Oh well … they’re not getting cheaper.

Yes, [AI] should be mandatory. No need for the other one, that’s just the standard.

Because the answer to the second question is a very clear “yes”.

Not really an issue on my PC :)

Mullvad 4tw.

I just like actually owning all my stuff and don’t want to deal with sites randomly shutting down, moving, having an incomplete or miss-organized library, bad quality, etc. My own collection certainly isn’t prefect but if there is issues I can fix them, it’s all in one place (no different sites for movies, tv shows, anime, music, etc) and it tracks all my watch-history which most free sites don’t. I can one-click download stuff to my laptop or phone for offline-watching (guess you can do that with yt-dlp for most sites, but again more effort)

Are you hosting arr stack/plex/jellyfin?

Yup.

How much is it utilized (in watch hours/week for example, mine was less than 2/week)?

I get about 3 days of watch-time between my 10ish active users per week.

Have you considered not using it?

Nope, I’m so done with the free streaming site whack-a-mole, not going back.

You used to have to pay for the mobile apps (though, not per device but per apple/google account) a while ago, maybe the previous poster was talking about that.

Many thousand dollars sunk into hardware. The electricity bill, I guess. Other than that, Mullvad is probably the only running cost related to self-hosting.

thank you for not using /s and just taking the downvotes like champ!

You just need to white list local IP address if you want them to work without auth. Just a config issue in your end.

I mean … if you somehow can also download all the content, yeah. You’re literally be self hosting netflix. Their content library is probably the more important part to their business model than the software … What is your point?

It’s not just about watching content, but also about having it neatly organised with your watch history tracked in a easy to use interface. And on top of that, making it easily accessible to friends/family with minimum effort.

open source to me means open source, not open/paywall/ source.

It sure means that, but not quite sure why this is relevant. There is obviously a big overlap between self-hosters and foss enthusiast on lemmy, but for me they are unrelated.

Well, that depends on what type of software netflix would make available. If it’s just a client application, that doesn’t really qualify as self-hosting, since it’s a client and not a server. That’s basically just using an app on any device.

But if you could install the netflix server side software and connect it to your own media library and access it with your own local clients, then you’d be literally self-hosting netflix, indeed.

Plex doesn’t allow you to watch media on your local network if your internet service is down

It actually does, you can whitelist local IP addresses, allowing them to bypass plex auth servers.

Plex is outside of the administrators control.

That’s funny, because I’m pretty sure I installed it and I also have the power to uninstall it. Seems like control to me.

Anyway, I really have no interest in arguing with elitist takes that are objectively wrong.

It software running on hardware I physically control. That’s self-hosting.

As long as you’re running it on your own hardware, it sure is.

Privacy: Plex clearly records the metadata of what you watch.

Sure, that doesn’t really have anything to do with self-hosting, though.

Control: Plex has all of it.

They have no control at all over the contents of your media library. Even if they shut down everything, all your media is still there. They merely have control over a user interface that can be replaced.