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.

Can you explain it to those of us that still don’t get it?

First version of Kodi was released in 2002.

It’s now 2026, so that’s more than two decades of development.

If you mean limitations in the client, I discovered that there’s a Jellyfin for Kodi plugin.

Kodi has had decades of development. It’s super customizable, has every feature you can think of, direct plays every video format, and is fast.

Having it act as a Jellyfin client has been amazing and given me the best of both worlds.

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

Yes, but ported C# usually doesn’t make for the most idiomatic Python.

99% of the time that doesn’t matter, but a highly security sensitive reverse proxy shared by multiple users most likely part of the stack to be attacked might be an exception.

Subnautica

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

Pretty much all Chinese EVs use LFP batteries. You can hammer a nail into one and it’ll just stare at you like you’re some kind of dumbass.

Western made ones use NCA or NCM batteries because of range anxiety. But those ones are armored AF so good luck doing any significant damage to them. And I suspect they’ll also switch to LFP within the next decade or so anyway.

Or any vehicle with an internal combustion engine, because those burn way more often.

But their fires aren’t reported on as much because it doesn’t cause as much ragebait engagement.

It’s interesting that anubis has worked so well for you in practice.

What do you think of this guy’s take?

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html

It’s interesting that anubis has worked so well for you in practice.

What do you think of this guy’s take?

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html

There are a lot of programs that try to detect VMs and other unverified environments (e.g. Google’s safety net) to deter bots and fraud.

Buying physical devices circumvents all that

ngrok isn’t just for development.

That’s news to me lol. I’ve personally only used them for development so I can’t tell you how good they are for running production services.

I just looked at their pricing page and it looks like the Free and Hobbyist only include 1GB and 5GB of data, respectively. I’ve never actually measured my data usage because Cloudflare gives unlimited data, but I suspect that’s nowhere near enough for a photo sharing app like Immich.

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.

Yep. Tailscale uses wireguard under the hood so that setup sounds exactly the same.

The Cloudflare tunnel is free. They don’t seem to have a traffic cap either. They’ll charge you if you want to use a non apex domain (e.g. subdomain) or if you need their more advanced bot detection/defense products. But a basic/standard setup like what us self hosters have is free.

Yes, and yes.

Their Android app feels like an exact clone of the Google Photos Android app.

To access it remotely, you can use Tailscale like someone else mentioned. But you need to have Tailscale installed on everyone’s phones.

You can also use a Cloudflare Tunnel to allow it to be accessed over the Internet without exposing anything from your home network directly to the Internet.

The latter is useful when I want to share a secret link to a photo album after hanging out with people so everybody can upload the photos they took to one place (something I used to do a lot with Google Photos)

Does everything Google photos does. Their app looks/feels exactly Google’s app, including sharing links. Assuming you’re running it on reasonably powerful hardware, it does all the same face recognition and ML based search that Google photos does.

TBH, I’ve never used any of those features. I just used it locally and plugged it into home assistant.

But I just reinstalled their app and can confirm I can watch the feed and get push notifications without a cloud account. Haven’t tried email tho

Obligatory

https://reolink.com/

Oh wow their front page doesn’t mention at all that their products run locally and don’t require subscriptions.