Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
24 points by sspaeti
24 points by sspaeti
Although I enjoy self hosting, I found this article uninformative and only vaguely technical.
There is almost no digital device that we use that is not running Linux or part of it. It’s amazing what Linus Torvalds created.
Open source Unix is impressive, but much of it isn't Linux, and some of it predates Linux.
Furthermore, the article's author primarily uses this site for self promotion which I would like to see as one of the reasons to flag stories, perhaps by acknowledging that non-commercial spam happens here.
The author also plentifully referenced very normie products and YouTubers. The fancy "featured on Hacker News" banner means the author is aggressively brand-building. Not a bad thing, but overall a poor submission for Lobsters.
One of my yet-unpulled thread of investigation is to formulate how self-hosting can be not only on-par with centralized offerings, but superior.
I definitely find this to be true with Immich. It always annoyed me that in Google Photos (on iOS at least) there was no way to see what albums a photo is in, or to jump from an album photo to its position in the timeline. Immich does both of these, and plenty of other things that would never get a PM promoted. I just opened Google Photos for the first time in months to check if it was still the case, and got a full page interstitial admonishing me to create AI stickers.
I see it like home cooking vs fast food/takeout. Most people will eat McDonald's and will say it's fine, but if you want a very specific combination of spices, cooking style, or weird mix of ingredients you have to make it at home.
I can also recommend bookstack as wiki software targeted at non technical people. I setup an instance to allow my DM to write the lore of our D&D campaign