Very thought out write-up! I generally use Freetube, as I'm primarily a desktop user, but since it's been down, I learned how to use yt-dlp, and picked up some GUIs that sit on it to try out. It's been a little surreal watching everything as a self contained file, but almost nostalgic in a way too.
That said, I look forward to when things get patched up on the Freetube front.
When I was a young teen, I loved collecting MIDIs because I didn't have a good way of getting music in other formats--I still had dial up, and didn't know about other methods. Plus I mostly enjoyed songs from video games. There was one I found that had a very enchanting melody and I loved it to death. Kept it on its own special floppy disk. Inevitably, it got lost and I never could remember the name of the song or what game it came from. I did search but not knowing either of those things, and it being only a melody with no lyrics, made it difficult to find. Then, one day, while listening on Spotify, it just magically appeared.
Anecdotally, I only keep services that require an account to get past the landing page on my VPS. (I'm very new to self hosting and haven't figured out ways to stop bots/scrapers yet.) So I think if nothing else, that's a pretty easy starting point.
Some solution is better than no solution. I don't mind having a 'fossil' version for a pinch. We got along okay with hardcovered encyclopedias pre-internet and this is not that different except it still being reliant on electricity. (I have different, more valuable books on hand if we ever wind up THAT fucked.)
Second everything you said, good god. If I ask HR a question I'm lucky to hear back in a week if at all. They ask us to sign shit, I sign it, they ask me to sign the same shit I signed because nobody checked their inbox for my reply.
Nice. Started using it just a couple weeks ago. I tested a big chunk of them and while Linkwarden isn't perfect, it does everything better than everything else I tried.
Do we self-hosters need to do anything special? I remember looking at some docs about upgrading versions, but I don't know how to tell which version I have.
Complimenting people on their outfits is a great one. I do this a lot (the folks in my town are great dressers, what can I say?) and while about half just say thank you and move on (perfectly fine), I have had some people follow up with some other comment, like where they got it from. The last compliment I gave was to a woman with a cute skirt and she was like, "Thanks! I keep looking for the pockets."
I've got my copy of wikipedia saved away and have been downloading/archiving stuff steadily this year. Even tampering aside, I fully expect things to start to get pulled down and go missing.
Had my first need to do a backup last night for my self-hosted VPS. It was a bit sad I had to, but I was glad it was there. Now I'm trying to figure out how to do it for my microPC-turned-mini-server.
Given that our positions should absolutely be reversed here, I would either:
A) Continue the 'today is opposite day' trend and go find a booth with a retro side scrolling beat em up in it. Preferably TMNT
OR
B) Go find a non-dancing rhythm game (I absolutely can crush the piano game), or something with an element of RNG to it (casino lite!)
I cook for myself usually. Husband is a picky eater and is willing to fend for himself (he generally does meal prep with the handful of things he likes for the week and heats stuff up.) If I am cooking something he does like I'll cook for us both.
Bearing in mind it came out in 2003? It basically predicted how the rich would try to use AI to replace as many of the working poor as possible. It was incredibly bleak, talking about how as the software and hardware advanced, more and more people's job's were destroyed and slowly people were rounded up into government housing projects. If memory serves, it was almost like a prison.
Then the main character/narrator gets to escape to Australia (which is kind of lol but I digress) where they used AI to create a utopian post-scarcity society, and it went over all the way you could use things like brain-interfacing chips to make life easy and wonderful; how people shared what resources they had so everyone had plenty. You could basically 3-D print yourself a house if you wanted.
Seeing how things have developed much more closely to one timeline than the other is very depressing. But it definitely removed me up to thoughts like "Tech is not inherently evil but can be used in very evil ways." (Which feels like not much of a revelation but I was a teenager then, so it was a shock at the time.)
Very thought out write-up! I generally use Freetube, as I'm primarily a desktop user, but since it's been down, I learned how to use yt-dlp, and picked up some GUIs that sit on it to try out. It's been a little surreal watching everything as a self contained file, but almost nostalgic in a way too.
That said, I look forward to when things get patched up on the Freetube front.