https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

It’s a long article but absolutely worth it. I don’t want to put an tl;dr here because every word there is worth reading.

I haven’t used them but umbrel looks promising: https://umbrel.com/

I’m using a synology and as others have said, it’s pretty friendly to non-techies, with lots of point and click configurations

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/common-objections-debunked/

This is my understanding and I’m surprised with the negative reaction. I think jellyfin is the better alternative being FOSS but this is not the reason.

I’ve never used jellyfin, but do they also host proxy servers? AFAIK plex does and its costing them money, hence the need for paywalling this. You can still use tailscale and reverse proxy to allow remote streaming

This is horrible, did you try reaching out to them on mastodon? Their account is pretty active there

I lol’d at this. But seriously, privacy is a fundamental human right. You don’t need to have something to hide to assert your right of privacy.

Instance block lemmynsfw and ani.social, and community block nsfw communities in other instances as you see them. They don’t pop up that often

Run your own modal locally, gpt-oss-20b is good for most tasks. If it’s hosted on someone else’s server, most likely it won’t respect your privacy, since these things are costly to run

Pixels are very well made though, google is not a hardware company; data and ads is their business. So, buying a pixel and starving them of your data is actually bad business for them

I use homepage and pretty happy with it. “Drag and drop configuration, no yaml” actually put me off.

You self host the lounge and never disconnect

I really liked its UI but had to pass since it doesn’t support multiple currencies. Currently eyeing firefly 3

I was thinking about giving this a shot, this is sad. Is it in a good shape at least? Perhaps it’s still usable?

Unfortunately you have to be a product manager or similar for this game.

Infuse is amazing and doesn’t even need plex/jellyfin, it can stream via smb or webdav

One thing I love about Germany is that people have this understanding where privacy is fundamental and not something to argue about. Because they know being able to easily identify people leads to disaster. It’s just about a political swing away.

Here’s a scientific dissertation on how and why that phrase sucks: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

It’s so easy to use but very hard to fights against. Worst case of bullshit.

Ben & Jerry’s is actually cool though, no? Although they’re a capitalistic enterprise in the full sense, they had the spine to put a stand against Gaza genocide

Yes, but 1000 mirrors will pop up immediately if that happens. Internet is hard to control. They can’t even stop torrenting sites which is mostly used for piracy.