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Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
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Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about.

If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

And this is why for something simple like this, I say self hosting is the only option. I'm sure their software is great. But it's the sort of thing where a subscription fee is not necessary. If it's the sort of thing that conceptually can be run on a raspberry pi and use less than 1% of that little CPU, it's not something I want to pay every month for.

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    If it’s the sort of thing that conceptually can be run on a raspberry pi and use less than 1% of that little CPU, it’s not something I want to pay every month for.

    OOT, is Raspi really capable of self-hosting, and is running things like this really that lightweight?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    People self-host all kinds of things on Raspberry Pis, from web and other servers to home automation hubs. Web serving is extremely cheap in terms of CPU time, even moreso when you're only hosting for yourself and perhaps family/friends. I wouldn't recommend running an open web service like a Lemmy instance on a Raspberry Pi, but hosting something like this would have a minimal impact on a Pi. I have a multiple-generations-old Pi 3 which hosts an IRC bouncer, DNS-level ad blocker, Matrix chat bridge, web server and probably more stuff I've already forgotten and I can still use it for media playback or retro emulation concurrent to the rest, if the mood strikes.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Nice, thank you for reminding me of a few uses to put my Pi's to. I had it set up as a Plex server for a long time but it just wasn't strong enough (rather, too much transcoding even for files that should have direct played). Then between the Steam Deck taking over emulation and my MagicMirror being more visual than informational the Pi's slowly faded from use.

    Now I've been wondering how I'm going to self host all these services when my two PC's already have pretty dedicated uses I don't want to bog them down with, or force them to be on all the time. And here we are, Pi's coming back into play!

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