If you’re not enjoying it, why are you even doing it?
Me trying te migrate away from handcrafted quadletr running on a NAS without backup to a k3s on a mini pc but always overthinking the shit since 6 months
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lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The fuck? You know self-hosting can be classed as a hobby, right?
Never, EVER get into a hobby expecting some sort of monetary return. The only real “return” of any hobby is your enjoyment of said hobby. If you’re not enjoying it, why are you even doing it?
Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 day ago
Grapho@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Idk, I’d have a pretty good return if I my mom didn’t want to use Netflix still. Even after paying for indexers, Usenet providers and
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
There is still the topic of power usage, data usage, time spent doing maintenance, and accounting for failing hardware and hardware upgrades.
Grapho@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Thankfully I have a pretty low wattage setup and an unmetered full duplex fiber optic connection. Won’t disagree on the hardware (all my homies hate Seagate) and maintenance. I don’t do a lot, but it sure can derail half my day.