The Uncast Show

Ed and Stefano explore what’s changing for your home server, unpacking Unraid 8’s move to Fedora, native backups, ZFS snapshots, and Docker Compose integration. What changes, what stays, and where do multiple arrays fit in?

We also dive into community apps, build an AI radio with Dead Air, ID birds with BirdNET-Go, and discover gigs via MusicSpider, while tackling cloud outages, digital ownership, and rising RAM prices.

Along the way: mixing SAS and SATA drives, a fatal modular PSU cable mistake, Linux migrations, and the occasional tangent.

Episode Takeaways

• Unraid 7.3.3 RC1 and the 7.4 beta, shared task tray and multi-network Docker
• Unraid 8 dropping Slackware for a Fedora base built on uCore
• Native backups, Docker Compose in Community Apps and a plugin permission system
• Multiple arrays still on the roadmap, just not in the first release
• Why a Fedora base won't fix Fuse overhead, and what exclusive shares actually do
• Dead Air, a self-hosted radio station with an AI presenter
• BirdNET-Go and MusicSpider, two new containers worth a look
• Sony telling a court you're unreasonable if you thought you owned it
• PBS nearly losing 70 years of archive to a bankrupt cloud middleman
• A modular PSU cable swap that destroyed two hard drives
• PetLibro pet feeders offline for 38 hours because the cloud went down
• Comcast turning millions of routers into Wi-Fi motion sensors
• Amazon device prices up 60% in a day, and RAM prices still climbing
• Pine64 halting Linux hardware manufacturing into next year
• CERN leaving Red Hat for Debian 13 over a compiler flag
• 150 million driving licences for sale on the dark web
• AliExpress fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio
• A UK power plant down for four days after someone port forwarded an air-gapped network

Chapters

⁠00:00⁠ Welcome back, Unraid 7.3.3 RC and the 7.4 beta

⁠02:50⁠ The 45Drives Creator Summit

⁠04:00⁠ Unraid 8 announced, Slackware to Fedora

⁠05:33⁠ Native backups, Podman and Docker Compose in Community Apps

⁠07:03⁠ Plugin permissions, a unified UI and broader hardware support

⁠10:03⁠ What's staying, and where multiple arrays got to

⁠11:06⁠ Fuse, user space and the exclusive shares trick

⁠14:31⁠ ZFS isn't going anywhere on a Fedora base

⁠15:35⁠ Dead Air, a radio station hosted by your own AI

⁠18:44⁠ BirdNET-Go, bat detection and Home Assistant

⁠22:41⁠ MusicSpider finds gigs from your listening history

⁠23:55⁠ Sony argues in court that you never owned it

⁠27:29⁠ Xbox cloud streaming limits and disc-to-digital

⁠31:35⁠ PBS nearly loses 70 years of archive footage

⁠33:48⁠ Mixing SAS and SATA drives in the array

⁠35:27⁠ A modular PSU cable that killed two hard drives

⁠39:09⁠ PetLibro's 38 hour cloud outage

⁠40:41⁠ Comcast turns routers into Wi-Fi motion sensors

⁠44:24⁠ Ring encryption and what it hands to police

⁠46:05⁠ Amazon prices up 60% overnight, and RAM pricing

⁠50:05⁠ Pine64 halts hardware manufacturing

⁠53:13⁠ Maintenance, and the 1990s RAM Doubler

⁠55:50⁠ China and the EU swapping Windows for Linux

⁠57:43⁠ CERN leaves Red Hat over a compiler flag

⁠1:00:58⁠ Epic Games Store gets a Linux launcher

⁠1:01:47⁠ Utah targets VPN users, California protects open source

⁠1:03:03⁠ 150 million driving licences on the dark web

⁠1:05:56⁠ uBlock Origin, Brave and YouTube ads without Premium

⁠1:09:26⁠ AliExpress fingerprinting with silent audio

⁠1:11:10⁠ A UK power plant down after a port forward, and HDMI

⁠1:13:32⁠ The black swan on the motorway

⁠1:14:10⁠ Sign-off

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The views and opinions expressed on the show are solely those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the opinions, policies, or positions of Lime Technology, Inc. 

In this month's Unraid August Digest, we break down the biggest news of the month — the move to a new Fedora-based foundation — plus the Unraid 7.4.0 beta, two new faces on the team, fresh merch, and the best community content from around the web.

