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I gave up on having a stable Nextcloud instance. I went with Hetzner instead and got Onlyoffice working with it: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

To be honest. Downloading Flatpaks from Flathub is the way to go.

And don’t believe the stories that take too much disk space. Libraries that Flatpaks depend on are only downloaded once and are shared with all the Flatpaks.

Indeed. I think their failed attempt to integrate PSN into Helldivers made it clear that they couldn’t profit from the PC market as they wanted. But, as you said, too bad for them.

So Sony isn’t looking at Steam as a failure. It is seeing it as a warning sign. PC players bought PlayStation games but they didn’t transition to PlayStation’s ecosystem where the real money is to be made for Sony. If the best of Sony’s catalogue keeps arriving on Steam, waiting becomes the strategy.

That’s what I thought. They want people to enter to the PS5 ecosystem. But in this economy?! That’s less than likely.

Self-hosting is a community effort in which the whole community helps each other to self-host their data, including programming the services people use for this purpose. The problem with closed-source software is that we don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes, or if it’s indeed sending telemetry.

Even worse, if that service is ever no longer supported or updated, I’ll be left with data on my server that can’t be used to its full potential, and a service that won’t receive security updates.

Open-source software, on the other hand, is a community effort. If, for example, software is no longer updated or supported, it can easily be forked, and my data can be transferred to the new service.

Sigh… As always, life must be balanced. You can’t go from one extreme to the other. It’s a spectrum. I self-host what I deem important in order to keep it under my control and not on a capitalist platform.

It’s an adventure, each month, you learn more and realize that you can host more services yourself.

I selfhost because I want to be in control of my data and own it. Closed software is the antithesis of that. They’re just bots trying to advertise their software.

I guess it’s about AI being shaved down throat for financial reasons. I use AI as I perceive it as a tool among other tools, but I also I switched to Linux because I don’t want AI to be shoved down my throat.

You can consider whether upgrading to a newer PC makes sense for other reasons as well. Or if you’re technically confident, you can look into whether your motherboard BIOS has a community-supported update path, though we wouldn’t recommend it.

Or one can install Linux and be free of Microsoft Slop. I installed Linux Mint on my father’s laptop and now he no longer calls me for support He likes it a hell lot more than Windows.