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What is a self-hosted app/os/service/ect that is widely "known" as being fully open source, but it actually relies significantly on closed source software?
  • Well, it's more attitude than verbatim licensing, which is the reason the Nextcloud originally tried to partner with them, then immediately changed to Collabora. Some issues:

    1. There's a user limit in the open version. This itself makes it more like a freemium model than open source.
    2. Mobile editing and other features continue to be removed.

    I'll just say that while it's technically FOSS, it's not community open source. There's a company that writes it all and open sources a portion of what they write. The company isn't FOSS friendly and continues to squeeze. It's not too much different to why MySQL got forked.

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    Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution, the crazier, the better, no 0815 solutions!
  • I'm not hosting anything exotic right now, but in the past, before the -arrs existed, back in the 2000s:

    • Linux computers in every room, all PXE booted thin clients I crafted myself from a pallete of off-lease computers
    • A custom RSS feed to rtorrent to a MythTV setup that migrated video as you walked between rooms.

    The first one was actually useful. The second one was more of a novelty I'd show to visitors.

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    Can someone explain what is the usecase of TubeArchivist?
  • Niche reason: I'm in China and YouTube is blocked. My server has VPN access, but my Kodi system on my TVs doesn't.

    That said, I hadn't heard of this project, but I'll probably install it now instead of manually using yt-dlp.

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