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What I Self Host

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116 points FredrikMeyer | 4 comments | 20 Oct 25 16:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.631s | source
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zahlman ◴[20 Oct 25 16:35 UTC] No.45645835[source]▶
There seems to be a fad for "self hosting" things now. What I don't understand is: what happened to just having a single device and having it run the code directly and show you the result directly? For example, why can't the thing that connects to the Spotify API just... do that, from a program that runs locally, independent of a web browser, with a GUI created using a standard non-web GUI toolkit? Why would I want to use it by pointing my browser at a machine name (of another device I own) and port number, rather than by launching a dedicated program?
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1. cma ◴[20 Oct 25 16:50 UTC] No.45646083[source]▶
You'll need to port that to windows, linux, Mac, android, and ios for a typical device mix of someone doing self-hosting, and no access from more closed platforms that have a browser.
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2. zahlman ◴[20 Oct 25 18:27 UTC] No.45647348[source]▶
I can understand Linux programs not being easily made to work on Android, but I can't understand why I'd ever need or want a device that runs Android and a device that runs IOS. Unless they're test devices for development, but I wouldn't be using those to access services in my day-to-day life.
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3. cma ◴[20 Oct 25 19:27 UTC] No.45648108[source]▶
Think multi user households too. But many people have a few ios devices even if they primarily use android (apple tv, vision pro) and vice versa.
4. Larrikin ◴[21 Oct 25 15:45 UTC] No.45657215[source]▶
I dislike the iOS experience and have used an Android phone daily for nearly 15 years. The iPad Pro is objectively better than any Android tablet, even with the limitations of the OS.