You'll Own Nothing and It's Awful | Taking Control of Your Media, ft. Wendell
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Sponsor: Montech HS01 Pro on Amazon https://geni.us/UYLeZn and HS02 Pro https://geni.us/ABM9fEB Everything is a paid subscription service now, all the way down to data storage. We talk with Wendell of Level1 Techs about taking control of your services, media, internet privacy, and more in this video. Wendell helps to detail some beginner basics on making your own storage server, router, gaming server, your own VPN, family media servers, and more. This is a continuation on the concept that, apparently, you'll own nothing and be happy. Watch our "Is Intel Actually Screwed?" fun discussion with Wendell here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3rUP3ULlUQ Check out our talk about benchmarking Linux with Wendell here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6tQYJSEMw And see his overhaul of our server! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqndR8435cc Check out Level1 Techs here! https://www.youtube.com/c/Level1Techs Grab the Blind Eye T-Shirt on our store! https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/blind-eye-t-shirt-black-market TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Everything is a Service 02:00 - Creepy Internet Service Providers 04:13 - Taking Ownership of Your Media 06:18 - Replace TeamViewer and Discord 07:38 - Game Server Hosting 10:46 - Creating Your Own VPN and Router 12:38 - Why is Every Service an Awful Subscription? 17:08 - Cloud Storage for Families and Friends 20:22 - Hardware in Front of Us 22:38 - Notes, Book Servers, Rugpulls 23:53 - Barriers to Entry ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Editing Vitalii Makhnovets: Editing Andrew Coleman: Camera Guest: Wendell of Level1 Techs
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