1 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:08,940 All right, we are live. 2 00:00:10,010 --> 00:00:10,760 What's up, everybody? 3 00:00:11,810 --> 00:00:12,800 Welcome to Freedom Tech Weekend. 4 00:00:13,510 --> 00:00:14,320 My name is Marks. 5 00:00:14,430 --> 00:00:15,240 We're back for another week. 6 00:00:15,660 --> 00:00:17,000 Every Friday we're here doing this. 7 00:00:17,570 --> 00:00:20,360 We talk about freedom technologies that are out there, 8 00:00:20,460 --> 00:00:23,480 typically open source software that you can run to, 9 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:25,580 you really can play with this weekend 10 00:00:26,070 --> 00:00:28,940 to try and decouple your life from closed technologies. 11 00:00:29,780 --> 00:00:35,340 So this week we are going to cover home media servers. We're going to talk about how do you 12 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:42,140 stream your own music, videos, photos, whatever kind of media you want to consume in your personal 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:47,200 life. You can stream it anywhere. You can set up something that behaves similar to Spotify, 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:53,500 to Netflix, to Google Photos, that kind of stuff. So that's what we're going to chat about today. 15 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,880 I'm going to do quick rounds of audio checks and stuff to make sure everything's going. 16 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:00,800 Looks like we're streaming on the YouTubes. 17 00:01:01,740 --> 00:01:02,580 Yep, that's working good. 18 00:01:03,220 --> 00:01:05,199 And then make sure that we're live on zap.stream 19 00:01:05,580 --> 00:01:06,820 for all of our Anastra users. 20 00:01:07,460 --> 00:01:08,480 Let me go ahead and refresh here. 21 00:01:09,460 --> 00:01:11,560 And we'll let people have a few moments 22 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:12,700 to hop into the chat. 23 00:01:13,820 --> 00:01:14,380 It's great. 24 00:01:14,540 --> 00:01:15,220 How's everybody feeling? 25 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,800 Friday, if you follow Bitcoin, 26 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,620 we hit a new all-time high this week. 27 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:21,920 That was fun. 28 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,100 Let's see, hit play over here. 29 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:28,420 Not sure if zap.stream is working, 30 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:34,040 but we'll give it a go. Last week it failed on us. It was not working. But we keep trying. 31 00:01:34,940 --> 00:01:40,300 We keep pushing it. Okay. We got some people coming in now. Not in Zap.Stream but in the 32 00:01:40,340 --> 00:01:45,540 regular ones. We're on YouTube. So we're available in multiple channels. We stream to TFTC, 33 00:01:46,100 --> 00:01:52,799 Truth For The Commoner, on YouTube and on X. And then we also stream to my own X as well as 34 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:59,960 we stream to hopefully zap.stream if it's working. But it looks like it says I'm live, 35 00:02:00,020 --> 00:02:05,260 but I'm not getting any picture on zap.stream. Not sure what's going on there. 36 00:02:06,620 --> 00:02:10,200 Cool. But we're getting up. We're almost 100 people already in the stream. Welcome, 37 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:17,920 everybody. Let me get the chat open so I can see that as well. There we go. Right. Sweet. 38 00:02:18,020 --> 00:02:20,260 So I should be seeing chats from people. 39 00:02:20,980 --> 00:02:21,840 I'll try and monitor it. 40 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,580 I would love to get your input on this one. 41 00:02:24,580 --> 00:02:29,440 This one's going to be, we're going to go through an entire landscape of home media 42 00:02:29,660 --> 00:02:30,060 server apps. 43 00:02:31,340 --> 00:02:37,780 This is something that I have tinkered with and played with for, gosh, how long? 44 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:44,219 Probably two decades now, trying to just stream my own videos and music to myself without 45 00:02:44,220 --> 00:02:51,240 having to pay subscription fees, without having to hand over all of my media content to some other 46 00:02:51,340 --> 00:02:58,100 company and to entrust them with it. And I'm guessing a lot of you are similar. So let's take 47 00:02:58,170 --> 00:03:03,680 a look. Things continue to evolve and change, and there's always privacy implications along the way 48 00:03:04,180 --> 00:03:08,140 that you have to be aware of. So that's what we're going to take a look at today as well. 49 00:03:08,710 --> 00:03:13,219 So, you know, hop in the chat if you have any. I would love to know, like, what are you using 50 00:03:13,220 --> 00:03:15,680 if you do stream stuff from home. 51 00:03:16,380 --> 00:03:18,500 Let me know what you're using, which tools you use. 52 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,000 We're going to look at things like Jellyfin. 53 00:03:20,340 --> 00:03:21,060 We're going to look at, 54 00:03:22,260 --> 00:03:25,140 we'll look at the old school heavy hitters 55 00:03:25,370 --> 00:03:26,840 like Cody and Plex 56 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,120 and talk about some of the trade-offs 57 00:03:29,250 --> 00:03:30,160 that you have to make there 58 00:03:30,210 --> 00:03:31,080 if you're going to use those ones. 59 00:03:31,410 --> 00:03:32,880 But then we're going to look at the more open source ones 60 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:34,980 like Jellyfin, Subsonic. 61 00:03:36,180 --> 00:03:38,740 You've got MB, I think is another one. 62 00:03:39,819 --> 00:03:41,220 Anyways, I've got a whole bunch of them 63 00:03:41,330 --> 00:03:42,179 opened on my home server 64 00:03:42,180 --> 00:03:48,120 that we're going to take a look at today. So welcome in. Welcome to Freedom Tech Weekend. 65 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:53,260 If you're just joining us for the first time, I'll do a quick brief explainer. This is Freedom 66 00:03:53,340 --> 00:04:01,540 Tech Weekend. My name is Marks. I'm a co-founder of a privacy and confidential AI called Maple AI, 67 00:04:02,060 --> 00:04:05,620 and it's similar to ChatGPT, but it protects your privacy. It's end-to-end encrypted. 68 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:11,199 You can check it out at trymaple.ai. That's really the only way to support the show is just 69 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,840 go sign up and try it out for free. And when you love it and find a lot of value out of it, 70 00:04:15,890 --> 00:04:21,560 you can upgrade to become a paid user. We use Maple here on the show to kind of help 71 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,340 as we're researching things. But that's the biggest sales pitch you're going to get from 72 00:04:26,340 --> 00:04:31,000 me right there. That's what I do day in and day out. And on Friday mornings, or whatever time it 73 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:36,880 is for you right now on Fridays, I like to do this show. It's just free. And because I love 74 00:04:37,020 --> 00:04:40,559 freedom technology, I love playing with open source tools. I love trying to help people get 75 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:45,540 control of their data rather than always having to just live within some kind of closed proprietary 76 00:04:45,740 --> 00:04:51,420 system. And so every week we show off one tool. Today we're going to kind of show off a landscape 77 00:04:51,470 --> 00:04:56,340 of tools, but we show off one tool. And then that weekend when you have free time, you can play with 78 00:04:56,460 --> 00:05:04,139 it. And little by little, you can take more sovereignty and take control over your own data 79 00:05:04,140 --> 00:05:09,920 and your own infrastructure. We try to make these less, like not super heavy technical. 