I personally, I, I haven't run my user group
[00:07:13] Brian Hinton: [00:07:13] I'm
[00:07:20] And yeah, just not hugely into it because there's no one-on-one
[00:07:31] Frederick Weiss: [00:07:31] work. You
[00:07:44] So they, they, they got really creative with that and that's.
[00:07:59] Jared Rhodes: [00:07:59]
[00:08:00] I'm not developing anymore right now. So basically right as COVID hit,
[00:08:22] So between, you know, stuff that was happening in healthcare, the
[00:08:40] I kind of wanted to take a break, really examine why I didn't, why I
[00:08:50]Brian Hinton: [00:08:50] I'm
[00:08:56] How she, how she been well, with all
[00:08:58] Jared Rhodes: [00:08:58] this,
[00:09:12] And she's been doing that since April or whatever. So every Tuesday at
[00:09:31] They're shooting, you know, they're shooting people up with the
[00:09:37] Frederick Weiss: [00:09:37] Yeah, I
[00:09:50] So crossing my fingers. I could get even sooner than that, but you know,
[00:10:09] I'm excited. So why don't we talk about a little bit more work
[00:10:36]Jared Rhodes: [00:10:36] For brevity
[00:10:40] There's a lot of content generation and a lot of presentations. So
[00:10:57] Frederick Weiss: [00:10:57]
[00:10:57] And from my understanding, your main thing is a business that you run,
[00:11:11] Jared Rhodes: [00:11:11] Qimata.
[00:11:13] Frederick Weiss: [00:11:13] Qimata
[00:11:22] Can you tell us what Phil Collins, the Genesis of this company, was and
[00:11:34]Jared Rhodes: [00:11:34] I'm not
[00:11:43] Gotcha. Under that banner, I've done tons of Azure work and mobile
[00:11:57] Frederick Weiss: [00:11:57] name?
[00:11:58] Jared Rhodes: [00:11:58] name mean?
[00:12:11] So I was on my phone trying to figure out a name for a company. And it
[00:12:26] And the funny ending of that story is that it's actually the English
[00:12:39] Frederick Weiss: [00:12:39] so
[00:12:45] Brian Hinton: [00:12:45] I think a C
[00:12:47] Frederick Weiss: [00:12:47] is like
[00:12:48] Yeah. I don't even know if one could purchase that with our geographic
[00:13:09]Jared Rhodes: [00:13:09] I would say I
[00:13:25] And I usually get pulled in. I go and I try to help them figure out
[00:13:42] And I mean, everything, it didn't start fast. It didn't, it
[00:14:00] Like if I'm trying to ship something through three different
[00:14:17] They had a private cloud, they had a huge cloud initiative and they
[00:14:30] Brian Hinton: [00:14:30] I'm
[00:14:38] What is this?
[00:14:38] Frederick Weiss: [00:14:38] The
[00:14:42] Brian Hinton: [00:14:42] I mean, on
[00:14:55] Jared Rhodes: [00:14:55] Yeah. Think
[00:14:57] And that's basically what a private cloud is. They just have their own
[00:15:15] Whereas the public cloud. It's supposed to be a little bit easier. You
[00:15:27] Frederick Weiss: [00:15:27] let me
[00:15:32] The dangers and the value of one having a private location, like a private
[00:15:55] Jared Rhodes: [00:15:55] Okay, so go
[00:15:57] I'm kind of confused by it. It's about how do I convince them to
[00:16:05] Frederick Weiss: [00:16:05] Not
[00:16:25] Basically what I'm getting at is the, the second, the latter of the
[00:16:39] Jared Rhodes: [00:16:39] Well for a
[00:16:49] They had data centers in South America. I see. So they're really big.
[00:17:09] Whereas if you go to the public cloud, you have a lot of operational
[00:17:29] So you are talking about the private and public cloud. Whereas what a lot
[00:17:48] It's my backup, right? Because backups are so much simpler and easier
[00:18:08] It's not exactly that they need that redundancy. And if you're
[00:18:28] And for some reason, it just never really comes to fruition easily. A lot
[00:18:46] And these public clouds are so large that for you to not have access to
[00:19:01] Brian Hinton: [00:19:01] Like the
[00:19:07]What, that's one of our, our topics today is building a home lab. What,
[00:19:14] Frederick Weiss: [00:19:14] Yeah, I
[00:19:29] Brian Hinton: [00:19:29] like, you
[00:19:30] know,
[00:19:31] Frederick Weiss: [00:19:31] Oh, you
[00:19:35] There's a lab. That's exactly it. Right.
[00:19:41] Jared Rhodes: [00:19:41] So a home
[00:20:17] You can do more than that though. I run it as sort of a test lab for a
[00:20:29] Frederick Weiss: [00:20:29] Okay, go
[00:20:31] Brian Hinton: [00:20:31] I've
[00:20:52] Frederick Weiss: [00:20:52] Just put
[00:20:54] Brian Hinton: [00:20:54] Yeah,
[00:20:57] Jared Rhodes: [00:20:57] Yeah. I
[00:21:14] So when you go to hell not work at all, Well, we'll make you click 15
[00:21:23] Brian Hinton: [00:21:23] they tend to
[00:21:37] And I was just like, this is insane. Like, that's ridiculous. Like,
[00:21:44] Jared Rhodes: [00:21:44] She was the
[00:21:48] Brian Hinton: [00:21:48] Yeah. Yeah.
[00:21:55] Let's I guess I'll do this. So what, what got you into it?
