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[1426.50 --> 1434.12] And so when the drive comes back after a reboot or something, Plex thinks, oh, goody, here's a whole bunch of new content for you.
[1435.16 --> 1437.90] And it just screws up so much stuff.
[1438.54 --> 1447.12] It's both the most amazing feature of Merger FS and probably the most frustrating in this specific scenario is that it supports drives disappearing.
[1447.12 --> 1451.56] Like a USB drive disappearing would be no issue for it, just silently.
[1452.04 --> 1455.98] And it doesn't tell me a failure's happened.
[1456.92 --> 1465.82] So I haven't figured out a good way to alert on this particular issue, simply because it's so random when it happens.
[1466.32 --> 1470.94] Anyway, I took the decision that I got fed up of messing around with cables in the back of hard drive bays.
[1470.94 --> 1476.62] I'm using the Rosewill LSV4500 4U rack mount server case.
[1476.96 --> 1480.28] The version I had did not have the hot swap hard drive cages in it.
[1480.46 --> 1489.26] And so to make a change to the hard drives, I had to pull the server out, lift the lid off, reach down inside in the dark with my phone torch.
[1489.48 --> 1490.92] Like a caveman.
[1491.04 --> 1492.16] I know, I know.
[1492.70 --> 1493.94] So I finally bit the bullet.
[1493.94 --> 1500.62] I bought three new hard drive cages that take four three and a half hard drives each at a hot swap bays.
[1501.34 --> 1502.20] They look amazing.
[1502.48 --> 1508.98] They've got beautiful, sexy blue LEDs on the front and they flash when activity is happening like a real server.
[1510.24 --> 1512.88] I can only fit 12 hard drives rather than 15.
[1513.00 --> 1520.62] But actually, I found the 10 to 12 range is about the sweet spot anyway for my needs, particularly with density going up as it is.
[1520.62 --> 1536.50] And so the way I tried to solve it is just by making it easier to do maintenance, trying to reduce the number of cables being unplugged and replugged and going to a backplane based solution instead of cables directly into the drives themselves.
[1536.50 --> 1538.92] That does sound like a really good setup, Alex.
[1538.96 --> 1545.16] Even if it doesn't necessarily solve the specific problems, it is going to be a lot easier to maintain, which will probably reduce problems overall.
[1545.50 --> 1546.22] I do hope so.
[1546.54 --> 1547.12] We'll see, though.
[1547.38 --> 1550.22] Time will be the tell.
[1550.22 --> 1553.70] Maybe by the next time I visit, we'll have this solved.
[1554.50 --> 1558.22] Maybe by the next time you visit, Matter might actually be in existence.
[1558.40 --> 1560.30] Did you see the update from Paulus this week?
[1560.68 --> 1561.20] Now, hold on.
[1561.26 --> 1563.64] I thought this was my gig on the show.
[1563.64 --> 1568.56] I thought I was the Matter hype guy and you were the guy saying Matter is never going to happen.
[1568.82 --> 1570.58] Oh, it doesn't matter, Chris.
[1571.04 --> 1575.60] Oh, man, it matters so much, though.
[1576.20 --> 1577.10] I am really hopeful.
[1577.76 --> 1585.00] I know, you know, almost as much as Paulus, the founder of Home Assistant, he really seems to be like one of their biggest fans out there.
[1585.34 --> 1590.84] He says he tweets Matter being open source is what gives this standard a chance to be a success.
[1590.84 --> 1598.74] Google, Apple, Home Assistant and any other controller will all run the same code to control the devices.
[1599.02 --> 1603.82] The device themselves will also run a standard Matter SDK supported by the chip vendor.
[1604.28 --> 1611.08] I expect a wave of new controllers because with this multi-admin setup, you can now have multiple controllers for your home.
[1611.68 --> 1614.30] Manufacturers that focus on just devices might add a hub.
[1614.66 --> 1616.08] Home Depot will be back in the game.
[1616.38 --> 1617.86] I expect Sonos to join in, too.
[1618.14 --> 1618.70] Maybe Hugh.
[1619.08 --> 1619.92] He's very hyped.
[1619.92 --> 1622.46] He doesn't think it'll be a success from day one, though.
[1622.96 --> 1623.26] I don't know.
[1623.32 --> 1630.10] I just remember that ex-KCD comic, you know, where there are seven standards and they create a new standard and now there are eight standards.
[1630.32 --> 1632.02] And I just fear that's where we're going to end up.
