Its true all i have are cat pictures and grafana dashboards
Me after mailing tape backups to a vault in every country so my cat pics and ps2 iso’s can survive ww3
Edit: perfect nerd bait this site is all nerds
I really appreciate the repetition of the central thesis “you are all a bunch of sick freaks.” That’s solid writing.
Just using Jellyfin + 2 sata HDDs + an always on computer, for my selfhost
I have a PC running OpenMediaVault (NAS) with about 8 terabytes of movies and TV shows, and a separate PC running Jellyfin and Plex accessing the video files through a samba share.
I’m sure r/selfhosted would give me all sorts of shit for not running those services in VMs on a single machine. Maybe when I can find a more powerful computer to do that on…
yeah honestly, all power to the home-self-hosters but I’m so burnt out I’m not dealing with any more of that shit unless I’m paid. Last thing I want to do after spending my whole week trying to unfuck the heap of infrastructure you end up with after 15 years of “move fast and break things” is pour over my own kernel logs so I can figure out why I can’t watch TV today
Oh no I just installed proxmox and some stuff on an old laptop last sunday. Is this my future?
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Welcome to the group.
I will never stop self hosting. I have converted some of my friends to self hosting their own stuff. We have automated encrypted offsite backups of eachothers critical/cherished data.
I will continue to spread this and no one can stop me.
You will learn docker (from compose files, including minimum shared networking), you will learn the *arr stack, you will use Audiobookshelf, you will learn about and deploy a reverse proxy, rclone usage is not optional, and I’ll eventually turn you into a hobbyist programmer.
I just pray their children can stand on my shoulders and convert it all to kubernetes some day because I refuse to learn enough to make arguably employable as a Jr. devops engineer.
We have automated encrypted offsite backups of eachothers critical/cherished data
That is sooo cool.
Raid is for cowards. I have a singular 12tb used hard drive for everything. It literally can’t break
No RAID! Only backups!WD external from 2008, its always made that noise thats just how things were made
Mines been telling me failure imminent spin retry count too high for years now and do i believe it? No! Get back to work!
Yeah but I don’t want Google to have all my cat photos
They already have it anyway
As do I
What are you doing with my cat photos?!
Repossessing private property for the good of the country. Here you may have one of mine as compensation
picturing a couple having dinner
“check it out sweetie, i made a plex server for all our dvds! :)”
“YOU ARE SICK! you need help!”I actually work with…
Yeah after dealing with my annoying corporate job I also don’t want to deal with computers, but it’s not a reason to complain that people have found durable elegant solutions to running their own services on their free time.
This just smacks of jealousy. Someone has to write the yaml, if it’s not you it’s gonna be the people you’re paying $X/mo to also steal your data/call the cops on you after they find IP finger prints/etc.
Haha one of the few times a super text meme is actually a worthwhile read. Self hosting really is a weird sort of drug spiral…
running Pi-hole with Unbound is superior to forwarding to Cloudflare.
NO FUCK YOU, IT IS.
I love my pihole and unbound its also super easy to configure and has excellent documentation
it absolutely is. And using fucking icloud? jesus christ
Me after mailing tape backups to a vault in every country so my cat pics and ps2 iso’s can survive ww3
You have backups on magnetic tape? Please educate me about magnetic tape for backups
I had tape backups in the 2000s because my work threw one out to get a bigger one.
I don’t those tape machines cost like 2k. The tapes themselves are cheap but it was a joke. Well other than I’ve suspiciously looked up tape backups and their costs…
Was my experience, too, looked up cost of tape drive, can’t afford that. Not 2k, I have seen new ones for 1k, used ones for like 200, but I can’t afford any of that. Perhaps some day, I will get lucky and find a very cheap one with decent capacities. It would be awesome to have backups on magnetic tape…
What do you use for backups?
Nightly scripts copy both to cloud storage and a big harddrive. That’ll be more than enough
Yeah, I also got a big HDD (4TB, though it seems like it’s slowly becoming not enough for all my backup stuff…), I do backups to it. Though the problem is that it’s an external one that isn’t always connected, so the backups must be done manually (connect HDD to computer and then run script), which means I end up not doing them even nearly as often as I should…
Also, the HDD is physically close to all the other computers, so if something happens to this room, then everything is lost…I assume your big HDD is permanently connected to some computer and the copy happens over network? Do you trust the cloud storage enough to let them have your data?
Yeah big hdd sits in my desktop its a big cheap slow high capacity drive it serves as backup for home server and various desktop stuff and clones a bunch of things from my primary drives. Scripts set to run on logon. Nightly scripts running the server and store on the network drive
No I don’t trust the cloud but I don’t store anything on it of value i suppose if someone wanted to steal my pointless collections of roms, iso’s, movies, anime, game saves, game screenshots then they can have them. Am looking to move off and host my own nextcloud thingy but too lazy rn. Also anything i consider important is encrypted then copied over but so far thats just my joplin notes which contain my trade secrets like all my linux notes and how i set this whole thing up and my family recipes
Thanks for explaining
Good point, if it’s just backups of things like ISOs and ROMs and movies, then it doesn’t matter if the cloud provider reads it
How do you plan to host a Nextcloud? I tried researching how to set up a web server, but it’s either self-hosting and putting up with only having a dynamic IP and whatever other restrictions your ISP got, or paying for some virtual machine on a server in some data center, so instead of trusting the cloud provider you now have to trust whoever you’re renting the server from… Which probably isn’t much better? Sorry, I don’t know much about internet stuff :(
I was gonna host it on a vps. I would assume nextcloud encrypts its stuff not that I’ve read too deeply into how it works. It’s still a whole lot better than letting microfart or google peruse my files. I’ve at least not heard of VPS hosts do anything sus but i could be wrong.
Lmao
My media server is containerized
This is a very funny bit
Man goes to aquarium and is like “wtf are all these fish doing here?!”
This seems like pretty obvious satire. It’s kinda like a love letter to the community commending them for their dedication and niche hobbiest interests without actually being sappy. Just a bunch of “you guys are so cool for X” without seeming like a suck up.
I don’t doubt it, I still think it’s a goofy post regardless
