Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨bpt11@reddthat.com⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

https://tilvids.com/w/fPxET73wf5m5vEXg7h4vgK

Hi there! This is a video that I made that I’m hoping can act as a beginner friendly entry level point to the world of self hosting and running a homelab. Just thought I’d share in case anyone is interested, and I hope it can be a resource to share with noobies. I don’t claim to be an expert at all so I’d also love some feedback. Thanks!

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Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s a welcomed thing, often it’s daunting to do it from scratch when all guides assume you’re a masters student in computer science lol

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- bpt11@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah as someone that was just getting into it not that long ago I definitely kinda struggled through it even though I’d feel pretty confident saying I’m a bit more technically literate than most. Figured I’d try to help others with the process as much as I can! I appreciate the validation lol
  
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  - bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Thanks! I’ve been wanting to set up something like this
    
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- SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I seriously considered it and quickly ran into a technobabble of networking, no clear direction on plex vs jellyfish, no clear idea of what hardware to buy, etc.
  
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- artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve been using Yunohost for a while, it makes all the stuff soooo much easier. Especially reverse-proxying.
  
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Saarth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I want a future where communities self host their media and circumvent media companies like Netflix and Disney. Local film clubs, TV clubs, hobbyists, etc. can come together and host as a collective bringing down costs and making this more accessible.

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- cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Like ham radio ppl
  
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- Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Who’s making the media?
  
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  - boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Okay, so you don’t even need a socialist system for this, just a moderately sane government. Even here in Estonia, the government hands out funding for cultural projects. Now this is still a capitalist society, so you likely can’t get full funding for a big project.
    
    In an actual socialist economy, the government will give you full funding for projects. The actors and everyone else working on a movie or TV show have guaranteed income that’s enough to live their lives, guaranteed living accommodations, etc, so they’re more likely to do it as a passion project, but they could still be paid as extra motivation. Funding is still required for equipment, etc. Unless you go fully money free as a society, in which case you ask the government to assign equipment to you.
    
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  - themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a reality outside our own.
    
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  - surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The same people who already make the media. Just cut out the corporate middle-men, who soak up all the profit and contribute nothing to the content.
    
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  - Saarth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There are a lot of independent creators out there too.
    
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  - ThePancake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I just imagine a federated, YouTube-like platform. Except better in literally every single way. You are a member of your local community instance, and thereby connected with every other federated instance throughout the world.
    
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- surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  We can do this, once we transition to socialism, and cut out the corporations. Run nodes on the community-owned fiber for free access to the citizens.
  
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  - FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    What media do you think you’ll be getting under socialism with no corporations? Lol
    
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thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
We should have never lost the capability to have LAN parties for all games.

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- Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Just yesterday I wiped the drive and installed Linux on the 3rd old PC for the LAN setup I’m putting together, literally “for the children!”
  
  It’s an i7-920 from 2008. It has TRIPLE channel ram, baby. I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon and it was as quick and painless as usual.
  
  I already get the warm fuzzies when I walk into the room and find my 3rd grader playing on my PC instead of their tablet or even the console. Our first LAN party is gonna be sweet.
  
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  - thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I used to dream once that I would be able to give my future son Q4OS to grow up with and if a daughter, something like PuppyOS. Alas, I’m a single 30-something guy living in his parent’s basement with no real prospects of owning my own home or getting laid—so go figure. At least somebody out there is living the dream! 🤝
    
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- bpt11@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You’re spitting rn
  
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- Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You still can. By setting up a VPN.
  Though it doesnt bring to couch closer.
  
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amotio@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Started my own hime server about a year or so ago. Currently hosting Immich for me and my gf. Jellyfin for archiving movies shows and downloaded YT videos. Forgejo for local git where I backup my work. Homeassistant to manage lights in the appartment and some othe small stuff. Linkwarden to archive important websites and links I might need in the future (docs for work, how-tos for the server itself so I dont loose all that setup kbowledge). Syncthing to sync files between multiple devices - which is awesome, easy to setup and pair folders. Seafile to share files.

It has been great, it draws around 20-30W idle.

I am currently in search for Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container - if anyone has some ideas I am all ears.

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- Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Vaultwarden is what you’re looking for.
  
