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What's up, everybody?
Welcome to Freedom Tech Weekend.
My name is Marks.
We're back for another week.
Every Friday we're here doing this.
We talk about freedom technologies that are out there,
typically open source software that you can run to,
you really can play with this weekend
to try and decouple your life from closed technologies.
So this week we are going to cover home media servers. We're going to talk about how do you
stream your own music, videos, photos, whatever kind of media you want to consume in your personal
life. You can stream it anywhere. You can set up something that behaves similar to Spotify,
to Netflix, to Google Photos, that kind of stuff. So that's what we're going to chat about today.
I'm going to do quick rounds of audio checks and stuff to make sure everything's going.
Looks like we're streaming on the YouTubes.
Yep, that's working good.
And then make sure that we're live on zap.stream
for all of our Anastra users.
Let me go ahead and refresh here.
And we'll let people have a few moments
to hop into the chat.
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Not sure if zap.stream is working,
but we'll give it a go. Last week it failed on us. It was not working. But we keep trying.
We keep pushing it. Okay. We got some people coming in now. Not in Zap.Stream but in the
regular ones. We're on YouTube. So we're available in multiple channels. We stream to TFTC,
Truth For The Commoner, on YouTube and on X. And then we also stream to my own X as well as
we stream to hopefully zap.stream if it's working. But it looks like it says I'm live,
but I'm not getting any picture on zap.stream. Not sure what's going on there.
Cool. But we're getting up. We're almost 100 people already in the stream. Welcome,
everybody. Let me get the chat open so I can see that as well. There we go. Right. Sweet.
So I should be seeing chats from people.
I'll try and monitor it.
I would love to get your input on this one.
This one's going to be, we're going to go through an entire landscape of home media
server apps.
This is something that I have tinkered with and played with for, gosh, how long?
Probably two decades now, trying to just stream my own videos and music to myself without
having to pay subscription fees, without having to hand over all of my media content to some other
company and to entrust them with it. And I'm guessing a lot of you are similar. So let's take
a look. Things continue to evolve and change, and there's always privacy implications along the way
that you have to be aware of. So that's what we're going to take a look at today as well.
So, you know, hop in the chat if you have any. I would love to know, like, what are you using
if you do stream stuff from home.
Let me know what you're using, which tools you use.
We're going to look at things like Jellyfin.
We're going to look at,
we'll look at the old school heavy hitters
like Cody and Plex
and talk about some of the trade-offs
that you have to make there
if you're going to use those ones.
But then we're going to look at the more open source ones
like Jellyfin, Subsonic.
You've got MB, I think is another one.
Anyways, I've got a whole bunch of them
opened on my home server
that we're going to take a look at today. So welcome in. Welcome to Freedom Tech Weekend.
If you're just joining us for the first time, I'll do a quick brief explainer. This is Freedom
Tech Weekend. My name is Marks. I'm a co-founder of a privacy and confidential AI called Maple AI,
and it's similar to ChatGPT, but it protects your privacy. It's end-to-end encrypted.
You can check it out at trymaple.ai. That's really the only way to support the show is just
go sign up and try it out for free. And when you love it and find a lot of value out of it,
you can upgrade to become a paid user. We use Maple here on the show to kind of help
as we're researching things. But that's the biggest sales pitch you're going to get from
me right there. That's what I do day in and day out. And on Friday mornings, or whatever time it
is for you right now on Fridays, I like to do this show. It's just free. And because I love
freedom technology, I love playing with open source tools. I love trying to help people get
control of their data rather than always having to just live within some kind of closed proprietary
system. And so every week we show off one tool. Today we're going to kind of show off a landscape
of tools, but we show off one tool. And then that weekend when you have free time, you can play with
it. And little by little, you can take more sovereignty and take control over your own data
and your own infrastructure. We try to make these less, like not super heavy technical.
We want them to be approachable things that an average user, an average device user,
computer user, whatever level of technology you're at, I hope that something is useful here
that you feel like you can download and run. I mean, if you are capable of hopping on the stream
and watching me or listening to the podcast later, then that's the level of effort, the level of
technical knowledge that you hopefully need to do some of these tools that we show off.
