Torvalds should be nowhere near that man.

This is really unsettling. Like seeing Tesla and Edison.

Warpinator is meant only to send/receive files and folders, and requires a supported device on both sides.

QuickDAV lets you send/receive/manage files (meaning you can copy and move files on the host from the client). It doesn’t require a supported device in both sides, since it works with either a WebDAV client or a browser. So as long as one device can run QuickDAV, and the other has at least a browser, it’ll work. (QuickDAV works with a Sega Dreamcast!)

Warpinator is incredibly easy to use. Open the app on both machines, select the other machine, select the file/folder, send.

QuickDAV is a bit harder. Open the app on one of the machines, then type the information from the app into the client/browser on the other machine. Then you can download/upload/manage.

It also has an older brother if you need a permanent WebDAV server:

https://hub.docker.com/r/sciactive/nephele

This is not a very popular app, but I use it all the time. Full disclosure, this is my own app, but it’s free and open source.

It’s for transferring and managing files and folders over your local network. I use it whenever I need to just ad-hoc move files between things.

https://flathub.org/apps/com.sciactive.QuickDAV

The biggest thing keeping me from daily driving a Linux phone is the camera. I want a good camera, not an afterthought. I can only guess from the renderings, but this thing looks like the camera was an afterthought.

Here is all the information I could find from their website:

Main: 32 Mpx

Front: 13 Mpx

If it’s tasty I would eat insects regardless. I really just care about the taste. I don’t give two rats’ asses where it came from.

(Ok, I’m lying a bit. I’m not gonna eat human meat, even if it tastes good. Unless I’m like, on the verge of death.)

That’s the thing though, free social media was giving them massive returns. But the line must go up. And once they completely saturated the market, there are only two ways to make the line go up: expand the market (give Internet to communities that didn’t have it), or extract more money from your existing users (enshittify). Facebook made a half assed attempt at the first one for a couple years, then pivoted hard to the second.

It’s simpler, there is a client for everything even mobile phones, it has a move command, it has props that can be edited without a copy command, pagination is however you set it up to be rather than a one size fits all approach, it can be just as scalable as S3 if you build it to be, it has much simpler locks that make them easier to use so you might actually use them, keys can be longer than 1024 characters, actual directories exist.

That’s just the protocol level. The biggest benefit for me isn’t really at the protocol level, but part of the design of my own WebDAV server: deduplication. I can throw the same file into my server with 50 different keys, and it will only take up the space of one copy on disk. This basically moved the logic of deduplication from my application to the blob store. Mountains easier from an application design perspective.

There are use cases where S3 is better, but they are few and far between. And, WebDAV is extensible. You can build whatever functionality you need into it, rather than using some proprietary protocol.

I’ve completely switched away from using Minio (and just the S3 protocol in general) in all of my projects.

I’ve found that the WebDAV protocol is better for object storage in almost every case. It’s also way simpler to use and understand.

Now it’s time for me to shill:

I wrote my own WebDAV server called Nephele. It’s free and open source, and you can run it on Docker. Probably doesn’t help if you’re using something that requires S3, but if you’re building something, I implore you to migrate away from S3.

What you’re describing already exists in the conservative media ecosystem. And yeah, we weren’t prepared for it. That’s why the president of the united states is a septuagenarian felon.

I don’t think I’ll ever stop paying attention. We’re already surrounded by conmen. We’re just automating those conmen. And we’ve had fake news forever.

There will always be areas online with real people. Namely, my irl friends.

A hosting provider is a business. If your dad is a business and you are buying hosting services from him, then yes, he is a hosting provider and you are not self hosting. But that’s not what you’re doing. You’re hosting on your own hardware on your family’s internet. That’s self hosting.

When you host on Hetzner, you’re hosting on their hardware using their internet. That’s not self hosting. It’s similar, cause like you said, you have to do a lot of the same administration work, but it’s not self hosting.

Where it gets a little murky is rack space providers. Then you’re hosting on your own hardware, but it’s not your own internet, and there’s staff there to help you… kinda iffy whether you’re self hosting, but I’d say yeah, since you own the hardware.

Their dad is not a hosting provider. I mean, maybe he is, but that would be really weird.

Your parents’ house isn’t the cloud, so yeah, it’s self hosted. The “tipping point” is whether you’re using a hosting provider.

Your stuff is still in the cloud, so I would say no. It’s better than using the big tech products, but I wouldn’t say it’s fully “self hosted”. Not that that really makes much of a difference. You’re still pretty much in control of everything, so you should be fine.

Yeah, I think everyone has. Unless they are astoundingly arrogant.

Pay them?

I just rsync it once in a while to a home server running in my dad’s house. I want it done manually in a “pull” direction rather than a “push” in case I ever get hit with ransomware.