Don’t forget the FIA! Probably in the bushes masturbating.

This. Early 2000s pirating was harder and less convenient (no arr stack, no plex/jellyfin) but buying a bunch of dvd’s/cd’s was a lot more expensive, if they even were available, and personally I was pretty broke.

Then streaming came along. It was dope, for a good price you could get good enough quality and quantity, of both music and shows/movies. I stopped pirating.

When I was up to 3 or 4 video streaming services it hit me — I’m paying 40/50 a month, and I STILL don’t have everything I want to watch? This is bullshit.

Went back to pirating, now with all the new software sometimes I’ll download stuff that I have available elsewhere just because it’s all nicely integrated in my setup.

Still don’t pirate music, since music streaming is still convenient — 1 service, pretty much all the music.

I also doubt it, but having a lofty goal is not necessarily a bad thing. Aim for the stars, land on the moon type thing.

Asking how I would feel is a bit of a pervy question, can you explain why it’s legitimate?

Easier/more convenient? Yeah for sure.

It’s more of a preference in terms of how you wanna deal with possible spam. For instance, I have 2 domains and in one of them I need to create every single email before it’s available. It’s more cumbersome, but it prevents someone emailing me on say admin@mydomain.com.

The other person chooses the convenience, so when they give out any Email@theirdomain.com the alias is automatically created. You can still disable any alias after the fact, but nothing prevents that first email from you.

Replyjng (or sending email outright from one of the aliases) and management are the two biggest features. It’s very easy to just click a button and disable/enable an alias. Creation is also much simpler (unless you do a catchall)

Decide on one thing to do/replace. Google/Apple Photos (immich), Netflix (plex/jellyfin), home automation (home assistant)… I mean the list is extensive, but only you will know what you want to run.

Then choose an OS you think will work for you. CasaOS if you’re really a beginner. TrueNAS or Unraid in the middle. Proxmox for more advanced stuff.

Then don’t shy away from docker compose files. 1 click solutions are good, but at this stage what you need more than anything is to understand how things work. This will be very important when you’re hosting 10-20-50 things instead of 1 or 2. Using compose, install your service.

Finally when it doesn’t work or you see you’ve made a mistake, don’t be afraid to tear it down. Just assume that your first 3 setups are wrong for you. I started with an old laptop using truenas, and I’m up to 3 SFF pcs doing HA with proxmox and ceph. Do I suggest that my setup is the best? Hell no. But I’ve learned and grown into it.

Don’t be afraid to do something because it won’t be perfect. It won’t be. But it will be a learning experience.

Oh and keep a backup of anything you don’t want to lose. Don’t feed your photos to immich and then nuke the server and lose all of them.

I have them tagged since they compared disliking big trucks to racism. They since deleted the post (wonder why)

What hurts more, when you get downvoted or when your posts get ignored?

For a guy with bad passwords and worse understanding of their storage, this post sure has a lot of emotions.

Affordable I get. The 10m charging is one thing ICE drivers still get wrong. I have spent less time waiting to charge my car over the past year than you’ve spent pouring gas. And that’s counting times I was actively doing something else (but stopped mostly for charging).

I come home, I plug in, I go sleep. That’s 90% of my days, should I really optimize my car for the 1 roadtrip a month vs all the other days?

• Domain for about 15/year
• Proton unlimited (mostly mail, SimpleLogin, vpn) about 90/year
• Nabu casa (not that I need it, but to support development) 75/year

I spend a lot more money on donations to the open source stuff I’m running, but they are not strictly speaking “subscriptions”. Self hosting for me isn’t about cost, it’s about data ownership.

Nothing against the faith. But the followsrs tend to be dickheads that don’t accept logic. Plus I fucking hate big trucks, it’s unrelated, I just tought I’d mention it.

Sure have, CD is the best

In the same vein, homeopaths, and psychics that take advantage of vulnerable people (aka all of them)

I miss James Randi…

To be honest

I really like

Any Chinese clothing

Nevermind the marketplace

At which it was purchased.

Not only is the price

Much lower

Even the quality is

Notably better.

Sorry for my formatting the

Quality of my phone has been

Unfortunately getting

A lot worse

Recently

Ever since the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre

I guess I’m not selfhosting at all, I use a power grid that I don’t control.

Just 60? Everyone I know has dropped all plans for the foreseeable future. Even those building their first PC.

Statistically speaking, he’s not far off. US, Canada and Mexico have about 9k stores. The entire rest of the world have about 2k stores. So it’s not unreasonable that most people have never seen a Walmart in their life.

The more you know 🌈💫

I feel like I’m the only one that remembers this. Thanks.

Also, Saber Rider goes hard