I can’t find Gemini on my phone.

Thanks for the downer.

I know it doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous, but this article made me feel better.

Why the hell would anyone apply for a visa to come here?

Please tell me that it’s a dark blue or black shirt with a bronzy gold print.

Yeah, exactly.

Are you sure? Sounds like how it used to be, you know, before people were taken off the streets by masked men.

None of this makes sense.

47 says he’s against immigrants, married an illegal immigrant. He’s against chain migration, she chain migrated her family into the country. Conservatives are against LGBTQ. Their hero puts on make up and dances to YMCA at every rally while the RNC crashes the Grinder servers. They say drill baby drill and don’t shove EVs down our throats. Hawks Teslers on the white house lawn. Says let’s stop all these wars. Bombs Yemen and Iran. Funny how that Ukraine war is still going on. It goes in and on. The US is run by cult members.

I never played the others. I play with my friend overseas every Monday. He chooses the games. He may have chosen it because it is cooperative, online and not PvP. IDK.

But we also play, Aliens, Grimm Dawn, all of the borderlands games, like literally ALL of them including Tiny Tina’s Wonderland. Two is my favorite.

Diablo 4. I mean, I know it is easy, but I felt the version of Halo I played was way easy and it has a good reputation.

Funny thing is, sometimes I’ll do this out of the blue days later and my wife picks up on it immediately.

Thank you. I was freaking out. Isn’t this what they call a stream of consciousness?

As I mentioned, I didn’t really know where to post it. I guess my lemmy-foo isn’t up to snuff. I saw that this appears to be in lemmy.world, but only 10 options came up when I tried to post and none of them really seemed right. Advice?

Thank you for the thorough response. After looking carefully at what you wrote I didn’t really see a difference between the term self-hosting and home network.

You said you have software that automatically downloads media. The way I see this using movies for instance, if I own the movies and have them on my machine, then I can stream them over my network and have full control. Whereas if I “own” them on Amazon and steam it from there, they can track the viewing experience, push ads, or even remove the content completely. I understand that… But if I want a NEW movie, I’m back to Amazon to get it in the first place (or Netflix, or Walmart, etc. I get it). I’m fact, personally I’ve started actually buying disks of the movies/music I like most so that it can’t really be taken away and I can enjoy it even without an Internet connection. Am I missing something? Unless of course the media you are downloading is pirated.

I know I’m asking what seems to be a huge question but I’m really only asking for a broad description, sort of an ELI5 thing.

Wow! Thank you all for the civilized responses. This all sounds so great. I am older and I feel like I’ve already seen enough ads for one lifetime and I hate all this fascist tracking crap.

But how does that work? Is it just a network on which you store your stuff in a way that you can download it anywhere or can it do more? I mean, to me that’s just a home network. Hosting sounds like it’s designed for other people to access. Can I put my website on there? If so, how do I go about registering my domain each year. I’m not computer illiterate but this sounds kind of beyond my skill level. I’ll go search Jellyfin, weird name, and see what I can find. Thanks again!

I’ve never posted on Lemmy before. I tried to ask this question of the greater community but I had to pick a community and didn’t know which one. This shows up as lemmy.world but that wasn’t an option.

Anyway, what I wanted to know is why do people self host? What is the advantage/cost. Sorry if I’m hijacking. Maybe someone could just post a link or something.

Because they are sociopaths that have zero empathy for those they deport.

Oh no, I feel really bad for him… Anyway…

Yeah, and Aliens is actually GOOD.

Yeah, I used a carriage return between them but I guess Lemmy doesn’t work that way.