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- freeearth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Instead of Bitearden you can use Keepass and share db file with syncthing
  
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- DevOops@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m syncing the files from Obsidian using Syncthing as well, works fine.
  
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  - NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s the primary draw for plain text files for me!
    
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- 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Joplin is a good Obsidian alternative.
  
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- Frey@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Trilium is nice as an obsidian alternative
  
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  - amotio@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I have tried trillium, it looks good but mi y main issue is that the notes are not plain text markdown. It using its internat l database that makes syncing to other devices with syncthing harder. But yeah, otherwise great alternative.
    
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- Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You can selfhist bitwarden. Or use vaultwarden.
  
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- Jayjader@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I often see LogSeq, and to a lesser extent Silver Bullet, mentioned as self-hostable alternatives to Obsidian that people actually appreciate using.
  
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- keyez@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not sure if you already knew but Bitwarden does have a self hosted option, the docker-compose stack runs great and they have been working on a singular image that just needs a DB. It all runs great depending on what you need and supports the actual bitwarden team.
  
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- rozodru@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I use Bitwardens self hosted option, VaultWarden, that I run in a docker. works fine. I use it with the bitwarden CLI since I’m using QuteBrowser on all my machines. I then run a weekly backup of my vaultwarden to an external ssd.
  
  Beauty of it is that it will also work with Bitwardens extension on chrome or firefox. So if I’m on another machine and I need access to my PW’s I can just install the extension, add my self-hosted vaultwarden, then remove it when i’m done.
  
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- MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container.
  
  Well not 100% sure about Docker but Tiddlywiki is pretty easily hosted! It’s got some quirks, but in the end it’s just an HTML file (or slightly more complex if hosted as a website), so it should stay relevant for a long time. I enioy making notebooks with it for various things!
  
  Nextcloud has a pretty decent passwords manager and I think firefox plugins for it. I personally use SyncThing to sync KeePass databases and use the nextcloud passwords app for low-risk things we share, like streaming service passwords. :)
  
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paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I have my own server and it’s great, but the real product these streaming services sell isn’t access to content—it’s discoverability and recommendations. We need a better solution for that!

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- Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah I use jellyseerr with jellyfin and they work great together
  
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  - paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I need to learn more about the *arr stack.
    
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- FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  overseerr.dev
  
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- mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Tbh, I pretty much never use site recommendations. I almost always learn of shows and movies via social media and memes
  
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solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is a 32 minute video that starts with a text card and robo voice. Is there any kind of summary? I don’t have a home server and don’t know what I’d do with one if I had it tbf. I have several vps and other hosted servers and find them much less hassle than a home server. But, maybe I’m missing out on something.

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- amotio@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The main difference is that having a home server means You are in complete control over Your data. You can run home server and isolate it from the internet, running only on local network. Great for privacy and You are not relying on some external provider being reliable and available.
  
  It also has it’s downsides. You have to maintain the server, keeping it up-to-date. Checking if some components need upgrading or replacing - which is mainly about having healthy drives so You do not loose all Your data.
  
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  - ngdev@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    “loose all your data” yeah i hate when my data gets loose and out of the specific drives i put it on
    
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  - LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Image
    
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  - solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    The main difference is that having a home server means You are in complete control over Your data. You can run home server and isolate it from the internet, running only on local network. Great for privacy and You are not relying on some external provider being reliable and available.
    
    I my a laptop for that, no remote access, I mean what services would I want to run and what would the clients be?
    
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- egrets@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Persist with the video! The text-to-speech is only for a couple of quick screens - the rest is very personal, and they cover a bunch of use cases.
  
  If you really don’t want to, the server OS they recommend around two-thirds of the way through is YunoHost, a beginner-friendly way to run services as containers on any capable spare computer. The YunoHost website has a bunch of use cases that are also covered in the video.
  
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  - solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m pretty comfortable running Debian on servers. I just don’t understand why I’d want the hardware at home instead of remote. I don’t have much space at ome, and my home internet is crappy.
    
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- CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Honestly I was in the same boat. I ended up just buying a raspberry pie and following the dead simple tutorials on this site and now I can stream my audiobooks or TV wherever the hell I want
  
  pimylifeup.com
  
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  - solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Again though, why a server? I don’t understand the concept of streaming really (I mean why I would want it, not how it works). I have some music files but they are on my laptop’s internal SSD (plus a few on my phone). No need for streaming. The idea of a server is generally to run some network services 24/7, or serve multiple clients, or have more hardware resources than would normally be found on a client PC. I don’t see a raspberry pi at home helping with much of that.
    