Okay. Zap.stream is not working, so I'm just going to close it. And if you are in the Zap.stream,
it's working for you. Awesome. Hope you enjoy the show. I'm not going to see your chats because
it's just spinning for me. But thanks, Queen. I see you. Thanks for the emoji, the heart emoji.
Okay. Let's jump into it then. I wonder if I need to have the chat for X open because
that's YouTube there. So let me hop in over there. And then I'm going to open up my home
server and start sharing my screen. Okay, cool. Five by five. Okay. Let's start sharing
the screen. Again, if you have a home media solution that you use right now that you love
and you're willing to share which one it is, let me know.
Put it in the chat.
Okay, there we are.
We are streaming my home server.
I recommend everybody get a computer that you can,
oh, what's going on here, bro?
Stop, you're in my way.
There we go.
Sweet.
I recommend everybody get a home server.
It doesn't have to be complex.
You don't have to go out and buy like something that is rack amountable.
Then you have to buy like a rack space and you are upgrading the power in your
wall and getting like a 10 gigabit fiber line in your house, like all that kind of
stuff, you don't have to do that.
Um, just get an old laptop or an old desktop computer, something that you
had that's just sitting there not being used anymore and update it to the latest
version of the operating system that it can go.
So you've plugged as many security vulnerabilities as you can.
If it is really old and like the operating system is from years ago, you might have some
vulnerabilities that can't be patched.
So maybe look at, can you install something like Linux that can continue to be maintained?
Figure that out.
But then just plug it in on your home network.
You don't even have to expose it to the internet if you don't want to.
You can just have it be on your home network and be serving your intranet.
That might be a term that is like old school, early 90s, and maybe you've never even heard
before.
You always hear the internet.
But the intranet is basically the internet within your home.
And so when you're on Wi-Fi at home and you're talking to the other computers in your house,
you might just look at it all as one big internet.
But really, when you are, you know, if you're doing airplay and you're like flinging from
your phone to the screen or doing like Chromecast or something. Ideally, that's just staying on
your local network. So your one device is talking to another device and doesn't have to leave
your home network and go out somewhere to some other server and then come back into your home.
So you could set up a home server that nobody from the outside world even knows exists.
And you can put stuff on there and then it can be a web server or be a media server or be any
kind of server that you want to help out within your home and your devices in your home can talk
to it. If you've ever played Minecraft on, you know, at home with other friends and like on an
iPad, maybe the four of you are sitting in a room on your iPads playing Minecraft together and
joining a server together, like one iPad becomes a server and the other three join it and you're
all playing in the same world and you can actually have, you can go into your router at home and
like unplug the internet connection and so now you just have Wi-Fi within your home without any
internet and you should still be able to all connect to each other's worlds on Minecraft,
that kind of a thing. All right. There might be technical limitations to that now. Maybe they
changed it. Sometimes the software has to phone home in order to work, but that's the concept I'm
trying to convey. So get yourself a home server, just plug it in and start tinkering around with
it. I think it's going to be a great place to try out some of these freedom tools and freedom
tech tools that we talk about on Freedom Tech Weekend, you know, week in, week out. Okay, but
that's not exactly what we're talking about today. Today we're talking about all the different media
landscape options that are out there. So it all began with the Cody project. I mean, it probably
got older than that, but really it began with Cody. Cody used to be something else called XBMC,
Xbox Media Server. Give me a brief short history of XBMC. Let's use one of our new models. We got
Quinn here. Let's try out Quinn. So we're going to have Maple give us a quick. So Xbox Media
Server or Xbox Media Center, excuse me, it came about, wow, yeah, it has been over 20 years since
I've been doing this kind of stuff. That's crazy. So people had their Xbox and like this thing is
suite. It's plugged into my TV. It's plugged into my home projector and I can play video games on
it. But then people rooted it and started installing other software on it. So back in the
early 2000s, there was this open source project where people built software, right? 2003, the
first version of XBMC was released, focusing on transforming the Xbox into a powerful media
server capable of playing various audio and video formats, displaying photos and accessing the
internet. This was also big for PlayStation 2 because PlayStation 2, for the first time,
you could insert a DVD into it. And so then you could use that as a DVD player in your house.
