Very pleased to have blown you. Enjoy.

If you’re on Android then use the Nora app from F-droid.

If you’ve got a home server then self-host Redlib. I run this through Gluetun VPN and it has the added benefit of not needing age verification and imgur working properly.

You can add a folder to Immich as an external database. I didn’t want Immich to upload in the way you describe, so I stopped Immich auto upload and use a different solution to upload files onto my NAS in a normal folder structure and date/naming system. Then Immich just scans these folders every 6 hours to add photos into the library. This external folder is added in volumes under immich-server and immich-machine-learning. It has been working fine so far.

Almanac says, Musk says, Polymarket says, etc etc seems to be what mainstream news sites focus on a lot now. It takes a lot of filter words to make my news RSS feed tolerable now.

In the early days of social media, social media used to steal attention/clicks from news sites by regurgitating news site material. Now news sites are trying to compete with social media by regurgitating whatever shit shows up on social media sites.

Ms/Mr is for surgeons. This is a hangover from when barbers used to do minor surgeries and used to be separate from doctors. Now surgeons take pride in being distinct from doctors.

High up consultants remain Dr if they are medical doctors.

Microsoft right now

Between immigrants and AI taking British people’s jobs; there are going to be no jobs left at all.

It’s rich people not wanting “riff raff” hanging around. No one cares if you’re hanging around slums and ghettos.

Careful, you go to buy some server space and end up buying some toilet cleaner and a chainsaw in the same trip.

Jellyfin has been the thing I use most for my kids. I’ve got an account for them with their movies and TV shows. If they’re interested in YouTube videos (they like some music lyric videos and Mario play through videos) so I download these and put them onto Jellyfin to keep them away from YouTube. I’ve also put their music on the server and put a music app on their device.

The other thing I tried was deploying an Element server so they could talk to family on their own without risk of exposure to the world at large, but ended up abandoning this.

The other use of the server for kids has been to hold the ROMs for the emulator games they play and Syncthing to sync saves across devices.

One kid is interested in taking and sharing pictures so I’m thinking of making a user for him in Immich.

High precision, low accuracy.

Man I hate reading so many stories about individuals doing unspeakable shit to other individuals, especially when I’m not mentally prepared at this point in time. As far as I’m concerned there are 4 types of news for me:

1. Horrific individual violence events (like this one)

2. He said/she said (e.g. something happened in Germany, let’s hear what some Australian politician thinks about it… Also most of the shit Trump says because he mostly chickens out, or when Elongated Musk rants)

3. Gossip (e.g. British royal family drama, celebrity drama)

4. Reported “big” events happening (a bomb has been dropped, someone has been elected, a law has been passed, a politician is convicted, etc)

I want the 4th one and want some way to block the first 3 in my news feed. Mainstream reliable news sources also seem to be reporting more and more of the first 3 to keep up with social media news competition. I hate this shit.

It works fine with 2 simultaneous direct play streams. Haven’t tested beyond that.

All that is running fine on 16gb of RAM?

My dashboard says that containers are using 50% of the ram. The server PC itself is using a bunch of ram on top of that because I ended up installing g Debian with the full KDE desktop emvironment. I ended up removing some resource hogs that I didn’t need (Element server, Linkwarden, etc).

The best way to get to grip with how this works is to start using it.

Yup works great. The NAS drive auto mounts as an NTFS drive on the server with read/write access. All works smoothly.

You don’t need much to self host and don’t let people online gatekeep or exclude you or intimidate you with complex racks. An old PC repurposed to a home server gets you started and is enough for a lot of stuff. You can always expand as needed in the future.

Here’s my setup:

Storage is on a NAS: synology 2 bay NAS with 8TB (media: photos, movies, TV shows, books, comics) and 2 TB HDD (Kopia backup snapshots). I don’t need RAID configurations. Important data is already 3-2-1 backed up and if an HDD fails then I’ll just replace it when I get to that point.

Server: Headless mini PC with Debian with a 12th gen intel, 16gb ram, 1tb NVME (mostly live data, shared folder, game saves, etc). I’m building a new machine and have yet to decide if I want to replace the server or use that as a gaming machine, but the has a Core 5 Ultra 125H processor and LPDDR5 RAM and is super power efficient and silent.

Docker containers:

• actual (budgeting)

• affine (note taking)

• bentopdf (PDF editing)

• beszel (server status monitoring)

• dockge (Docker management)

• guacamole (server remote desktop access)

• immich (photo application, backup, gallery and Al tagging)

• jellyfin (video and music server)

• jotty (quick notes and task/shopping lists)

• kavita (comic books and ebooks)

• kopia (backups)

• floccus (bookmark backup and sync across browsers)

• mattermost (used solo for sharing text, links, files, etc to myself)

• papra (document scanning and OCR)

• opodsync (gpodder podcast sync backend)

• prunemate (automated scheduled docker pruning)

• samba (file sharing on the local netwrok)

• syncthing (mostly used to keep retro/emulated games in sync across devices)

• tiny tiny rss (RSS platform)

• vpn-torrent-stack (conatining gbittorrent, prowlarr, flaresolverr, radarr, sonarr, all running through gluetun VPN on a VPN server)

• watchtower (automatic docker updates)

Synology Cloud Sync sends the Kopia backup snapshots to my Backblaze online storage and also keeps a local folder synced with my Mailbox.org cloud drive.

Synology also handles the reverse proxy access.

Ya

Such a great movie. Still got it on Jellyfin and I rewatch it from time to time.

Could happen tomorrow, could happen in a year or two. Stay tuned for more updates on the ongoing shit show.

Politicians do not have any interest in policies that will cost money now and give benefits after they’re out of office.