Public transportation does this too and isn't controlled by some company trying to make graphs go up

Nebula is the only thing remotely comparable.

I'm loving it. But its not a "search what you want and you'll find it" like YouTube is. You can't search for a video to DIY your bathroom tile.

That alternative simply doesn't exist.

If you treat it like podcasts i.e. follow creators you like (just about all of them are also YouTubers) theres some excellent content there. And the creators are all stakeholders so no daddy capitalist screwing with algorithms.

PeerTube is the open source federated one. But discovery is next to impossible on it.

Like many parts of the US, we were in serious g danger of massive budget cuts for next year after COVID transit relief dries up.

In Chicago's case we had three scenarios.

1. Funding does not pass, 40% service cuts everywhere. Devastating

2. 700 million. Status quo, the current schedules remain with the gaps many have been experiencing since ether pandemic.

3. This 1.5 billion. Not without compromises, but very promising to improve reliability and frequency

1. Where do people keep getting this SLA pink promise information? Your SLA has to be presented to potential clients and whether you've been successful in maintaining it can make or break them being on board. It's also audited for things like SOC2 compliance.

2. That's a microscopic fraction of what a product the size of Signal is dealing with, and unimaginably small compared to AWS

Great. Can you reference an SLA to prove that, and what's the size of that server?

Apples and oranges.

It's not just words on paper. It's a level of service you commit to and owe repercussions when broken.

This is the actual realistic change a lot of people are missing. Multi cloud is hard and imperfect and brings its own new potential issues. But AWS does give you tools to adopt multi region. It's just very expensive.

Unfortunately DNS transcends regions though so that can't really be escaped.

Thanks for this, looks like it took a long time to put together!

Some corrections with Windscribe since I use it: on Android you can get the APK directly ("sideload" - I use Obtanium) or through F-Droid. Also I think that pricing is for the full service. I pay like $3 a month with 30GB data and a choice of (I think) 3 or 4 countries IIRC. This has been more than enough for me and probably most people.

If you have a Mac, have you ever tried installing an app and have it refuse because it's not signed by Apple, and then you had to go into settings and click "allow anyway?"

This is that, except without the allow anyway feature, like iOS. It doesn't matter if it comes from the play store or elsewhere, as this story originally had us believe.

Buy refurb then, it's what I did and it's super fast. Returns are diminishing these days and your money will go further.

I'm not sure this is possible without crowd sourced data

By your logic the *arr suite isn't self hosted either since they rely on metadata cache servers.

In fact Jellyfin relies on external services for their metadata too!