@raphael @doenietzomoeilijk simply giving netflix $7 is way easier and more convenient than buying, configuring, and operating a "home media server".
@raphael @doenietzomoeilijk people who don't care about efficiency are people who have never helped build, design, or finance infrastructure for hundreds of millions of active users (and i'll put money on the fact that they never will, with that approach).
@raphael @doenietzomoeilijk depends on your use case tbh. i can't bittorrent on my watch.
yo @tedu it would be sweet if this changes one day
@doenietzomoeilijk centralized has always been better in practice so far. no decentralized system has ever made an OS that's useful to non-nerds, for example.
@doenietzomoeilijk cloudflare isn't a monopoly, monoculture, nor does it have monopolistic tendencies. same goes for signal.
with centralized services, we can still move if things start going dick-shaped.
i'm not sure either of these are good arguments.
there seems to be a growing anger in the internet underground toward good and non-malicious actors in the space like CloudFlare and Signal simply because they chose to build centralized systems, as if centralization is an inherently bad thing.
i wonder how many of those people so complaining also avail themselves of 12-36h amazon delivery.
centralization gives huge efficiency wins. decentralized is not always better.
this is getting close but is expensive:
https://www.amazon.com/PI-TOP-DIY-Raspberry-Internal-Integrated/dp/B08N6B8M1H
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