80 00:05:10,950 --> 00:05:17,300 We want them to be approachable things that an average user, an average device user, 81 00:05:17,450 --> 00:05:21,440 computer user, whatever level of technology you're at, I hope that something is useful here 82 00:05:21,970 --> 00:05:26,520 that you feel like you can download and run. I mean, if you are capable of hopping on the stream 83 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:34,560 and watching me or listening to the podcast later, then that's the level of effort, the level of 84 00:05:34,780 --> 00:05:39,140 technical knowledge that you hopefully need to do some of these tools that we show off. 85 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:45,560 Okay. Zap.stream is not working, so I'm just going to close it. And if you are in the Zap.stream, 86 00:05:45,630 --> 00:05:49,700 it's working for you. Awesome. Hope you enjoy the show. I'm not going to see your chats because 87 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:56,000 it's just spinning for me. But thanks, Queen. I see you. Thanks for the emoji, the heart emoji. 88 00:05:56,180 --> 00:06:04,780 Okay. Let's jump into it then. I wonder if I need to have the chat for X open because 89 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:17,020 that's YouTube there. So let me hop in over there. And then I'm going to open up my home 90 00:06:17,140 --> 00:06:33,520 server and start sharing my screen. Okay, cool. Five by five. Okay. Let's start sharing 91 00:06:34,210 --> 00:06:39,780 the screen. Again, if you have a home media solution that you use right now that you love 92 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:43,080 and you're willing to share which one it is, let me know. 93 00:06:43,820 --> 00:06:44,520 Put it in the chat. 94 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:50,640 Okay, there we are. 95 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:52,060 We are streaming my home server. 96 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:57,440 I recommend everybody get a computer that you can, 97 00:06:58,780 --> 00:06:59,800 oh, what's going on here, bro? 98 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:01,780 Stop, you're in my way. 99 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:02,560 There we go. 100 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:04,500 Sweet. 101 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:06,600 I recommend everybody get a home server. 102 00:07:07,580 --> 00:07:09,000 It doesn't have to be complex. 103 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:14,100 You don't have to go out and buy like something that is rack amountable. 104 00:07:14,740 --> 00:07:19,120 Then you have to buy like a rack space and you are upgrading the power in your 105 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:24,020 wall and getting like a 10 gigabit fiber line in your house, like all that kind of 106 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:24,880 stuff, you don't have to do that. 107 00:07:25,380 --> 00:07:31,460 Um, just get an old laptop or an old desktop computer, something that you 108 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,920 had that's just sitting there not being used anymore and update it to the latest 109 00:07:36,180 --> 00:07:38,380 version of the operating system that it can go. 110 00:07:38,860 --> 00:07:41,480 So you've plugged as many security vulnerabilities as you can. 111 00:07:42,540 --> 00:07:48,800 If it is really old and like the operating system is from years ago, you might have some 112 00:07:49,110 --> 00:07:50,820 vulnerabilities that can't be patched. 113 00:07:50,990 --> 00:07:55,980 So maybe look at, can you install something like Linux that can continue to be maintained? 114 00:07:56,980 --> 00:07:57,460 Figure that out. 115 00:07:58,220 --> 00:08:01,180 But then just plug it in on your home network. 116 00:08:01,420 --> 00:08:03,600 You don't even have to expose it to the internet if you don't want to. 117 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:07,300 You can just have it be on your home network and be serving your intranet. 118 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:14,660 That might be a term that is like old school, early 90s, and maybe you've never even heard 119 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:14,900 before. 120 00:08:15,060 --> 00:08:15,820 You always hear the internet. 121 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:19,840 But the intranet is basically the internet within your home. 122 00:08:20,580 --> 00:08:24,780 And so when you're on Wi-Fi at home and you're talking to the other computers in your house, 123 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,480 you might just look at it all as one big internet. 124 00:08:27,940 --> 00:08:34,439 But really, when you are, you know, if you're doing airplay and you're like flinging from 125 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:38,640 your phone to the screen or doing like Chromecast or something. Ideally, that's just staying on 126 00:08:38,659 --> 00:08:42,039 your local network. So your one device is talking to another device and doesn't have to leave 127 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:46,460 your home network and go out somewhere to some other server and then come back into your home. 128 00:08:46,940 --> 00:08:50,980 So you could set up a home server that nobody from the outside world even knows exists. 129 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:57,260 And you can put stuff on there and then it can be a web server or be a media server or be any 130 00:08:57,300 --> 00:09:02,159 kind of server that you want to help out within your home and your devices in your home can talk 131 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:10,680 to it. If you've ever played Minecraft on, you know, at home with other friends and like on an 132 00:09:10,770 --> 00:09:14,860 iPad, maybe the four of you are sitting in a room on your iPads playing Minecraft together and 133 00:09:14,950 --> 00:09:20,020 joining a server together, like one iPad becomes a server and the other three join it and you're 134 00:09:20,020 --> 00:09:26,360 all playing in the same world and you can actually have, you can go into your router at home and 135 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:31,439 like unplug the internet connection and so now you just have Wi-Fi within your home without any 136 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:36,800 internet and you should still be able to all connect to each other's worlds on Minecraft, 137 00:09:37,140 --> 00:09:41,740 that kind of a thing. All right. There might be technical limitations to that now. Maybe they 138 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,640 changed it. Sometimes the software has to phone home in order to work, but that's the concept