117: Unraid as a Service
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We chat about VMware's rug pull with Bret, aka Raid Owl, and then get into Unraid's big changes and more.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World) — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM) — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• Raid Owl - YouTube) — Hi there, my name is Brett and I'm just a nerdy dude who is passionate about home lab stuff, networking, pc builds, and tech in general. I created Raid Owl to provide a creative outlet for my passion and hopefully help people along the way.
• Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor) — Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware's ESXi hypervisor.
• VMware is "killing off" 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift)
• Raid Owl on X) — This #30DaysOfLinux challenge is not going as expected…
• Unraid | Upcoming Changes to Unraid OS Pricing) — Again, this change does not apply to any current license holders. You will still be able to access all updates for life, as promised.
• Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx) — As such, starting from today, I will no longer participate in nginx development as run by F5. Instead, I’m starting an alternative project, which is going to be run by developers, and not corporate entities:
• PurrfectProse) — About halfway through January 2024 we reorganized the spare room and Alex pointed out that I’d hardly been reading since Ella had been born and my ‘to read’ staging bookcase was getting perilously full. So a mission began to get back on the wagon.
• Wyze confirmed a camera issue last week caused 13,000 owners to see videos from other homes) — The end result was that for a brief but not revealed period of time, 13,000 Wyze camera owners were seeing thumbnail videos from locations that were not their own. Also, 1,504 users tapped on those thumbnails, which could have expanded it or launched an Event video.
• R36S Handheld Game Console) — On The Go Design: Ultra-compact size and old style design, it is very convenient whether you carry it with you during business trips, travel or camping. Recall the dream of the games anytime, anywhere.
• CitraVR: Port of the leading 3DS emulator, Citra — designed for playing 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest.) — Play 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest. CitraVR is a GPL-licensed, engineless OpenXR application with all source code publicly available.