Episode 215: Self-Hosting Your Platform

Self-hosting has always been a good idea but when your platform doesn't want to serve you, we have some self-hosted options that will. A Reddit user has Linux booting on an iPhone 7, a man was quoted $50K to run fiber to his house, so he built his own fiber ISP! -- During The Show -- 00:30 Minutes In Email 1 - Feedback from EP 212 Bluetooth and Drawing Tablet - David HSP/HFP designed for phones not computers Bluetooth support on Linux is difficult due to the way blue-tooth works (uses modem commands on mobile) Possible Solutions that bypass Linux blue-tooth stack Links to the 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083TD9VW4?pf_rd_r=EDN0TAKZ8952EWP1WGXT&pf_rd_p=5ae2c7f8-e0c6-4f35-9071-dc3240e894a8) This is Creative's version if you are looking for a more popular brand name. (https://us.creative.com/p/accessories/creative-bluetooth-audio-bt-w2-usb-transceiver) XP-PEN came up and they have a driver for Linux. It is a little bit hokey in the sense that their configuration application needs to be running in order for it to work. It does not always survive suspend/resume, but it is easy to launch again. Their non-display models also have good support for left-hand versus right-hand drawing When used as a display, there is no left-hand mode because it relies on dm to configure the display We purchased an xp-pen innovator 16 It is a 1080p 15.6 inch matte screen with hardware buttons connected via HDMI and 2 USB ports XP-PEN (https://www.xp-pen.com/) seems like a good company Link to first photo made with the tablet (https://imgur.com/ivIMrUc) 06:00 Minutes In Email 2 - VPN Recommendation? - Ira What is the best VPN company? private internet access (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/) They have a track history of NOT turning over user data, they get called into court they say we'd love to comply but we don't have the documents. affiliate link (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/buy-vpn/altispeed) 08:30 Minutes In Email 3 - Matrix Support Spreading - Charliebrownau Mind.com is supporting Matrix Protocol link (https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1193961192228610048) Mind.com (mind.com) is an alternative to Facebook and other big social networks 09:20 Minutes In Email 4 - Censorship - Rob What are your thoughts on Mozzila's blog post (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming) 11:15 Minutes in Pick of the Week MediaCMS (https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms) Fully featured open source video and media CMS Built mostly using the modern stack Django + React and includes a REST API No federation 14:00 Minutes In Gadget of the Week Dell's new thunderbolt dock Dell WD19TB (https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-thunderbolt-dock-wd19tb/apd/210-arik/pc-accessories) Built in thunderbolt cable Additional rear facing thunderbolt pass-through port 2x Display Ports 1x HDMI 2x Rear USB 1x Front Facing USB Dell's USB C dock Dell WD15 (https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/dell-dock-wd15/overview) 17:00 Minutes In News Guy by the name of Daniel Rodriguez managed to boot Linux with Gnome on an iPhone 7 YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO8vt34kTh0) Reddit write up (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kux9xx/success_iphone_7_with_dead_nand_netbooting/) Phone that was given to him by his grandparents as a junk device, He saved it from the landfill! Prerequisites writable directory available over nfs, including dhcp server on local network Checkra1n 0.10.2-beta (https://checkra.in/releases/0.10.2-beta#all-downloads) Kernel fork for h9x/A10 (https://github.com/corellium/linux-sandcastle) Project sandcastle utilities (https://github.com/corellium/projectsandcastle) EITHER arm64 cross compiler or an arm64 native device. I used a rpi4 on 20.04