I'm 139 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:51,000 trying to convey. So get yourself a home server, just plug it in and start tinkering around with 140 00:09:51,050 --> 00:09:55,419 it. I think it's going to be a great place to try out some of these freedom tools and freedom 141 00:09:55,420 --> 00:10:00,480 tech tools that we talk about on Freedom Tech Weekend, you know, week in, week out. Okay, but 142 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:04,440 that's not exactly what we're talking about today. Today we're talking about all the different media 143 00:10:04,580 --> 00:10:10,120 landscape options that are out there. So it all began with the Cody project. I mean, it probably 144 00:10:10,370 --> 00:10:15,120 got older than that, but really it began with Cody. Cody used to be something else called XBMC, 145 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:25,480 Xbox Media Server. Give me a brief short history of XBMC. Let's use one of our new models. We got 146 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:30,460 Quinn here. Let's try out Quinn. So we're going to have Maple give us a quick. So Xbox Media 147 00:10:30,670 --> 00:10:37,680 Server or Xbox Media Center, excuse me, it came about, wow, yeah, it has been over 20 years since 148 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:42,520 I've been doing this kind of stuff. That's crazy. So people had their Xbox and like this thing is 149 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:47,380 suite. It's plugged into my TV. It's plugged into my home projector and I can play video games on 150 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:52,860 it. But then people rooted it and started installing other software on it. So back in the 151 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:59,500 early 2000s, there was this open source project where people built software, right? 2003, the 152 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:03,780 first version of XBMC was released, focusing on transforming the Xbox into a powerful media 153 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,239 server capable of playing various audio and video formats, displaying photos and accessing the 154 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:14,280 internet. This was also big for PlayStation 2 because PlayStation 2, for the first time, 155 00:11:14,380 --> 00:11:21,900 you could insert a DVD into it. And so then you could use that as a DVD player in your house. 156 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:27,300 So you weren't only plugging in a console to play video games, but it could also be your DVD player 157 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:33,240 for watching movies. And then Blu-ray came out and then all these other things, right? There was 158 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:39,220 this evolution that happened, but these are kind of the biggest roots for most people when you're 159 00:11:39,220 --> 00:11:47,820 at home media servers. XBMC later in, when was it, 2013, 2014, rebranded as Kodi to reflect its 160 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:52,460 independence from the Xbox platform. This change also helped to avoid any legal issues and better 161 00:11:52,540 --> 00:11:57,000 represent the multi-platform nature of the software. So at this point, Kodi decided Xbox 162 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:03,600 really was growing. The Xbox media center was growing beyond just the Xbox. They had apps for 163 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:07,640 phones. They were on all sorts of different platforms. You could run the software on a 164 00:12:07,580 --> 00:12:12,000 different server. It didn't have to be an Xbox. It could be on just any computer. And then the other 165 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:17,380 one that was really big back then was Boxee. I don't know if there's any Boxee users out there. 166 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:25,040 I was a big Boxee user. I downloaded the software and installed it. And then I even bought their 167 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,880 little server that they came out with. It was really cool. It was like this little Boxee cube 168 00:12:29,540 --> 00:12:35,540 that was sinking into your desk. Let me pull up an image of it. It was pretty dope for its time, 169 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:53,240 Right? Here we go. Here's an image. I mean, tell me that doesn't look pretty sweet. I kind of wish it still existed today. But it was like you would set it next to your TV and it was this cube that was like part of your media center console desk. It was pretty sweet. 170 00:12:55,060 --> 00:12:57,900 They, unfortunately, as a business, did not make it. 171 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,560 Boxee was a fork of XBMC, if I remember correctly. 172 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,260 I'm just kind of glancing through here. 173 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,600 And then they partnered with D-Link to make the Boxee Box, is what they called it. 174 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:18,520 But then it became difficult because Roku, Apple TV, and Google TV, like these bigger players, just decided we're going to compete in the space and go hard. 175 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,760 And it became very difficult for Boxee to continue to play. 176 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:27,020 They eventually got bought out by Samsung, if I'm remembering correctly. 177 00:13:30,580 --> 00:13:31,020 Yeah. 178 00:13:31,670 --> 00:13:31,860 All right. 179 00:13:32,050 --> 00:13:32,960 Enough of the history lesson. 180 00:13:33,060 --> 00:13:34,760 They got bought out by Samsung. 181 00:13:35,460 --> 00:13:37,220 Wasn't a super great buyout for them. 182 00:13:37,910 --> 00:13:42,880 And they eventually went on to help build the internal software for the Samsung TV. 183 00:13:43,340 --> 00:13:45,560 Because all these TVs come with things in them now, right? 184 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:46,920 Okay. 185 00:13:47,260 --> 00:13:48,140 So Kodi is available. 186 00:13:48,340 --> 00:13:49,080 It's still open source. 187 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:51,840 This is one to look at. 188 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,080 If you want to get started somewhere, you can start with Kodi and take a look at it. 189 00:13:55,580 --> 00:14:01,320 I don't know a lot of the privacy implications with Kodi because I've kind of moved beyond 190 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,620 this into other things, but they've got the GitHub. 191 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:06,140 You can check them out. 192 00:14:06,940 --> 00:14:12,140 They have all sorts of projects, but they're like the old one that most people started 193 00:14:12,220 --> 00:14:12,320 with. 194 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:13,480 Then you had Plex. 195 00:14:14,180 --> 00:14:16,980 Plex was another XBMC kind of fork. 196 00:14:19,460 --> 00:14:22,740 And they've built more into a full-on business. 197 00:14:23,860 --> 00:14:29,220 I used Plex for many years, but then I finally gave up on it because eventually they started, 198 00:14:30,060 --> 00:14:31,620 basically started tracking what you were watching. 