Self-Hosted Main

It was actually the noise all the drives in my desktop PC made. That prompted me to build a NAS to put them in that I could put in the cupboard. The obsession with self hosting just grew out of having that headless Linux machine running all the time and not doing a whole lot.

the passing of the DMCA

Spore is such an amazing game.

To be fair, I think it was the only game that allowed sharing your creations with other people just by sending them a JPEG file.

But I get the point, I’m on the same plate here. It is a fucking BS!

But I found Linux, the free / open source software community, and the pirate community in the 90's. Since then it's been pretty obvious to me that every computer has an administrator and that I'd prefer if the administrator is me. Stuff like "the cloud" and "apps" isn't going to distract me from that point.

Wait…Spore is gone? I got that game forever ago, and due to life haven’t played in probably 15 years….are you telling me I can never play it again?

Two things really: Dropbox as an automatic solution for file syncing and sharing; I needed to pay for an upgrade so I switched first to Onecloud and then Nextcloud.

The second was due to my work: I was an academic, teaching mathematics, and we were experimenting with online assessment systems. Most publishers provide one of their own, but then you have issues with contracts, student access etc. For example, a student could get access for one year. But many of our students were part-time, and took 18 months or more. This meant repeated calls to the publishers to issue new access codes. Since I already had a VPS, I put an open source mathematics assessment system on it and we ran it happily for a few years. I didn't mind paying for it myself at the start, considering it experimental, but when the university refused to host it themselves I gave up on it. It was good while it lasted, though.

I now need a decent photo management system (Immich sounds good) and start weaning myself away from Google.

In the early days of Google Drive a few of my files disappeared. I also had a scare where I was temporarily locked out of my account and realized there is no recourse to customer support. Installed OwnCloud soon after.

I was never radicalized myself. I've always self-hosted. I spent time in centralized ecosystems like most here, but ultimately I still self-host because I like to have some level of control

Because I want to stream things to my TV and watch while my family eats.

The enshittification of services, e.g. chefkoch.de suddenly coming up with premium cooking receipts, and other sites moving this behind paywalls. Tandoor for the win.

Youtube and the ad war - metube, tubearchivist.

My son being hooked up by "Paw patrol", resulting in some big meltdowns and fights. Another win for tubearchivist.

ll the services which increase their prices (Spotify, Disynes, Netflix) - the arr collection and 60 TB storage on my NAS, with Jellyfin and tubearchivist.

Google becoming the most evil company - moved to Protonmail, with my own domain and my own email address.

Ads in general, but especially YT - ublock origin, AdGuard Home.

The simplicity of installing complex software thanks to docker, and the possibility to embed anything in the network thx to Ubound and Opnsense.

And so on.

I feel it is becoming more and more a battle against the internet, and not surfing/enjoying it. Everything monetized, all of them want you to drag you into subscribing to another service, adding up into hundreds of dollars/month cost, and after hooking you up, increase the prices.

For me, it was getting into retro computing and just remembering the old days when not everything was some fucking cloud subscription.

Nothing. Initially I wanted some resources to educate myself and experiment with various tools used in software, in process discovered tons of free, open source software that I could use in my daily life.

For me, the constant outrage and fear that newsnews outlets produce turned me into a minor doomsday pepper. I'm mostly prepared for a natural disaster. But that hobby kept growing. I started to become a data hoarder. Lots of books, movies, etc.

The next step was the shift from physical media to streaming services. I started to feel like my ability to have access to media without the internet was dwindling and thus I invested in a NAS.

Then I started to get fascinated by psychedelic assisted therapy. Because of the nature of my job, I felt like I needed to increase my privacy because of the things I was looking into. I haven't yet taken the step to fully host all my chat apps and what not, but I'm in this phase now. Right now, the extent of my "privacy centric" actions extends to just Signal and a VPN.

Archiving ASMR Youtube Channels TBH

My age.

I remember about a decade ago when wiping your phone daily to install the new ROM was not that much big deal. I think a lot of stuff was unstable more unstable than it is now but we relied less on it. Now. I can not imagine loosing some data or some things that are important to me.

Also regulation. I worked in ecosystem that if it was a cloud service you would have to sooo much extra time on paperwork for only a chance of not getting denied. There was also some other legislation out right eliminated a number of services. Local became only real option.

I used Lightroom CC and I loved it... but one day I looked at there pricing and realised that if I ever go above 1TB the cost will go significantly up, and so I decided to look for something better, I always had the full library on my notebook and used the cloud features mainly to view photos on my tablet and phone. Darktable + PhotoPrism can do the same so why not?