Read the full August Digest.

📰 THE BIG NEWS: UNRAID 8

Unraid 8 is migrating from Slackware to a modern, Fedora-based foundation built on Universal Blue's uCore. The goal: faster security updates, broader hardware support out of the box, built-in backups, and native Docker Compose — an immutable, image-based OS you can update atomically and roll back in one step.

Want in early? Sign up for the Unraid 8 beta waitlist here.

🧪 UNRAID 7.4.0 BETA 1

Now available for testing — a shared task tray for background operations across plugins, Docker, and VMs; multiple custom networks for Docker templates; a Docker memory-limit control in the UI; configurable physical power-button behavior; a flash backup you can download straight to the server with progress tracking; plus storage and web UI fixes, new Realtek Wi-Fi firmware, a kernel update, and security-focused package updates.

👋 NEW TEAM MEMBERS

Two roles announced back in June have been filled: Alex Kretzschmar joins as Head of Product Marketing (longtime community member and co-founder of LinuxServer.io), and Scott Schwarz joins as Head of Operations & Automation, bringing 20 years of experience helping companies build to scale.

👕 NEW MERCH

The new "Unraid and Chill" tee is here — and all t-shirts are on sale for $20 each while you're there.

— CHAPTERS —

0:00 Intro

0:20 The big news: Unraid 8 announced

0:24 Why Unraid 8 is special: moving to Fedora

0:42 What is uCore? (batteries included)

:23 Container-first OS: bootc & atomic rollback

1:42 Unraid 8 beta waitlist

1:54 Unraid 7.4.0 beta 1 — what's new

3:06 New team members: Alex & Scott

3:38 New merch: Unraid and Chill

3:49 Community content from around the web

4:01 Wrap-up

— LINKS —

Full August Digest newsletter: https://newsletter.unraid.net/p/unraid-august-digest-da22

Unraid 8 beta waitlist: https://bit.ly/unraid-beta

Unraid forums: https://forums.unraid.net

Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/unRAID

#Unraid #Unraid8 #SelfHosting #Homelab #NAS #Fedora #Docker #HomeServer

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Last time you met the CEO. This time, meet the man who started it all and the person building what comes next.

In Part 2, Ed sits down with Unraid creator Tom and product director Eli. Tom walks through 20 years of Unraid — from a 2005 hobby project born out of a pile of cheap hard drives, to parity-protected storage, a web GUI built to hide Linux, and the arrival of plugins, Docker, VMs and ZFS. Then Eli lays out what's coming in Unraid 8.

What's next: a move to a Fedora base (built on Universal Blue's uCore) for faster security updates and far better hardware support out of the box; native Docker Compose; a built-in backup solution — to the cloud, an S3 bucket, or another Unraid server, with snapshots and full restores; a plugin permission system so you can see exactly what each plugin can touch before you install it; and a cleaner, more consistent interface across the OS, your account, and Community Apps — all without taking anything away from the power users who go deep.

Same idea that started it all: your hardware, your data, your choice. Here's to the next 20 years.

— CHAPTERS —

0:00 – Welcome back: meet the founder (Part 2 of 2)

1:05 – 2005: the problem Tom set out to solve

2:24 – Parity & redundancy: the first Unraid array

4:41 – The web GUI, "Tower" & the birth of plugins

7:23 – 64-bit, VMs & Docker: the road to Unraid 6

9:37 – ZFS support & mirrored USB boot (Unraid 7)

11:49 – Why Unraid 8 moves to a Fedora base

13:29 – Immutable Linux & Universal Blue (uCore)

15:58 – Kernel flexibility & better hardware support

20:32 – One cohesive interface & own-your-data

22:38 – Built-in backups & native Docker Compose

26:20 – Plugins you can trust: the new permission system

29:35 – Community Apps, reimagined (ca.unraid.net)

31:23 – When can you try it? Beta, RC & getting involved

33:05 – Early days: building servers by hand

35:34 – From flash drives to digital downloads

37:17 – 20 years, still independent: Tom's reflection

39:00 – Closing remarks & how to get involved

— LINKS —

Watch Part 1 (meet CEO Tiffany Jones).

Read Tiffany's letter (companion blog).

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Work with us (Unraid jobs).

