You’re forgetting Threads and Truth Social. I wish I could forgot them too, so no judgement.

Jellyfin for shows and movies, Chora for Navidrome Music, and it works as a perfect little access to your homeserver.

I haven’t found an Android box that runs without Google services.

Kodi on a Pi is just meh at best imo.

I use ONN Android boxes. Fairly inexpensive, but I think it’s difficult to set up without a Google account (you can create a dummy account on the setup).

Side-loading is trivial. Some favorite apps: TizenTube to replace YouTube (or any of a dozen or so frontends), Projectivy launcher to replace the awful default. Add an always on VPN.

I agree but how does RCS actually work? My understanding is that it is particularly difficult to implement.

Open-source is a stretch. Open weights are more like blobs. They run and can be used openly, but it’s not as though you can build it yourself. No way to know how it was trained or if the training was manipulated by various interests.

Comedy horror is still horror.🤷

Absolutely. There is not a really good reason to use an all-in-one service that does everything “pretty well” when excellent, purpose-built solutions are available.

I tried hosting books and music on Jellyfin for example, before spinning up CWA and Navidrome.

Yes? OP is specifically looking for something other than NextCloud. OwnCloud has basically zero bloat and in my experience is easier to set up than NextCloud.

I had a similar experience when I tried it a few years back

Not a picture of a fruit bowl, also not a picture of a Bitcoin.

Ah, yes. Anti-capitalist software like Yandex and Baidu are so much better…

What the world needs are federated, distributed systems like www, email, and the fediverse

I use OwnCloud, which was forked into NextCloud ages ago. I originally intended it as a temporary measure, but it has turned out to be a very reliable, no-frills but adequately featured fileserver. For example, it has file versioning, and companion apps on major OSs that help with managing local and cloud stored files.

If you want a dead simple option, CopyParty is amazing. It’s a 1MB Python file that is basically a Swiss Army knife of file hosting. FTP, web interface, WebDAV, SMB, etc., etc. It wont have system integrations or file versioning, but it’s impressive what it can do.

Edit: worth mentioning CopyParty has an in-browser media player, which is perfectly adequate for previews.

It’s still working on my phone.

“After all, why shouldn’t I keep it?”

The most famous is “the butler did it,” which is a cliche with that apparently predates the reference.

No, they are definitely ramping up production, just not nearly fast enough. Chip factories take longer to build than data centers.

It’s supply and demand. Why wouldn’t they?

I made four different assumptions which one did you think was naive?

The price is only high because of the artificial demand from all the data centers. Manufacturers are increasing production capacity to provide more supply. Once the bubble bursts, that demand will drop, but the production capacity will still be there. Supply and demand. Price will go down.