Welcome to NetworkChuck! I LOVE Information Technology!! My goal is to help as MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE jump into a career in the IT field through obtaining IT Certifications. I talk about Cisco Certifications, CompTIA, AWS, Microsoft...pretty much EVERYTHING in IT. As a CBT Nuggets Trainer, it's also my passion to TEACH information technology and to make it FUN. If your goals are to obtain your CCNA, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+...I'm here to help you with that goal in any way I can! *****Interested in Sponsoring NetworkChuck? Email chuck@networkchuck.com
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11:0391K views · 2d ago · 11:03
Companies still have to ship AI, and their AI agents now have real access to real servers and real data. Wiz gives you the complete context and runtime protection to adopt AI fast and safely. See Wiz AIDR in action with a demo and tell them Chuck sent you
▶️ Mentioned videos: Paperclip video (where the flush problem started) · You SUCK Subnetting EP 1 (where I first joked about giving toilet an IP address)
20:31656K views · 7d ago · 20:31
Herdr is tmux, but built for AI. I use it every single day, and it pulled me back to the terminal right when I was about to go full GUI. In this video you'll learn how to install Herdr on Mac, Linux and Windows, how panes, tabs and workspaces fit together, how to get notified when an agent finishes, gets blocked or has a question, how to connect remote Herdr sessions over SSH, and how to let your AI agents control Herdr and talk to each other.
Topics: Herdr: tmux built for AI agents · How to install Herdr on Mac, Linux and Windows · Detach and come back: your sessions keep running · Herdr panes: split, rename, move and resize · Herdr tabs: keeping your panes organized · Herdr workspaces: organizing tabs and panes
▶️ Mentioned videos: you need to learn tmux RIGHT · Set up your own AI agent (Hermes)
23:371.1M views · 14d ago · 23:37
I ran DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, a 750 billion parameter model that normally needs over 500 GB of memory, on a box with only 32 GB of VRAM. Over Wi-Fi. By the numbers that shouldn't work. The box is WiCi One, a GPU every device in your house can share. In this video you'll learn why big local models don't fit on consumer GPUs, and how WiCi got one running anyway.
Topics: The first Wi-Fi GPU: an RTX 5090 my laptop thinks is its own · What WiCi One is, and what's inside the box · Why Wi-Fi should be way too slow for a GPU · The WiCi protocol: how they made the game and GPU stop talking so much · From Tencent cloud gaming to a wireless GPU · The two problems holding local AI back
20:36768K views · 17d ago · 20:36
Start using Twingate RIGHT NOW: secure remote access with no open ports (free for home labs) Give a person, a device, or your AI agents access to only the exact things you choose. Jev from TypeSafe can't call tools, can't search the web, and can't even talk. But everyone is freaking out about it, and everyone is copying it.
Topics: What is Jev? · Jev can't talk (playground demo) · Jev vs ChatGPT speed · 100 comments test · Why Jev is different · Jev vs classifiers
1:57:41760K views · 24d ago · 1:57:41
Guest: Ryan Montgomery
Find out if your data is already on the dark web and lock it down with NordVPN. Get the exclusive deal plus 4 extra months with code networkchuck See what data brokers already have on you. Run Pentester's free scan (no credit card, under 30 seconds)
Topics: A predator 78 feet away · Content warning · Meet Ryan Montgomery (0day) · Praying over this conversation · How Ryan became a Christian · How Ryan got into hacking
1:3461K views · 27d ago · 1:34
What would you make your AI agents investigate?
▶️ Mentioned videos: Go watch the FULL VIDEO
37:54512K views · 1mo ago · 37:54
Easily monitor your devices for free with Checkmk In this video you'll learn how to install Checkmk Community on Ubuntu in under five minutes, how the Checkmk agent and auto discovery work, how to scan your network with SNMP, how to monitor Docker containers with piggyback data and Proxmox VMs through the API, how to add plugins from the Checkmk Exchange and build your own checks with AI, and how to send alerts to Slack and to an AI agent that opens a ticket.
