Sorry, jellyfin isn’t that much work. It’s maintaining the whole thing, radarr, sonarr, etc. all running on an unraid server that needs maintenance and upkeep. Just work.

I could have said unraid server I just thought more people would understand if I said jellyfin.

Keep in mind that none of this applies to stuff for my job. If I’m working on a problem for my company the risk/reward profile is completely different.

How I decide:

• is it critical software?
• can I switch off of it easily?
• are there other options?
• how good/bad are the other options?

if it’s critical software I try to absolutely avoid anything that can be manipulated out of my control. That’s not always possible, or if it is, you have to make major concessions. An example is home automation software. Before I had learned these lessons I used samsung’s smartthings. ST enshittified almost immediately, because it was 1. built by samsung, 2. dependent on cloud services, 3. they removed capabilities from their API making the product worse than it was before. Home Assistant was coming on the scene right about then and I immediately switched. Home automation software is critical infrastructure, it should never be a cloud service (the point is literally local control, any company selling a cloud-only product for a local-only problem is a grift and will enshittify eventually). Switching off of Home Assistant is dead simple. None of my products in my house are HA products, they’re all their own brands, etc. The actions are all controlled by me, as long as a different system provides similar capability then the cost to switch has nothing to do with HA and only to do with the target system.

Compare that with something like Github. I paid for Github before it was free, because the features were worth it to me. I lose nothing by using a cloud service for Git, because it’s a DVCS. All my data is local to begin with, and Github provides me with things like 1. a community, 2. an account to contribute to others, 3. a hosting location for a portfolio, 4. free static website hosting. The cost to migrate off of Github has nothing to do with Github’s product and only to do with the community that uses Github.

You have to make this cost benefit analysis for everything in your life. Essentially, mine is completely based off of how much work it would be to move off of the product and if that work is worth it. Some things are worth it to self host, for example my jellyfin server is an absolute metric fuckton of work and costs a significant amount. But the alternative to that is paying for 15 different streaming services and still not having access to everything, and being screwed when those companies decide they’re not going to have a specific item anymore, or they’re going to charge for it, or they’re going to increase prices without improving the service. Some things are not worth it to self host, for example I pay for Obsidian because I wanted to use it and iOS sandbox doesn’t allow Obsidian to save to a dropbox folder. There are plenty of free alternatives, but I like Obsidian’s feature set and switching off it at a later point is easy, it’s all markdown files.

Yeah agreed. Just another piece of white devs acting like they knew better for everyone.

In what way is the ioniq 5 not a station wagon. I haven’t even seen Hyundai call it a crossover. It’s incredibly low, it’s nowhere near the size of a crossover.

Gradle upgrades are dead simple… like yeah I get a bunch of the other criticisms of Gradle, but they mark things as deprecated two full major versions ahead and then slowly phase them out. Upgrades are a single command.

I haven’t really encountered the issues others are having and I’m guessing a lot of them occurred before Gradle’s switch to kotlin.

Edit: or the issues are actually from android build tool and not actually Gradle

Man I’ve never seen it not work. It’s pretty much the only pattern I use because it’s so successful. Meanwhile the other teams in my company have numerous failed migrations because they try to rewrite the entire thing at once instead of using the strangler fig pattern.

It’s not new. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

Social media requires accounts… by default rss is literally more accessible.

Ioniq 5, EV6, GV60

also, don’t use Notes to try to remove the query parameters. apple is fucking idiotic and made it almost impossible to actually delete the query parameters. I literally tried for like 15 minutes the other day and it was incredible how it would completely ignore me deleting the query parameters and just resave exactly what I had originally input (even if I long pressed and chose edit). It’s just easier to repaste it back into safari or whatever and delete it there.

The R4L devs are literally saying (and have been for years at this point) that the c devs do not need to touch a single line of rust nor maintain any part of the integrations. So it’s quite backwards from what you’re saying. Specific c devs are complaining for no reason.

Not sure about a lot of these different languages, but Ruby claims to have taken many many many of its features from smalltalk, so the article is quite strange in that regard too.

Isn’t bonjour the reason that devices like printers famously worked so much better on Mac than windows? I feel like I read an article about that like a decade or two ago.

I’ve found that lego, gunpla, or 3d printing do a really good job of keeping you off of a computer.