

101: Joining the Federation
01:03:58
Brent Joins Nextcloud
- Brent Gervais joined the Nextcloud team.
- He previously fell in love with the team during a visit to Berlin.
Improve Tablet Dashboard
- Use MicroBin for securely sharing passwords and information on your local network.
- Configure Fully Kiosk Browser to improve your tablet's Home Assistant dashboard experience.
Replacing Google Home Hub
- Alex realized he can replace his Google Home Hubs with tablets running Home Assistant.
- Chris suggests using Fully Kiosk and Fotoo for a similar setup.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
The Importance of Off Air Marketing
01:33 • 2min
How to Improve Your Home Assistant Dashboard
03:49 • 3min
Fully Kiosk Browser
06:44 • 2min
How to Use Google Home Hub to Display Photos and Timers
08:33 • 2min
How to Use Google Frames to Create a Highlights Album
10:16 • 2min
How to Manage Your Battery in Your Amazon Fire Tablets
12:25 • 2min
How to Build an SSD NAS for Not Ridiculous Money
13:58 • 3min
The Future of Hard Drive Density
16:35 • 3min
How to Scale Your Applications From the Cloud to the Edge
19:26 • 2min
How to Federate Your Next Cloud
21:21 • 3min
How to Share Legal Documents on a Next Cloud
24:27 • 2min
How to Use Next Cloud to Replicate Files
26:08 • 3min
Docker Compose 2.20 Glamours
28:57 • 3min
Docker Compose: The Future of Composing
32:06 • 2min
Docker Compose Stop Prometheus: A Per-Directory Monitoring System
34:22 • 3min
Tailscale: A Simple Secure Network for a Team of Any Size
36:53 • 3min
How to Fix a Plex Download Problem
40:14 • 2min
The Obsidian Love of Evernote
41:55 • 2min
The Differences Between Evernote and Apple Notes
44:11 • 2min
How to Monitor Your Linux Host
46:00 • 2min
The Importance of Storage Solutions for the Average Home User
47:45 • 3min
The Importance of a Good Website
51:06 • 3min
Jarred's First Boost on the Jupiter Shows
54:07 • 2min
How to Host a Mail Server
56:03 • 2min
How to Be a Successful Self Hosted Podcaster
58:00 • 2min
How to Boost Your Podcast
59:52 • 2min
How to Be a Better Podcaster
01:01:40 • 2min
The advantages of Federating a local and remote Nextcloud, Chris replaces Google Home Hub's photo powers and the new docker-compose feature that will change Alex's entire setup.
Special Guest: Brent Gervais.
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- Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free.
- 45drives: The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server.
Links:
- Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023 — Brent loved his time in Berlin so much, he's going back for more!
- Berlin Buds Matrix Chat — Join the realtime Berlin chat room on Matrix.
- MicroBin v2 Released — I am proud that MicroBin now contributes to a world-wide effort towards making privacy accessible and easy, and I hope v2 will help it towards becoming the secure self-hosted file-sharing solution.
- Docker | MicroBin — For Docker, you can either use our setup script, or download the Dockerfile and .env file in the repository and set it up yourself. The image is also available on DockerHub.
- MicroBin Demo Page
- Fully Kiosk Browser - Home Assistant — Fully Kiosk Browser is a powerful kiosk browser for Android devices. It provides a number of features for monitoring and controlling your Android device. This integration gives you access to control your device and view the status in Home Assistant.
- Fotoo - Photo Frame Slideshow — Turn your tablet/TV/phone into an elegant digital photo frame and photo slideshow player!
- Fotoo - Digital Photo Frame Photo Slideshow Player on Amazon
- Samba - NixOS Wiki — This guide will help you on how to use samba on nixos.
- USB Smart WiFi Adaptor for USB — Splenssy Tuya Micro DC 5V. Turn on/off the light with your smartphone from miles away.
- What Exactly Is Federation, Anyways? — Really, federation is just, well, decentralization with extra features. Decentralized software is where, in effect, anyone can run their own instance, there is no one ‘central’ location.
- Configuring Federation Sharing — Nextcloud — Federated Cloud Sharing is now managed by the Federation app (9.0+), and is now called Federation sharing. When you enable the Federation app you can easily and securely link file shares between Nextcloud servers, in effect creating a cloud of Nextclouds.
- Include | Docker Documentation — A Compose application can declare dependency on another Compose application.
- introduce include to load sub-compose projects as dependencies by ndeloof — Pull Request #416
- Plex Dupefinder — Plex DupeFinder is a python script that finds duplicate versions of media (TV episodes and movies) in your Plex Library and tells Plex to remove the lowest rated files/versions (based on user-specified scoring) to leave behind a single file/version.
- Free your notes - Obsidian — The first conversion format we have added is .enex for Evernote.
- Why I stopped using Intel GVT-g on Proxmox with Quick Sync — The promise of GVT-g technically was very high. One box to rule them all. However in practice, it just didn't live up to expectations.
- Crackpipe — the decentralized gaming platform for 'alternatively obtained' games
- ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Send a Boost into the show, first grab Alby and then top it off directly or with the CashApp.
- ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Once Alby is topped off, head over to the Podcast Index and Boost from their website! 🍻