[00:21:58] Jared Rhodes: [00:21:58] That's
[00:22:14] And so I went and I, the first place I went was the there's a
[00:22:30] Cause I have so many raspberry pies. I honestly just not, I think I just
[00:22:47] And that's where, when I was looking at the home lab, I learned like,
[00:22:59] Frederick Weiss: [00:22:59] Yeah.
[00:23:03] And some of the advice they have is to actually reach out to some of these
[00:23:21] Oh, you want this? Here you go. It's kind of like one man's
[00:23:50] Jared Rhodes: [00:23:50] for
[00:23:51] So the original amount when I bought the first five servers let's see,
[00:24:08] Six, $700 for that whole setup. I went and bought a router and the router
[00:24:14] Frederick Weiss: [00:24:14] So you
[00:24:29] Jared Rhodes: [00:24:29] as far as
[00:24:30] Yeah. And that was actually before I learned how to really cut costs. What
[00:24:44] But now I've gotten to where my prices are super low, because I know
[00:25:03]Both for this. And if you do mobile development for test phones, because
[00:25:21] So the recycler, the recycler gave me the racks for a hundred dollars a
[00:25:42] And it's a full. Private cloud for me now in there.
[00:25:46] Brian Hinton: [00:25:46] Yeah. These
[00:26:01] Super cheap, like 20, $30 and like this server that was used. And it's
[00:26:17] Frederick Weiss: [00:26:17] Let me
[00:26:20] I mean, obviously one, like you said, the equipment's really heavy, so
[00:26:44] Now, what comes to my mind is documenting these things in an advantageous
[00:27:18] Possibly. What do you say to that
[00:27:19] Jared Rhodes: [00:27:19] jury? I
[00:27:36] I feel like I can give insights to things that are very much opaque to
[00:27:56] But I think for people that do that, it might be simple and blah, blah,
[00:28:22] But I also feel like a lot of this stuff I'm learning now. Like
[00:28:33] Frederick Weiss: [00:28:33] I see
[00:28:45] I don't know what's going to happen, but let's explore this
[00:29:03] Brian Hinton: [00:29:03] So
[00:29:08] Frederick Weiss: [00:29:08] literally
[00:29:16] Brian Hinton: [00:29:16] Yeah, yeah.
[00:29:21] Frederick Weiss: [00:29:21] just
[00:29:25] It's a little bit more roomier than my coffin, but I think Brian looks
[00:29:52] Or can you obtain a lot of this? Brian says, yes, Jerry, just so you know
[00:30:02]Jared Rhodes: [00:30:02] Not from
[00:30:12] Brian Hinton: [00:30:12] and
[00:30:13] Frederick Weiss: [00:30:13]
[00:30:14] Jared Rhodes: [00:30:14] You will,
[00:30:30] Brian Hinton: [00:30:30] your
[00:30:31] Jared Rhodes: [00:30:31] Yes. So, as
[00:31:02]Just as talking about things like Linux and things that run on Linux, there
[00:31:22] I'm not a lawyer. So check this, but you can run ESX PSI for free. As
[00:31:48]Microsoft used to have some. Easier to access free versions of. Microsoft
[00:32:10] And since you're using this home lab as a home lab, you know, again,
[00:32:17] Brian Hinton: [00:32:17] Jared says
[00:32:21] Frederick Weiss: [00:32:21] is a
[00:32:31] J K JK K.
[00:32:32]Jared Rhodes: [00:32:32] But yeah, you
[00:32:49] Cause it's the same thing that runs in Azure. So building local builds
[00:32:55] Brian Hinton: [00:32:55] just because
[00:33:07] You can make sense with xynthia. I'm also big into music and have
[00:33:24] If you're locking in a cave and want to do some cool, like a hardware
[00:33:30] Frederick Weiss: [00:33:30]
[00:33:43] Like you know automation of things which doesn't stand for attack on
[00:34:00]Jared Rhodes: [00:34:00] One of the
[00:34:09] is trying to play around with it. There are some open source videos.
[00:34:28]I was trying to revisit a DJI drone, the little, well known, really
[00:34:50] Brian Hinton: [00:34:50] that's
[00:34:52] That's not feathers.
[00:34:53] Frederick Weiss: [00:34:53] That did
[00:34:56] Brian Hinton: [00:34:56] feathers.
[00:34:59] Frederick Weiss: [00:34:59] Explain
[00:35:00]Jared Rhodes: [00:35:00] Yeah, sorry.
[00:35:16]As far he's got beehives, like he got into bees during the lockdown.
[00:35:20] Brian Hinton: [00:35:20] Cool.
[00:35:22] Jared Rhodes: [00:35:22] honey. Yeah,
[00:35:39] And so we're trying to do that with as beehives and we want to see
[00:36:01] Deploy to two of these and then ha or three of these, excuse me. And then
[00:36:14] Brian Hinton: [00:36:14] Hmm. I got
[00:36:30] And I don't know what it does, but I w I want it
[00:36:36] Frederick Weiss: [00:36:36] super
[00:36:37] Brian Hinton: [00:36:37] No, no.
[00:36:41] Frederick Weiss: [00:36:41] cool.
[00:36:43]Brian Hinton: [00:36:43] I can't,
[00:36:50] Yeah. Well, let's try this. I'll go over here. Wait, actually, let
[00:37:03] Jared Rhodes: [00:37:03] these sounds
[00:37:05] Brian Hinton: [00:37:05] new to do.
[00:37:15] I mean, I don't know what I'd use it for, but I would like it
[00:37:20] Frederick Weiss: [00:37:20] cool
[00:37:27]Jared Rhodes: [00:37:27] Well, this
[00:37:35] Brian Hinton: [00:37:35] Yeah.
