archomrade [he/him]

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Tldr - selfhosting is useful when:

    • you need a lot of storage

    • you need a lot of processing

    • you are collaborating with multiple people/family members

    • you are sharing media with other people outside your network

    • you are sharing media across devices

    • you want a standalone backup independent of your mobile device without doing so manually

    • you want more advanced AI features that are not feasible to do on device (such as image detection or live security camera object detection)

    • you want your home IOT devices to work locally without a cloud connection

    • you have old hardware collecting dust and want to put it to use

    • you like to make things

    Seems like you might have understood the purpose of those apps, you just didn’t personally have those needs yourself, and that’s fine



  • Yea, but that kinda nails the pettyness of it, doesn’t it? They don’t even gain anything by having people adopt their software, nor do they suffer a loss by a boycott - and it’s all because they have some questionable (to put it charitably) opinions about an entirely unrelated political issue.

    The thing that gets me is that launching this diatribe over the developer’s political opinions on an open sourced project that’s built specifically so that no one group or person has control over the platform - that you have complete control over the instances you federate with - ends up looking an awful lot like protesting public libraries over providing access to ‘woke’ books.






  • Would be, but unfortunately all I have are fluorescent troffers down there. But a single extension and splitter cable might still be acceptable. I also thought about getting some usb battery banks - the cameras run off a 5v power adapter, I think a 15000mAh battery might last a couple days or even just one (not sure how many watts they draw running the custom firmware).

    I was hoping for a cleaner solution but it might be one of those “pick two” situations.