• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    11 hours ago

    Reminder that “self hosting” media is an extra step, you can do the same with “saving media locally and playing it”

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      The author actually explains that his original solution was just saving them locally on his phone and playing them from there, but that was too much legwork for his wife to want to switch from a cloud service like Audible. So the whole self hosting part is to become “Audible” for his wife lol.

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        4 hours ago

        I feel like the answer to the question “why are you self-hosting” is almost always “because my significant other/family/friends use it”

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          1 hour ago

          And it’s a valid point. Services like audible and Netflix offer something that can not be matched by traditional storage, that’s why they are profitable to begin with. Streaming content instead of downloading it to each device is a good selling point, one which is covered by self hosting this stuff.

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          3 hours ago

          One of the big draws for me is the scrobbling, across a lot of my self-hosted apps. Comics, shows, books, whatever. I love that I can watch some of a show, or read some of a comic series, then go months without worrying about where I was before picking it back up again. I can pick up where I left off, which is one area where simply having files on a file-system falls short.