199 00:14:31,890 --> 00:14:37,340 And I got an email one day that was like, hey, based on your watch history, here's what 200 00:14:37,340 --> 00:14:38,360 we recommend you watch next. 201 00:14:39,110 --> 00:14:41,620 And I was like, okay, no, that's not going to fly with me. 202 00:14:41,620 --> 00:14:47,359 I don't want you tracking what I'm watching at home on my own home server and then storing 203 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,980 it in your database and emailing me about it and running through some algorithm, probably 204 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:56,940 sharing it with advertisers and third parties. So, I deleted my Plex account and got out of there. 205 00:14:57,860 --> 00:15:06,680 They -- it's possible they've changed their stance with that. But as far as, like, a full-on setup, 206 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:13,300 Plex was pretty awesome. Like, they have a really well-run operation from a usability standpoint. 207 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,140 I just gave up on them from a privacy standpoint. 208 00:15:17,020 --> 00:15:20,280 There's another one that's kind of similar to Plex, and it's called Channels. 209 00:15:20,940 --> 00:15:30,720 Channels is similar where you run an app on your home server, and then it serves up any of your local video content that you have or music content. 210 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:32,600 I believe it does music. 211 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,020 Actually, I don't know if it does music. 212 00:15:34,620 --> 00:15:35,600 I think it's just video. 213 00:15:36,380 --> 00:15:36,900 Let's see. 214 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,240 Explore personal media, stream all the way. 215 00:15:41,740 --> 00:15:43,840 Yeah, it looks like it's mostly focused just on video. 216 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,940 The cool thing about this is a lot of these have DVR stuff built into them, right? 217 00:15:50,180 --> 00:15:51,140 Plex does DVR. 218 00:15:51,460 --> 00:15:52,740 Cody probably does. 219 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:59,080 And for most people, like DVR, I think, is an antiquated technology, digital video recorder. 220 00:15:59,740 --> 00:16:03,280 It is an evolution on top of the VCR. 221 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:08,180 When we had tapes and we put them into the machine, and then when our favorite show came on, we hit record. 222 00:16:08,940 --> 00:16:12,700 00 223 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:13,500 30 PM. 224 00:16:14,290 --> 00:16:16,380 And if we weren't going to be there, the coolest VCRs 225 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,820 had the timing function so I could set up a timer 226 00:16:18,910 --> 00:16:19,940 to have it automatically record. 227 00:16:20,490 --> 00:16:21,840 So I was gone at something. 228 00:16:21,990 --> 00:16:23,720 And when I come home, my tape had recorded. 229 00:16:24,070 --> 00:16:26,120 It was always the worst when it didn't work for some reason 230 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,100 or the power went out and came back on, 231 00:16:28,370 --> 00:16:30,700 and your clock on your VCR reset and was blinking 12. 232 00:16:31,460 --> 00:16:33,040 And so it never recorded your show. 233 00:16:33,140 --> 00:16:34,380 That stuff kind of sucked. 234 00:16:34,980 --> 00:16:36,360 But for the most part, it was cool. 235 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,480 Then DVRs came along like TiVo that would do it for you 236 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:42,440 in like a computer box that was plugged in. 237 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,420 In order to use something like channels and Plex, 238 00:16:47,020 --> 00:16:48,800 you would buy a device and they still sell these. 239 00:16:49,220 --> 00:16:51,620 These are, HD Home Run is kind of one of the best ones 240 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:52,100 out there. 241 00:16:52,860 --> 00:16:54,980 And this will plug into an antenna, 242 00:16:55,700 --> 00:16:58,100 grab the free channels that still stream. 243 00:16:58,460 --> 00:17:00,100 Believe it or not, there are still TV channels 244 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,540 that stream in the air and you can grab those. 245 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:04,980 I don't really watch a lot of shows that are on those, 246 00:17:05,260 --> 00:17:08,339 But the times that I use it the most is for like sports. 247 00:17:09,020 --> 00:17:11,420 It is some kind of local sports thing going on 248 00:17:11,430 --> 00:17:11,980 that I wanna watch. 249 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,780 And then I could use one of these to record it if I want to. 250 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,319 HT Home Run, you know, 251 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:20,959 goes into all sorts of different software. 252 00:17:21,050 --> 00:17:22,480 They have their own stuff so you can record 253 00:17:22,890 --> 00:17:24,240 with their own software 254 00:17:24,370 --> 00:17:25,839 or it plugs into a lot of other tools. 255 00:17:26,020 --> 00:17:27,280 Tons of these open source tools. 256 00:17:27,620 --> 00:17:28,380 I use them. 257 00:17:28,910 --> 00:17:30,880 I haven't looked for sure which ones do, 258 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:35,040 but it would surprise me if most of them don't. 259 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:37,600 But this is great if you want to grab the local channels 260 00:17:37,660 --> 00:17:39,260 that are available to you wherever you are in the world, 261 00:17:39,420 --> 00:17:41,120 there should be TV channels streaming. 262 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:46,220 This is also great for news, local news. 263 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:49,180 I mean, we need to be available for emergencies, right? 264 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:52,680 I'm not talking about like the mainstream media news. 265 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:54,940 I'm talking about if there's a weather event going on 266 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,540 or some kind of local, you know, important event happening, 267 00:18:00,220 --> 00:18:01,940 You might wanna have the ability to watch that 268 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:03,400 to get the latest information, 269 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:04,880 especially if your internet goes down. 270 00:18:06,180 --> 00:18:08,840 That's another way to pick up information coming 271 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:10,480 that's just freely going over the waves, 272 00:18:10,780 --> 00:18:12,160 the radio waves over your house. 273 00:18:12,540 --> 00:18:15,020 So these are things to look at if you want to. 274 00:18:15,620 --> 00:18:17,360 I don't, it's been a while. 275 00:18:18,260 --> 00:18:21,360 What are the privacy implications 276 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:27,260 of the HD Home Run by Silicon Dust? 277 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,940 Let's just see what we get there. 