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Ownership of Digital Content Is an Illusion—Unless You Self‑Host (news.itsfoss.com)
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Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?

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[–] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Self-Hosting? What happened to saving things onto a hard drive?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Self hosting essentially stores all of your data on your hard drive, but it also allows access to that via local network (while at home) and over internet via secured tunnel (e.g. Wireguard tunnel, Tailscale) while away from home.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Self-hosting is saving to a hard drive. The difference is how it's accessed. If you save it to a (presumably portable?) hard drive, you can only access it from the hard drive. "Self-hosting" allows it to be stored on a hard drive, inside a server, which is then accessible from anywhere, on any device, at any time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    There was a time when I had an old desktop packed full of spinning hard drives in my living room under a CRT television! Yes that works, but a NAS in the furnace room that is accessible from "smart TVs" and everyone's mobile devices is pretty nice. No more fan noise either.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This comment prompted me to look for a picture of it. Nothing I can find, except in the background behind a baby picture of my now-in-university baby when I was apparently debugging the network connection:

    CRT tv with a linux console doing some networking stuff

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