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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Ok so I don’t completely agree… The thing is: mobile apps today have this approach where they don’t have “releases”, there’s one entry on the app store, and if you buy that you usually get updates for as long as it exists.

    In the past, computer software always had periodic (usually yearly) releases, which meant that if you bought one version, afterwards you’d have maybe updates for bugfixes and such, but no new features. The result was that the development of new features was paid by people replacing the old version with the new one, because they wanted the improved version.

    Nowadays you buy the app and you keep getting new features, sometimes for years, and that development is paid solely thanks to new buyers. Which is cool if you are the customer but it’s not great long term for the developer.















  • Your usual multimedia selfhosted program that you have running in your overpowered server/rack, you name it, I could probably be using it too in my humble DS218+

    I’ve been using a low power embedded-cpu server for proxmox+homeassistant+openmediavault+*arr stack, but I’ve recently built a new one with my desktop’s Ryzen 3600 CPU, 'cause I wanted to use Jellyfin. It’s gone from 35 to 60 W/h, but it’s got more drives, so I think the power consumption can be good with a more powerful server.