People into Jellyfin use smart TVs? I haven’t connected mine to the internet.

Have you ever heard of speedrunning?

What have you tried to find an instance? Looks like PeerTube.wtf has open registration, and I found that with a quick search.

Far Cry 3 is what got me into FPS. Cyberpunk is also, of course, great.

I used NGINX with Certbot and haven’t had to manually touch anything HTTPS, it’s great.

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I’ll add that you can’t just “try” gimp really, you’ll have to learn some new workflows for sure, but yeah, should’ve been top of the list, it’s THE alternative.

You can still go to your mom’s house and get your data, unlike if you’re renting a VM.

I’m also completely not arguing that renting a VM isn’t self hosting, I’m certain I’ve said nothing of the sort, I’m just arguing that it’s worse than owning your hardware and therefor data.

That’s not really the point I’m trying to make, I’m not sure where this disconnect is coming from.

The question you should be asking is whether or not I can more easily access my home than a data center, to which the answer would be yes.

If the entire world disappeared aside from the plot of land I live on, well, I’d have larger issues, but I would still be able to access my data, until the generator ran out of gas of course.

To answer the question you did ask that, again, is not relevant to the point I’m trying to make, is yes. I work from home, and live in America where we don’t have third places, so I do most often access my data from home. Additionally, most of the services I self host are home automation and data backup based. Sure, I wouldn’t be able to access Immich or Home Assistant while away from home, which would be annoying, but the end of the world? Not really. A lot of people intentionally don’t make their HA/Immich instances visible to the internet.

I’m not sure what the disconnect is here. In both scenarios I’m reliant on an ISP. In the scenario where it’s on a data center, if my internet goes down or the data center goes down, I am shit out of luck. I am not capable of accessing my data. If it’s hosted at my house, I still have the ability to go home and access my stuff. One seems much better than the other to me. It’s the difference between being able to access your stuff and not.

There are definitely positives to both, but having physical access to my own hardware that contains my own data is a huge positive to me.

Sure, but if stuff goes really south, I can still access the stuff on my hardware from my home. If stuff goes down, I cannot access the stuff in data centers, period. There’s positives and negatives either way, but imo owning your shit is a huge positive.

This feels like a bad faith argument. If the internet goes down, I will be able to access my servers and my data by simply going home. If those services were hosted in the cloud, I wouldn’t not be able to access my data at all. Obviously one is better than the other.

That’s true I suppose. The only thing I can think of is check deposits. I only do that like once per year, so I could just go to the ATM or use an old Android device.

Exactly, which is why not having to checkout at all would be nice.

I meant a Google FindMy compatible tracker, they ping off of all Android devices, I believe it’s opt-out to be a part of the network. It’s honestly a failure on Google’s part that so many don’t seem to be aware that Google has an alternative to AirTags.

It looks like they have an Android app which means a Linux app could exist, and wouldn’t that do exactly what OP wants to do?

Edit: Looks like it might depend on Apple Mail. I wonder how the apps work. It must need to be running on a Mac somewhere or something?

Edit: Yup, that’s exactly it, needs to be running on a Mac.

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I’m not sure what you mean by that, there’s a plugin that adds FindMy network support to Home Assistant that seems to be up to date. If you mean Google doesn’t support them, I’m also not sure what you mean by that. The app is on my phone, up to date, and tracking devices, same as the Apple network, just with Google devices. If your issue is Pebblebee, there are multiple different brands you can buy from depending on your needs, but generally, a tracker is a tracker.

As far as how well they work to track lost items, I’m honestly not sure, as I haven’t lost anything yet. They should be comparable to an Airtag, as they can ping off of all Android devices unless someone opts out.

Pebble bee I think? They’ve been fine. They’re rechargeable, which is nice.

Because I’d rather be doing anything else at home that I can’t do while in line at the grocery store.