Woah...an actually heartwarming story that wasn't just a forced positive spin on people coping with the orphan crushing machine!

Color me surprised 🙀

Honestly, these days I use fdroid as my primary app store. It's been an amazing way to cut through the junk and find great apps.

The only turnout that matters is November 4th.

In the US

FTFY. The long term outcome for this is that the world stops revolving around the US. For better or for worse

So, all posts are from the perspective of people that are really into music. Enthusiasts that care deeply about individual albums and artists.

Whereas streaming services are most likely designed to cater to casual listeners like me. I can't remember the last time I listened to an entire album. I haven't liked any individual artist enough to attend a live concert. I generally listen to music while I'm doing stuff as background noise.

I used to listen to the radio for that. But streaming services algorithms were a strict upgrade to that due to lack of ads and talk show hosts.

Honestly, I don't know if I'll be able to determine whether a given piece of music is AI generated or not by listening to it.

So I don't think direct purchase of digital LPs could ever be viable for people like me. And I'm guessing (based on the success of streaming services) that there are a lot more people like me than there are enthusiasts. Yes, I can switch to the least bad streaming service according to Lemmy, out of solidarity (and no other reason). Remember 99% of people won't do that.

Just adding a perspective that might be missing from this community

You might be misunderstanding the value-add of a CDN to self-hosting, so here's my attempt at explaining:

I've been self-hosting things for a very long time. In the old days, we would wrangle our routers to expose port 80 for HTTP (and later, port 443 for HTTPS) and forward those connections to the self-host server and then add the appropriate DNS records to point our website domain to our home IP address (which was its own fun challenge when ISPs refused to give static IP addresses for home plans). Relatively simple.

However, in recent years (especially after the pandemic) the internet has become a much more hostile place. People find vulnerabilities in your nginx/caddy/apache or whatever reverse proxy you use (or router, or any one of the many other parts of your network/software stack) gain access to your local network and your personal data. And then there are bad actors doing DDoS attacks or AI crawlers generating DDoS levels of incoming requests to overload your hardware.

All that combined means it's very dangerous to have your home IP exposed to the internet (allowing any sort of inbound requests) at all.

So, how do we access our self-hosted stuff while we're outside of home? The safest approach is to use a VPN. Tailscale is the most popular one that I've come across. Only client devices that are connected to the VPN have access to your stuff. Random bad actors can't poke your self-hosted stack for vulnerabilities.

Okay, what if you want to share something with people publicly? I for one, use Immich for my photo libraries and it's very easy to be able to share a link to an album for friends and extended family to access without having to install and configure a VPN on their phones.

That is where cloudflare comes in. We can run cloudflared on our machine, which makes an outbound request to cloudflare and creates a tunnel to route all the incoming requests from their servers to your reverse proxy. Your network is still not exposed to the internet, and the edge nodes (the machines that actually front the incoming traffic from the clients) are not owned by you.

Now, I guess it's feasible to rent a VPS on DigitalOcean/OVH/Azure/AWS and run a Tailscale exit node there to achieve a similar result. I haven't looked too deeply into Pangolin but it looks kind of similar. Now you're adding extra work to keep those configured correctly (and up-to-date), is less secure because you're not doing that full time (unlike the engineers at cloudflare) and you're still dependent on that VPS provider to not go down, so the disaster recovery profile hasn't changed all that much.

That's why there's no self-hosted alternatives to a CDN. I guess you can go with their competitors like Fastly/Akamai/etc, but all of them are considerably more expensive. And even the ones that do have free tiers have data limits or bill per gigabyte. That's an extra headache to worry about for that one month your mother decides to take 1000 videos of your son during the family vacation and her phone automatically backed up all of them at full-quality.

I'm pleasantly surprised that it takes two did so well. I hope it shows publishers that there's a market for couch co-op!

That said though, the sundress looks pretty breezy and comfy too

That was BMW, actually. Not Tesla

I remember specifically buying an Nvidia GPU in 2009 because their proprietary driver was awesome and could do multi monitors properly using their proprietary X11 extension called TwinView

Kudos to Spotify's design language for us being able to determine what app it is from just a generic error screenshot

I think it's a jab at Postman, which is essentially curl with a GUI.

That's going to become more and more difficult to do over time.

Cars are being designed to be difficult to repair and to fall apart in less and less time.

It's dead. The main dev announced they've ceased development and shut down the main instance.

You didn't mention a lack of ads. They remove all the ads when you subscribe, right?

As I discovered the hard way with my wife, if someone doesn't care about something, you can't teach them.

You just have to decide if this annoyance is worth putting up with because of other things you love about them.

Nah CEOs will mandate RTO for workers while they themselves stay remote.

Aw man, I love how you just said "extended cut". It took me a looooong time to realize it's a parody.

Evolution doesn't care what happens to you after reproduction because you've already passed on your genes at that point