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[945.50 --> 950.66] fairly quickly. Like you do that. You make, you make, if you adopt something, you make sure that |
[950.66 --> 957.84] you can redeploy it as necessary. And those kinds of things, I think they help a lot. But I think |
[957.84 --> 962.70] this show should ask the question more often, is there a cloud service that could do this? |
[963.16 --> 968.00] And if there is, why are we not choosing to use it? Because it is a big trade-off every time. |
[968.34 --> 972.66] And the more critical the service is to you, I think the more serious you have to consider that. |
[972.98 --> 975.72] I'm trying to think of a good example. I suppose wiki would be a decent one. |
[975.72 --> 981.44] Because you can probably throw some stuff up on GitHub in a random repository, |
[981.76 --> 990.98] a bunch of text files, and call that a wiki if you want to. You could also go to some random website |
[990.98 --> 996.96] and buy probably wiki capabilities. But there's nothing quite like hosting your own and keeping |
[996.96 --> 1005.12] that kind of information in-house. Because the role a wiki in particular fulfills often is to store |
[1005.12 --> 1011.52] proprietary, you know, custom information, you know, maybe Wi-Fi passwords for your house or |
[1011.52 --> 1016.42] something, or the code to the safe so that your wife can open it when you're out or something. I don't |
[1016.42 --> 1023.66] know what people store in their, you know, wikis. But there could be some sensitive information in there. |
[1023.66 --> 1028.48] Sounds like you have a code for a safe that if I was ever on your LAN, I should try to get that code. |
[1028.82 --> 1030.26] I've got to buy the safe first. |
[1031.26 --> 1035.42] I was like, he has a safe? Oh, okay. But it's a good example. You're right. I have been thinking, |
[1035.60 --> 1042.02] like, how could I leave my wife notes in a way that is fully secure? And there is this feeling |
[1042.02 --> 1047.98] that I think is actually pretty special. And it's this total feel of control. And I feel this when I |
[1047.98 --> 1054.36] am off-grid, and I'm generating my own power, and I've brought my own food, and I don't need anyone |
[1054.36 --> 1061.90] to do anything. For a brief moment, I feel like I'm truly in control. And I have that same sense when |
[1061.90 --> 1069.04] it comes to everything being offline in my RV, and being self-contained to the RV, and having |
[1069.04 --> 1074.30] gone through this project off-grid where I offloaded a bunch of services and got everything running |
[1074.30 --> 1082.44] locally. When I get access to that stuff, it's like this feeling of confidence that we get so |
[1082.44 --> 1086.88] sparingly now. With so many cloud services that are integrated with our mobile devices, |
[1087.06 --> 1093.42] or integrated with commercial desktops, less and less consumers and technology users have control. |
[1093.60 --> 1098.32] Less and less. They have less control than ever of modifying their devices, of controlling their |
[1098.32 --> 1103.74] devices, or even determining who has access to their data, or if it can be scanned, or any of that. |
[1103.74 --> 1109.46] And so when we have these areas, we can actually exercise that control. We have to keep doing it, |
[1109.56 --> 1115.66] or else it will go away. If there's no users of these self-hosted services, and if there's no |
[1115.66 --> 1124.00] market demand for this control, eventually the developers and the companies that serve that niche |
[1124.00 --> 1129.42] will dry up. And so it's like you have to always be looking like, where can I exercise that control? |
[1129.50 --> 1132.94] Where does it matter the most? And that's kind of where I've come down on it. It's like, okay, |
[1132.94 --> 1137.70] this information, like secret stuff I want to give my wife, that is always going to be |
[1137.70 --> 1143.06] on my land. Like, I'm just never going to put it anywhere else. And thankfully, you know, |
[1143.08 --> 1146.24] I've come up with a little system where it's just some markdown files. It's really simple. It's not, |
[1146.28 --> 1148.66] it's not, it's not a big effort to actually do it. |
[1149.18 --> 1155.66] You are right. There are an increasing number of companies doing stuff for this marketplace. You know, |
[1155.66 --> 1161.12] Tuya, we talked about it last episode with Morgan, have announced a native home assistant |
[1161.12 --> 1166.12] integration as part of their product line. You know, so these things are happening and you see, |
[1166.22 --> 1171.66] what's his name? Linus Sebastian has just bought a new house and he was talking about how he's going to |
[1172.30 --> 1177.62] implement smart dampers in every room. So he's not air conditioning every room and how there is lots of |
[1177.62 --> 1181.86] proprietary services that could do this stuff and how it's just all so overwhelming. And |
[1181.86 --> 1186.38] I think that's largely what I'm feeling too. It's just a bit overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I |
[1186.38 --> 1192.64] could do. You know, it's not even necessarily just when stuff breaks. It's, it's that feeling of once |
[1192.64 --> 1196.80] I put my daughter to bed or something in the evening of, okay, I've got a couple of hours before I go to |
[1196.80 --> 1202.90] sleep now. I don't want to just sit and veg and watch cartoons necessarily. I'll do that whilst I'm |
[1202.90 --> 1207.96] doing something else. But what out of my huge long list of ideas that I've got, should I pick and |
[1207.96 --> 1213.60] oh, I can't be bothered. I'll just watch cartoons. You know, what I've been doing is like the really |
[1213.60 --> 1221.84] simple stuff. Uh, I went through my, uh, home assistant dashboard and I made individual, I chose |
[1221.84 --> 1227.28] like individual icons for each entity. So each light bulb has like a unique light bulb icon, really just |