278 00:18:32,420 --> 00:18:34,740 I don't know how much of this is shared back. 279 00:18:35,340 --> 00:18:38,480 Silicon HD Home Run is an over-the-air TV tuner 280 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:39,480 data collection. 281 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,420 Silicon Dust collects some user data 282 00:18:42,020 --> 00:18:42,880 for operational purchases, 283 00:18:43,140 --> 00:18:45,180 such as device registration and firmware updates, 284 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:46,640 streaming data. 285 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,060 When you use it to stream content, 286 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:50,480 the device may collect information 287 00:18:50,780 --> 00:18:51,720 about the channels you watch 288 00:18:51,860 --> 00:18:52,820 and the duration you're viewing. 289 00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:55,500 The data is typically used to improve the service, 290 00:18:56,340 --> 00:18:57,300 network security. 291 00:18:57,940 --> 00:19:04,480 you don't have to, I don't think you have to have this thing phone home. Let's see. It operates on 292 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,620 your local network, which means the content you stream transmitted within your home. Ensure that 293 00:19:08,620 --> 00:19:13,320 your home network is secure to prevent unauthorized access. You can set it up to do remote access, 294 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:17,700 but yeah, so you could use an HD home run in a way that doesn't phone home, doesn't send 295 00:19:17,860 --> 00:19:24,380 data back to silicon dust. So if you want to kind of put safe safeguards around it, you can. 296 00:19:27,780 --> 00:19:32,040 So that's if you want that. The other cool thing, and we'll get to these other more open source 297 00:19:32,260 --> 00:19:38,180 options next, really what I'm trying to do and what I try to do with all this freedom tech is 298 00:19:38,850 --> 00:19:45,540 I want to give options so people can kind of meet where they are in their life. If you are someone 299 00:19:45,610 --> 00:19:55,059 who streams Apple TV+, you know, Spotify, you're streaming Netflix, YouTube TV every day, then for 300 00:19:55,060 --> 00:19:59,360 you making a jump to like a totally open source thing that you have to download the code off 301 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:06,080 GitHub and compile and run on some home server, that might be a really far gap for you. But maybe 302 00:20:06,919 --> 00:20:12,220 downloading an app from one of these companies and running on your laptop and getting a little 303 00:20:12,220 --> 00:20:16,040 bit of that functionality that you would get elsewhere is a step in the right direction for 304 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:22,040 you. It is not as private as compiling the code yourself, but it gets you going that direction. 305 00:20:22,260 --> 00:20:24,000 So that's why I show off these ones. 306 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:34,800 And then we'll get to other options that are more open source when you want to continue to move down the line and get more freedom and more control over your data and privacy. 307 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:46,220 Something else that's interesting about Plex, about channels, I don't know enough about Kodi, but it might, is something called TV Anywhere. 308 00:20:47,140 --> 00:20:47,660 Let's see. 309 00:20:47,740 --> 00:20:57,920 tell me about TV Anywhere and which it would help if I spelled it correctly and which home media 310 00:20:59,060 --> 00:21:06,660 servers support it. Okay, while it does that, TV Anywhere is something where if you have a cable 311 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,580 TV subscription or a satellite subscription, believe it or not, those are still around. 312 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,460 People still have them. If you have that, like let's say that you subscribe to ESPN, 313 00:21:14,860 --> 00:21:19,900 you subscribe to some kind of TV package so you can get ESPN for sports. That's a popular one 314 00:21:19,910 --> 00:21:25,000 that people do. Or like if you want Comedy Central, watch Rick and Morty something or 315 00:21:25,180 --> 00:21:30,820 is that Cartoon Network? Sorry, whatever. If you're doing that, then you can actually plug 316 00:21:30,950 --> 00:21:36,080 in your subscription information into something like channels. I'm pretty sure you can do it to 317 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:44,299 Plex. And Kodi is likely an option that it would do it. If you do that, then what you get is it 318 00:21:44,300 --> 00:21:48,520 It can do DVR for all of the premium channels or all the cable channels that you have. 319 00:21:48,620 --> 00:21:49,740 So it's not just the free ones. 320 00:21:49,940 --> 00:21:53,860 It's not just the ones that come over the air like the basic networks. 321 00:21:54,820 --> 00:21:57,060 But you can do it with things like ESPN. 322 00:21:57,860 --> 00:22:01,380 So that's really cool because now you really are competing with YouTube TV. 323 00:22:01,940 --> 00:22:09,020 So instead of paying YouTube TV or what's the other big one, Fubo, there's a whole bunch 324 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,120 of ones that you pay like high amounts every month. 325 00:22:11,860 --> 00:22:19,900 If you're also paying for a cable subscription or you know someone who is, then you can plug 326 00:22:19,970 --> 00:22:22,700 in your credentials and plug it into here. 327 00:22:22,790 --> 00:22:24,580 And now it becomes part of your flow. 328 00:22:25,290 --> 00:22:26,120 So I think that's really cool. 329 00:22:27,150 --> 00:22:27,920 You can do that kind of stuff. 330 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:29,180 Let's see what it said here. 331 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,320 It is available on Plex. 332 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:33,400 Okay. 333 00:22:35,460 --> 00:22:35,980 Let's see. 334 00:22:36,180 --> 00:22:36,800 I'm just going to scroll. 335 00:22:36,990 --> 00:22:39,780 Sorry if I'm making you sick with my fast scrolling here. 336 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:46,540 So Plex supports TV Anywhere under the Plex Pass. 337 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:48,600 MB has it. 338 00:22:49,150 --> 00:22:51,380 MB supports remote access to your media library. 339 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,720 That's not what I'm looking for. 340 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:56,220 It misunderstood me. 341 00:22:58,539 --> 00:23:06,060 TV Anywhere, meaning the cable subscription channels, 342 00:23:07,820 --> 00:23:09,000 become available to you. 343 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:11,920 to your home server. 344 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:15,240 Let's see what it says there. 345 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,620 TV anywhere is a context of cable subscription channels, blah, blah, blah, blah. 346 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:31,640 Okay, it seems to think that Plex, MB, and Kodi all support it. 347 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,080 So do your own research, but that is possible that it supports it there. 