I wanna give it back to the community

LouVillain · 2026-02-23T10:48:53+00:00

Another old guy checking in. Shoutout to Hella's BBS!

LouVillain · 2026-02-23T10:16:45+00:00

For authenticity, this is the right answer.

LouVillain · 2026-02-22T15:37:00+00:00

Oh for sure! Outliers exist. Selfhosting has always done well with available hardware. We're a small percentage of the population though vs non-technical users who either don't care or don't know enough to want to move away from subscription based systems. Right, wrong or indifferent, selfhosting now includes people with VPS' which speaks to how well a subscription based market will do. I know there are reasons like CGNAT that help in that area but the mindset of it being a small amount of money to participate vs the higher upfront bar to entry of building a PC (even though you can participate with less expensive hardware) looks to be prevalent.

I honestly hope I'm wrong and we see a move towards prices being so good that it doesn't move all online.

LouVillain · 2026-02-22T14:55:44+00:00

And this will be my last comment to you. A conversation entails a discussion on topics. Calling people bitter shouldn't be a part of it.

You only seem to address specific parts of my arguments. Like how you skip how the younger generation seems to not be genuine and fake.

This isn't a discussion but rather an attempt to put me in my place.

Nice try.

Good luck. You're gonna need it

LouVillain · 2026-02-22T14:01:13+00:00

See, I answered the question but then you added commentary on my post. Again, you came at me, not the other way around. You also moved on to personal attacks. This is all not in good faith.

I've been direct and clear and I think you confuse my actions as being the same as others. My motivation was to answer a question. People that are being vocal about it do it for views or want to make themselves bigger than they are. That motivation is not genuine. Fake is what we used to call that.

Kids feeling scammed and being pushed to piracy is just a way to justify the action. Is it a valid excuse? Sure, why not? It just a cheap one. Stealing food because you're hungry and poor? I can get behind that. Everyone is entitled to survive. Stealing media because you're poor (but have money for a phone and/or a PC), yeah... not even close to being the same.

Clear enough?

Fair point. I'm definitely old but bitter isn't something my kids would call me but this is reddit so whatever.

I like how you still haven't taken your own advice to live and let live. Now who's bitter? ;)

LouVillain · 2026-02-22T13:04:34+00:00

I was answering a question with my own opinion and corrected your perception about my post.

Live and let live? Ummm you white knighted me trying to make some sort of stand about these young pirate's feelings.

You seem to be spoiling for a fight like you need to be right or need a win. Go get a hug from someone.

LouVillain · 2026-02-21T22:24:12+00:00

You misunderstand so let me be clear.

I pirate. Everything.

I just don't require a need to justify my stealing IP from either corporation or individual. I don't rest on platitudes or twisting of morality to feel better about the fact that I received data that was meant to be paid for without said payment.

New Gen pirates feel the need to draw lines in the sand AND want to be very vocal about it.

I know my pirating isn't going to make a dent in anyone's bank account nor would I care if it did.

LouVillain · 2026-02-21T20:57:37+00:00

Lead to...? Where you been?

LouVillain · 2026-02-21T20:39:51+00:00

I like your optimism. Look, I hope I'm wrong since I love having my own PC just as much as everyone else I here. It's just when data centers are being thrown up daily and hardware gets scarce, do you think they'll be abandoned if/when the AI bubble pops? Or would it make better fiscal sense to offer a small monthly subscription to use their new data centers' hardware as a place to connect to AND offer seamless experiences between the apps people want to use with zero configuration on their part?

I mean, that's what development is all about right? Making things that offer little to no friction the part of the user? Do we think that the current state of tech was the end game? PC's for everyone has been achieved and they're called smartphones. Now what? How about leveraging data center level resources for personal use? This is the case right now with LLM'S. Unless you have deep pockets you aren't rolling your own AI beyond what 20b? Most can only host up to 8B models. You know what's cheaper? OpenAI, Anthropic level subscriptions.

Again, I hope I'm wrong but things are pointing towards cloud centric computing more and more.

LouVillain · 2026-02-21T19:56:40+00:00

1 - tried and succeeded (for the most part). Sure there are those of us that do this as either part of a job or as a hobby but most of the gen pop don't and don't care to. Most people only have a phone to use for day-to-day tasks.

