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#651 – Learning Computing with Jeff Geerling

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Welcome Jeff Geerling of the Jeff Geerling YouTube Channel!

  • Jeff sounds so calm one his videos because he records after the kids are in bed
  • He started working with dad at the radio station when there was a transition in radio to digital / online. Jeff had an early job as a technology explainer while making manuals at the station.
  • Jeff still makes videos with his Dad on the Geerling engineering channel 
  • Ham radio vs broadcast
  • 1 Million Watts on the Supertower
  • Calling the FCC
  • CamOX facility
  • Keeping people interested during videos
  • Mars 400
  • RPi clusters
  • It’s a good exercise because it helps those building it understanding the limitation of spreading across computers
  • Drupal website on cluster
  • “The constraint gives me the story”
  • A good starter project? Maybe the project pi cluster
  • /r/homelab
  • NAS, monitoring, VPN, pidramble
  • Home Assistant
  • ESPhome
  • yaml files: better than xml, JSON is better
  • Devices should only be added to the house if they are: Local, additive, private
  • X10
  • Smart stuff in the house
  • Interested in the embedded side
  • LLM
  • Jeff became Chris’s de facto Pi5 analyst
  • RP1 episode
  • PCIexpress
  • Jeff discusses RISC V

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