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The only streaming services that make sense to me are the niche ones that focus on original content.
Wrestling streaming services like njpw world, trillerTV, or wrestle universe, specialised libraries like Shudder.
Generalised shit for mainstream content is not worth the money.
Meanwhile poor and old fashioned me just burning it into DVD.
Self-Hosting? What happened to saving things onto a hard drive?
Self-hosting is saving to a hard drive. The difference is how it's accessed. If you save it to a (presumably portable?) hard drive, you can only access it from the hard drive. "Self-hosting" allows it to be stored on a hard drive, inside a server, which is then accessible from anywhere, on any device, at any time.
There was a time when I had an old desktop packed full of spinning hard drives in my living room under a CRT television! Yes that works, but a NAS in the furnace room that is accessible from "smart TVs" and everyone's mobile devices is pretty nice. No more fan noise either.
This comment prompted me to look for a picture of it. Nothing I can find, except in the background behind a baby picture of my now-in-university baby when I was apparently debugging the network connection:
Nah, federation is a valid alternative to self hosting
You're going to "own" digital content through...federation? How does that work?