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You’ve used Unraid. Now meet the person running the company behind it.

Ed Rawlings and Unraid CEO Tiffany Jones get into what the community actually wants to know — what the company stands for, what's coming to Unraid users soon, and what she'll protect no matter what. This isn't a product update. It's an honest look at the people, the culture, and the independence behind the OS you rely on.

Tiffany talks about growing up around Unraid, the four careers that led her to the top job, and how she and her father Tom split the business and the product. She takes the hard questions head-on: the worry that Unraid could drift the way other beloved products have, why the company stays bootstrapped with no investors, what “you own your license” actually means, and where a leaner, more accessible Unraid is headed — without taking anything away from the power users who’ve been here for years.

No VC. No private equity. No debt. A perpetual license you own outright. A team largely built from the community it serves. This is what’s behind the product.

Want to join the Unraid beta tester list?

Part 2 will have Unraid creator Tom Mortensen and Unraid Director of Product Eli Bosley reveal what’s next for the product itself. You won't want to miss this one. Subscribe so you don’t miss it!

Links

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Chapters

00:00 – Welcome back: meet Unraid’s CEO (Part 1 of 2)

00:44 – Seeing Unraid for the first time (Tom’s 2005 plasma TV)

02:58 – Film to CEO: the four careers that led here

07:38 – Does Tiffany run Unraid at home?

09:45 – The mission, and what “freedom” really means

12:28 – What Tom does now

15:23 – Battling against enshittification and aligning with users

17:18 – No investors, no debt: staying independent

23:50 – What the license change actually paid for

27:58 – Why Unraid stays a small, lean team

30:05 – Where your bug reports & feature requests go

32:10 – From community to staff: Larry’s story

34:05 – What makes the self-hosting community different

36:50 – Accessible ≠ dumbing it down

39:18 – What Unraid got wrong (and how they fixed it)

43:16 – Goals for the next era (team, UX, AI)

45:28 – Partnerships & the Signature Series (45HomeLab)

50:30 – How to get involved

52:36 – Coming in Part 2: Tom & Eli

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Ed's heading to the 45Drives Creator Summit, the Unraid summer sale is live, and this month's community question is the one container you couldn't live without, plus the most underrated one nobody ever talks about.

Then it gets wild: malware that hides from AI scanners by pretending to be a nuclear weapon, Sony quietly deleting 551 films people actually paid for, GTA 6 shipping as nothing but a code in a box, PlayStation finishing off physical discs, and Amazon locking the Fire Stick behind a new OS.

On the security side: BitLocker weaponized as ransomware, the FortiBleed firewall credential leak, another npm supply chain attack, and an AUR malware flood hitting Arch users. Anthropic drops Claude Fable, Steam Machines are back as a downloadable OS, AMD silently removed Ryzen memory encryption, and ANPR cameras are now tracking your AirPods and your dog. Plus, YouTube's AI sweep is taking out real creators, and Ukraine's birds have started nesting in drone fibre spools.

Episode Takeaways

• Unraid summer sale (ends 19 July) and the 45Drives Creator Summit
• The one container you couldn't live without, and the most underrated one
• Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 switched back on
• Malware faking nuclear-weapon text to slip past AI code scanners
• Sony deleting 551 purchased movies from PlayStation libraries
• GTA 6's "physical" edition is just a download code in a box
• PlayStation ending physical disc production in 2028
• Amazon killing Fire Stick sideloading with the move to Vega OS
• BitLocker turned into a ransomware weapon using built-in tools
• FortiBleed exposes admin credentials for around 75,000 Fortinet firewalls
• RubyGems and npm add a cooldown to blunt supply chain attacks
• Arch's AUR flooded with 1,500+ malicious packages
• Steam Machine priced, and SteamOS now installable on any PC
• AMD quietly removing, then restoring, Ryzen memory encryption
• Flock cameras that fingerprint your Bluetooth, AirPods and even pet chips
• YouTube's AI cleanup catching genuine faceless creators
• Ukraine's birds building nests from discarded drone fibre-optic cable

