The VPS is required specially if you, like me, are behind CG-NAT with no way to escape from it. Using a VPS (or any other kind of server with a public IP). Using a VPS is the cheapest option…

residential IPs can be blocked for ports like 80, 443, 22 and the email ports in general (25, etc), using a non-residential IP could give a better experience. Moreover, even if not behind CG-NAT, having a public static and not-changing IP is a good advantage.

Everything is hosted locally! the VPS is only a tunnel between internet and the home server.

I have documented my journey here: https://wiki.gardiol.org/

On short, rent a vps and setup wireguard, then start self hosting everithing you can put yours hands on!!

Is this real or a joke?

Hey, you forget about Gentoo Linux!

The real distro for newbies… (Provided the newbies are expert cs graduated and crazy nerds…)

All depends on what a beginner is… Not all beginners are tech illiterates or people who only want to use office.

Legally speaking you lose the license to all the games because you don’t own the games only a license to use those games.

And the game owners have only licensed the games to the gaming platform (steam, etc) with the license to re-license those to you. Ceasing to exist the middleman, also your end of the license is invalidated.

You would need to negotiate a license to use each game again with somebody else or you are effectively pirating the game.

This doesn’t matter if there are DRM or no DRM. This not a technical aspect. Pirating means using without being legally allowed to, circumventing DRM or not is just the difference between breaking into your home or finding a non locked door to enter without damaging the house. Its still stealing.

Don’t get mad, I do not condone DRM and I don’t think piracy is stealing, it was just an example from a legal point of view

IANAL, but had to study the field for work related stuff.

Mostly us stuff, never heard of one in Europe

Running a business works better if you have a steady flow of income. I don’t blame them for trying.

But I vote with my wallet.

I stick to open source apps more and more, and not only for the lack of subscriptions.

I stay away from any subscription like that. It works like credit cart debt: you pile it and in no time you bleed money like no tomorrow.

I understand the need of the Dev for a reasonably guaranteed flow of money, specially for online services, but also keep a software house going cost money.

But I am free to choose where not to put my money.

They do, check fittrackee they have a python sync to garmin, I use it

Does it integrate with Garmin as well?