Actually, there are two sports. Speed skating and Speed skating but with violence.

Nahh, even before LLMs became big, search results were becoming worse and worse because of all the SEO-spam.

Now you can generate coherent-sounding articles using LLMs, making the amount of trash even bigger.

Google making their search worse would be dumb, since all these LLMs also rely on it to some degree.

I see this sentiment quite often, is it field-specific? Cause in physics and chemistry, starting at 0 is really not required...

In this case, the zero value is really not relevant (since no-one would ever have it anyway). It would just hide the signifcant drift over time. A good scaling here would be based on some clinically relevant interval I guess.

Vienna loves a W in a link

This is definitely it. I am tall (1.94 m) and in proportion, and my equally tall friend who is skinny gets all the tall-person jokes when we go somewhere together.

• Step 1: have an old laptop/computer/Raspberry Pi that you can leave on at all times. Probably install Linux on it. Specs really do not matter, basically anything will work.
• Step 2: think about what you would want to self-host. Check here for a good list. Start out with something that is not a real problem if it does not work, like a personal wiki or notes or something. Choose a reasonably popular project so you can look up problems more easily.
• Step 3: try to install it: find step-by-step instructions and just follow them. Try to understand what you are doing. Ideally, use Docker containers for easy and reusable things.
• Step 4: use it and see what happens!

Check the lemmy selfhosted community (or shudder its Reddit equivalent) to get some feeling for the community.

Realistically, it will need to be a new hobby. You need to get into it and be confident that backups, etc., are well done. Especially for sensitive stuff like passwords and pictures.

'Simply' following an online guide blindly basically guarantees you will lose your passwords at some point to a crash or something.