My guess is that it’s another Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle. Trump just says things and expects his team to make it happen. And he expects everyone around him to bow to his every whim.

The Four Seasons thing was because he announced that he was going to be having a rally at the Four Seasons. This was clearly in reference to the Four Seasons Hotel. But he didn’t have anything booked there yet. The hotel management refused to book it. So Trump ended up at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping instead. Because the alternative would be Trump being shown as a liar.

And this is just another instance of Trump speaking before he has anything actually booked. He expected all the artists to just bend over and agree to do the show, because that’s what normally happens when he makes demands.

He looks like he puts ketchup on steak

Yeah, to stretch OP’s definition to the limit, would you consider something self-hosted if it’s running on a Windows machine? Because even if the program is FOSS, Windows is a paid OS. How about Proxmox, an open source OS which is designed to self-host other things? Proxmox is open source, but paid. Where is the line in the sand for what is, and isn’t self-hosted?

I tend to take a more anarchic “if you set it up yourself, it’s self-hosted” approach to it. Even if the program isn’t FOSS. Even if it isn’t OSS. You had to go through the steps to get it to boot up. You had to go through the steps to acquire media for it if it’s a media service. You had to go through the steps of connecting peripherals to it if it’s something like Home Assistant. You had to go through the steps of getting remote access working if it’s on a reverse proxy. You had to go through the steps of getting the VPS configured if it’s running on a VPS. It’s being hosted on something you set up, (even if it’s a VPS that you’re not locally running) so it is self-hosted.

It’s not truly self hosting unless you start by creating the universe.

Edit: Balls, @gedfromgont@piefed.ca beat me to it. That’ll teach me to riff on Sagan quotes before I scroll down in the thread.

Exactly this. Jellyfin shouldn’t be available externally (even with a reverse proxy!) which means a personal VPN is your only realistic option for remote access. But that means you can only remotely access it on devices that can run a VPN. So grandma’s smart TV is probably disqualified.

Plex makes remote sharing much easier, so it’s what I use for friends and family. I got the lifetime pass like a decade ago, and I have gotten my money’s worth out of it a hundred times over. Luckily, Plex and Jellyfin will happily exist side-by-side, so there’s no real reason for me to choose one or the other.

You can use Plex without the Internet. But it takes an extra two or three setup steps, so lots of people immediately jump to “wahhh my Plex isn’t working” when their Internet goes out. Not because it can’t work, but because they didn’t jump through the extra hoops to ensure it does.