Topics: I found a way to monitor everything · Install Checkmk in under 5 minutes · Add your first Linux host with the Checkmk agent · Monitor your network with SNMP · Monitor Docker containers (piggyback) · Monitor Proxmox VMs through the API
▶️ Mentioned videos: AI department (Paperclip) · Set up your own AI agent (Hermes)
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21:44667K views · 1mo ago · 21:44
Your smart fridge could be the way a hacker gets into your home network. So in part two of Mike's network build, I use OPNsense and VLANs to split his one flat network into separate networks for work, users, and a quarantined IoT network that can't touch anything else. The firewall is the mini PC from Japan we built in part one, the switch is a QNAP I'd never used (it has a dent), and DHCP almost broke me over one hidden checkbox.
▶️ Mentioned videos: Part one: replacing Mike's router with OPNsense · Set up your own AI agent (Hermes)
1:14:54247K views · 1mo ago · 1:14:54
OpenAI's DevDay just wrapped with 20+ announcements. I'm going live to sort through them with you: what you can actually use today, what's still rolling out, and what's hype. We'll cover Dots (OpenAI's new always-on agents) and how they compare to Grok Bot, GPT-6.1 Sol, the new Decisions API and what it means for TypeSafe's Jev, the Pro 500 plan and Ultrafast, and what didn't get announced. Bring your questions. My full Jev video comes out Monday.
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28:471.6M views · 1mo ago · 28:47
I gave my AI agents a company with Paperclip. Paperclip is an open-source app for managing a team of AI agents, with shared goals, assigned tasks, budgets, and human oversight. Their first job: figure out why flushing the studio toilet keeps disconnecting everyone from the NAS. I hired a Claude Code CEO, brought in my existing Hermes agents, and added Codex and agents running local models to build an IT department that can actually work together.
▶️ Mentioned videos: Set up your own Hermes agent
21:53742K views · 1mo ago · 21:53
Dip your toe into local AI at Micro Center, the AI destination Apple says the new M5 Ultra Mac Studio is up to 4x faster than the M3 Ultra at LLM prompt processing. I own an M3 Ultra Mac Studio, so I raced them head to head on local AI: same model, same prompt, same settings. On a 32,000-token prompt with Qwen3.8 27B, the M5 Ultra started answering in 21.7 seconds. The M3 Ultra took 82.8. That's 3.8x.
▶️ Mentioned videos: Set up your own Hermes agent
9:26621K views · 2mo ago · 9:26
Join me for Fall into CCNA, starting September 14 Getting my CCNA changed my life. It opened doors I couldn't get through before, and I still think it's one of the best places to start your IT career. AI can write a switch configuration, but you still need to understand what those commands will do to your network. If you've been putting off your CCNA, I want to help you get started this fall.
Topics: Why your CCNA still matters in the AI era · How the CCNA opens doors in IT · How a CCNA can help you get an interview · The CCNA exam is changing · Why you should not wait for the new CCNA · Fall into CCNA: dates and the 13-week plan
36:18643K views · 2mo ago · 36:18
See how ThreatLocker can help you lock down applications and AI tools without getting in the way Fifty things to do after you install Omarchy. Thousands of you installed it after my last video and then sat there staring at a blank tiling desktop wondering what to do next, so I went through the entire 4.0 manual and pulled out every single thing I actually use, in the order you will hit them in your first week.
Topics: 50 things to do after you install Omarchy · Workspaces instead of monitors, fullscreen three ways, and the scratchpad · How to let an AI agent work without letting it roam · Installing anything, and when to be careful with the AUR · Dev environments, editors, terminals, and the shell tools you already have · Updating the right way, and what Btrfs snapshots actually save
▶️ Mentioned videos: to Omarchy? Start
12:30254K views · 2mo ago · 12:30
Ditch the VPN and lock down your network with Twingate. Zero trust access that's actually easy to set up, and it's free for up to 5 users DEFCON is the world's largest hacking conference, and every year it takes over Las Vegas with tens of thousands of hackers, researchers, feds, and people who really shouldn't be trusted near a Wi-Fi network. We went back again, and this time we tried to capture what it actually feels like to be there.
▶️ Mentioned videos: Huge shoutout to NahamSec, who was there with us. Go watch DEFCON vlog
37:03377K views · 2mo ago · 37:03
Show ThreatLocker some love and take control of what runs in your environment. See how ThreatLocker can help you lock down applications and AI tools without getting in the way David Heinemeier Hansson spent more than 20 years using macOS. Then he put roughly 3,000 hours into building the computer experience he actually wanted: Omarchy.
