The IT Guy Show
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Displaying 3 items of The IT Guy Show with the tag "homelab".
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Episode 19: The Problem with Subscriptions
February 17th, 2026 | 28 mins 40 secs
2026 tech, data ownership, digital minimalism, digital sovereignty, foss, homelab, itguyeric, linux server, nixos, open source, personal cloud, self-hosting, selfhosted apps, subscription burnout, subscription fatigue, subscription model, the it guy show
We’re starting 2026 with a reality check: subscriptions are eating our wallets. From streaming services to password managers, cloud storage to to-do apps — the "monthly drip" is everywhere.
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Episode 13: How I Became a SysAdmin
September 9th, 2025 | 32 mins 1 sec
bash, careerpath, devops, eric the it guy, homelab, howigotstarted, infrastructure, itcareer, itguyeric, itlife, itpodcast, linux, opensource, serveradmin, sysadmin, systemadministrator, techcareers, techcommunity, techjourney, techstory
Before DevOps, SRE, and the cloud were all the rage, there were sysadmins—tech generalists who kept the lights on, often with duct tape, bash scripts, and caffine.
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Episode 11: NixOS: The Distro That Thinks Code
August 12th, 2025 | 24 mins 12 secs
aaron honeycutt, ahoneybun, configurationmanagement, devops, eric the it guy, flake, homelab, itguyeric, linux, linuxadmin, linuxdesktop, linuxdistro, nix, nixenv, nixos, nixpkgs, nixstore, opensource, reproducibleinfrastructure, techcommunity, techpodcast
For many Linux users, configuration means dotfiles, bash scripts, and duct tape. But what if your entire system, from packages to users to services could be described, versioned, and rolled back like code?