Oh. Thanks. That made me feel good. Don’t hear that often.

I taped mine inside the cell phone case.

Umm the burden is on the one making the claim. It’s also customary on the net to site the source so… No I didn’t.

Thank you

I don’t see a source.

Yeah, I know. The question was more, is it grounds for impeachment. I mean he’s breaking an oath

Can’t he be impeached for breaking his oath?

As I mentioned, I didn’t really know where to post it. I guess my lemmy-foo isn’t up to snuff. I saw that this appears to be in lemmy.world, but only 10 options came up when I tried to post and none of them really seemed right. Advice?

Thank you for the thorough response. After looking carefully at what you wrote I didn’t really see a difference between the term self-hosting and home network.

You said you have software that automatically downloads media. The way I see this using movies for instance, if I own the movies and have them on my machine, then I can stream them over my network and have full control. Whereas if I “own” them on Amazon and steam it from there, they can track the viewing experience, push ads, or even remove the content completely. I understand that… But if I want a NEW movie, I’m back to Amazon to get it in the first place (or Netflix, or Walmart, etc. I get it). I’m fact, personally I’ve started actually buying disks of the movies/music I like most so that it can’t really be taken away and I can enjoy it even without an Internet connection. Am I missing something? Unless of course the media you are downloading is pirated.

I know I’m asking what seems to be a huge question but I’m really only asking for a broad description, sort of an ELI5 thing.

Wow! Thank you all for the civilized responses. This all sounds so great. I am older and I feel like I’ve already seen enough ads for one lifetime and I hate all this fascist tracking crap.

But how does that work? Is it just a network on which you store your stuff in a way that you can download it anywhere or can it do more? I mean, to me that’s just a home network. Hosting sounds like it’s designed for other people to access. Can I put my website on there? If so, how do I go about registering my domain each year. I’m not computer illiterate but this sounds kind of beyond my skill level. I’ll go search Jellyfin, weird name, and see what I can find. Thanks again!

I’ve never posted on Lemmy before. I tried to ask this question of the greater community but I had to pick a community and didn’t know which one. This shows up as lemmy.world but that wasn’t an option.

Anyway, what I wanted to know is why do people self host? What is the advantage/cost. Sorry if I’m hijacking. Maybe someone could just post a link or something.

I think it’s picking nits, economic destruction can be just as complete as military. People starve all over the world every day. Some people live in slavery to make the shirts Walmart sells, etc.

Of course it is, but I think it’s only marginally better than Walmart. I mean after all, Walmart IS a force for good in the world, right?

And which benevolent corporations IS acceptable to work for?

Oh no! That’s terrible. Anyway…

Like what else would they say? Nope he has cancer and Alzheimer’s. Won’t last the term. Even if it were true, their not going to say it.

Funny, I said that long before this was an issue and for me it meant Christmas and New Year’s. I wasn’t really thinking about Hanukkah or anything else but figured hey, the more it includes, the better.

Yeah, you’re right.

So strange that they think this war on Christmas (and I guess I’m Easter) is real. I honestly don’t know a single person that has a problem with someone wishing someone a Merry Christmas or celebrating it in any way.

Just like guns. I have MANY democratic friends and almost all of them own guns. When Obama left office five gun laws had been passed, all of them loosening restrictions. Can’t they just look something up for crying out loud?

This guy fought harder than our democratic leaders.