[00:37:52] Right. Yeah,
[00:37:53] Frederick Weiss: [00:37:53] dude, I
[00:37:55] Jared Rhodes: [00:37:55] In Atlanta.
[00:38:12] It was, you could sew and then you put the battery on the end of it. And
[00:38:32] Yeah, that'd be
[00:38:32] Brian Hinton: [00:38:32] pretty cool.
[00:38:49] Jared Rhodes: [00:38:49] The only
[00:38:57] Brian Hinton: [00:38:57] That's
[00:39:02] Did you have something happen to yourself?
[00:39:05] Jared Rhodes: [00:39:05] So, yeah, I
[00:39:21] So for like six months, every time we went to bed, the house was fully
[00:39:27] Brian Hinton: [00:39:27] nicely
[00:39:35] Frederick Weiss: [00:39:35]
[00:39:40] Yeah.
[00:39:41] Brian Hinton: [00:39:41] Let's
[00:39:57] Jared Rhodes: [00:39:57] Ooh. Video
[00:40:01] Frederick Weiss: [00:40:01] Okay.
[00:40:07]Jared Rhodes: [00:40:07] New
[00:40:13] Brian Hinton: [00:40:13] Yeah. So,
[00:40:23]Jared Rhodes: [00:40:23] Lion's
[00:40:27] Brian Hinton: [00:40:27] It's a
[00:40:29] Frederick Weiss: [00:40:29] If you
[00:40:34] Jared Rhodes: [00:40:34] One bug. I
[00:40:40] Brian Hinton: [00:40:40] That's
[00:40:42] Frederick Weiss: [00:40:42] Yeah, I
[00:40:45] Brian Hinton: [00:40:45] What if
[00:40:47] Have you re
[00:40:48] Frederick Weiss: [00:40:48] gifted?
[00:40:50] Jared Rhodes: [00:40:50] Oh, all
[00:41:05] Frederick Weiss: [00:41:05] Jerry,
[00:41:10]Jared Rhodes: [00:41:10] I was a
[00:41:24] Brian Hinton: [00:41:24] awesome.
[00:41:29]Jared Rhodes: [00:41:29] Cleaning my
[00:41:38] Frederick Weiss: [00:41:38] I like
[00:41:44] Jared Rhodes: [00:41:44] the sleeve.
[00:41:50] And so this is a nice sleek robot. But when it gets to where I have nerve
[00:42:00] Brian Hinton: [00:42:00] And you got
[00:42:03] Frederick Weiss: [00:42:03] whatever
[00:42:05] Brian Hinton: [00:42:05] Brian, did
[00:42:09] Jared Rhodes: [00:42:09] No, no, no.
[00:42:17] Frederick Weiss: [00:42:17] at this
[00:42:25] Brian Hinton: [00:42:25] Yeah. I
[00:42:28] Frederick Weiss: [00:42:28]
[00:42:29] I went back in time to push you. I, I got a little sloppy, but go ahead,
[00:42:33] Brian Hinton: [00:42:33] What, what
[00:42:36]Jared Rhodes: [00:42:36] Not being as
[00:42:38] Frederick Weiss: [00:42:38] Okay.
[00:42:49]Jared Rhodes: [00:42:49] For some
[00:42:56] I am very good at navigating situations.
[00:43:01] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:01]
[00:43:02] Brian Hinton: [00:43:02] Okay. Think
[00:43:10] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:10] taco
[00:43:12] Brian Hinton: [00:43:12] Oh, I'd
[00:43:19] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:19] Jared, do
[00:43:20] Jared Rhodes: [00:43:20] play you, do
[00:43:23] Brian Hinton: [00:43:23] are you? Oh,
[00:43:24] I mean, there's people at work who are going to be very adamantly
[00:43:31] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:31] I support
[00:43:32] Jared Rhodes: [00:43:32] I work with
[00:43:36] Brian Hinton: [00:43:36] share
[00:43:36] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:36] that
[00:43:44]Do you play an instrument? And if you do, what is that instrument?
[00:43:49] Jared Rhodes: [00:43:49] Not anymore.
[00:43:53] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:53] Did you
[00:43:59] Jared Rhodes: [00:43:59] Sure. No,
[00:44:04] You see, my brother did.
[00:44:07] Frederick Weiss: [00:44:07] Super
[00:44:15] Jared Rhodes: [00:44:15] We
[00:44:17] Frederick Weiss: [00:44:17] Okay. I
[00:44:20]Brian Hinton: [00:44:20] Would, okay.
[00:44:29] Jared Rhodes: [00:44:29] copy and
[00:44:31] Kind of all right. Because mistakes. No, it's a whole new thing. What
[00:44:39] Frederick Weiss: [00:44:39] All
[00:44:54] Jared Rhodes: [00:44:54] Well, my,
[00:45:03] Frederick Weiss: [00:45:03] Wait,
[00:45:12] Jared Rhodes: [00:45:12] mean, I am,
[00:45:20] Brian Hinton: [00:45:20] That's
[00:45:21] We're going to use that every episode,
[00:45:23] Frederick Weiss: [00:45:23] every
[00:45:35] Brian Hinton: [00:45:35] stealing my
[00:45:39] So what fact amazes you every time you think about it?
[00:45:42]Jared Rhodes: [00:45:42] Honestly, the
[00:45:55] Frederick Weiss: [00:45:55] Yeah,
[00:46:16] You're like, huh? Jared, you see a ghost. What do you do? Shoot it.
[00:46:25] Brian Hinton: [00:46:25] Double dead.
