I think there might be around 10 people in the whole world that has ever bought WinRAR. The rest of us just kept closing the nag box and used the free trial indefinitely.

Niagara Launcher is great. I have been using it for a few years now

It’s not exclusively Nazis. There was a big communist wave in Sweden during the 20s and 30s where some people chose to move to the Soviet Union with the promise of a better life and they paid a high price for it.

https://sverigesradio.se/play/avsnitt/2595324

The common people is often overlooked or forgotten and their voices gets silenced.

This might be wishful thinking but could this lead to Nintendo and other console manufacturers having to open up their ecosystem and allow third party stores?

LLAMA if I recall correctly was closed source until the source code was leaked online. After that Meta decided to just open source it.

The dot com bubble 2.0 is on the horizon

Whatever. You’re not worth my time anymore. Keep getting scammed by cloud hosting if you want to. I will keep using my home server and spread the word about how easy it is to host a home server and how much of a scam a VPS is.

When the majority of people talk about self-hosting they specifically talk about hosting a service on your own hardware. Not a rent on someone else’s computer…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(web_services)

https://www.openproject.org/blog/why-self-hosting-software/

Even Lenovo knows this shit…

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/self-hosting/

Sure, you could say that since you put the service on the VPS. But you don’t own the server and host it on your own hardware. Which is what the person you replied to was talking about. Why would you even point out that hosting a service requires special knowledge if you find hosting in a VPS and at home equal?

Once could say it requires special knowledge to host a service in the cloud too. The extra step I had to take was to open port 80 and 433 on my server and install nginx to forward the traffic to the right container on my local network since I only have one public IP. It took me minimal research to figure it out.

The point was that self-hosting is not hard if you do it the right way. You claim it’s very hard and requires specialized knowledge. I don’t think it’s much different than hosting in the cloud.

I got started self-hosting last week when I got a hold of a smal Lenovo ThinkCentre. I installed Proxmox on it and if I want to self-host something I just spin up a container or virtual machine on the Proxmox system. It’s so much easier than installing self-hosted projects on bare metal. And if you want to change things around then just disable or delete the container/vm and let Proxmox stay clean. If one container breaks the rest of the system will still function.

I could easily host Lemmy from home with Proxmox and a reverse proxy with my current setup. I am not going to because I am not interested in moderating a platform and all the responsibility that comes with it, but it’s very possible to do.

Edit: the Proxmox community helper scripts makes installing most things a breeze! I use them every opportunity I get.

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

This is the first script to start with on a fresh install

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=post-pve-install

I think Linux Mint would be a good first distro.

I recently learned about a project called Operese. It is a Windows to Linux migration tool that also sets up Kubuntu. Kubuntu is Ubuntu with the KDE desktop environment instead of the GNOME desktop environment. I don’t know how well that tool works since I never tried it but it looks promising.

There is also a new project called Winboat that is meant to make it easier to install and use Windows software such as Adobe Photoshop

I watched that rant on YouTube this morning. I can recommend everyone to see it if you haven’t already.

This is the way. I left the absuive relationship with Microsoft a few months after the Steam Deck got released. Valve proved to me that Linux can do gaming well now and that GNOME is not the only desktop environment to choose from.

The problem has originated because he changed the license resulting in older versions being the only way to ship duckstation.

Edit: lisence to license