So you weren't only plugging in a console to play video games, but it could also be your DVD player
for watching movies. And then Blu-ray came out and then all these other things, right? There was
this evolution that happened, but these are kind of the biggest roots for most people when you're
at home media servers. XBMC later in, when was it, 2013, 2014, rebranded as Kodi to reflect its
independence from the Xbox platform. This change also helped to avoid any legal issues and better
represent the multi-platform nature of the software. So at this point, Kodi decided Xbox
really was growing. The Xbox media center was growing beyond just the Xbox. They had apps for
phones. They were on all sorts of different platforms. You could run the software on a
different server. It didn't have to be an Xbox. It could be on just any computer. And then the other
one that was really big back then was Boxee. I don't know if there's any Boxee users out there.
I was a big Boxee user. I downloaded the software and installed it. And then I even bought their
little server that they came out with. It was really cool. It was like this little Boxee cube
that was sinking into your desk. Let me pull up an image of it. It was pretty dope for its time,
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.
They, unfortunately, as a business, did not make it.
Boxee was a fork of XBMC, if I remember correctly.
I'm just kind of glancing through here.
And then they partnered with D-Link to make the Boxee Box, is what they called it.
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.
And it became very difficult for Boxee to continue to play.
They eventually got bought out by Samsung, if I'm remembering correctly.
Yeah.
All right.
Enough of the history lesson.
They got bought out by Samsung.
Wasn't a super great buyout for them.
And they eventually went on to help build the internal software for the Samsung TV.
Because all these TVs come with things in them now, right?
Okay.
So Kodi is available.
It's still open source.
This is one to look at.
If you want to get started somewhere, you can start with Kodi and take a look at it.
I don't know a lot of the privacy implications with Kodi because I've kind of moved beyond
this into other things, but they've got the GitHub.
You can check them out.
They have all sorts of projects, but they're like the old one that most people started
with.
Then you had Plex.
Plex was another XBMC kind of fork.
And they've built more into a full-on business.
I used Plex for many years, but then I finally gave up on it because eventually they started,
basically started tracking what you were watching.
And I got an email one day that was like, hey, based on your watch history, here's what
we recommend you watch next.
And I was like, okay, no, that's not going to fly with me.
I don't want you tracking what I'm watching at home on my own home server and then storing
it in your database and emailing me about it and running through some algorithm, probably
sharing it with advertisers and third parties. So, I deleted my Plex account and got out of there.
They -- it's possible they've changed their stance with that. But as far as, like, a full-on setup,
Plex was pretty awesome. Like, they have a really well-run operation from a usability standpoint.
I just gave up on them from a privacy standpoint.
There's another one that's kind of similar to Plex, and it's called Channels.
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.
I believe it does music.
Actually, I don't know if it does music.
I think it's just video.
Let's see.
Explore personal media, stream all the way.
Yeah, it looks like it's mostly focused just on video.
The cool thing about this is a lot of these have DVR stuff built into them, right?
Plex does DVR.
Cody probably does.
And for most people, like DVR, I think, is an antiquated technology, digital video recorder.
It is an evolution on top of the VCR.
When we had tapes and we put them into the machine, and then when our favorite show came on, we hit record.
00
30 PM.
And if we weren't going to be there, the coolest VCRs
had the timing function so I could set up a timer
to have it automatically record.
So I was gone at something.
And when I come home, my tape had recorded.
It was always the worst when it didn't work for some reason
or the power went out and came back on,
and your clock on your VCR reset and was blinking 12.
And so it never recorded your show.
That stuff kind of sucked.
But for the most part, it was cool.
Then DVRs came along like TiVo that would do it for you
in like a computer box that was plugged in.
In order to use something like channels and Plex,
you would buy a device and they still sell these.
These are, HD Home Run is kind of one of the best ones
out there.
And this will plug into an antenna,
grab the free channels that still stream.
Believe it or not, there are still TV channels
that stream in the air and you can grab those.
I don't really watch a lot of shows that are on those,
But the times that I use it the most is for like sports.
It is some kind of local sports thing going on
that I wanna watch.
And then I could use one of these to record it if I want to.
HT Home Run, you know,
goes into all sorts of different software.
They have their own stuff so you can record
with their own software
or it plugs into a lot of other tools.
Tons of these open source tools.
I use them.
I haven't looked for sure which ones do,
but it would surprise me if most of them don't.
But this is great if you want to grab the local channels
that are available to you wherever you are in the world,
there should be TV channels streaming.