[00:46:43] What's the one thing you keep?
[00:46:45] Frederick Weiss: [00:46:45] Oh, I
[00:46:46]Jared Rhodes: [00:46:46] How to sell
[00:46:51] Brian Hinton: [00:46:51] All right,
[00:46:57] Frederick Weiss: [00:46:57] You
[00:47:03] Jared, if you could not be on a computer hypothetically for the rest of
[00:47:11]Jared Rhodes: [00:47:11] Probably some
[00:47:14] Frederick Weiss: [00:47:14] Hmm.
[00:47:16] Jared Rhodes: [00:47:16] I don't
[00:47:19] Brian Hinton: [00:47:19] Okay. You
[00:47:24] Outside of anything? We've talked about IOT. What's your other
[00:47:29] Jared Rhodes: [00:47:29] Well, I
[00:47:41] Frederick Weiss: [00:47:41]
[00:47:56] Say it's 2025. What's the first thing you're going to do?
[00:48:00]Jared Rhodes: [00:48:00] It depends on
[00:48:14] And I like walking around and seeing all these people's crazy costumes
[00:48:20] Frederick Weiss: [00:48:20] Nice,
[00:48:22] Brian Hinton: [00:48:22] What is one
[00:48:29] Frederick Weiss: [00:48:29] worry.
[00:48:32] Jared Rhodes: [00:48:32] one
[00:48:36]Your rational fear. I don't know. It seems rational to me. I, I do get
[00:48:51] Frederick Weiss: [00:48:51] right?
[00:48:52] I think that's a fair one. I mean, a lot of people are totally. Fine
[00:49:03] Jared Rhodes: [00:49:03] I also, I
[00:49:12] Frederick Weiss: [00:49:12] working
[00:49:15] Yeah. Right. That's when you get across the Rubicon of adulthood and
[00:49:36] And everybody's people, we're all people, we're not robots. I
[00:49:50] Brian Hinton: [00:49:50] Okay. This
[00:49:57] It just waived.
[00:50:01] Frederick Weiss: [00:50:01] If
[00:50:13] Jared Rhodes: [00:50:13] I don't
[00:50:15] Frederick Weiss: [00:50:15] He got it
[00:50:21] So, Jared, let's we're right about the end of the show. Let's
[00:50:38] So I'll let you say it
[00:50:39] right.
[00:50:40] Jared Rhodes: [00:50:40] Kim
[00:50:42] Frederick Weiss: [00:50:42] Qimata
[00:50:58]Jared Rhodes: [00:50:58] Meetup. So I
[00:51:04] So I run the Atlanta intelligent devices group. I help out with the.net
[00:51:23] For some reason, I get more of that on LinkedIn than I do on Twitter.
[00:51:28] Frederick Weiss: [00:51:28] Yeah.
[00:51:41] Brian Hinton: [00:51:41] It's all
[00:51:44] Frederick Weiss: [00:51:44] Is that
[00:51:46] Brian Hinton: [00:51:46] that joke,
[00:51:57]So thanks for joining us.
[00:51:59] Frederick Weiss: [00:51:59] Yeah. You
[00:52:02] Jared Rhodes: [00:52:02] it. Yeah,
[00:52:09] Frederick Weiss: [00:52:09] we'll
[00:52:16] So we have to do it around the exact same time to keep the consistency of
[00:52:37]Jared Rhodes: [00:52:37] Yes. If you
[00:52:42] If you go and you get, and you talk at a user group or something like
[00:52:57] Frederick Weiss: [00:52:57] Nice. I
[00:53:17] And thanks everyone, buddy, for watching the show. Really appreciate it
[00:53:41]Everyone. Thank you, Jared. Thank you so much.
[00:53:43] Jared Rhodes: [00:53:43] Super
[00:53:47] Frederick Weiss: [00:53:47] Take
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In this episode, we get to speak with Jared Rhodes: Microsoft MVP, and Pluralsight Author. We discuss what it takes to build a HomeLab. We review the technology, hardware, software, and economic logistics to get you started.
[00:00:00] Brian Hinton: [00:00:00] Hey, welcome
[00:00:02] Frederick Weiss: [00:00:02] And
[00:00:15] Brian Hinton: [00:00:15] good
[00:00:17] Frederick Weiss: [00:00:17] ha.
[00:00:21] We'll answer them in the order they are received. And additionally, if
[00:00:39] Brian Hinton: [00:00:39] Brian. Yeah,
[00:00:42]Yeah, we'd like to thank the return of auth0 as this season
[00:01:04] Developer resources and streams. They also run avocado labs, which is an
[00:01:18] Frederick Weiss: [00:01:18] Yeah,
[00:01:23] We have Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author. Jared Rhodes, welcome to the
[00:01:46] Yeah, we had a bunch of amazing guests. We had a Baskar Rao Dandlamudi .
[00:01:56] Brian Hinton: [00:01:56] Yeah. It was
[00:02:00] Frederick Weiss: [00:02:00] Yeah.
[00:02:06] How, how are you surviving with the COVID? I know you can't do any of
[00:02:21] Jared Rhodes: [00:02:21] So yeah,
[00:02:26] And I personally did the really shunned away from doing any of the, the
[00:02:46] I've, I've cut down every tree in my yard and dug plenty of holes.
[00:02:54] Brian Hinton: [00:02:54] like you
[00:03:05] There it looks like there's a monkey, a flashlight and a
[00:03:10] Frederick Weiss: [00:03:10]
[00:03:12] Brian Hinton: [00:03:12] No, no,
[00:03:24] Okay. Oh, camera monkey and fly and
[00:03:26] Jared Rhodes: [00:03:26] fliers.