[1227.28 --> 1234.52] slow kind of paced work while I was watching Rick and Morty, you know, and so it's like not very high |
[1234.52 --> 1239.44] cognitive load, but I can sit there and fiddle with something. Um, and then the other thing that |
[1239.44 --> 1243.32] I did recently, it was, it was one of those moments where I was like, I don't need to build something |
[1243.32 --> 1249.12] complicated here. I could just get a couple of window fans off of Amazon that have manual controls, |
[1249.76 --> 1254.56] plug them into some smart plugs, and I could have some set to input and I could have some set to output. |
[1255.56 --> 1260.08] And then I could just set up automations to turn the smart plugs on and off. And it was one of those |
[1260.08 --> 1265.30] moments where I was like, I could just do something very simple for cooling and it would probably take |
[1265.30 --> 1271.14] me 35 minutes to set it all up. And I was so down in the weeds with all of these things. Like I could |
[1271.14 --> 1276.36] build a new virtualization backend and then I could set up individual host OSs and then put containers |
[1276.36 --> 1280.04] in there. Like I was going through this entire thing about how I wanted to rebuild all of the |
[1280.04 --> 1283.74] infrastructure. And then I thought, you know what else I could do is I could just spend 30 minutes |
[1283.74 --> 1288.26] doing this tonight and I'll spend 30 minutes doing that tomorrow. And over a couple of nights, |
[1288.26 --> 1290.76] I got it all done. If it works, it ain't stupid. |
[1292.38 --> 1299.26] Linode.com slash SSH. Go there to support the show and get $100 in credit on a new account. |
[1299.82 --> 1303.18] Linode is our cloud hosting provider. When we're building something that we want to experiment |
[1303.18 --> 1307.54] with, we do it on Linode. There's a lot of quick ways to deploy. They have 11 data centers to choose |
[1307.54 --> 1312.30] from. They have crazy fast network connections and a whole range of types of servers. So if we want |
[1312.30 --> 1318.12] something simple, we'll get like a $5 a month system. But sometimes we want some dedicated CPUs or GPUs. |
[1318.26 --> 1323.54] They have a lot of choices. Roger wrote into the show to say that he used Linode to replace |
[1323.54 --> 1328.88] Zoom with something he can host himself. He says, along with just about everybody else, |
[1328.96 --> 1334.74] the Milwaukee Linux users group had to go to virtual due to COVID-19. And as you might expect |
[1334.74 --> 1339.82] from a group of Linux users, they weren't a big fan of using Zoom. They wanted to use Jitsi. |
[1340.04 --> 1345.90] So they looked around at different providers and they chose Linode. They picked the $5 a month |
[1345.90 --> 1350.86] machine and they also chose to do the automatic backup service. So that way there's just backups |
[1350.86 --> 1356.74] that are just taken care of. They installed Jitsi Meet on that system and they're now using it with |
[1356.74 --> 1362.92] NextCloud Talk to do the video calls for their lug, all running on Linode. You know, what's really nice |
[1362.92 --> 1369.92] about this too is, is Roger was able to prototype Jitsi and NextCloud and try them all out really quickly |
[1369.92 --> 1374.80] in environments that are production style environments. So you could really get a sense |
[1374.80 --> 1380.14] for how it's going to perform. And it's pretty great because at one point they made a change to |
[1380.14 --> 1387.64] NextCloud just before the lug meeting and it broke. So Roger says they were able to use the snapshots |
[1387.64 --> 1393.12] that they got with the automatic backups and just roll it back. So it was basically a non-issue. |
[1393.12 --> 1397.86] And then after the lug was over, they were able to continue on with the NextCloud update. |
[1398.38 --> 1402.52] And that's just an example of how you can use Linode, you know, to run your own Zoom instance. |
[1402.70 --> 1407.88] Or they also have a one-click deployment for Owncast, which is essentially a Twitch in a box. |
[1408.56 --> 1413.18] You can use it for that as well. There's so many different choices from hosting your website to |
[1413.18 --> 1418.56] their object storage. Like I use it for like a sync thing instance. Just go try it out, |
[1418.56 --> 1424.76] learn something, and experiment with that $100 and support the show at linode.com slash SSH. |
[1426.82 --> 1432.42] Now, in case you haven't heard, we're getting together in Denver. I'm looking forward to this. |
[1432.96 --> 1437.58] And not only is Alex going to be there, but he's going to be our trivia master at the meetup. |
[1437.98 --> 1439.90] So you got to come just to say hi to Alex. |
[1440.24 --> 1443.80] Looking forward to that. I've been working hard on the trivia questions. I promise you. |
[1444.22 --> 1448.02] There'll be a bunch of Linux questions. There'll be some, you know, general knowledge stuff, |
[1448.02 --> 1453.20] but there's also going to be some like older, more esoteric hardware questions as well. I've been |
[1453.20 --> 1459.06] having a real fun digging out some of these questions. I'm looking forward to that. So we'll |
[1459.06 --> 1463.34] have the meetup details. We have two meetups actually planned. Alex is going to be the Denver |
[1463.34 --> 1468.28] meetup, but there's also a Salt Lake City meetup on the books. Details are over at meetup.com |
[1468.28 --> 1474.86] slash Jupiter Broadcasting. And then additionally, in Lady Joupes, my RV, I will have a live tracker. |
[1474.86 --> 1479.46] And if there, and there will be more details. And if it works out, we'll do a little micro meetup. |
[1479.62 --> 1484.66] Could just be, you know, just come by and say hi. And we'll have this embedded webpage that you'll |
[1484.66 --> 1490.02] be able to view over at colony tracker dot live. That'll show you right where we are at. It's all |
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