A great question. First of all, all of my services run with docker compose and use volumes for their config storage which get backed up regularly. Then I just use markdown files organized by having a separate file for each service. Basically anything I would need to reproduce my setup on a new machine is what I try to write down. All the docs and compose yaml files are versioned in git. I usually realize I left out info later on and add it as it occurs to me, typically if I have to set up the services on a new machine. This all applies to any software that needs more than a little config, not just apps hosted for the purpose of other machines using them. It’s a very imperfect process, but it’s a ton better than what I used to do which was think “eh I’ll remember how it’s setup”. I rarely would remember all the key details.

If the point is the GIMP’s name hurts it and Photoshop’s does not, I can fully agree to that.

Photoshop is not popular because of its name. It’s popular because it’s very powerful and was one of the first on the market. I’m sure there were a lot of anti competitive moves over the years also. But it’s not due to the name.

That post title reads like nerdy mad libs

Heh, I was thinking the same but then settled on length: 100%

stop calling it “my sequel”

Why?

I didn’t read this because you cannot undo op saying “I don’t care what their politics are”.

Good to know your fascism gets expressed as a web browser choice, I guess.

Speaking for yourself it would seem

Piefed.social was too, on my end

Yep, that sounds like the poster child for this phenomenon.

The users who are being talked about here probably don’t get that exposing your machine to the Internet carries risk. That’s the point.

Every response I read here seems to get it. Yeah, you shouldn’t do risky things without understanding them first. By all means play around with self hosting without knowing anything at first, but do not expose your machine to the Internet without fully understanding the implications and do not complain that self hosting is hard. If you think it is, you just need a bit more education. It’s already incredibly easy these days.

So lost.

… You just literally said hosting shouldn’t exist. You are using the Internet right now.

Also pretty weird to keep phrasing this as a command, discounting an entire class of use cases to be invalid because bad actors exist?

Gotcha. We’ll see, I guess.

Are you advocating for an self hosting to only exist locally? Or are you advocating for hosting everything on corporate servers?

Then they aren’t doing it correctly, or lying. That is an included/free feature. They advertise it that way and other users ITT say it works. I’ve no reason to doubt them.

I didn’t realize I did that. Given that my opinion on OSes is that “the larger the budget, the shittier it is”, I don’t knowingly do what you’re suggesting here. Linux over windows and macOS any day.

Yes, they changed the free featureset, and afaik those changes were fair. Providing a tunnel for remote streaming for free doesn’t seem like a good business plan. I mean, yeah they could always back out of the promise of what a lifetime pass is, and if they do I will find a new solution and hope they’re sued for it.

If they do back out of their lifetime commitment, I suspect that would drive some other similar apps to get better. Maybe I would even learn to live with jellyfin as it currently exists in that situation. But so far I don’t see a reason to, and that would almost have been true if I never paid for plex.