Episode 8: Just Install it on the Host

What we cover

• The NVIDIA RTX Spark announcement at Computex and NVIDIA's plans to own both the data center and the desk, as well as the local LLM space in general.
• Alex's Perfect Media Server Part 3 video and whether Unraid or TrueNAS….or OpenMediaVault are potentially the better choice.
• Jellyfin June update, and why running Jellyfin, Navidrome, and AudioBookshelf as separate containers might be better than chasing a single holistic solution like Plex.

First up, we cover NVIDIA's announcement at Computex of the NVIDIA RTX Spark; a laptop platform combining a Blackwell GPU with an ARM CPU and 128GB of unified memory. Adam walks us through the hardware, we debate the MacBook Pro parallels, and Alex lays out what he thinks the announcement really signals: NVIDIA wants to own the edge just as much as the cloud. That conversation spills into local AI for the enterprise, with Stephen explaining what it actually looks like to roll out AI tools in SMB environments, and Geoff puts on his lawyer hat (yet again) and shames Microsoft for their horribly complicated terms of service.

Next, Alex tells us about the release of Version 3 of his Perfect Media Server Part 3 series video. We go into the core design choices (and why some viewers were upset about it). Adam makes the honest case that Unraid would have handled almost all of it without any CLI, and the panel hashes out the real question: is building the hard way still worth it when perfectly good managed alternatives exist?

Finally, we do a discuss how Jellyfin June is going with Alex. We talk about what Jellyfin genuinely does well, where it still has rough edges, and how a stack of focused containers (Jellyfin for video, Navidrome for music, AudioBookshelf for audiobooks) might be a better answer than any single holistic platform.

Topics: NVIDIA RTX Spark, Computex, Windows on ARM, local AI, LLMs, Microsoft Copilot, data privacy, Proxmox, MergerFS, SnapRAID, Unraid, TrueNAS, Docker, Ansible, Jellyfin, Navidrome, AudioBookshelf, Plex, Tailscale, self-hosted media

Links

• Nvidia
  • https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/nvidia-unveils-rtx-spark-superchip-at-computex-2026-new-platform-promises-to-turn-windows-into-an-agentic-ai-os-with-arm-cpu-blackwell-gpu-and-128gb-unified-memory
• Perfect Media Server 3.0
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xLopzndVfU
  • https://perfectmediaserver.com
• Jellyfin June Check-in
  • https://perfectmediaserver.com/jellyfinjune/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYVyBfvOGaI
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNHvBo5xHEA
  • https://github.com/pounat/absorb