Agreed. I’d say that, if you have the option, then the libre option is the one you should pick whenever you can. But, realistically, software is a hammer, and you should pick the hammer that does what you want, and ignore the internet hollering that you’re somehow impure if you use even a single piece of proprietary software.

One thing to be careful of that I don’t see mentioned is you need to setup ACLs for any local-only services that are accessible via a web server that’s public.

If you’re using the standard name-based hosting in say, nginx, and set up two domains publicsite.mydomain.com and secret.local.mydomain.com, anyone who figures out what the name of your private site is can simply use curl with a Host: header and request the internal one if you haven’t put up some ACLs to prevent it from being accessed.

You’d want to use an allow/deny configuration to limit the blowback, something like

allow internal.ip.block.here/24; deny all;

in your server block so that local clients can request it, but everyone else gets told to fuck off.

Interesting, but yeah, entirely expected. Non-native code performance has always been worse, and the more complicated the app the shittier the performance. Same thing happened on the M1’s release for any Intel-native games on OS X, too.

I’ll be the contrary one: I tried a lot of things and ended up, eventually, going back to Nextclolud, simply because it’s extendable and can add more shit to do things as you need it.

File sync and images may be all you need now, but let’s say in the future you want to dump Google Docs, or add calendar and contact syncing, or notes, or to do lists, or hosting your own bookmark sync app, or integrating webmail, or…

It’s got a lot of flaws, to be sure, but the ability to make it essentially do every task you might want cloud syncing with to at least a level of ‘good enough’, has pretty much kept me on it.

Sequel yes, more DLC for the first one, no.

And this is why I don’t have ANY moral qualms about pirating shit: they’d do it to us in a heartbeat if there was a buck to be made.

Yeah, they’re all a single-level deep. Multi-disc albums are also the same: artist - album/1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2, etc.

No more food, but here’s half a pound of cricket flour. Meets all your daily nutritional needs!

Interesting, I haven’t had any of those issues with tagged media. I use beets for the tagging and sorting, and it’s been otherwise fine? I do \music\artist - album for the directory paths, though, so it’s already happily sorted and grouped correctly on the filesystem in a way that jellyfin seems to like.

I mean, duh? Influencers only get paid if they do and say what the sponsor paying them wants them to do and say. You can, of course, NOT do that, but you won’t get a 2nd check, so the whole job requires you play along with your bosses and do what they want.

There’s not a single really trustworthy influencer type out there that takes sponsor money, and you shouldn’t trust ANY of them to do anything other than what they have to do so they get paid.

So, I posted this on a similar thread a few days ago, but plex and/or jellyfin do an amazing job of user/library seperation, music streaming, AND have apps for every relevant platform you’d remotely care about: phones, computers, browsers, widgets plugged into your tv, etc.

It’s a little odd nobody has bothered to do a really good multi user/library audio-only app, but plex+plexamp or jellyfin+finamp is a pretty great solution as it is.

So if we light the planet on fire to fuel the AI, the AI will then tell us how to put the fire out.

Okay sure, but how about we just… don’t do any of that?

Since when has a cat needed permission to go wherever it wants?

I’ve saved tons of money by only not playing games I get for free. Much more affordable that way.

I’m now imagining David Caruso sitting there at his desk licking hard drives. Thanks a lot.

Honestly, this should be actually illegal. It’s a fraudulent job posting designed to waste my limited time, but it’s okay for these companies to do shit like this because of uh, reasons?

I mean I’m not blaming anyone other than the manufacturers who make things and then arbitrarily decide to stop supporting them while they’re still perfectly usable, leaving basically no choice other than trashing and buying a new one.

Just a side note, Commento is kinda dead on the self-hosting front at least as it’s been years since an update, which is probably not great for a public service.

However, Comentario is a updated fork that’s being maintained.

I mean you can escape it by just not using google’s shit.

I know it’s not an option for everyone, but you can use email that’s not gmail, and online office suites and file sharing that’s not google docs and drive.

(I went with mxroute for email, and a nextcloud with embedded only office for the docs/drive replacement.)

If you want a mostly straightforward WordPress-alike that’s not WordPress, you probably should at least consider Ghost. I’m using it for my blog and it’s got a slightly weird focus on “paid blog members”, but it’s super solid and doesn’t have a multi-decade history of endless security problems.

And, soon, it’ll be a happy member of the Fediverse.