[00:03:41] I can just. Override the firmware. And I also want to rip it apart to see
[00:03:52] Frederick Weiss: [00:03:52] I
[00:03:55]Jared Rhodes: [00:03:55] Xamarin
[00:03:58] Frederick Weiss: [00:03:58] I do not.
[00:04:00] Jared Rhodes: [00:04:00] us, Jared. I
[00:04:07] Frederick Weiss: [00:04:07] Yeah.
[00:04:13] Brian Hinton: [00:04:13] Oh, okay.
[00:04:20] That's great. It's very interesting.
[00:04:24] Jared Rhodes: [00:04:24] I don't
[00:04:37] Brian Hinton: [00:04:37] Yeah. We
[00:04:47] Frederick Weiss: [00:04:47] I dunno.
[00:04:54] Like, they were just so excited about it. Like,
[00:04:56] Brian Hinton: [00:04:56] okay. I
[00:05:07] Frederick Weiss: [00:05:07] put up
[00:05:13] They are his spirit, animals and Alton Brown Alton Brown is also
[00:05:28] Jared Rhodes: [00:05:28] like?
[00:05:32]Usually if there was a, someone had to step out, I would step in at the
[00:05:48] Brian Hinton: [00:05:48] I don't
[00:05:49] Yeah.
[00:05:53] Jared Rhodes: [00:05:53] I said, I
[00:06:13] So she didn't like it. What about your experiences
[00:06:16] Frederick Weiss: [00:06:16] with the
[00:06:33] So, do you have any such advice.
[00:06:36] Jared Rhodes: [00:06:36] No, no,
[00:06:58] Wait, we skipped out. So I personally, I, I haven't run my user group
[00:07:13] Brian Hinton: [00:07:13] I'm
[00:07:20] And yeah, just not hugely into it because there's no one-on-one
[00:07:31] Frederick Weiss: [00:07:31] work. You
[00:07:44] So they, they, they got really creative with that and that's.
[00:07:59] Jared Rhodes: [00:07:59]
[00:08:00] I'm not developing anymore right now. So basically right as COVID hit,
[00:08:22] So between, you know, stuff that was happening in healthcare, the
[00:08:40] I kind of wanted to take a break, really examine why I didn't, why I
[00:08:50]Brian Hinton: [00:08:50] I'm
[00:08:56] How she, how she been well, with all
[00:08:58] Jared Rhodes: [00:08:58] this,
[00:09:12] And she's been doing that since April or whatever. So every Tuesday at
[00:09:31] They're shooting, you know, they're shooting people up with the
[00:09:37] Frederick Weiss: [00:09:37] Yeah, I
[00:09:50] So crossing my fingers. I could get even sooner than that, but you know,
[00:10:09] I'm excited. So why don't we talk about a little bit more work
[00:10:36]Jared Rhodes: [00:10:36] For brevity
[00:10:40] There's a lot of content generation and a lot of presentations. So
[00:10:57] Frederick Weiss: [00:10:57]
[00:10:57] And from my understanding, your main thing is a business that you run,
[00:11:11] Jared Rhodes: [00:11:11] Qimata.
[00:11:13] Frederick Weiss: [00:11:13] Qimata
[00:11:22] Can you tell us what Phil Collins, the Genesis of this company, was and
[00:11:34]Jared Rhodes: [00:11:34] I'm not
[00:11:43] Gotcha. Under that banner, I've done tons of Azure work and mobile
[00:11:57] Frederick Weiss: [00:11:57] name?
[00:11:58] Jared Rhodes: [00:11:58] name mean?
[00:12:11] So I was on my phone trying to figure out a name for a company. And it
[00:12:26] And the funny ending of that story is that it's actually the English
[00:12:39] Frederick Weiss: [00:12:39] so
[00:12:45] Brian Hinton: [00:12:45] I think a C
[00:12:47] Frederick Weiss: [00:12:47] is like
[00:12:48] Yeah. I don't even know if one could purchase that with our geographic
[00:13:09]Jared Rhodes: [00:13:09] I would say I
[00:13:25] And I usually get pulled in. I go and I try to help them figure out
[00:13:42] And I mean, everything, it didn't start fast. It didn't, it
[00:14:00] Like if I'm trying to ship something through three different
[00:14:17] They had a private cloud, they had a huge cloud initiative and they
[00:14:30] Brian Hinton: [00:14:30] I'm
[00:14:38] What is this?
[00:14:38] Frederick Weiss: [00:14:38] The
[00:14:42] Brian Hinton: [00:14:42] I mean, on
[00:14:55] Jared Rhodes: [00:14:55] Yeah. Think
[00:14:57] And that's basically what a private cloud is. They just have their own
[00:15:15] Whereas the public cloud. It's supposed to be a little bit easier. You
[00:15:27] Frederick Weiss: [00:15:27] let me
[00:15:32] The dangers and the value of one having a private location, like a private
[00:15:55] Jared Rhodes: [00:15:55] Okay, so go
[00:15:57] I'm kind of confused by it. It's about how do I convince them to
[00:16:05] Frederick Weiss: [00:16:05] Not
[00:16:25] Basically what I'm getting at is the, the second, the latter of the
[00:16:39] Jared Rhodes: [00:16:39] Well for a
[00:16:49] They had data centers in South America. I see. So they're really big.