This is also great for news, local news.
I mean, we need to be available for emergencies, right?
I'm not talking about like the mainstream media news.
I'm talking about if there's a weather event going on
or some kind of local, you know, important event happening,
You might wanna have the ability to watch that
to get the latest information,
especially if your internet goes down.
That's another way to pick up information coming
that's just freely going over the waves,
the radio waves over your house.
So these are things to look at if you want to.
I don't, it's been a while.
What are the privacy implications
of the HD Home Run by Silicon Dust?
Let's just see what we get there.
I don't know how much of this is shared back.
Silicon HD Home Run is an over-the-air TV tuner
data collection.
Silicon Dust collects some user data
for operational purchases,
such as device registration and firmware updates,
streaming data.
When you use it to stream content,
the device may collect information
about the channels you watch
and the duration you're viewing.
The data is typically used to improve the service,
network security.
you don't have to, I don't think you have to have this thing phone home. Let's see. It operates on
your local network, which means the content you stream transmitted within your home. Ensure that
your home network is secure to prevent unauthorized access. You can set it up to do remote access,
but yeah, so you could use an HD home run in a way that doesn't phone home, doesn't send
data back to silicon dust. So if you want to kind of put safe safeguards around it, you can.
So that's if you want that. The other cool thing, and we'll get to these other more open source
options next, really what I'm trying to do and what I try to do with all this freedom tech is
I want to give options so people can kind of meet where they are in their life. If you are someone
who streams Apple TV+, you know, Spotify, you're streaming Netflix, YouTube TV every day, then for
you making a jump to like a totally open source thing that you have to download the code off
GitHub and compile and run on some home server, that might be a really far gap for you. But maybe
downloading an app from one of these companies and running on your laptop and getting a little
bit of that functionality that you would get elsewhere is a step in the right direction for
you. It is not as private as compiling the code yourself, but it gets you going that direction.
So that's why I show off these ones.
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.
Something else that's interesting about Plex, about channels, I don't know enough about Kodi, but it might, is something called TV Anywhere.
Let's see.
tell me about TV Anywhere and which it would help if I spelled it correctly and which home media
servers support it. Okay, while it does that, TV Anywhere is something where if you have a cable
TV subscription or a satellite subscription, believe it or not, those are still around.
People still have them. If you have that, like let's say that you subscribe to ESPN,
you subscribe to some kind of TV package so you can get ESPN for sports. That's a popular one
that people do. Or like if you want Comedy Central, watch Rick and Morty something or
is that Cartoon Network? Sorry, whatever. If you're doing that, then you can actually plug
in your subscription information into something like channels. I'm pretty sure you can do it to
Plex. And Kodi is likely an option that it would do it. If you do that, then what you get is it
It can do DVR for all of the premium channels or all the cable channels that you have.
So it's not just the free ones.
It's not just the ones that come over the air like the basic networks.
But you can do it with things like ESPN.
So that's really cool because now you really are competing with YouTube TV.
So instead of paying YouTube TV or what's the other big one, Fubo, there's a whole bunch
of ones that you pay like high amounts every month.
If you're also paying for a cable subscription or you know someone who is, then you can plug
in your credentials and plug it into here.
And now it becomes part of your flow.
So I think that's really cool.
You can do that kind of stuff.
Let's see what it said here.
It is available on Plex.
Okay.
Let's see.
I'm just going to scroll.
Sorry if I'm making you sick with my fast scrolling here.
So Plex supports TV Anywhere under the Plex Pass.
MB has it.
MB supports remote access to your media library.
That's not what I'm looking for.
It misunderstood me.
TV Anywhere, meaning the cable subscription channels,
become available to you.
to your home server.
Let's see what it says there.
TV anywhere is a context of cable subscription channels, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, it seems to think that Plex, MB, and Kodi all support it.
So do your own research, but that is possible that it supports it there.
It's also possible it's getting confused because I'm doing this in the same chat thread with all
the history and context behind it. So it's getting a little confused there. That happens with AI.
All right. Let's move on. Because we have been going for how long now? We've been going for
23 minutes. So thanks, everybody, for being in here. Appreciate it. We've got almost 1,000
people in the stream. What's up, everybody? Welcome. So let's move on now. So let's look
look at Jellyfin. Jellyfin is a really popular one. This is a free and open source one that you
can download. And let's go look for their GitHub because I always love to do that. Where is it?
