Unraid 8: Fedora, Backups & New Apps & Tech News || Ed & Stefano Unleashed

Ed and Stefano explore what’s changing for your home server, unpacking Unraid 8’s move to Fedora, native backups, ZFS snapshots, and Docker Compose integration. What changes, what stays, and where do multiple arrays fit in?

We also dive into community apps, build an AI radio with Dead Air, ID birds with BirdNET-Go, and discover gigs via MusicSpider, while tackling cloud outages, digital ownership, and rising RAM prices.

Along the way: mixing SAS and SATA drives, a fatal modular PSU cable mistake, Linux migrations, and the occasional tangent.

Episode Takeaways

• Unraid 7.3.3 RC1 and the 7.4 beta, shared task tray and multi-network Docker
• Unraid 8 dropping Slackware for a Fedora base built on uCore
• Native backups, Docker Compose in Community Apps and a plugin permission system
• Multiple arrays still on the roadmap, just not in the first release
• Why a Fedora base won't fix Fuse overhead, and what exclusive shares actually do
• Dead Air, a self-hosted radio station with an AI presenter
• BirdNET-Go and MusicSpider, two new containers worth a look
• Sony telling a court you're unreasonable if you thought you owned it
• PBS nearly losing 70 years of archive to a bankrupt cloud middleman
• A modular PSU cable swap that destroyed two hard drives
• PetLibro pet feeders offline for 38 hours because the cloud went down
• Comcast turning millions of routers into Wi-Fi motion sensors
• Amazon device prices up 60% in a day, and RAM prices still climbing
• Pine64 halting Linux hardware manufacturing into next year
• CERN leaving Red Hat for Debian 13 over a compiler flag
• 150 million driving licences for sale on the dark web
• AliExpress fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio
• A UK power plant down for four days after someone port forwarded an air-gapped network

Chapters

⁠00:00⁠ Welcome back, Unraid 7.3.3 RC and the 7.4 beta

⁠02:50⁠ The 45Drives Creator Summit

⁠04:00⁠ Unraid 8 announced, Slackware to Fedora

⁠05:33⁠ Native backups, Podman and Docker Compose in Community Apps

⁠07:03⁠ Plugin permissions, a unified UI and broader hardware support

⁠10:03⁠ What's staying, and where multiple arrays got to

⁠11:06⁠ Fuse, user space and the exclusive shares trick

⁠14:31⁠ ZFS isn't going anywhere on a Fedora base

⁠15:35⁠ Dead Air, a radio station hosted by your own AI

⁠18:44⁠ BirdNET-Go, bat detection and Home Assistant

⁠22:41⁠ MusicSpider finds gigs from your listening history

⁠23:55⁠ Sony argues in court that you never owned it

⁠27:29⁠ Xbox cloud streaming limits and disc-to-digital

⁠31:35⁠ PBS nearly loses 70 years of archive footage

⁠33:48⁠ Mixing SAS and SATA drives in the array

⁠35:27⁠ A modular PSU cable that killed two hard drives

⁠39:09⁠ PetLibro's 38 hour cloud outage

⁠40:41⁠ Comcast turns routers into Wi-Fi motion sensors

⁠44:24⁠ Ring encryption and what it hands to police

⁠46:05⁠ Amazon prices up 60% overnight, and RAM pricing

⁠50:05⁠ Pine64 halts hardware manufacturing

⁠53:13⁠ Maintenance, and the 1990s RAM Doubler

⁠55:50⁠ China and the EU swapping Windows for Linux

⁠57:43⁠ CERN leaves Red Hat over a compiler flag

⁠1:00:58⁠ Epic Games Store gets a Linux launcher

⁠1:01:47⁠ Utah targets VPN users, California protects open source

⁠1:03:03⁠ 150 million driving licences on the dark web

⁠1:05:56⁠ uBlock Origin, Brave and YouTube ads without Premium

⁠1:09:26⁠ AliExpress fingerprinting with silent audio

⁠1:11:10⁠ A UK power plant down after a port forward, and HDMI

⁠1:13:32⁠ The black swan on the motorway

⁠1:14:10⁠ Sign-off

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The hosts of Ed & Stefano Unleashed are passionate about home servers, open-source tech, and sometimes going off on tangents.

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