[00:17:09] Whereas if you go to the public cloud, you have a lot of operational
[00:17:29] So you are talking about the private and public cloud. Whereas what a lot
[00:17:48] It's my backup, right? Because backups are so much simpler and easier
[00:18:08] It's not exactly that they need that redundancy. And if you're
[00:18:28] And for some reason, it just never really comes to fruition easily. A lot
[00:18:46] And these public clouds are so large that for you to not have access to
[00:19:01] Brian Hinton: [00:19:01] Like the
[00:19:07]What, that's one of our, our topics today is building a home lab. What,
[00:19:14] Frederick Weiss: [00:19:14] Yeah, I
[00:19:29] Brian Hinton: [00:19:29] like, you
[00:19:30] know,
[00:19:31] Frederick Weiss: [00:19:31] Oh, you
[00:19:35] There's a lab. That's exactly it. Right.
[00:19:41] Jared Rhodes: [00:19:41] So a home
[00:20:17] You can do more than that though. I run it as sort of a test lab for a
[00:20:29] Frederick Weiss: [00:20:29] Okay, go
[00:20:31] Brian Hinton: [00:20:31] I've
[00:20:52] Frederick Weiss: [00:20:52] Just put
[00:20:54] Brian Hinton: [00:20:54] Yeah,
[00:20:57] Jared Rhodes: [00:20:57] Yeah. I
[00:21:14] So when you go to hell not work at all, Well, we'll make you click 15
[00:21:23] Brian Hinton: [00:21:23] they tend to
[00:21:37] And I was just like, this is insane. Like, that's ridiculous. Like,
[00:21:44] Jared Rhodes: [00:21:44] She was the
[00:21:48] Brian Hinton: [00:21:48] Yeah. Yeah.
[00:21:55] Let's I guess I'll do this. So what, what got you into it?
[00:21:58] Jared Rhodes: [00:21:58] That's
[00:22:14] And so I went and I, the first place I went was the there's a
[00:22:30] Cause I have so many raspberry pies. I honestly just not, I think I just
[00:22:47] And that's where, when I was looking at the home lab, I learned like,
[00:22:59] Frederick Weiss: [00:22:59] Yeah.
[00:23:03] And some of the advice they have is to actually reach out to some of these
[00:23:21] Oh, you want this? Here you go. It's kind of like one man's
[00:23:50] Jared Rhodes: [00:23:50] for
[00:23:51] So the original amount when I bought the first five servers let's see,
[00:24:08] Six, $700 for that whole setup. I went and bought a router and the router
[00:24:14] Frederick Weiss: [00:24:14] So you
[00:24:29] Jared Rhodes: [00:24:29] as far as
[00:24:30] Yeah. And that was actually before I learned how to really cut costs. What
[00:24:44] But now I've gotten to where my prices are super low, because I know
[00:25:03]Both for this. And if you do mobile development for test phones, because
[00:25:21] So the recycler, the recycler gave me the racks for a hundred dollars a
[00:25:42] And it's a full. Private cloud for me now in there.
[00:25:46] Brian Hinton: [00:25:46] Yeah. These
[00:26:01] Super cheap, like 20, $30 and like this server that was used. And it's
[00:26:17] Frederick Weiss: [00:26:17] Let me
[00:26:20] I mean, obviously one, like you said, the equipment's really heavy, so
[00:26:44] Now, what comes to my mind is documenting these things in an advantageous
[00:27:18] Possibly. What do you say to that
[00:27:19] Jared Rhodes: [00:27:19] jury? I
[00:27:36] I feel like I can give insights to things that are very much opaque to
[00:27:56] But I think for people that do that, it might be simple and blah, blah,
[00:28:22] But I also feel like a lot of this stuff I'm learning now. Like
[00:28:33] Frederick Weiss: [00:28:33] I see
[00:28:45] I don't know what's going to happen, but let's explore this
[00:29:03] Brian Hinton: [00:29:03] So
[00:29:08] Frederick Weiss: [00:29:08] literally
[00:29:16] Brian Hinton: [00:29:16] Yeah, yeah.
[00:29:21] Frederick Weiss: [00:29:21] just
[00:29:25] It's a little bit more roomier than my coffin, but I think Brian looks
[00:29:52] Or can you obtain a lot of this? Brian says, yes, Jerry, just so you know
[00:30:02]Jared Rhodes: [00:30:02] Not from
[00:30:12] Brian Hinton: [00:30:12] and
[00:30:13] Frederick Weiss: [00:30:13]
[00:30:14] Jared Rhodes: [00:30:14] You will,
[00:30:30] Brian Hinton: [00:30:30] your
[00:30:31] Jared Rhodes: [00:30:31] Yes. So, as
[00:31:02]Just as talking about things like Linux and things that run on Linux, there
[00:31:22] I'm not a lawyer. So check this, but you can run ESX PSI for free. As
[00:31:48]Microsoft used to have some. Easier to access free versions of. Microsoft
[00:32:10] And since you're using this home lab as a home lab, you know, again,
[00:32:17] Brian Hinton: [00:32:17] Jared says
[00:32:21] Frederick Weiss: [00:32:21] is a
[00:32:31] J K JK K.
[00:32:32]Jared Rhodes: [00:32:32] But yeah, you
[00:32:49] Cause it's the same thing that runs in Azure. So building local builds
[00:32:55] Brian Hinton: [00:32:55] just because
[00:33:07] You can make sense with xynthia. I'm also big into music and have
[00:33:24] If you're locking in a cave and want to do some cool, like a hardware
[00:33:30] Frederick Weiss: [00:33:30]
[00:33:43] Like you know automation of things which doesn't stand for attack on
[00:34:00]Jared Rhodes: [00:34:00] One of the
[00:34:09] is trying to play around with it. There are some open source videos.
