czl

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on Data organization · c/selfhosted · 5 pts · 15d

Immich and paperless like their own data structure. But they both also just keep your files pretty much intact.

So in order:

  • Since I mostly only use 1 app to manage each “type” of data, I let them have their own folder. Unmanaged files just go on a personal share
  • By pretty much just accessing the files trough that application. The only way I need to access them in another way is if I need to migrate to another app
  • I don’t use Nextcloud, but when accessing files, doesn’t it just show the normal folder structure? You can give it access to the “base” folder and see everything if needed.
  • Two ways: 1. the more important the data, the more mature and hopefully with longer support the app needs to be. Documents and photos are important. Game roms are not. 2. Only choose apps that don’t store the data in a proprietary format. Both paperless and immich like their folder structures and naming, but it’s still pdfs, jpgs and heic underneath. This way of I need to move apps, at most, metadata is lost.
  • I just backup all of it — app data, files, etc. No real impact.

I have 3 machines running proxmox, and if one of them dies, the other 2 can pick up the slack and spin up the LXCs with the docker services to prevent important services from going down.

Automatically, within a couple of minutes, with little to no data loss.

It was a pain, it maybe is not super reliable, and it’s all running on older hardware. But it is running, with good uptime.

You probably should, debt is only worth having if you are certain you can pay it and it’s below the inflation value. I financed a phone that I could pay because at 0% interest, the value of the monthly payment is less today than it was the month I bought it.

Moneys. Math.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/piracy · 39 pts · 49d

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.