Topics: The Computer DHH Has Waited 40 Years For · DHH, AI, and the Future of Work · What is Omarchy? · Tiling Windows, Quattro, and Quickshell · Threatlocker - Securing AI Agents · Building an AI-Native, Self-Repairing OS
2:591.6M views · 2mo ago · 2:59
I had to assemble this laptop. Then I installed #omarchy on it.
33:362.3M views · 2mo ago · 33:36
Show ThreatLocker some love and take control of what runs in your environment. See how ThreatLocker can help you lock down applications and AI tools without getting in the way I installed Arch Linux in one minute and forty seven seconds. Omarchy is DHH's opinionated Linux distro built on Arch, Hyprland and Quickshell, and it is the first time Linux has ever felt like the operating system I actually wanted.
Topics: Why Omarchy might make this the year of the Linux desktop · The 60 second Arch Linux install challenge · What Arch Linux actually is, and the big five distros · Switching themes instantly with Quickshell · How allowlisting and ringfencing lock down what runs · The malleable desktop, and ricing it with AI
23:041.4M views · 3mo ago · 23:04
Scammers have AI now, and even the router we build in this video can't stop the scam text that walks straight up to your phone. Bitdefender Scam Radar gives you a heads-up when a scam wave hits your area Want to go DEEPER? VLANs, firewall rules, GeoIP country blocking, Suricata IDS, and the hardened version of the AI agent are all in my OPNsense course on NetworkChuck Academy
Topics: The government banned your router (here's the plan) · Why you should build your own router · The hardware: what can run OPNsense · Double NAT vs bridge mode: how to connect it · Installing OPNsense (flash the USB, boot, install) · No interfaces?? The Realtek NIC fix
📖 Mentioned books: Skip the driver headache (Intel i226 NICs): CWWK N100 4-port · The exact mini PC in this video (Getorli Ryzen 3 5300U, Realtek NICs) · Managed switch (for VLANs in part 2): MikroTik CRS310
▶️ Mentioned videos: Set up your own AI agent (Hermes) · What is DNS? · The original (6 years ago): your home router SUCKS!!
1:46:2243K views · 3mo ago · 1:46:22
Join us for our 90 minute Sumer of CCNA session, today at 5PM ET! If you haven't signed up for the Summer of CCNA, please visit this page here and let's get started!
1:47:3228K views · 3mo ago · 1:47:32
Join us for our 90 minute Sumer of CCNA session, today at 5PM ET! If you haven't signed up for the Summer of CCNA, please visit this page here and let's get started!
8:45383K views · 3mo ago · 8:45
Raspberry Pi sent me the new Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2, the 10 inch portrait version, and I mounted it on my studio wall to run all my Home Assistant and homelab stuff. It is a gorgeous little screen (1200x1920, real IPS, 10 finger touch, 400 nits) and at $80 it is a steal. There is one catch though, and a lot of you are not going to like it: this thing only works on the Raspberry Pi 5 and the Compute Modules. Your Pi 3 or Pi 4 will not work at all.
Topics: Unboxing the new Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 · What is new on the 10 inch portrait display · The catch: Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Modules only · It powered on and nothing happened · The fix: updating your Raspberry Pi 5 firmware · Building the Home Assistant dashboard with TouchKio
31:07536K views · 3mo ago · 31:07
Build your next random idea on a Hostinger I spent two days inside the FIFA World Cup International Broadcast Center (IBC), the temporary network that carries every camera, every replay, every goal from 16 stadiums, and the HBS team even handed me a packet capture of a real match. So we open it in Wireshark: uncompressed ST 2110 video, 150,000 multicast flows, and a failover trick that will make any network engineer smile.
Topics: The World Cup is made in Dallas · Following one match: Boston → the IBC → the world · How a match gets "made" 1,500 miles from the stadium · The fiber (and the red/blue trick) · Multicast Martin and 150,000 flows · The thing I built at 1AM on a Hostinger VPS
▶️ Mentioned videos: The Hermes video (the AI agent that built the game)
1:54:5019K views · 4mo ago · 1:54:50
Join us for our 90 minute Sumer of CCNA session, today at 5PM ET! If you haven't signed up for the Summer of CCNA, please visit this page here and let's get started!
