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[2351.04 --> 2352.60] The Z-Wave network is working great.
[2353.44 --> 2356.46] He says he got them on sale for Labor Day for $24 each.
[2356.92 --> 2357.12] Nice.
[2357.38 --> 2358.36] What a score.
[2359.14 --> 2359.98] What a score.
[2360.62 --> 2360.86] All right.
[2360.88 --> 2362.02] That's definitely something to check out.
[2362.06 --> 2363.32] He says, thank you.
[2363.54 --> 2364.66] And he loves the show.
[2364.76 --> 2365.80] Well, thanks, Dr. Pepper Shaker.
[2366.18 --> 2366.86] We love that tip.
[2366.86 --> 2368.88] Yeah, they're on at $28 right now.
[2368.98 --> 2374.90] So, I mean, even outside of the sale, they're not particularly expensive compared to, say,
[2375.00 --> 2378.98] a Shelly or something like that, which is typically in that, you know, for the Shelly 2.5,
[2379.06 --> 2381.10] it's typically in that $25 range anyway.
[2382.06 --> 2383.66] But these look really, really interesting.
[2383.78 --> 2385.82] And they get fantastic reviews.
[2386.16 --> 2389.14] And a friend of mine actually moved house last weekend.
[2389.14 --> 2395.00] And one of the jobs that we went around to help him with was pulling out all of his old Shelly's out of the walls.
[2395.38 --> 2399.62] And putting Shelly's in is not difficult.
[2400.14 --> 2406.46] But it is also really difficult trying to reverse engineer which wire goes where and what's a traveler and blah, blah, blah, blah.
[2406.46 --> 2415.14] Trying to reverse engineer the Shelly's when you take them out in someone else's house is also just as much of a pain in the ass as well.
[2415.14 --> 2424.58] So, I think smart switches with the smarts built into them versus a Shelly is something I really think I need to investigate strongly moving forward.
[2424.84 --> 2426.02] That makes a lot of sense.
[2426.20 --> 2426.98] It seems you're right.
[2427.06 --> 2434.62] I had not given a lot of thought about removing them because, honestly, if I was going to sell a house, I'd just leave them in there and say it's part of the package.
[2434.94 --> 2438.26] But no, dude, no one else cares about your smart home stuff.
[2438.26 --> 2442.86] And if you've got, you know, 15, 20 of these things, that's, you know, $400 or $500.
[2443.50 --> 2444.98] Why would I leave that for someone else?
[2445.46 --> 2446.36] They're never going to use it.
[2446.40 --> 2447.26] They're never going to set it up.
[2447.34 --> 2448.46] It doesn't add any value to them.
[2448.50 --> 2449.32] It just adds complexity.
[2449.44 --> 2452.22] It's probably a negative for most people, unfortunately.
[2452.76 --> 2457.60] When was the last time you moved into a house and took the light switches apart just to see what was behind them?
[2457.74 --> 2458.28] Like, never.
[2458.38 --> 2460.90] Oh, you always find some surprise in my experience.
[2461.16 --> 2462.24] Yeah, that's true.
[2462.26 --> 2463.18] You guys are just adding to that.
[2463.44 --> 2463.96] That's true.
[2463.96 --> 2464.36] Yeah.
[2464.36 --> 2470.34] But building it into the switch does seem a lot simpler from an installation, a removal, troubleshooting if it dies.
[2471.08 --> 2472.18] That's a great point.
[2473.30 --> 2473.72] All right.
[2474.04 --> 2475.78] Another check in the box for Z-Wave.
[2476.00 --> 2480.58] We keep, now that I've committed to switching to Zigbee, we keep finding all these awesome Z-Wave devices.
[2481.10 --> 2482.12] I'm going to have both.
[2482.24 --> 2489.40] One thing I should note, though, about these ZOOS switches is that they, some of these switches nowadays don't require a neutral.
[2489.78 --> 2493.40] So in older houses, they didn't always include a neutral wire.
[2493.40 --> 2496.16] These ones do require a neutral.
[2496.36 --> 2498.92] So please make sure you go and check before you spend any money.