[00:34:28]I was trying to revisit a DJI drone, the little, well known, really
[00:34:50] Brian Hinton: [00:34:50] that's
[00:34:52] That's not feathers.
[00:34:53] Frederick Weiss: [00:34:53] That did
[00:34:56] Brian Hinton: [00:34:56] feathers.
[00:34:59] Frederick Weiss: [00:34:59] Explain
[00:35:00]Jared Rhodes: [00:35:00] Yeah, sorry.
[00:35:16]As far he's got beehives, like he got into bees during the lockdown.
[00:35:20] Brian Hinton: [00:35:20] Cool.
[00:35:22] Jared Rhodes: [00:35:22] honey. Yeah,
[00:35:39] And so we're trying to do that with as beehives and we want to see
[00:36:01] Deploy to two of these and then ha or three of these, excuse me. And then
[00:36:14] Brian Hinton: [00:36:14] Hmm. I got
[00:36:30] And I don't know what it does, but I w I want it
[00:36:36] Frederick Weiss: [00:36:36] super
[00:36:37] Brian Hinton: [00:36:37] No, no.
[00:36:41] Frederick Weiss: [00:36:41] cool.
[00:36:43]Brian Hinton: [00:36:43] I can't,
[00:36:50] Yeah. Well, let's try this. I'll go over here. Wait, actually, let
[00:37:03] Jared Rhodes: [00:37:03] these sounds
[00:37:05] Brian Hinton: [00:37:05] new to do.
[00:37:15] I mean, I don't know what I'd use it for, but I would like it
[00:37:20] Frederick Weiss: [00:37:20] cool
[00:37:27]Jared Rhodes: [00:37:27] Well, this
[00:37:35] Brian Hinton: [00:37:35] Yeah.
[00:37:52] Right. Yeah,
[00:37:53] Frederick Weiss: [00:37:53] dude, I
[00:37:55] Jared Rhodes: [00:37:55] In Atlanta.
[00:38:12] It was, you could sew and then you put the battery on the end of it. And
[00:38:32] Yeah, that'd be
[00:38:32] Brian Hinton: [00:38:32] pretty cool.
[00:38:49] Jared Rhodes: [00:38:49] The only
[00:38:57] Brian Hinton: [00:38:57] That's
[00:39:02] Did you have something happen to yourself?
[00:39:05] Jared Rhodes: [00:39:05] So, yeah, I
[00:39:21] So for like six months, every time we went to bed, the house was fully
[00:39:27] Brian Hinton: [00:39:27] nicely
[00:39:35] Frederick Weiss: [00:39:35]
[00:39:40] Yeah.
[00:39:41] Brian Hinton: [00:39:41] Let's
[00:39:57] Jared Rhodes: [00:39:57] Ooh. Video
[00:40:01] Frederick Weiss: [00:40:01] Okay.
[00:40:07]Jared Rhodes: [00:40:07] New
[00:40:13] Brian Hinton: [00:40:13] Yeah. So,
[00:40:23]Jared Rhodes: [00:40:23] Lion's
[00:40:27] Brian Hinton: [00:40:27] It's a
[00:40:29] Frederick Weiss: [00:40:29] If you
[00:40:34] Jared Rhodes: [00:40:34] One bug. I
[00:40:40] Brian Hinton: [00:40:40] That's
[00:40:42] Frederick Weiss: [00:40:42] Yeah, I
[00:40:45] Brian Hinton: [00:40:45] What if
[00:40:47] Have you re
[00:40:48] Frederick Weiss: [00:40:48] gifted?
[00:40:50] Jared Rhodes: [00:40:50] Oh, all
[00:41:05] Frederick Weiss: [00:41:05] Jerry,
[00:41:10]Jared Rhodes: [00:41:10] I was a
[00:41:24] Brian Hinton: [00:41:24] awesome.
[00:41:29]Jared Rhodes: [00:41:29] Cleaning my
[00:41:38] Frederick Weiss: [00:41:38] I like
[00:41:44] Jared Rhodes: [00:41:44] the sleeve.
[00:41:50] And so this is a nice sleek robot. But when it gets to where I have nerve
[00:42:00] Brian Hinton: [00:42:00] And you got
[00:42:03] Frederick Weiss: [00:42:03] whatever
[00:42:05] Brian Hinton: [00:42:05] Brian, did
[00:42:09] Jared Rhodes: [00:42:09] No, no, no.
[00:42:17] Frederick Weiss: [00:42:17] at this
[00:42:25] Brian Hinton: [00:42:25] Yeah. I
[00:42:28] Frederick Weiss: [00:42:28]
[00:42:29] I went back in time to push you. I, I got a little sloppy, but go ahead,
[00:42:33] Brian Hinton: [00:42:33] What, what
[00:42:36]Jared Rhodes: [00:42:36] Not being as
[00:42:38] Frederick Weiss: [00:42:38] Okay.
[00:42:49]Jared Rhodes: [00:42:49] For some
[00:42:56] I am very good at navigating situations.
[00:43:01] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:01]
[00:43:02] Brian Hinton: [00:43:02] Okay. Think
[00:43:10] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:10] taco
[00:43:12] Brian Hinton: [00:43:12] Oh, I'd
[00:43:19] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:19] Jared, do
[00:43:20] Jared Rhodes: [00:43:20] play you, do
[00:43:23] Brian Hinton: [00:43:23] are you? Oh,
[00:43:24] I mean, there's people at work who are going to be very adamantly
[00:43:31] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:31] I support
[00:43:32] Jared Rhodes: [00:43:32] I work with
[00:43:36] Brian Hinton: [00:43:36] share
[00:43:36] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:36] that
[00:43:44]Do you play an instrument? And if you do, what is that instrument?
