Ask Noah Show Episode 215: Self-Hosting Your Platform
Self-hosting has always been a good idea but when your platform doesn't want to serve you, we have some self-hosted options that will. A Reddit user has Linux booting on an iPhone 7, a man was quoted $50K to run fiber to his house, so he built his own fiber ISP!
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00:30 Minutes In
Email 1 - Feedback from EP 212 Bluetooth and Drawing Tablet - David
HSP/HFP designed for phones not computers
Bluetooth support on Linux is difficult due to the way blue-tooth works (uses modem commands on mobile)
Possible Solutions that bypass Linux blue-tooth stack
Links to the 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC
This is Creative's version if you are looking for a more popular brand name.
XP-PEN came up and they have a driver for Linux. It is a little bit hokey in the sense that their configuration application needs to be running in order for it to work.
It does not always survive suspend/resume, but it is easy to launch again.
Their non-display models also have good support for left-hand versus right-hand drawing
When used as a display, there is no left-hand mode because it relies on dm to configure the display
We purchased an xp-pen innovator 16 It is a 1080p 15.6 inch matte screen with hardware buttons connected via HDMI and 2 USB ports
XP-PEN seems like a good company
06:00 Minutes In
Email 2 - VPN Recommendation? - Ira
What is the best VPN company?
They have a track history of NOT turning over user data, they get called into court they say we'd love to comply but we don't have the documents.
08:30 Minutes In
Email 3 - Matrix Support Spreading - Charliebrownau
- Mind.com is supporting Matrix Protocol
- [Mind.com](mind.com) is an alternative to Facebook and other big social networks
09:20 Minutes In
Email 4 - Censorship - Rob
- What are your thoughts on Mozzila's blog post
11:15 Minutes in
Pick of the Week
Fully featured open source video and media CMS
Built mostly using the modern stack Django + React and includes a REST API
No federation
14:00 Minutes In
Gadget of the Week
Dell's new thunderbolt dock
- Built in thunderbolt cable
- Additional rear facing thunderbolt pass-through port
- 2x Display Ports
- 1x HDMI
- 2x Rear USB
- 1x Front Facing USB
Dell's USB C dock
17:00 Minutes In
News
Guy by the name of Daniel Rodriguez managed to boot Linux with Gnome on an iPhone 7
Phone that was given to him by his grandparents as a junk device, He saved it from the landfill!
Prerequisites
writable directory available over nfs, including dhcp server on local network
EITHER arm64 cross compiler or an arm64 native device. I used a rpi4 on 20.04 <-- way helpful to be able to chroot and setup, otherwise you'd have to use qemu-user
21:00 Minutes In
Jared Mauch Built his Own ISP
Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP
AT&T's advertised plans for his neighborhood topped out at a measly 1.5Mbps
Eventually switched to a WISP that delivered about 50Mbps
Comcast told him it would charge $50,000 to extend its cable network to his house
Mauch built his own ISP (buried the fiber for 10,000)
As of early January, Mauch has 30 homes and 10 homes to hookup
Large corporate Business are not afraid of government and government regulations
ISPs are going to learn, do it or get replaced
Starlink is becoming a thing, Amazon satellite internet is coming
27:30 Minutes In
Main Segment De-platforming / Self hosting
Violence is wrong, Full stop
Gate keeping in the broadcast industry changed when the internet became a thing
Groups and People were banned from twitter so they moved to Parler
Community discussion (sorry to much to summarize listen to the episode)
Honorable Mention
TeamSpeak 5 is going to be switching to the Matrix protocol for chat
Will not federate
Mumble is a better option
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Links:
- iPhone 7 booting Ubuntu 20.04 (to GUI) - YouTube — Daniel Rodriguez
- SUCCESS: iPhone 7 booting Ubuntu 20.04 to full gnome-shell desktop GUI : linux
- Amazon.com: 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC Bluetooth 5.0 Audio Transmitter, Dual Link USB Audio Adapter with APTX Low Latency, Bluetooth Dongle for PC, PS4, Headphone, Speaker (Only for Audio): Electronics
- GitHub - mediacms-io/mediacms: MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.