Self-hosting doesn’t actually save you money, and the people who promise it does are setting beginners up to quit
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Yep it's quite true. If you are just going to host one or two things, you could get away with a Raspberry Pi, but I have about 40+ containers running, and I realise I'm on my 3rd or 4th iteration of hardware. I don't have anything fancy as my small form-factor server cannot even mount...
  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
    13·
    4 days ago

    I mean, saving subscription costs is one draw for me personally, but at that point it’s a matter of making up my hardware investment cost versus the subscription costs over time. This isn’t an instant money saver, and it never was.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      4 days ago

      also:

      1. I hate jumping around between apps to figure out what i want to watch.

      2. media consolidation is a shitshow and I refuse to give any more money to the industry, especially regressive propaganda machine Fox Corp.