[00:43:49] Jared Rhodes: [00:43:49] Not anymore.
[00:43:53] Frederick Weiss: [00:43:53] Did you
[00:43:59] Jared Rhodes: [00:43:59] Sure. No,
[00:44:04] You see, my brother did.
[00:44:07] Frederick Weiss: [00:44:07] Super
[00:44:15] Jared Rhodes: [00:44:15] We
[00:44:17] Frederick Weiss: [00:44:17] Okay. I
[00:44:20]Brian Hinton: [00:44:20] Would, okay.
[00:44:29] Jared Rhodes: [00:44:29] copy and
[00:44:31] Kind of all right. Because mistakes. No, it's a whole new thing. What
[00:44:39] Frederick Weiss: [00:44:39] All
[00:44:54] Jared Rhodes: [00:44:54] Well, my,
[00:45:03] Frederick Weiss: [00:45:03] Wait,
[00:45:12] Jared Rhodes: [00:45:12] mean, I am,
[00:45:20] Brian Hinton: [00:45:20] That's
[00:45:21] We're going to use that every episode,
[00:45:23] Frederick Weiss: [00:45:23] every
[00:45:35] Brian Hinton: [00:45:35] stealing my
[00:45:39] So what fact amazes you every time you think about it?
[00:45:42]Jared Rhodes: [00:45:42] Honestly, the
[00:45:55] Frederick Weiss: [00:45:55] Yeah,
[00:46:16] You're like, huh? Jared, you see a ghost. What do you do? Shoot it.
[00:46:25] Brian Hinton: [00:46:25] Double dead.
[00:46:43] What's the one thing you keep?
[00:46:45] Frederick Weiss: [00:46:45] Oh, I
[00:46:46]Jared Rhodes: [00:46:46] How to sell
[00:46:51] Brian Hinton: [00:46:51] All right,
[00:46:57] Frederick Weiss: [00:46:57] You
[00:47:03] Jared, if you could not be on a computer hypothetically for the rest of
[00:47:11]Jared Rhodes: [00:47:11] Probably some
[00:47:14] Frederick Weiss: [00:47:14] Hmm.
[00:47:16] Jared Rhodes: [00:47:16] I don't
[00:47:19] Brian Hinton: [00:47:19] Okay. You
[00:47:24] Outside of anything? We've talked about IOT. What's your other
[00:47:29] Jared Rhodes: [00:47:29] Well, I
[00:47:41] Frederick Weiss: [00:47:41]
[00:47:56] Say it's 2025. What's the first thing you're going to do?
[00:48:00]Jared Rhodes: [00:48:00] It depends on
[00:48:14] And I like walking around and seeing all these people's crazy costumes
[00:48:20] Frederick Weiss: [00:48:20] Nice,
[00:48:22] Brian Hinton: [00:48:22] What is one
[00:48:29] Frederick Weiss: [00:48:29] worry.
[00:48:32] Jared Rhodes: [00:48:32] one
[00:48:36]Your rational fear. I don't know. It seems rational to me. I, I do get
[00:48:51] Frederick Weiss: [00:48:51] right?
[00:48:52] I think that's a fair one. I mean, a lot of people are totally. Fine
[00:49:03] Jared Rhodes: [00:49:03] I also, I
[00:49:12] Frederick Weiss: [00:49:12] working
[00:49:15] Yeah. Right. That's when you get across the Rubicon of adulthood and
[00:49:36] And everybody's people, we're all people, we're not robots. I
[00:49:50] Brian Hinton: [00:49:50] Okay. This
[00:49:57] It just waived.
[00:50:01] Frederick Weiss: [00:50:01] If
[00:50:13] Jared Rhodes: [00:50:13] I don't
[00:50:15] Frederick Weiss: [00:50:15] He got it
[00:50:21] So, Jared, let's we're right about the end of the show. Let's
[00:50:38] So I'll let you say it
[00:50:39] right.
[00:50:40] Jared Rhodes: [00:50:40] Kim
[00:50:42] Frederick Weiss: [00:50:42] Qimata
[00:50:58]Jared Rhodes: [00:50:58] Meetup. So I
[00:51:04] So I run the Atlanta intelligent devices group. I help out with the.net
[00:51:23] For some reason, I get more of that on LinkedIn than I do on Twitter.
[00:51:28] Frederick Weiss: [00:51:28] Yeah.
[00:51:41] Brian Hinton: [00:51:41] It's all
[00:51:44] Frederick Weiss: [00:51:44] Is that
[00:51:46] Brian Hinton: [00:51:46] that joke,
[00:51:57]So thanks for joining us.
[00:51:59] Frederick Weiss: [00:51:59] Yeah. You
[00:52:02] Jared Rhodes: [00:52:02] it. Yeah,
[00:52:09] Frederick Weiss: [00:52:09] we'll
[00:52:16] So we have to do it around the exact same time to keep the consistency of
[00:52:37]Jared Rhodes: [00:52:37] Yes. If you
[00:52:42] If you go and you get, and you talk at a user group or something like
[00:52:57] Frederick Weiss: [00:52:57] Nice. I
[00:53:17] And thanks everyone, buddy, for watching the show. Really appreciate it
[00:53:41]Everyone. Thank you, Jared. Thank you so much.
[00:53:43] Jared Rhodes: [00:53:43] Super
[00:53:47] Frederick Weiss: [00:53:47] Take