348 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,420 It's also possible it's getting confused because I'm doing this in the same chat thread with all 349 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,800 the history and context behind it. So it's getting a little confused there. That happens with AI. 350 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,720 All right. Let's move on. Because we have been going for how long now? We've been going for 351 00:23:50,020 --> 00:23:56,060 23 minutes. So thanks, everybody, for being in here. Appreciate it. We've got almost 1,000 352 00:23:56,120 --> 00:24:02,159 people in the stream. What's up, everybody? Welcome. So let's move on now. So let's look 353 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,900 look at Jellyfin. Jellyfin is a really popular one. This is a free and open source one that you 354 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:12,860 can download. And let's go look for their GitHub because I always love to do that. Where is it? 355 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:19,900 Let's click on this. There we go. So you saw what I just did, right? I'm looking on the website for 356 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,860 like a GitHub icon. I even searched for GitHub and didn't find it. A lot of times they'll be 357 00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:28,679 down at the bottom. There was no GitHub, but there is this little release thing, right? And this 358 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,940 is shows it pulls from github and shows the latest version that's been built and released 359 00:24:33,340 --> 00:24:38,340 so you can just click on that and that opens up the github so here is the release they just push 360 00:24:38,460 --> 00:24:45,680 something live on april 5th so jellyfin is still in development it is a gpl2 license 361 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,640 and they're still actively working on it it has a lot of contributors over 1200 contributors 362 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,880 Okay, now what does it support? So this lets you, 363 00:24:57,820 --> 00:25:00,600 what are the main features of Jellyfin? Let's get rid of that search box there. 364 00:25:04,180 --> 00:25:12,120 It lets you do movies, shows, music, live TV and DVR, books, photos, sync play. Sharing a movie 365 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,740 night remotely has never been easier. So that's a big thing that a lot of these tools are doing. 366 00:25:15,940 --> 00:25:22,220 Plex does this, Apple does this with their share play feature, where basically like you and a 367 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:27,360 a friend sitting in different locations can watch the same movie and have a chat experience while 368 00:25:27,380 --> 00:25:30,960 you're watching it. So kind of what we're doing right now where we're on stream together, right? 369 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:37,400 But more interactive because it's two-way. Y'all can chat with me through this chat while I'm 370 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,640 streaming myself to you. But this is like you pick a movie and watch it together remotely. 371 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:46,840 Not as cool as watching it together. I'm all about getting together with people. 372 00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:50,980 But if you simply can't and you want to watch it, you can try that out. 373 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:52,740 But it's cool to see more of them supporting it. 374 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,480 Definitely look into the privacy implications. 375 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,060 Where is that being streamed? 376 00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:02,000 Is that going through some Jellyfin server somewhere and then out to both of you? 377 00:26:02,540 --> 00:26:05,900 If that's the case, then you might want to consider where your data is going. 378 00:26:06,740 --> 00:26:11,280 But if it's simply just streaming from your own home server and you're finding a way to both link up, that's pretty cool. 379 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:13,840 Okay. 380 00:26:14,300 --> 00:26:17,420 Queen wants me to tell Odell that she was a good girl. 381 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:26,480 I'll have to pass that along. Okay. ABW, welcome. Thanks for joining. Play me on two-speed. I'm much 382 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,400 better on two-speed. So do that and catch up. You might not get to us before the end, but that's 383 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:39,180 all right. Welcome. So this is great. So if you have your own movies, these are things that in 384 00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:44,539 the United States, and the laws might vary wherever you are, but in the United States, you are legally 385 00:26:44,540 --> 00:26:51,080 allowed to make a backup of a movie that you buy. So a DVD, you are allowed to backup that DVD 386 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:56,500 in case the DVD gets destroyed or the Blu-ray or something. You can have a copy and you can 387 00:26:56,540 --> 00:27:03,180 watch that yourself. You can't do a public play of that. I can't remember the exact term, but you 388 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,960 can't play it for hundreds of people. That is known as like, you know, a public event and you 389 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,619 have to pay money and pay licensing fees for that and stuff. So all of this should be couched within 390 00:27:12,620 --> 00:27:17,960 This is media that you have the legal right to have on your home computer and stream to yourself. 391 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,780 So let's just remember that. 392 00:27:21,660 --> 00:27:25,680 What you do beyond that is your own choice, and you don't have to tell me, and I'm not going to tell you what to do. 393 00:27:26,620 --> 00:27:27,660 Hello from the Netherlands. 394 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:28,880 Welcome. 395 00:27:29,140 --> 00:27:29,640 Sweet. 396 00:27:30,059 --> 00:27:31,580 And what's up, BTC Pins? 397 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:32,040 GM. 398 00:27:33,420 --> 00:27:33,500 Okay. 399 00:27:34,919 --> 00:27:37,200 So Jellyfin is a popular one. 400 00:27:37,380 --> 00:27:38,420 Another one is MB. 401 00:27:39,860 --> 00:27:42,060 And you're going to see a lot of these have kind of the same features. 402 00:27:42,260 --> 00:27:47,020 right so this is easy access lets you stream from your live TV manage your 403 00:27:47,180 --> 00:27:50,820 home they've got apps you basically download a piece of software run it on a 404 00:27:50,860 --> 00:27:54,180 computer at home then you download the apps to your phone to your computers 405 00:27:54,580 --> 00:27:57,980 whatever a lot of them have web apps as well and then you enjoy your personal 406 00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:07,499 media which ones does MB support they don't show here but I assume it's all 407 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:08,260 all the same things. 408 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:11,540 So it looks like we got music here in the screenshot 409 00:28:11,940 --> 00:28:14,380 and they've got photo albums here and obviously videos. 