You can load your own root CA on iOS devices (i did it to enable certificates issued by my own private CA). That bypasses a LOT of security issues, and yet it’s still feasible.
> The landlord is merciless if you miss a payment, you are out.
That’s a skill issue though.
I have a domain that i used to pre-pay for years in advance.
For my current main domain i had prepaid nine years in advance and it was paid up to 2028. A couple of years ago i topped it up and now it’s prepaid up to 2032.
It’s not much money (when I prepaid for 9 years i spent like 60€ or so) and you’re usually saving because you’re fixing the price so skipping price hikes, inflation etc.
Host the wrong content, you are out, get sued because of someone elses trademark on your domain, you are out, registrar actually dissolved or has weird stuff? out.
True...but there are alternative approaches...such as maybe register a couple (not alot) of alternative, different domains. I think the trick is to keep the number of alternative domains low enough that it wont break the bank, but still give the option of serving as sort of backups. Then again, one would need to understand one's "threat" model before beginning to post content that might be "attacked" by others.
I use rhel/rocky Linux exactly because of this. I don’t need the latest software on my home server, and i am reasonably sure i can run yum update without messing up my system.
Most of the time people complain about system administration when self-hosting it’s because they’re using some kind of meme-distro that inevitably breaks (which is something you don’t want on a server, irrespective if it’s at work or at home).
Bonus point: i can run rootless containers with podman (orchestrated via docker-compose).
And i get professionally curated software (security patches backported, selinux policies, high-quality management and troubleshooting tooling).
L take, DEI and the people pushing gender and race based preferential treatment can go take a long walk off a short dock.
ETA: You don't deserve respect for the color of your skin or what's between your legs, you earn it tbrough your actions. Anyone who disagrees is an intellectually dishonest wannabe tyrant.
First things first: I'm on your side. But the whole content-creator industry should really start looking for and pushing alternatives to Youtube.
Floatplane from LTT folks looks promising, I wish it got more attention. It seems that only Linus and Luke actually had the balls to come up with a business model and implement the darn thing.
Otherwise you (and other content creators) sooner or later will have to decide between self-censoring and make a living.
Nebula[1] is an alternative to YouTube for and by youtubers. I'm fairly certain it's much bigger than Floatplane. It has ad-free versions of the creators' youtube videos, early access for new videos, and exclusive content. It seems to be pretty successful.
It is also, like Floatplane, totally irrelevant without the pull from YouTube, because that's where the audience finds these creators in the first place.
I would love to love nebula, I bought a one year subscription. I let it lapse because discovery was awful, I found several nebula authors from YouTube, but never via nebula.
LTT is only popular because of youtube in the first place and kind of bad at what they do. I've seen lots of bad methodology and low value content so added them to my "don't recommend" list years ago. More on topic, Floatplane doesn't fix any of the problems with youtube, it's just another take on it that they're filling up with more clickbait thumbnails.
I have had various ways of testing things over the years, too, and like I said, they're not doing a good job. They don't employ experts, they just project expertise to an uninformed audience.
Being evil exclusively would actually be detrimental to their company. If you're two-faced, you can say "Yes I work for Google and help harvest data for their monopoly to the detriment of humanity, but I'm a really nice person outside of work otherwise."
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