Most if not all apps on phones will require you to sign up and your date is out of your control as it is not hosted by yourself. Plus you are usually limited to doing everything on your phone which is a pita.

Selfhosting is a way of life. I enjoy providing services to myself and my family that I control with the peace of mind of knowing that data stays with me. And it’s fun doing it too!

My guess is once you start selfhosting yourself, you’ll eventually come to the same conclusions.

However, selfhosting isn’t without it’s dangers. You have to ensure you have backups of the data. You are also responsible for securing it and you have to maintain your infrastructure as well

The gradual move to lease/rent everything instead of owning it. That’s how they keep you consuming and spending money without actually owning anything.

Everyone’s always been telling me get netflix, get disney+ for the kids. So what, I can spend 100$+ a month for these services because one show I want is not on this platform?

Fuuuhuuuk this.

Arr is the way.

Also I’ve been a sysadmin for 10+ years and I just enjoy managing my own production environment for everything from e-mail to media serving.

Same as others, everything. I have an smtp rule that sends a copy of any PDF I receive to that other mailbox and adds it to paperless. I also bought a little Epson scanner to do mass scanning of all the paper documents I had.

It’s just super useful to tag invoices and whatnot as “taxes 2023” and when it’s time to send it to my fiduciary, I just have to search for that tag, download it all, zip it and send it over.

Just takes a little bit of discipline and a bit of time here and there to scan documents I received by regular mail and add them to paperless.

Probably one of the most underrated selfhosted app if you ask me in terms of making life easier.