410 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,880 So that is something maybe that we should chat. 411 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,260 Let's park right here for a second. 412 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,620 So what this means is you're gonna download an app. 413 00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:26,740 It's as simple as that. 414 00:28:26,780 --> 00:28:27,660 You're gonna download this app 415 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,100 and you're gonna install it on a computer 416 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:30,540 that is always plugged in. 417 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,540 Now you can start with just a laptop. 418 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,920 If you're streaming me on a laptop right now, 419 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,840 then you can start there if you want to, 420 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,220 or if you're streaming on your phone, 421 00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:41,520 you probably have a laptop or a home computer somewhere. 422 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:43,980 Download it there and just run it. 423 00:28:44,170 --> 00:28:48,520 And then grab like, even just film a video of you, 424 00:28:48,530 --> 00:28:50,780 like just film outside for a second, 425 00:28:51,450 --> 00:28:53,980 stick it on that server and put it in there. 426 00:28:54,050 --> 00:28:55,980 And now you have this little piece of software, 427 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,140 this app that can take that video 428 00:28:58,580 --> 00:29:00,300 and make it available to your devices. 429 00:29:01,090 --> 00:29:03,679 And then you can download an app onto your phone 430 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,360 And then you can connect to that home server, 431 00:29:07,570 --> 00:29:08,860 to that app you're running on your laptop 432 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:09,800 or your other computer. 433 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:11,600 And then you can watch that video 434 00:29:11,650 --> 00:29:12,440 that you just filmed outside. 435 00:29:12,570 --> 00:29:13,640 You can watch that on your phone, 436 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,640 streaming through the server, right? 437 00:29:16,690 --> 00:29:17,960 And that's like a great place to start. 438 00:29:18,140 --> 00:29:19,520 Just get familiar with that. 439 00:29:20,340 --> 00:29:22,800 But then you can start to take, you know, 440 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,320 other home videos or videos that you've filmed 441 00:29:25,410 --> 00:29:26,900 that you really like, like all your favorite ones. 442 00:29:27,050 --> 00:29:29,020 You know, if you hit heart on a video that you made 443 00:29:29,490 --> 00:29:31,080 or that you filmed and you wanna save it forever, 444 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,500 then start collecting a folder of these videos. 445 00:29:35,170 --> 00:29:38,300 And they don't have to live forever in iCloud 446 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,220 or live forever in Google Photos or Amazon 447 00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:41,640 or anything like that. 448 00:29:42,050 --> 00:29:44,080 Pull your favorites out and stick them on your home server. 449 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,700 They're yours, right? 450 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,520 What if you lose access to your Google account one day? 451 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,920 What if you lose access to your iCloud account? 452 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:56,200 This isn't like conspiracy theorists or anything. 453 00:29:56,330 --> 00:30:00,519 This is, I lost access to my Apple account 454 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,540 just two weeks ago, I went to log in and they said, 455 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,540 hey, we've noticed some weird security. 456 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:07,340 Somebody tried to breach your account. 457 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:08,820 Please reset your password. 458 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:10,420 I was able to get it recovered 459 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,900 within probably about 30 minutes, 460 00:30:13,580 --> 00:30:14,980 but that could take longer 461 00:30:15,260 --> 00:30:16,180 and maybe I don't get it recovered. 462 00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:20,500 So if you have things that you like love and care about, 463 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,240 make a copy of them somewhere. 464 00:30:22,820 --> 00:30:25,320 This is a great place to just store your quote home videos. 465 00:30:26,060 --> 00:30:28,019 You know, we used to have big cam quarters 466 00:30:28,020 --> 00:30:30,240 where we would like film home videos 467 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:33,280 and they would fill up a tape of like two hours. 468 00:30:33,590 --> 00:30:34,600 And then you would all sit down 469 00:30:34,610 --> 00:30:36,020 and you put the tape in the VCR 470 00:30:36,590 --> 00:30:38,540 and you would just watch home movies from clip to clip. 471 00:30:39,010 --> 00:30:40,860 And sometimes really boring, sometimes it was cool. 472 00:30:41,580 --> 00:30:43,620 This is like a totally modern version of that 473 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,840 but you are always curating the videos you make 474 00:30:45,950 --> 00:30:48,180 and you're hitting a heart on them to favorite them. 475 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:50,580 Grab all your favorites, stick them into a folder, 476 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:51,920 stick them on this home server 477 00:30:52,220 --> 00:30:53,220 and make them available to yourself. 478 00:30:53,850 --> 00:30:54,760 That would be like my, 479 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,939 that'd be my homework assignment for this weekend 480 00:30:56,940 --> 00:31:03,100 challenge to people if you haven't done this at all. Okay, next one, Ampachi. This is a server 481 00:31:03,150 --> 00:31:10,280 that focuses on music. So, it's more of like your Spotify replacement or your Apple music or your 482 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:15,420 title replacement. Now, music is interesting because most of us don't just make music, 483 00:31:15,550 --> 00:31:21,659 right? Like my previous example was you have videos that you filmed. So, music is you have to 484 00:31:21,660 --> 00:31:28,680 do the legal thing. So if you feel like you are legally allowed to have an audio file on your 485 00:31:28,740 --> 00:31:36,280 computer that you can stream, then these tools are for you. So a lot of music that you bought 486 00:31:36,540 --> 00:31:43,040 years ago is DRM-free, digital rights management. If it's DRM-free, you should legally be fine 487 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,880 running in here. Technically you can. You just throw it in there and technically it will work. 488 00:31:47,340 --> 00:31:51,140 but make sure you button up all the legal stuff for yourself that you care about. 