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Self-hosting is being enshittified

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Re: Self-hosting is being enshittified

#41

If you’re self-hosting, do you need 128GB of ram? I suspect you don’t. I suspect a couple of beelinks could run your whole business (minus the GPU needs).

I self-host and generally put 64GB of RAM in servers (DDR3, thankfully). Certain arrangements of Docker-based services simply chew up a lot of RAM.

Re: Self-hosting is being enshittified

#42
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you read the Github issue? These guys are paying customers.

Where are you seeing that? From what I can tell, the 10k message limit applies to "Mattermost Entry": > Mattermost Entry gives small, forward-leaning teams a free self-hosted Intelligent Mission Environment to get started on improving their mission-critical secure collaborative workflows. Entry has all features of Enterprise Advanced with the following server-wide limitations and omissions: https://docs.mattermost.co…

What the fuck is this lmao? "a free self-hosted Intelligent Mission Environment to get started on improving their mission-critical secure collaborative workflows".

Sounds like some kind of parody of enterprise software.

Re: Self-hosting is being enshittified

#43

I don't understand this fairly sparse "article." "Plex added a paid license for remote streaming, a feature that was previously free. And then Plex decided to also sell personal data — I sure love self-hosted software spying on me." How is it "self-hosted" if it's "remote streaming?" And if you're hosting it, you can throttle any outgoing traffic you want. Right? The only other examples are Mattermost and MinIO... wh…

> How is it "self-hosted" if it's "remote streaming?" And if you're hosting it, you can throttle any outgoing traffic you want. Right? You host the plex service with your media library. Plex allows you to stream without opening up your firewall to others. Not sure now it works exactly because I never hosted it myself.

That's exactly my point: It runs on your computer, on your LAN, serving your media. How is it doing anything outside your control, then?

Re: Self-hosting is being enshittified

#44
If you want someone else's software you have to play their game. If you want software to be perfectly aligned to you, write it yourself. It turns out lots of so-called engineers are just script kiddies. They think they're doing engineering when they run someone else's `vagrant up` then get upset when the someone else upgraded from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1. Write your code. Become ungovernable.

Re: Self-hosting is being enshittified

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Plex allows you to stream without opening up your firewall to others. It relies on their hosted services/infrastructure. I avoid Plex for that reason. I just host my media with nginx + indexing enabled. Wireguard for creating the tunnel between the server-client and Kodi as the frontend to view the media (you can add an indexed http server as a media source). Works great, no transcoding like Plex, but that's less o…

Do you have any recommendations for decoders? I've been using a fire stick for a bit but I wouldn't mind a better alternative.

I use an Nvidia Shield for everything except Blu-Ray.

Re: Self-hosting is being enshittified

#46
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Maybe I'm missing something here: the great thing about self-hosting is that you choose if and when you update your back-end software. What's stopping self-hosting admins from simply staying on a known good version and forking that if they so desire?

Security updates is what's stopping them often. You also realistically can't fork things unless multiple people do, and they all stay interested in the fork.

You don't have to expose your self-hosted services on the Internet to begin with. 0day bugs do exist even if you diligently apply all security updates.

Re: Self-hosting is being enshittified

#48
Sorry, but no. It's open source my guy, your ego and entitlement should be checked at the door as you enter the sandbox. Take anything you like.

Also, forking is an option, you can always use AI to keep it current.

Re: Self-hosting is being enshittified

#49

time marches forward but instead of progress we go backwards. expect to write your own software on limited resources like its 1990 again.

Honestly maybe we could learn a thing or two from 1990's computing?

Running an OS in 16-32mb ram with GUI...

Memory management for programs...

Re: Self-hosting is being enshittified

#50
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

you choose if and when you update your back-end software That's what we say it's about. But it's really about open source devs being our slaves forever. Get to work, Mattermost! (whip crack)

Did you read the Github issue? These guys are paying customers.

They are not paying customers. From the announcement [1]:

> What This Means for Existing Deployments

> Paid Customers: No action required—your deployments are unaffected.

[1] https://forum.mattermost.com/t/mattermost-v11-changes-in-fre...

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