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Christian Lempa

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Recording software1

  • OBS

    first cited October 2026

    “I just switched to the wrong uh OBS setting, but now it should work.”
    View source at 0:10from October 2026

Coding software28

  • Kubernetes

    cited in 6 videospositive about it

    “So they they re just a few things really remain like proxmox open sense um docker kubernetes uh and then I have solutions like gitlab or graphana prometheios these things are just running and running and running and uh I probably won't replace them”
    View source at 23:06from October 2026+ 5 more sources
  • Orca

    cited in 4 videosfirst cited July 2026speaks highly of it

    “In one of my last videos, you might have noticed that I used a new tool for my terminal code editing and browsing workflow. It's called Orca, and this tool is absolutely incredible.”
    View source at 0:00from July 2026+ 3 more sources
  • GitLab

    cited in 4 videospositive about it

    “So they they re just a few things really remain like proxmox open sense um docker kubernetes uh and then I have solutions like gitlab or graphana prometheios these things are just running and running and running and uh I probably won't replace them”
    View source at 23:06from October 2026+ 3 more sources
  • Terraform

    cited in 3 videosspeaks highly of it

    “I regularly use Terraform or these days open tofu and anible throughout all of my home lab projects because I genuinely believe both tools are absolutely incredible.”
    View source at 0:07from August 2026+ 2 more sources

AI software11

  • Pi Agent

    cited in 4 videos

    “In this video, I’ll show you how I use Obsidian, Ghostty, Zsh, Starship, Pi Agent, OpenWhispr, Colima, Zed, and Orca through practical examples.”
    View sourcefrom September 2026+ 3 more sources
  • ChatGPT

    cited in 3 videosfirst cited September 2026speaks highly of it

    “But yeah, so this is what I've built with the help of chat GPT and um yeah, I don't know what other help I had, but yeah, I built it basically from the ground up using chatgpt and uh TypeScript.”
    View source at 25:22from October 2026+ 2 more sources
  • Pi agent for Obsidian

    first cited October 2026positive about it

    “And yeah, here you can also learn about my PI agent for Obsidian um that I've also built.”
    View source at 33:04from October 2026
  • Grok

    first cited July 2026positive about it

    “Here is my Grok AI subscription as well. That is also connected to Pi with a plugin, super useful.”
    View source at 6:57from July 2026

Productivity software10

  • Obsidian

    cited in 5 videosspeaks highly of it

    “But for my workflow, if I want to have full control over the data, over the tools, over the AI subscriptions that I want to use for my documentation and project management systems, I think simple markdown files are just the best and obsidian works great for me.”
    View source at 28:17from July 2026+ 4 more sources
  • Discord

    cited in 5 videosfirst cited July 2026

    “So, please tell me your story in the comments down below, and let's talk about this on my Discord server.”
    View source at 19:59from July 2026+ 4 more sources
  • Obsidian Sync

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited July 2026speaks highly of it

    “And I also absolutely love Obsidian Sync. So that allows me to synchronize uh the markdown files in a secured and encrypted way with the Obsidian servers with my phone or with other devices.”
    View source at 2:11from September 2026+ 1 more source
  • NetBox

    first cited August 2026

    “And again this does not only include the virtual machine on proxmox but it also includes the DNS records and the documentation on netbox.”
    View source at 17:28from August 2026

Creator tools1

  • X Premium

    first cited October 2026

    “But yeah, um I have tried out Gawk as well because um for X I have a premium account mainly for just content creation on social media.”
    View source at 39:45from October 2026

Platforms

Hosting platforms3

  • Cloudflare

    cited in 3 videos

    “And now, because I want to use the DNS challenge with the Cloudflare's API key to obtain trusted TLS certificates via Caddy, I also need to rebuild the Caddy package with the Cloudflare's plugin.”
    View source at 8:46from June 2026+ 2 more sources
  • YouTube

    first cited October 2026

    “I'm not aiming to replace YouTube as a platform, obviously, right? So, um you can still watch me on YouTube if that's if that's your preferred way, but um I still want to give you the ability to go on the website and and navigate all of the content from there as well and directly watch it in here if you want.”
    View source at 34:07from October 2026
  • Netcup Web Hosting

    first cited September 2026has reservations

    “I've got a new web hoster. I moved from Cloudflare to Netcup, which has also been honestly quite a challenge because NetCap is so I don't know, it's so outdated.”
    View source at 2:52from September 2026

Membership platforms1

Desk

Computers11

  • Mac Studio

    $2,449.00cited in 5 videosspeaks highly of it

    “I I also think like I'm using a Mac Studio. Mac Studio is by far the best computer that I ever had.”
    View source at 38:26from September 2026+ 4 more sources
  • Minisforum MS-R1

    $503.90cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2026mixed views on it

    “Again, this is running on my minis forum MSR1. And I just like to show you a couple of tests that I've done on this platform such as creating virtual machines, alexec containers, and playing around with some of the different hardware settings and configurations.”
    View source at 4:55from September 2026+ 1 more source
  • ZimaCube 2

    $799.00cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2026speaks highly of it

    “By the way, Zima Cube 2 is still running my home lab. It's one of my Proxmox nodes.”
    View source at 37:47from October 2026+ 1 more source
  • Mac

    cited in 2 videos

    “Um that's Hermas desktop app and so then everything runs on my Mac because I'm not willing to run this thing in my in my home server right now.”
    View source at 27:17from September 2026+ 1 more source

Storage4

  • UGREEN NAS

    first cited October 2026speaks highly of it

    “And honestly, I was kind of shocked because everything else I got from Ugreen was was amazing. Yeah, the NAS devices were great.”
    View source at 30:56from October 2026
  • Ceph

    first cited July 2026mixed views on it

    “But because I wanted to learn how to run and maintain a real three-node Proxmox cluster, I removed it and now I have three independent physical servers that allowed me to build a Ceph storage cluster as well.”
    View source at 12:10from July 2026
  • 2 TB NVMe drives

    first cited July 2026mixed views on it

    “For my setup, for example, I said I needed to buy three completely new 2 TB NVMe drives, which are not cheap today, and with the three replicas, I only get roughly 1/3 of the raw capacity as a usable VM storage.”
    View source at 15:48from July 2026
  • ZFS (RAID-Z2 pool)

    first cited September 2026speaks highly of it

    “Here you can see I'm using rate Z2 with five hard drives.”
    View source at 9:32from September 2026

Everything else

Other41

  • Proxmox

    cited in 6 videosmixed views on it

    “I have like a three node Proxmox cluster and I have virtual machines on each of those um spreaded across across the cluster”
    View source at 5:54from September 2026+ 5 more sources
  • Twingate

    $5.00cited in 5 videosspeaks highly of it

    “And for that, my first choice is Twin Gate, the sponsor of today's video.”
    View source at 1:47from August 2026+ 4 more sources
  • Technitium DNS Server

    cited in 5 videosspeaks highly of it

    “This is my new HomeLab DNS server, Technicium. It's self-hosted, runs in Docker, gives you a clean web interface, local DNS zones, block lists, forwarding, recursion, and even advanced features like dynamic DNS updates, clustering, or DNS encryption.”
    View source at 0:00from May 2026+ 4 more sources
  • Docker

    cited in 4 videosspeaks highly of it

    “Well, in my opinion, that totally depends on the application itself because as you might know guys, I'm almost doing everything in Docker.”
    View source at 57:25from October 2026+ 3 more sources

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