Controlling the software is an integral part of the ethos of self hosting. Literally right in the first sentence of the wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(network)

Self-hosting is the practice of running and maintaining a website or service, as well as own servers for e-mail, IM, NTP and so on, using a private server, instead of using a service outside of the administrator’s own control. Self-hosting allows users to have more control over their data, privacy, and computing infrastructure, as well as potentially saving costs and improving skills.

instead of using a service outside of the administrator’s own control

Plex is outside of the administrators control.

They merely have control over a user interface that can be replaced.

If you have no control over it, that means plex isnt self hosted. The data is self hosted, but not the interface which is all that plex is at the end. You are basically just donating your hardware and data to a shitty company at that point.

Yup, many laptops even have a sim card slot so with that you could even configure it to fall back to mobile data in case of a power outage that also takes out your homes wired internet.

I have a thinkpad at work that has been in that role for years. Its the central syncthing node for like 10 other laptops and computers. It then also does regular backups to off site storage in case anything bad happens with the syncthing setup.

Or as an always online syncthing node, but that basically makes it a homeserver.

Is it? Seems pretty reasonable. If you includes the reduction in costs for health and safety because of fossil fuels it should give you a lot of net plus.

Everything he does is “considered” treason, but that has no effect, because there is nobody willing to enact the law anymore.

Bluesky users are doing that all by themselves, no need for russia.

Now if ony wayland stopped causing issues with my multimonitor setup…

Yeah, we know…

Those are ultra fascists and also nazis

Correct. Our chancellor is still a fascist, that hasnt changed.

But people usually know what those look like. With criminals not so much.

This is not about the NHS deal btw, that still very much stands afaik

Yeah all the components in the fairphones are modularized with no exposed electronics so it’s easy for non-technical users to swap defective parts without damaging anything. So nothing cool to see sadly, except for repairable design.

Not super interesting looking except for the visible antennas and connectors.

Post number quadrillion about this garbage. Just fuuuck off already with your manufactured outrage google.

The obvious end goal of the push for LLMs. Centralized control over information that can be used to bend public opinion and trends.

Yup i am painfully aware

Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar said the decision was “arbitrary and political” and that Israel would continue to “stand for the right of Jews to settle in the heart of our homeland”.

This should just be counted as an admission that Israel as a whole requires sanctioning if there is ever to be change.

The current state looks actually disgusting yeah. Not a single tree or green bush in sight anywhere.