489 00:31:52,210 --> 00:31:56,460 If you don't care, you don't care. That's your prerogative. But let's say that you have a bunch 490 00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:02,040 of legally allowed music that you can play. Well, you can stick it in here and you can set up an 491 00:32:02,060 --> 00:32:06,180 entire music collection. You can have playlists, you can share playlists, you can stream. So you 492 00:32:06,180 --> 00:32:10,500 can have an app running on your phone. You can be at the gym, working out, listening to music that 493 00:32:10,620 --> 00:32:15,740 is streaming from your home computer. They also have features like the ability to download the 494 00:32:15,660 --> 00:32:20,040 the music to your phone. So if you're going to be on an airplane, then you can have a playlist 495 00:32:20,300 --> 00:32:24,160 where you're like, hey, this is like my banger playlist. I love this. You just hit a button 496 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:29,500 that says like, anytime a song is added to this playlist, download it to my phone offline. So 497 00:32:29,580 --> 00:32:33,100 when I'm on an airplane or wherever I am, I don't have to be dependent on my home server being 498 00:32:33,180 --> 00:32:37,700 connected or anything. I can just listen to this music. Those things are available to you. So 499 00:32:38,660 --> 00:32:42,940 Ampache is the server. They've got a GitHub here. 500 00:32:45,260 --> 00:32:48,780 and I keep talking about apps but it's really important to remember that these also have 501 00:32:49,030 --> 00:32:54,300 web apps you basically just go into a web browser on any device whether it's a phone or a computer 502 00:32:54,540 --> 00:33:01,280 and you can also access this you don't have to use their apps if you don't want to okay next one 503 00:33:01,510 --> 00:33:07,000 would be subsonic this is another one that's similar to ampache this one looks like it's more 504 00:33:07,030 --> 00:33:12,519 of a business like they've got this premium offer where you can pay them one dollar a month upgrade 505 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:18,340 the subsonic premium to enjoy extra features right they've got apps and stuff um something 506 00:33:18,460 --> 00:33:24,420 about subsonic and i need to look into them more but something about them is they have like an api 507 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:31,080 that a lot of other open source apps have built to be compliant with so a lot of other apps are 508 00:33:31,180 --> 00:33:37,900 compliant with the subsonic api which means that um you don't actually have to pay money to this 509 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:43,080 company or you don't have to you don't have to like share data with them at all these other apps 510 00:33:43,260 --> 00:33:47,920 just all speak the same language as subsonic and so then this whole universe of tools is opened up 511 00:33:47,940 --> 00:33:54,160 to you and other apps are opened up to you if they speak the subsonic api one of those is called 512 00:33:54,460 --> 00:34:01,780 navidrome this is another home media server that lets you serve up your own media music that kind 513 00:34:01,780 --> 00:34:07,820 of stuff i mean you can do all sorts of media files music files that kind of i think it's mostly 514 00:34:07,820 --> 00:34:16,700 music. But yeah, different music formats. That's what I meant to say. Let's see. Amplify was one 515 00:34:16,740 --> 00:34:23,040 that we just looked at. So we are pretty much at time. We've hit 34 minutes. I try to keep these 516 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:28,620 to around a half hour. I hope that I gave you a good view of the landscape of what is available 517 00:34:28,780 --> 00:34:35,820 to you. Again, my challenge to you is if you aren't doing any of these, then just pick one of these, 518 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,940 look at what you think is within your technical abilities 519 00:34:40,379 --> 00:34:44,060 and then your risk and privacy concerns are met 520 00:34:44,220 --> 00:34:46,040 and download one of them and just try it out. 521 00:34:48,940 --> 00:34:51,879 And then put like one video 522 00:34:52,290 --> 00:34:54,200 or some song that you have, right? 523 00:34:54,429 --> 00:34:57,700 And stick it on there and start to play around with it 524 00:34:57,810 --> 00:35:00,760 and give yourself the challenge of streaming one song 525 00:35:00,930 --> 00:35:02,160 or one video within your home. 526 00:35:02,830 --> 00:35:04,900 And then if you wanna take the extra step this weekend, 527 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:10,740 do it outside of your home. So leave the Wi-Fi of your home. You can even, if you have a cell 528 00:35:10,780 --> 00:35:14,300 phone, just turn off Wi-Fi on your cell phone and you can still be within your home technically, 529 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:20,160 physically, I should say. But try streaming outside your home too and see what that's like 530 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:25,740 and then build from there. All right. I hope this was helpful. I'm going to stop 531 00:35:25,980 --> 00:35:32,100 sharing my screen here. Thanks everybody for joining Freedom Tech Weekend on this Friday. 532 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,320 It is nice and beautiful sunny today here in Texas. 533 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,480 That has not been the case the last couple of weeks. 534 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:43,340 We had lots of downpour, torrential rain that caused flooding and tragic loss of life and 535 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:44,700 property damage and stuff like that. 536 00:35:44,740 --> 00:35:48,620 So we've been doing efforts to clean up from that and help where we can. 537 00:35:49,580 --> 00:35:51,080 This week, I've been really busy working. 538 00:35:51,220 --> 00:35:54,540 We've been releasing a lot of stuff for Maple, for Maple AI. 539 00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:56,800 So check it out, try maple.ai. 540 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,580 You can go see what we've been doing over there. 541 00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:01,180 And then check in every Friday. 542 00:36:01,220 --> 00:36:04,600 We're here Fridays at 1530 UTC. 543 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:06,940 We give you one tool you can play with this weekend. 544 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,420 And then if you want to follow me, I'm on X at Marks underscore FTW. 545 00:36:11,580 --> 00:36:14,440 I'm also on Primal Noster, Marks at Primal.net. 546 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,800 And Freedom Tech Weekend has its own X account now. 547 00:36:18,060 --> 00:36:19,060 You can go check it out. 548 00:36:19,620 --> 00:36:20,440 It's Freedom Tech Week. 549 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,900 I couldn't do Freedom Tech Weekend because that was too long. 550 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:24,780 Freedom Tech Week on X. 551 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,980 You can subscribe over there and get updates and stuff. 552 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,460 But all right, then I guess we will talk to you next weekend. 553 00:36:31,980 --> 00:36:32,640 Have a good weekend. 554 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:33,520 Later.