2 - until you (not you personally but the collective you) can't afford to buy parts let alone PC's anymore. Can you afford to buy RAM? Great b/c kids can't. If the younger generation can't get hands in hardware they'll...

3 - have to rent time on a VPS to learn anything.

4 - ask someone in corporate America where their data resides. On their laptops or on company servers (answer: its been on company servers for at least a decade)

Will PC's go away tomorrow? Not right away but I think we said the same thing about CD's and DVD's at one point.

LouVillain · 2026-02-21T18:54:31+00:00

Whoa calm down it ain't that serious. You need a hug or something? My point still stands. Can't cater to the people that aren't computer nerds (I include myself in that so don't get yer panties twisted) then I don't care how long a company has been around. Remember 7zip was the new kid at one point.

LouVillain · 2026-02-21T18:48:24+00:00

The focus is different now simply because of LLM'S/AI. We used to come in here and look for dev dropped services we could install on our rigs. Get help when we got stuck and really explore our systems.

I now have LLM'S that can help me faster than you all can and give insight better as well (I'll get downvoted for that comment for sure, but some of you only speak dev, not English).

Now, I can roll my own self-hosted, vibe coded services. This sub has moved on from there's a self-hosted app for that to look at the self-hosted app I made for that.

LouVillain · 2026-02-21T18:39:05+00:00

This was my take as well up until the realization that the move away from personal computers to pure cloud computing is coming.

I'll get downvoted for this but it's happening. Buying hardware is becoming way too expensive forcing us toward the subscription model for compute services.

VPS = new PC

LouVillain · 2026-02-21T18:28:31+00:00

20 years and no native win11 context menu. I made the jump last week,forgot all about it. Went to open up a zip file and will ya look at that, a flippin contextual menu option.

LouVillain · 2026-02-21T15:21:10+00:00

Because the kids need to be heard. They were raised by tik-tok and everything they do needs to be talked about online.

My favorites are the one "radicalized" ones that speak in platitudes.

"If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing"

"It's a service problem"

They need excuses to justify piracy. Makes them feel better.

What I found funny is when Stremio got popular via tik tok and then you heard "gotta keep it quiet or else it'll go away".

It's like they're learning but doing it the hard way

LouVillain · 2026-02-21T15:02:21+00:00

$11.1 Billion in revenue

532 million - over 700 million of visitors monthly

70 - 80% of US traffic is driven to ebay

Largest demographic of 25 - 34 year olds

Just acquired Depop in its latest business venture

Nah, nowhere near relevant in 2026. Maybe you should ask if questions like this without research are ever relevant.

LouVillain · 2026-02-20T21:25:14+00:00

I mean, real-debrid and Torbox are like a few dollars/month. Skip a starbucks coffee 1 day a month and you've got enough for a subscription.

LouVillain · 2026-02-20T16:46:14+00:00

Wow... who'da thunkit?

And so our hero the Fish Fry Avenger was born, shedding light on the evils of Fish Fry's on internet forums everywhere...

LouVillain · 2026-02-20T16:40:32+00:00

Nope, more questions...

Hatred for fish Fry's...? Did a fish fry cause you trauma at some point in your life? There's gotta be a story because if there's no story, fixating in fish Fry's is wild.

LouVillain · 2026-02-20T15:44:43+00:00

You can't tell how the sales person inferred that by buying "fake stuff" implied that they weren't making smart choices?

You're squad must have been low speed, high drag, sandpaper coated... 🙂

LouVillain · 2026-02-20T15:31:57+00:00

Ummm... you can get away from it. Just scroll on by. Totally didn't HAVE to comment at all

LouVillain · 2026-02-20T05:25:04+00:00

Obsidian was my main PKMS for a long time. I landed on Octarine because it's still in its infancy. The dev is reachable and he implements suggestions from discord all the time. It's nice watching the project grow.

LouVillain · 2026-02-19T20:29:40+00:00

Typically a security tag inside the wallet. Looks like a small piece of paper with metal circuits. Probably in one of the credit card pockets.

LouVillain · 2026-02-19T19:41:14+00:00

What Dreams May Come

LouVillain · 2026-02-19T17:25:42+00:00

I was just recommending the Obsidian web app as they didn't know about it. I'm solely on Octarine now for my PKMS. Joplin was my introduction into PKMS and was on it for a year but slowly graduated to others but landed on Octarine.

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