Yeah this is the bigger issue here really. Fuck Google and their invasive bullshit, absolutely, but work devices should never be used for personal/private use, and vice versa. Keep that shit completely separate as much as possible.

Because this list is almost entirely made of and written by AI slop lmao

When I first set up my server this year it was a VERY easy decision between this and jellyfin. Why would I ever go with the corporate, closed source option?

I set this up a while back (and recently moved to Forgejo, see the update note at the beginning of the article):

https://nickcunningh.am/blog/how-to-automate-version-updates-for-your-self-hosted-docker-containers-with-gitea-renovate-and-komodo

Probably a tad overkill honestly but it works amazingly well, and turns every potential upgrade into an approval process so nothing will update when you don’t want it to.

Their usage is basically just the same old machine learning that’s existed for ages, long before the genAI bubble started. They really should avoid the buzzword for accuracy’s sake but it’s far removed from all the LLM generative dogshit.

Same, the email alias feature is huge.

Unfortunately not, just something I hear a lot from folks.

Adobe software, autoCAD, and anticheat are the top 3 reasons I usually hear. While there are alternatives for the first two, people who need these specific tools professionally don’t really have the choice.

Anticheat for gaming is a big one too. Personally I didn’t even consider switching until I finally quit Destiny 2 for good. If the main game someone plays just doesn’t work, they’re not gonna switch.

Probably

I’ve been eyeballing this, doesn’t seem too difficult for most compatible models either. Might be a little after Christmas project

It was on the Lemmy.world selfhosted sub but I’d rather not link it as it’s likely still open because the OP wasn’t listening to anyone and there’s probably some awful shit on there now.

Any service or tool with obvious genAI in its branding or the developer’s profile is an instant “no” from me. Linkwarden is a big one. Any advertisement post clearly written by an LLM I’ll avoid like the plague. If you’re willing to use hallucinations based on theft that use unbelievable amounts of water and energy, then I’m flat out not going to trust that your software has any value.

Also seen a handful of random tools with “Proudly made in the USA” or some garbage on the readme, and sure enough the developer always follows all of today’s big fascists on social media. Shocker.

Shoutout to that dude last week posting a fully public fileshare service because he wanted to “practice” selfhosting

I’ve always been concerned about it but never got around to making big changes until recently. Deleted my Facebook ten years ago but held on to IG so that says a lot about my priorities at the time. Tried a Linux dual boot but went back to Windows because Linux gaming support was almost non-existent (granted I did routinely run the Shut Up 10 tool at least).

Ten years later, I buckled down and changed everything I could. I haven’t cut everything out (i.e. still on Google Fi because of costs and coverage, still on discord because no one wants to go anywhere else). But now I’ve been running GrapheneOS for a year, run CachyOS on both my desktop and steam deck, moved from gmail to tuta, set up an entire home server to get away from google services and media streaming platforms, etc etc. This whole year has been the bulk of it for sure.

Honestly the biggest inspiration for finally getting it done was seeing all the tech oligarchs at the nazi inauguration last year, and knowing sooner or later they’re gonna start coming for communists too. Is all this gonna be enough to save my ass if they do? Probably not, but better now than never.

Oh this looks promising. TS + Gluetun does tend to be super slow, so routing just the outbound traffic through the chained VPN is excellent. I’ll give this a try this weekend.

I’ve just accepted it for now while I pray they work on updating it to officially support anything that’s not keycloak lmao

I made the switch a few months back. Manually migrated my files over using the desktop apps for both, but it was maybe 200GB of junk so it didn’t take long.

OpenCloud is great. Much faster, much simpler, does what it needs to do. That being said, it is very new so documentation is lacking, and the desktop and mobile app are VERY basic (the mobile app doesn’t have a dark theme and only offers a limited photo sync right now, for example, instead of setting various one or two-way synced folders).

It’s also worth nothing that their compose file and OIDC support are both a mess. The compose file is easy enough to work around, plenty of folks have put together cleaner, minimal single file setups. For OIDC, I did get it working with Authentik but it loves to constantly log me out mid-session in Librewolf all the time. For some reason they use a hard-coded clientID for OIDC, and even worse the ID is different for web, desktop, and mobile. Very bizarre.

So it’s far from flawless, but it’s early in development and overall it’s still a better fit for me than Nextcloud.

I haven’t used Mumble since like 2010, looks like it’s still the exact same tool as it ever was, and that’s honestly all it really needs to be. Love to see it

I mostly set it up for a few major albums like my wedding album. Other than that it’s like 90% dog pictures lmao

A lot of this bullshit is pretty easily tricked tbh

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/brits-can-get-around-discords-age-verification-thanks-to-death-strandings-photo-mode-bypassing-the-measure-introduced-with-the-uks-online-safety-act-we-tried-it-and-it-works-thanks-kojima/