Let's click on this. There we go. So you saw what I just did, right? I'm looking on the website for
like a GitHub icon. I even searched for GitHub and didn't find it. A lot of times they'll be
down at the bottom. There was no GitHub, but there is this little release thing, right? And this
is shows it pulls from github and shows the latest version that's been built and released
so you can just click on that and that opens up the github so here is the release they just push
something live on april 5th so jellyfin is still in development it is a gpl2 license
and they're still actively working on it it has a lot of contributors over 1200 contributors
Okay, now what does it support? So this lets you,
what are the main features of Jellyfin? Let's get rid of that search box there.
It lets you do movies, shows, music, live TV and DVR, books, photos, sync play. Sharing a movie
night remotely has never been easier. So that's a big thing that a lot of these tools are doing.
Plex does this, Apple does this with their share play feature, where basically like you and a
a friend sitting in different locations can watch the same movie and have a chat experience while
you're watching it. So kind of what we're doing right now where we're on stream together, right?
But more interactive because it's two-way. Y'all can chat with me through this chat while I'm
streaming myself to you. But this is like you pick a movie and watch it together remotely.
Not as cool as watching it together. I'm all about getting together with people.
But if you simply can't and you want to watch it, you can try that out.
But it's cool to see more of them supporting it.
Definitely look into the privacy implications.
Where is that being streamed?
Is that going through some Jellyfin server somewhere and then out to both of you?
If that's the case, then you might want to consider where your data is going.
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.
Okay.
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I'll have to pass that along. Okay. ABW, welcome. Thanks for joining. Play me on two-speed. I'm much
better on two-speed. So do that and catch up. You might not get to us before the end, but that's
all right. Welcome. So this is great. So if you have your own movies, these are things that in
the United States, and the laws might vary wherever you are, but in the United States, you are legally
allowed to make a backup of a movie that you buy. So a DVD, you are allowed to backup that DVD
in case the DVD gets destroyed or the Blu-ray or something. You can have a copy and you can
watch that yourself. You can't do a public play of that. I can't remember the exact term, but you
can't play it for hundreds of people. That is known as like, you know, a public event and you
have to pay money and pay licensing fees for that and stuff. So all of this should be couched within
This is media that you have the legal right to have on your home computer and stream to yourself.
So let's just remember that.
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.
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Okay.
So Jellyfin is a popular one.
Another one is MB.
And you're going to see a lot of these have kind of the same features.
right so this is easy access lets you stream from your live TV manage your
home they've got apps you basically download a piece of software run it on a
computer at home then you download the apps to your phone to your computers
whatever a lot of them have web apps as well and then you enjoy your personal
media which ones does MB support they don't show here but I assume it's all
all the same things.
So it looks like we got music here in the screenshot
and they've got photo albums here and obviously videos.
So that is something maybe that we should chat.
Let's park right here for a second.
So what this means is you're gonna download an app.
It's as simple as that.
You're gonna download this app
and you're gonna install it on a computer
that is always plugged in.
Now you can start with just a laptop.
If you're streaming me on a laptop right now,
then you can start there if you want to,
or if you're streaming on your phone,
you probably have a laptop or a home computer somewhere.
Download it there and just run it.
And then grab like, even just film a video of you,
like just film outside for a second,
stick it on that server and put it in there.
And now you have this little piece of software,
this app that can take that video
and make it available to your devices.
And then you can download an app onto your phone
And then you can connect to that home server,
to that app you're running on your laptop
or your other computer.
And then you can watch that video
that you just filmed outside.
You can watch that on your phone,
streaming through the server, right?
And that's like a great place to start.
Just get familiar with that.
But then you can start to take, you know,
other home videos or videos that you've filmed
that you really like, like all your favorite ones.
You know, if you hit heart on a video that you made
or that you filmed and you wanna save it forever,
then start collecting a folder of these videos.
And they don't have to live forever in iCloud
or live forever in Google Photos or Amazon
or anything like that.
Pull your favorites out and stick them on your home server.
They're yours, right?
What if you lose access to your Google account one day?
What if you lose access to your iCloud account?
