Dumpdog

I hear ya. My hosting provider is crap too.

Hey, I'm glad you said that! You're right, we are just arguing semantics. We both agree that this hobby/job is something important

UN is going to "manage the transition" - like it's some fucking destiny to implement AI and destroy the earth with yet another environmental catastrophe... uh...shit

something...something...guillotines...luddites...working class solidarity. The transformation will happen in the destruction of corporate AI and the systems that allow the rich to control the working class. Fuck the UN "managing" the implementation of corporate AI.

Working class solidarity should be the focus. We should preferably do this before the bots get autonomously controlled opposable thumbs.

Sounds like a solid theory. Most are probably Jellyfin servers, but "I have a Jellyfin Guy" doesn't have the same ring.

I agree, but Is it your hardware? Does an outside company own your hardware? Did you set up your own hardware that you control as your own (self) place of hosting? Do you maintain all of that hardware or does an outside company maintain that? Can a company arbitrarily shut down your host like what happened in OPs case?

Self-hosting is my choice to use my own hardware to (self) host. I am wanting to slowly move other stuff from hosting providers and self-host it on my own hardware.

I agree with all your statements except for the last sentence, because I use those same arguments to judge whether or not to host at home (self) or host externally.

This idea of it not being self hosted because it’s on somebody else’s computer is just weird.

If OP was self-hosting they wouldn't have had a problem with their hosting provider.

I kinda want to say something about class solidarity here, but I also kinda want to do a pisstake...Actually, this might incorporate a bit of both. The Oligarchs are creating pissdown economics. Us Proles are getting the "benefits" of pissdown economics - Scalpers. I am not gonna shit on BarneyPiccolo's way of making a few bucks from the pissdown economy that one country perfected (with the help of a voting majority of the population).

I agree with your comment, but like I commented above. There is a difference between contributing to a broken system that exploits human necessities and surviving in a system. Ticketmaster has buying power, a corporate landowner has buying power. Not too many of us think Blackrock and Ticketmaster are good for humanity. Barney here buying a few Elmo at Christmas is actually showing people there is a problem without killing anyone (by taking away housing, food, arable land). Maybe people aren't pointing the finger at the people responsible for this broken system.

Hear me out before you downvote a devils advocate opinion...I think all the downvotes on this comment are from concert ticket buyers, GPU buyers, Christmas fad toy buyers, and other victims of duopolies or false scarcity in the market (effectively monopolies?). Its not the "scalper" that is continuing to fuel the broken system, it is the corporations who promote false scarcity.

I get the anti-scalper sentiment, but I don't think BarneyPiccolo should be downvoted for making a few bucks on Elmo. It's a case of hating the player and not the game. In this case they are not an arm of corporate interests buying up needed resources and holding them hostage, they are a victim in an unfair game that promotes scalping. This would be a different scenario if they were buying up necessities like toilet paper (shitty reference here), local affordable housing, or agricultural land.

I thought my post did a better job of virtue signaling. This one seemed to lack the venom and vigor of contrarian support for the opposing opinion.