Chapters

00:00 Welcome, Unraid summer sale and the Creator Summit

05:27 The container you couldn't live without, and the most underrated

17:50 Anthropic's Fable 5 is back

20:56 Malware hides from AI scanners behind fake nuclear-weapon text

23:10 Sony deletes 551 purchased movies from PlayStation

29:20 GTA 6 is just a code in a box

35:15 PlayStation ends physical disc production in 2028

45:08 Steam Headless and the fixed-MAC container trick

48:30 Amazon kills Fire Stick sideloading with Vega OS

51:03 BitLocker turned into a ransomware weapon

54:43 FortiBleed: 75,000 Fortinet firewalls exposed

1:00:43 RubyGems and npm add a package cooldown

1:02:04 Arch's AUR flooded with malware

1:02:49 Steam Machine priced, and SteamOS goes downloadable

1:10:00 AMD pulls, then restores, Ryzen memory encryption

1:12:00 Flock cameras that track your Bluetooth, AirPods and dog

1:16:10 YouTube's AI cleanup hits real faceless creators

1:19:10 Light close: Ukraine's birds and drone fibre

1:20:23 Sign-off

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Welcome to the Unraid June Digest!

We kick things off with the annual UNRAID SUMMER SALE — LIVE NOW through July 19

⦿ 20% off Starter and Unleashed licenses

⦿ 30% off all upgrades to Unleashed

⦿ 50% off a second Starter or Unleashed license at checkout

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WE'RE HIRING — two new remote roles open now

⦿ Head of Operations & Automation

⦿ Manager of Support and Services

NEW COMMUNITY APPS PORTAL

Community Apps has a new home outside the WebGUI where you can browse the full catalog, save apps for later, and check out the new Monthly Spotlight section.

APP OF THE MONTH: Apprise100+ notification services (Slack, Discord, Telegram, Pushover, and more) as a native Unraid plugin.

🎬 MORE FROM THE COMMUNITY THIS MONTH

• The First Server Built for Unraid: X15 Review & Unboxing
• Your Homelab Is a Mess… Fix It Like This
• The SIMPLEST Guide to Set Up Jellyfin WITH Hardware Acceleration - Unraid
• The Homelab Reset Question, Claude SSH Access & Chrome Manifest V2 | Ed & Stefano Unleashed

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Unraid summer sale talk kicks things off before Ed and Stefano ask a simple but painful homelab question: if your main server died tomorrow, would you actually rebuild everything, or would you use it as a chance to clean house?

From there, we get into backups, appdata cleanup, homelab creep, Docker Compose, low-power rebuilds, Anthropic Fable/Mythos restrictions, AI hype cycles, developers booby-trapping code against AI, SSD-based browser fingerprinting, another npm supply chain attack, Chrome Manifest V2, Brave, Pi-hole, Google AI search, SanDisk SSDs, internal boot, AI data centre memory pressure, and whether Claude should ever be allowed to SSH into your Unraid server.

Episode Takeaways

• Upcoming Unraid summer sale and store discounts
  
• If your Unraid server died, what would you actually restore?
  
• Homelab creep, old appdata and why a rebuild can be useful
  
• Community Apps versus Docker Compose for rebuilding services
  
• Low-power servers, local AI and the price of new workstation GPUs
  
• Anthropic Fable/Mythos restrictions and what they might mean
  
• AI hype cycles, GPT-2 comparisons and model safety marketing
  
• Developers hiding instructions in code to block AI scrapers
  
• Why AI hallucinations can become self-reinforcing
  
• FROST, the browser attack that fingerprints activity through SSD timing
  
• Red Hat npm packages hit by a credential-stealing supply chain attack
  
• Chrome Manifest V2, uBlock Origin Lite, Brave and Pi-hole
  
• Google AI search opt-outs and the “-AI” search trick
  
• SanDisk SSDs, DRAM concerns, USB boot, internal boot and SATA DOMs
  
• Why letting Claude SSH into Unraid is probably a bad idea
  
• A United flight turns around after a Bluetooth device is named “bomb”