This isn't like conspiracy theorists or anything.
This is, I lost access to my Apple account
just two weeks ago, I went to log in and they said,
hey, we've noticed some weird security.
Somebody tried to breach your account.
Please reset your password.
I was able to get it recovered
within probably about 30 minutes,
but that could take longer
and maybe I don't get it recovered.
So if you have things that you like love and care about,
make a copy of them somewhere.
This is a great place to just store your quote home videos.
You know, we used to have big cam quarters
where we would like film home videos
and they would fill up a tape of like two hours.
And then you would all sit down
and you put the tape in the VCR
and you would just watch home movies from clip to clip.
And sometimes really boring, sometimes it was cool.
This is like a totally modern version of that
but you are always curating the videos you make
and you're hitting a heart on them to favorite them.
Grab all your favorites, stick them into a folder,
stick them on this home server
and make them available to yourself.
That would be like my,
that'd be my homework assignment for this weekend
challenge to people if you haven't done this at all. Okay, next one, Ampachi. This is a server
that focuses on music. So, it's more of like your Spotify replacement or your Apple music or your
title replacement. Now, music is interesting because most of us don't just make music,
right? Like my previous example was you have videos that you filmed. So, music is you have to
do the legal thing. So if you feel like you are legally allowed to have an audio file on your
computer that you can stream, then these tools are for you. So a lot of music that you bought
years ago is DRM-free, digital rights management. If it's DRM-free, you should legally be fine
running in here. Technically you can. You just throw it in there and technically it will work.
but make sure you button up all the legal stuff for yourself that you care about.
If you don't care, you don't care. That's your prerogative. But let's say that you have a bunch
of legally allowed music that you can play. Well, you can stick it in here and you can set up an
entire music collection. You can have playlists, you can share playlists, you can stream. So you
can have an app running on your phone. You can be at the gym, working out, listening to music that
is streaming from your home computer. They also have features like the ability to download the
the music to your phone. So if you're going to be on an airplane, then you can have a playlist
where you're like, hey, this is like my banger playlist. I love this. You just hit a button
that says like, anytime a song is added to this playlist, download it to my phone offline. So
when I'm on an airplane or wherever I am, I don't have to be dependent on my home server being
connected or anything. I can just listen to this music. Those things are available to you. So
Ampache is the server. They've got a GitHub here.
and I keep talking about apps but it's really important to remember that these also have
web apps you basically just go into a web browser on any device whether it's a phone or a computer
and you can also access this you don't have to use their apps if you don't want to okay next one
would be subsonic this is another one that's similar to ampache this one looks like it's more
of a business like they've got this premium offer where you can pay them one dollar a month upgrade
the subsonic premium to enjoy extra features right they've got apps and stuff um something
about subsonic and i need to look into them more but something about them is they have like an api
that a lot of other open source apps have built to be compliant with so a lot of other apps are
compliant with the subsonic api which means that um you don't actually have to pay money to this
company or you don't have to you don't have to like share data with them at all these other apps
just all speak the same language as subsonic and so then this whole universe of tools is opened up
to you and other apps are opened up to you if they speak the subsonic api one of those is called
navidrome this is another home media server that lets you serve up your own media music that kind
of stuff i mean you can do all sorts of media files music files that kind of i think it's mostly
music. But yeah, different music formats. That's what I meant to say. Let's see. Amplify was one
that we just looked at. So we are pretty much at time. We've hit 34 minutes. I try to keep these
to around a half hour. I hope that I gave you a good view of the landscape of what is available
to you. Again, my challenge to you is if you aren't doing any of these, then just pick one of these,
look at what you think is within your technical abilities
and then your risk and privacy concerns are met
and download one of them and just try it out.
And then put like one video
or some song that you have, right?
And stick it on there and start to play around with it
and give yourself the challenge of streaming one song
or one video within your home.
And then if you wanna take the extra step this weekend,
do it outside of your home. So leave the Wi-Fi of your home. You can even, if you have a cell
phone, just turn off Wi-Fi on your cell phone and you can still be within your home technically,
physically, I should say. But try streaming outside your home too and see what that's like
and then build from there. All right. I hope this was helpful. I'm going to stop
sharing my screen here. Thanks everybody for joining Freedom Tech Weekend on this Friday.
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