Shimitar

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  • ShimitarAtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldIs Plex really Self Hosting?
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    1 day ago

    I think Plesk is still self-hosting. Nowhere it says that self host MUST be open source or in general, free stuff. Self hosting is host on your premises, or actually host yourself (hosting on a VPS IMHO is still selfhost).

    As for Plex, i discarded it from the day 0 and went with Jellyfin directly, never looked back and i am 100% happy with my choice. I would NOT consider something like Plex (with it’s enshittification, pricing and overall shady approaches in general) as viable for my setup. But, it’s still self-host since you host your media and your service.






  • I like and use gimp (well… Kind of moved to Krita but still use gimp sometimes) but of course are you referring to the unfinished state or the complexity?

    Gimp does one thing only, i don’t recall it can act as a code editor or a browser or a file manager etc etc … It is a complex thing it does, but the problem underlying it tries to solve is complex.

    Over-complexity is related to the complexity of the problem to solve, not to the complexity of the tool that you use.

    So a simple solution to a complex problem is also a complex solution in itself…


  • You would have a useless object that within a day is permanently discharged and turned off. Maybe you bring also a charger and luckily find a stable enough power source that it doesn’t burn in a few days.

    Still, an iphone is a useless device without network of any kind.

    Maybe you could impress somebody with the calculator (those existed already but where massive mechanical devices unable to do divisions without a math degree kind of).

    My guess nobody would be quite interested. Probably the plastic and aluminum would be the most interesting technology for the time.