But Maxwell, with absolutely no incentive to lie, said he had nothing to do with anything!

Self-hosting is trivial and everyone can do it.

So is open heart surgery. Unless you want it to end successfully.

Have you forgotten that you too started at 0?

Not at all. In fact I remember the day my server was hacked because I’d left a service running that had a vulnerability in it. I remember changing passwords, calling my bank to ensure there had been no fraudulent charges, etc. I remember “war driving” to find vulnerable WiFi networks. I remember changing default passwords on a service setup by a client of mine.

As I said - it’s not gate-keeping it’s experience.

Yes, it sometimes can be difficult and frustrating, but so long as someone, anyone, is willing to try and learn and fail and retry, they can get my help

Teaching is “gate-keeping” apparently. You can’t tell somebody that they need to learn something! You just need to give them a link to a url and say “run this thing as root and your stuff will work - totally not a scam tho”.

“Has anyone noticed that medical doctors gate-keep people doing open heart surgery?”

Why do you assume self-hosting is and can be trivial? It is NOT for everybody. You should have some base level of technical knowledge. You should expect to need to learn some things. It’s not a badge of honor, it’s experience.

My project focuses on building a tool that makes self-hosting more accessible without sacrificing data ownership

Good luck with that. Don’t get your users pwned in the process. You’re now responsible for the security of people who think “opening a command line” is too difficult.

It’s not a cure-all - it’s just better than the alternative.

Wow - the satire article is not subtle. Guess that’s what happens in a “I barely even read the title” world.

https://dunning-kruger-times.com/doge-halts-2-6-million-annual-payment-to-obama-for-obamacare-royalties/

“Honestly, we thought it was a joke,” said DOGE Director Rufus Clapp, shaking his head. “But then we found the payments—direct deposits marked ‘Thanks for the branding, champ.’”

Moderate inflation encourages investment since your money losses value if stuffed into a mattress.

You want money to be “moving”.

the legislation allocates $203.5 million for enhanced security and protection for members of Congress, and $852 million for the US Capitol Police.

Yay… We did it.

“The bubbles make it fancy!”

Same - too often it’s just somebody waving or pointing into the crowd.

But as with all things in the trump admin the context makes it worse.

You are waaaay over-thinking this…

Bordeaux and Champaign are often blends.

SCOTUS: Annnnnnnd it’s gone.

I’m happy you’re discovering the Linux CLI, but this is pretty ridiculous. mpv, vlc, mplayer, etc. all serve very different uses from jellyfin.

Because most people have no fucking clue what an endowment is. They just say the number line it means something. University endowments aren’t a savings account. They’re not even 1 thing. They’re hundreds or thousands of investments that often have legal requirements attached to them dictating how they can be spent.

I’m 100% you thought it was too.

Did you see the question mark?

No reason. I’m sure the administration has thought of it. But sure - some rando on lemmy who oversimplifies the situation knows better I’m sure.

And tell me - what does the endowment have to do with them issuing bonds? They could do that without an endowment.

Principles don’t pay employees.

No? That only contributes like 13% of their revenue? Do you know what an endowment is?

The endowment provides only 13% of their revenue.

You do know that a $10 billion endowment doesn’t mean they get $10 billion a year right? … right?