Same here, I kind of enjoy purchasing great games like Baldur’s Gate 3 or small developers game.
I also kind of enjoy giving my money to companied like Steam when they sell great devices like Steam Controller or Steam Deck (not so much Steam Link, I never used it).
On the other hand, companies like Epic Games that removed support for Rocket League for Linux can go fuck themselves. Or companies like Netflix or Disney that hikes prices and removes features like account sharing or block content just because I dont live in the US, I stopped giving them money when piracing was more convenient than paying them. It’s not about the money anymore, it’s about customer satisfaction.
I have been selfhosting for 2 years on a Ryzen 3600 bought from Aliexpress, maybe I paid like 90USD.
I use unRaid, which has been really easy to learn, you can achieve the same without it, but it’s simpler for us newbies.
You can easily setup Pihole on it, but what I liked the most is how simple is to use NPM+Cloudflare Tunnels+Whatever you want to expose to the internet without having to open ports on your router
The first thing I selfhosted was Plex+Sonarr+Radarr, my friends and family loves it.
Holy shit I suffer from this daily, and I notice no one else complains in my company.
I’ve been using Norton Commander and then Total Commander for like 20+ years and I’m used to being able to do everything with a couple of keypressings, and now I’m being obligated to deal with multiple slow clicks and awkwadly placed menus to do the most simple task.
I tried using the SharePoint Plugin for TC, but it requires the freaking pope to allow my loggin.
I use duckdns.org , but if you are trying to host a webpage I totally recommend using Cloudflare, Cloudflare tunnels and a reverse proxy like nginx.
Setting it up may be a bit tricky, but it is a gamechanger. I followed Ibracorp’s guides and I had no problem.
I’ve been doing this for free.
Meme: You guys are getting paid?