Chapters
00:00 Welcome, Unraid summer sale and server disaster recovery
00:56 If your Unraid server died tomorrow
02:03 Pterodactyl, containers and what not to rebuild
06:08 Backups, homelab creep and appdata cleanup
10:01 Low-power rebuilds and RTX Pro Blackwell pricing
11:32 Anthropic Fable/Mythos restrictions
14:07 Anthropic IPO questions and AI regulation
18:04 AI hype cycles, GPT-2 comparisons and AI credit cards
22:13 Spark PCs, Mythos and local AI agent machines
23:44 Developers booby-trap code against AI
26:12 Ubuntu FIPS, missing knowledge and hallucination loops
29:07 FROST, SSD fingerprinting from the browser
32:57 Red Hat npm supply chain compromise
37:39 Chrome Manifest V2 and ad blocking
41:28 Firefox, Brave, Pi-hole and browser choices
45:27 Riverside, Chrome-only services and browser lock-in
49:15 Google AI search opt-outs and the “-AI” trick
54:04 SanDisk SSDs and DRAM concerns
56:55 Internal boot, USB boot and SATA DOMs
1:02:14 SRAM, DRAM and AI data centre memory pressure
1:06:06 Should Claude SSH into Unraid?
1:10:18 Recovering broken VM XML and GPU passthrough
1:11:04 United flight turns around over a Bluetooth device name
1:15:18  Sign-off

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The hosts of Ed & Stefano Unleashed are passionate about home servers, open-source tech, and sometimes going off on tangents. The views and opinions expressed on the show are solely those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the opinions, policies, or positions of Lime Technology, Inc. This show is intended for entertainment and informational purposes only. 

Listeners are encouraged to do their own research, experiment responsibly, and not hold the hosts accountable for any questionable home lab decisions. Most importantly, enjoy the show!

Everything that happened with Unraid in May 2026 in 5 minutes.

This month: Unraid 7.3.0 hits stable with Internal Boot, a wave of security releases keeps the team busy, the base OS future gets teased, we spotlight Open WebUI as App of the Month, and new sci-fi Unraid merch dropped!

Unraid 7.3.0 is Stable: Internal Boot is here. Run Unraid from NVMe, SSD, or eMMC — no USB stick required. Also includes a new onboarding wizard, Docker MAC address fixes, QEMU/libvirt updates, and more.

Unraid 7.3.1 also out: A focused maintenance update addressing a wave of CVEs alongside kernel, Docker, ZFS, and Slackware base package updates. Recommended for all 7.3 users.

Unraid 7.2.7: Still on 7.2.x? This one's for you. Security updates, kernel upgrade, Docker fixes, and package refreshes across core components.

OS Transition Teased: On Ed & Stefano Unleashed, it was hinted that Unraid may move away from Slackware. Debian? Fedora?

App of the Month: Open WebUI: A self-hosted chat interface for running large language models on your own hardware. Pair it with Ollama and run Llama, Mistral, Gemma and more. No cloud, no subscription. Ed walks through the full setup.

Merch of the Month: The "Disturbing Lack of Backups" laptop sleeve: a nod to a beloved space epic and a reminder of IT best practices.

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Unraid 7.3.0 stable has landed with internal boot and TPM licensing, 7.2.7 keeps the older branch protected with backported fixes, and we drop a quiet tease about a possible change to what's running underneath the OS.

From there it's a brutal month of wider security news including the YellowKey BitLocker situation, the Bambu Lab versus OrcaSlicer fight with Rossmann and ‪@GamersNexus‬ weighing in, the collapse of motherboard sales, DeepSeek V4 running locally, and the new wave of VPN-hostile legislation out of Utah and the EU.

Episode Takeaways

-Apprise lands as an official Unraid plugin, built in Go and developed with the upstream project

-Unraid 7.2.7 backports security fixes across 11 core packages on the older branch

-Unraid 7.3.0 stable brings internal boot, TPM-based licensing and Docker networking improvements

-A forward-looking tease on the Linux distribution sitting under Unraid

-Why you don't necessarily need to jump to the latest major release

-Copy Fail, a 732-byte Python script that gets root on most Linux distros since 2017

-The YellowKey BitLocker bypass that looks deliberate enough to be called a backdoor

-A 93-minute Bitwarden CLI compromise that injected malicious GitHub Actions workflows

-DAEMON Tools Lite installers backdoored across more than 100 countries

-Microsoft Edge loading your full password vault into plaintext memory at startup

-Motherboard sales collapse 25% as AI chips squeeze the enthusiast PC market

-Bambu Lab versus OrcaSlicer, with Rossmann, GamersNexus and the SFC weighing in

-Roku and TCL hit with a class action for bricking TVs through software updates

-DeepSeek V4 lands on Hugging Face and the local

-AI homelab crowd are running it

-Utah's SB 73 and the EU briefing that calls VPN use "a loophole that needs closing"

-A husky in Saskatchewan walks herself to doggy daycare

Chapters

00:00 Welcome back, Ed moves house & Stefano's at the Red Hat Summit

00:57 Apprise lands as an official Unraid plugin

05:41 Unraid 7.2.7 security backports

06:19 Unraid 7.3.0 stable, internal boot and TPM licensing

07:10 Merch spring sale

09:11 A tease about Unraid's base distribution switch

14:05 Community talking point: do you have to be on the latest major release?