[2499.82 --> 2504.74] Sue writes in, and we got a lot of opinions about hosting your own email server because we brought that up.
[2504.80 --> 2511.06] We read that article where the author was very frustrated, said that it's basically just only for big tech now.
[2511.62 --> 2514.96] Sue says, you know, maybe it was a bit of a country-based issue.
[2515.04 --> 2515.90] He's in Barcelona.
[2515.90 --> 2527.44] I have been self-hosting email and web service since 2011 across three states in the U.S., and I've only ever had one undelivered email, and that was actually a misconfiguration on the far side.
[2527.80 --> 2530.60] If you get a business connection, yes, it costs more.
[2530.80 --> 2531.50] It's about double.
[2531.50 --> 2534.30] I have $250 for gigabit symmetric.
[2534.54 --> 2537.04] Oh, man.
[2537.20 --> 2538.90] Today we have been fighting bandwidth issues.
[2539.24 --> 2541.56] We've been struggling for a few kilobits a second.
[2541.70 --> 2542.78] That sounds glorious.
[2543.42 --> 2549.04] If you get at least one static IP, the same-day customer service, and then there's generally no bandwidth caps.
[2549.28 --> 2554.94] Not to mention, no one is going to yeet everything into the sun from a business block IP space.
[2555.04 --> 2555.54] That's true.
[2555.62 --> 2559.06] They're not just going to write off a whole business block of IPs.
[2559.06 --> 2567.08] I realize that there are some for whom this is impossible, you know, awful, or the crypto bro musky starlink types.
[2567.80 --> 2571.52] But we call it Elon link, Sue.
[2571.68 --> 2572.76] That's what we call it.
[2572.98 --> 2574.24] It's Elon link.
[2575.22 --> 2577.04] But you know what?
[2577.22 --> 2579.06] I kind of get your point here.
[2579.14 --> 2587.32] It's like if you set it up right, if you have the right kind of connection, if you don't get your IP in trouble, you get a good ISP,
[2587.32 --> 2590.08] you can still host your own email.
[2590.40 --> 2591.30] I get that.
[2591.98 --> 2595.42] Also, Sue mentions that they're a big user of Unraid.
[2596.56 --> 2597.68] 186 terabytes.
[2598.06 --> 2600.02] Been running for 12 years.
[2600.54 --> 2601.20] Yeah, that's solid.
[2601.52 --> 2602.68] I mean, the Unraid stuff.
[2602.82 --> 2604.26] Unraid's been around a long time.
[2604.92 --> 2607.90] And, you know, I think I've been interested in Linux for sort of seven or eight years at this point.
[2608.00 --> 2612.70] And it was pretty old when I got involved in the Unraid community.
[2612.70 --> 2614.26] So good on you, Sue.
[2614.46 --> 2618.54] Sue also gives you a shout out, Alex, for lots of assistance over the years.
[2618.56 --> 2618.94] Thank you.
[2619.54 --> 2620.20] Thank you very much.
[2620.20 --> 2624.90] Now, on the flip side, we got a boost from, I'm going to say, A. Hannigan.
[2625.18 --> 2625.78] A. Hanniga.
[2626.40 --> 2632.34] And they write, I actually agree with that blog post on the self-hosted email.
[2633.22 --> 2638.88] I have done it since 2003, but found out it's increasingly harder to get my mail delivered, especially sending to Gmail.
[2639.56 --> 2641.42] I ended up switching to Fastmail last year.
[2641.42 --> 2644.94] Here's another benefit of using a real email provider.
[2645.04 --> 2649.74] And I use real email provider to be slightly provocative, only slightly.
[2650.56 --> 2654.50] Bitwarden this week actually added alias support for Fastmail.
[2654.94 --> 2656.62] Yeah, that's so sweet.
[2656.88 --> 2661.72] So for those that don't know what that means, you know, when you sign up to a website and you put your real email address in,
[2662.24 --> 2668.04] an alias through Bitwarden, that user generation stuff, that username generation stuff they added fairly recently,
[2668.04 --> 2678.20] you can now also generate a username with an automatic email forwarding alias going via your Fastmail account.