I had to reinstall Onedrive at work. Doing that screwed up so much I spent a total of about 8 hours to get everything working again and 2 more to redo the work that was lost before reinstalling. Now I view anything that I don't control directly as ephemeral.
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Isn't that a bit too radical, though? Don't you start feeling like, "if you want to do an apple pie from scratch, first you need to invent the universe?"
For me, it's not so much about direct control but that I don't want to lose the option. The way I see it, if a service is built on open standards and is well managed, I don't mind having it run by someone else. But if whatever service you are trying to sell me denies me the option of taking my data and going elsewhere, it's an instant nope for me.
It's maybe very radical in worldview, but not in action. I still use stuff like netflix, spotify and youtube instead of downloading everything and share files through cloud storage, I just view it as something I can enjoy/use now that might not be around in the future. If I really want to keep something, the only things I can trust are myself and FOSS.
The cumulative cost of all these individual file services (iCloud, OneDrive, google drive). I realized I was paying for them all and still running out of space…eventually, I figured there had to be a better way.
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For music? Napster/Metallica. They seemed to out of touch and hateful towards a technology. For movies? Netflix dvds via the mail made it so easy to rip and store I couldn’t help myself.
Porn, heh…
I found that my favourite videos and channels on Pornhub kept getting removed, so I decided to download my porn. But I needed to organize the collection, so I found a little app called Stash, which allows you to self-host a private porn site with all the bells and whistles! I then decided to download Jellyfin and do something similar for movies and TV shows. I wanted to have my media collection available on-demand from all my devices, so I got a little HP mini-PC and a Synology NAS which are running my services 24/7
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It all started with my father, who dreamed of re-watching films from his childhood. As it was difficult (impossible) to find them in the shops, I used the alternative method. It all started with collecting old films from his era. For my part, ever since I was a child, I've had this "little voice in my head" telling me "what would happen if one day the suppliers of music, films, books... disappeared (because of politics, war, the end of sales... or whatever). Since then, I've digitally preserved everything I can (I only keep things that are hard to find, useful or that I like). And... mainly because I love technology and discovering all the things people can build with their keyboards.
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Animal agriculture
Self-hosting was the logical progression of using Linux as my primary computing environment for 10+ years.
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I'm about to go over Google photos limit, and I already pay for it, next tier is more than double what I pay now.
Poor/Inexistent documentation
It's hard to say exactly what motivated me, I knew there was a few things I wanted, and self hosted options kept popping up, so I went that route.
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Gitea, I wanted GitHub like interface, but didn't want my stuff uploaded to open internet, like gitlab. I use Gitea to backup thingiverse models, especially when they seem to 404 randomly over time.
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Inventree, inventory management for stuff I use in electronic or 3d printed projects.
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Jellyfin media streaming along with books
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OpenHAB, honestly this stuff seems way over my head, I wanted to use this for a few things, but I know I wanted to log power consumption of my smart plugs I have for my 3d printers. Idk if it's actually working, I think I am using something java related to save the stuff, but I gotta go through the stuff again.
I first tried out Plex like a decade ago because The Simpsons weren't available online in any way and I hated having to change DVDs all the time. I loved that it remembered where I'd left off too.
I was using it to track which episodes I'd rewatched as I prepared for a Simpsons trivia competition. My team ended up taking second place! We won a case of donuts. :-)
Running out of harddrive space