My latest 'but why?' rabbithole:
It started with a PS2. Aging disc drive but easy to jailbreak with a memcardpro2. Started backing up games. Then DVDs. Then VHS. Then Blu-Ray. I wanted somewhere to play it. Jellyfin was the first hit of digital freedom I'd had since I found linux and I'd been using it for 20 years at that point. I followed it with nextcloud. Then I found gopher, gemini. I switched to a dumbphone. Now I'm here, using pleroma hosted on my homelab.
Eventually I'm gonna ditch the celly altogether and switch to a LoRa communicator and keep a landline at home.
All it took was 'copying that floppy' to realize the power to own all my data was in my hands. I just had to take it. My friends think I'm nuts.
It started with a PS2. Aging disc drive but easy to jailbreak with a memcardpro2. Started backing up games. Then DVDs. Then VHS. Then Blu-Ray. I wanted somewhere to play it. Jellyfin was the first hit of digital freedom I'd had since I found linux and I'd been using it for 20 years at that point. I followed it with nextcloud. Then I found gopher, gemini. I switched to a dumbphone. Now I'm here, using pleroma hosted on my homelab.
Eventually I'm gonna ditch the celly altogether and switch to a LoRa communicator and keep a landline at home.
All it took was 'copying that floppy' to realize the power to own all my data was in my hands. I just had to take it. My friends think I'm nuts.