[1632.14 --> 1634.92] But it does sound too good to be true.
[1635.08 --> 1635.70] Doesn't it matter?
[1635.90 --> 1636.78] That's my fear.
[1637.36 --> 1637.72] It does.
[1638.00 --> 1642.54] Every experience I've had in my life in tech tells me this is too good to be true.
[1642.54 --> 1650.12] But then at the same time, we also kind of have this situation that is a little unprecedented in tech.
[1650.42 --> 1653.58] And so maybe a new solution is required here.
[1654.14 --> 1662.56] No one vendor has just totally dominated home automation and the networking protocol and the standards that go with that.
[1663.08 --> 1664.02] Nest didn't do it.
[1664.38 --> 1665.26] Ring didn't do it.
[1665.36 --> 1667.12] Apple hasn't done it with HomeKit.
[1667.12 --> 1671.88] But Microsoft doesn't even have anything really except for like the Xbox ecosystem.
[1672.08 --> 1674.62] And Amazon hasn't successfully done it with the Echo.
[1675.20 --> 1681.94] And Google hasn't necessarily successfully done it with also their home assistant and all that stuff along with the Nest.
[1682.00 --> 1685.24] It's just kind of like this really kind of mix.
[1685.36 --> 1687.30] Everybody has a small little chunk.
[1687.30 --> 1691.90] You have a bunch of 10 percenters that have 10 percent of the market, 10 percent of the market.
[1692.12 --> 1699.08] And so there's no one vendor who's leading in this space that can declare victor and everybody must follow it.
[1699.14 --> 1705.06] So they kind of need to all come together and just declare a victor because none of them have won.
[1705.28 --> 1706.40] And it's been years now.
[1706.90 --> 1707.58] It's a very good point.
[1707.58 --> 1717.60] And I think maybe that's driven in part at least by the proliferation of cheap Chinese clones of everything that gets made that's had proper R&D on it.
[1717.78 --> 1726.12] So maybe this is the conclusion of that and a way to try and prevent that and try and keep the Western companies, shall we say, in the game in the long run.
[1726.12 --> 1734.74] And the thing that Paulus was really excited about is that version 1.0 seems to have hit the project chip GitHub repo.
[1735.24 --> 1740.20] You know, I feel like we don't really need to speculate when is matter going to hit the market.
[1740.44 --> 1742.48] I know with absolute certainty when it's going to hit the market.
[1742.86 --> 1747.60] As soon as I break down and replace everything with Zigbee devices, matter will come out and it'll ship.
[1747.96 --> 1748.68] It's obvious.
[1749.16 --> 1750.64] So you guys just have to wait.
[1750.74 --> 1751.06] Hurry up.
[1751.06 --> 1753.74] The question really is, yeah, when's Chris going to get his Zigbee devices?
[1753.74 --> 1755.36] That's really the question we should be asking.
[1757.12 --> 1757.92] Hurry up.
[1758.46 --> 1758.82] Okay.
[1759.20 --> 1759.52] All right.
[1759.52 --> 1761.86] When I get back from the trip, that'll be one of my projects.
[1763.06 --> 1765.98] Have we mentioned, too, that Brent and I are here in Southern Oregon?
[1766.06 --> 1767.00] We just did our first meetup.
[1767.10 --> 1768.66] So, yeah, we're on the road right now if we sound weird.
[1769.10 --> 1770.88] But, yeah, when I get back, I'm working on that.
[1771.14 --> 1775.02] Yeah, this time next week, I think we'll all be in L.A. together warming up for JPL.
[1775.32 --> 1775.66] Mm-hmm.
[1776.06 --> 1777.46] I am getting so excited.
[1778.28 --> 1783.22] Yeah, I've been watching videos, reading docs, getting, like, all the JPL knowledge.
[1783.22 --> 1785.68] But the videos you've been watching are, like, historical.
[1786.20 --> 1786.56] Awesome.
[1786.78 --> 1787.68] Yeah, they are very.
[1788.40 --> 1791.26] The U.S. military needed a very special unit.
[1791.62 --> 1792.52] You know, that kind of stuff.
[1792.96 --> 1796.42] Well, I'm sorry to derail your space fund, but I did find a pretty cool project related
[1796.42 --> 1798.24] to ESP Home and Home Assistant this week.
[1798.32 --> 1800.70] We actually mentioned iPods a little earlier in the show.
[1800.82 --> 1802.16] Well, here's another reference to them.