18:30 Copy Fail kernel CVE

19:15 Dirty Frag

19:29 YellowKey, the BitLocker backdoor

22:55 Bitwarden CLI supply chain compromise

25:04 DAEMON Tools Lite trojanised installers

34:43 Microsoft Edge stored passwords in plaintext memory

37:51 Motherboard sales collapse 25%

41:03 Bambu Lab versus OrcaSlicer, Rossmann and GamersNexus jump in

46:26 Roku and TCL bricked-TV class action

50:26 DeepSeek V4 lands on Hugging Face

52:02 VPNs in the crosshairs, Utah SB 73 and the EU

53:36 A husky walks herself to doggy daycare

55:18 Sign-off

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The views and opinions expressed on the show are solely those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the opinions, policies, or positions of Lime Technology, Inc. This show is intended for entertainment and informational purposes only.

Listeners are encouraged to do their own research, experiment responsibly, and not hold the hosts accountable for any questionable home lab decisions.

Most importantly, enjoy the show!

Local AI on your Unraid server isn't just chatbots, it's image generation, music, voice cloning, photo recognition, automatic transcription, and so much more, all running on hardware you already own. But where do you even start?

In this video I walk through the whole landscape of local AI for Unraid users. What it actually is, the two completely different types you can run, and what hardware you really need to get going. This isn't a setup guide. Think of it as your mental map of local AI, so when you do start installing things, you'll actually understand what you're doing and why.

We cover generative vs predictive AI, the three reasons people run AI locally (privacy, cost, control), real working examples on my own server, and a full walkthrough of the hardware tiers from CPU to high-end GPU, including which card I'd actually recommend you buy first and why.

Key Links

🔗 Frigate (open source NVR with AI object detection).

🔗 Frigate live demo.

🔗 Speaches (Whisper + Kokoro container).

🔗 Ollama.

🔗 Open WebUI.

🔗 ComfyUI.

▶️ Related videos on the channel.

🔗 A-Eye (local photo renaming with AI).

🔗 Paperless AI (auto-tagging your documents).

💬 Want me to make a follow-up video benchmarking all of those GPUs with proper AI benchmark software? Drop a comment below and let me know.

Hardware Recs

USB Edge TPU ML Accelerator.

NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB.NVIDIA RTX 5070.

⏱️ Timestamps

0:00 - Cold open: what local AI can actually do

2:13 - Welcome and what this video is (and isn't)

2:20 - Everything you just saw was generated locally

2:33 - What is local AI? Privacy, cost, control

3:00 - Generative vs predictive AI explained

3:25 - Frigate demo (predictive AI in action)

5:02 - The Google Coral and edge AI

5:22 - Quick tip: USB Coral vs PCIe Coral

5:50 - A-Eye: when predictive AI does need a GPU

6:35 - Whisper + Kokoro in one container (Speaches)

7:53 - Web UIs vs APIs: how local AI tools chain together

8:18 - OpenClaw: my own voice assistant built on Signal

9:50 - Ollama and Open WebUI for chatbots

10:50 - ComfyUI for image generation

11:34 - So what hardware do you actually need?

12:00 - VRAM, RAM and RAM speed for AI

14:02 - CPU tier

15:08 - Integrated GPU tier

16:07 - Dedicated GPUs: the lineup on the bench

17:01 - Benchmark video CTA

18:38 - Why the RTX 3060 12GB is the sweet spot

20:22 - The other Nvidia cards (2060, 2080 Ti, 5070, 5090)

22:06 - AMD and ROCm

22:43 - Intel Arc Pro B-series for local AI

23:30 - Edge AI recap

24:15 - A little secret about this video...

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