8:27187K views · 4mo ago · 8:27
Guest: Daniel Miessler
Fable 5 — the most powerful AI on earth — got pulled offline by the U.S. government three days after it launched, and it just came back. But for most of us the free window is only a handful of days (through July 7). So I sat down with Daniel Miessler, who's already living inside that window, to figure out the one thing that actually matters: what's worth asking it before it's gone.
Topics: Fable 5 is back, and you only have 6 days · Why the government pulled Fable 5 offline · Calling Daniel Miessler for the right prompts · What changes after July 7 (the 50% usage cap) · The one-question test: what would you ask a super-intelligent alien? · Prompt 1: Optimize your harness (your deepest system)
1:40455K views · 4mo ago · 1:40
Vanta helps teams find and manage the AI tools hiding inside their company Get $1000 off!
1:44:5820K views · 4mo ago · 1:44:58
Join us for our 90 minute Sumer of CCNA session, today at 5PM ET! If you haven't signed up for the Summer of CCNA, please visit this page here and let's get started!
1:24201K views · 4mo ago · 1:24
Cisco Cloud Control puts everything in one place — and now AI agents are actually doing the work. GO CHECK IT OUT
16:37246K views · 5mo ago · 16:37
In this video, you'll learn what a VPN actually does (it just changes what network you appear to be on), why "HTTPS already encrypts everything" doesn't mean a VPN is useless, and how your ISP can still see the sites you visit even with secure DNS — I prove it with a live Wireshark capture.
Topics: Are VPNs actually useless? (and why I have to be brutally honest) · Myth 1: HTTPS already encrypts everything, so a VPN does nothing · Myth 2: a VPN just shifts your trust to the VPN company · Myth 3: a VPN makes you invisible online · Myth 4: a VPN keeps you safe from hackers · Myth 5: a VPN is just a privacy thing
1:41:1519K views · 5mo ago · 1:41:15
Join us for our 90 minute Sumer of CCNA session, today at 5PM ET! If you haven't signed up for the Summer of CCNA, please visit this page here and let's get started!
21:54266K views · 5mo ago · 21:54
Try OpenAI Codex on Windows (it's native now) I gave an AI control of my Windows PC. OpenAI made the Codex app Windows-native — it lives in PowerShell, and they built their own Windows security sandbox in 15,000 lines of Rust so the agent can't escape and nuke your machine. I used it to strip the bloat, lock down Windows Update, and even spin up a Hyper-V hacking lab... and somewhere in there I started to miss Windows again.
Topics: The messy desk confession (why I run a Mac AND a Windows PC) · OpenAI made Codex Windows-native — and 60,000 of you still run Windows · The real reason I left Windows (it was AI, not the bloat) · Installing the Codex app on Windows: sub-agents, plugins, automations · What "Windows-native" actually means: PowerShell vs WSL · Why letting an AI agent loose on Windows is terrifying
📰 Mentioned news: Enable Hyper-V on Windows 11 Pro · winget (Windows' built-in package manager) · WSL is open source
1:2257K views · 5mo ago · 1:22
Find me at Cisco Live — No Filter, no slides, no spin
1:37:1938K views · 5mo ago · 1:37:19
Join us for our second 90 minute Sumer of CCNA session, today at 5PM ET! If you haven't signed up for the Summer of CCNA, please visit this page here and let's get started!
32:391.9M views · 5mo ago · 32:39
Guest: Nous Research
Spin up your own Hermes agent on a Hostinger VPS Hermes is the open-source AI agent from Nous Research that actually grows with you — and after a month of daily use, I'm switching to it from OpenClaw. In this video, I install Hermes on a $5 cloud server, turn it into an IT agent named Ron Weasley, and walk through the 5 reasons I made the switch: the vibe, the memory, the team behind it, self-improving skills, and the fact that it just doesn't break.
Topics: Why I'm switching from OpenClaw to Hermes · Installing Hermes on a Hostinger VPS · Choosing your AI model + Telegram setup · How Hermes memory actually works · Memory size limits and the 10-turn nudge · Honcho: long-term memory for your agent
▶️ Mentioned videos: Perplexity Computer video · systemd & Linux daemons explained (Linux for Hackers EP 6)
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