    I guess I could imagine wanting some kind of centralized media server at home if there were multiple people using it, but it’s just me, and I’m generally not into video so I don’t have a huge video library or anything like that.
    
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- quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Every video guide should be only suppliemtary to a complete text article
  
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- FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Ai will summarise it if you watch in edge.
  
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Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My entire life is Linux and self hosted, aside from Email. I may get to that one day too. Love my Plex server, even with the more recent baloney the company’s apparently been up to.

I should be using Jellyfin but once I get home from work I don’t want to tinker any more, I just wanna play a game or dick around.

Agree with the message in the video, these companies should be told to pound sand the minute they do a single anti-consumer thing.

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- Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I set up jellyfin recently. Haven’t tinkered with it any more than plex to be fair
  
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- Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Is there a way around the problem that plex only feeds from ex fat/nt drives but Linux has permission issues networking such a drive? I wanted to have one computer where I’m doing all the formatting and the other being the standalone plex server with them both connected. Samba is being a pain.
  
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  - BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Curious about your problem. I’m using NFS instead of samba now, but legitimately never faced any problems doing what you’re describing previously.
    
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AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’d urge u to retitle to:

How I host my home server

I had PTSD over that phrase, and how many naïve self starters got doxed, swatted, murdered, thrashed, DoS, pwnd, bitlocked, sued, deISPd, excomm.d, raided, wormed, subpoenaed, etc., etc…

And with fascist laws being enforced, basic guides need extreme darknet praxis updates.

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- JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I would be interested to see a figure of people with home servers that have had that happen to them. DoS & pwned yes, especially 15+ years ago before there were good resources, TLS, reverse proxies, or authentication front ends.
  
  It is extremely important to note that in those days, people just opened their, often out-of-date, servers completely to the internet via a DMZ or port forwarding, let ssh be open to the internet, didn’t harden ssh at all, and most people didn’t use a VPN for downloading.
  
  That is literally like saying that people who light wall torches in their wooden home burned their house down, so let’s not use lightbulbs or electricity.
  
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  - AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The problem is that now you can automate pwning, in batches. And given that there it’s at international scales, you need defense first before host.
    
    Heck, Salt Typhoon pwnd nearly the entire world.
    
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  - Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Coming up on a year of self hosting the worst I’ve had happen is a copyright letter from my isp from dry downloading torrents lmao. Threw I behind a vpn and it’s been fine since.
    
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- TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  So lost.
  
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quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Thanks for using peer tube

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mrl1@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The first disclaimer in the video is the most relatable thing I’ve read in a while

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jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s a pretty vague title. What kind of server? I run emby. I also run a ton of other servers.

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guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Having my own server is sooooo cool. There are so many services I’m running for my friends and family that are just incredible. That includes this piefed instance! Which is public if anyone wants to register here

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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Hosting email just saved the day! My ex got locked out of her email account and password resets were blocked. However she still had one “home” email configured as a recovery address, so we were able to redirect it somewhere accessible and unlock her email account!

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Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
How beneficial is connecting via ethernet instead of wifi? My wifi mesh pods only have 1 ethernet out port, so I use it for my desktop. Not sure if I could split it or not, but I imagine if I did it’d slow down my desktop’s internet connection, which I’d rather not do.

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Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Agreed. It’s time my occasional minecraft/PZomboid server got a nextcloud upgrade.

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masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I just have my old PC’s running Linux connected directly to the tv or projector.

I use a super basic webdav server or free^arr matey^ streaming sites.

I sometimes sftp into devices.

That’s my setup.

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Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I pay for netflix… dumped prime a couple of years ago and got given disney+ for free for 12 months. I have my own server and am on version 3.2 of it after my first dedicated one I built in 2009. I’ve kinda had others before then, but it was an old PC I hooked up to my old CRT tv in about 2002 which struggled to play some mpeg2 content due to the weak single core CPU it had in it.

Now it’s running on an AM4 setup with a Ryzen 5 5600G, so I can use the PCIE socket that used to have a GPU in it for a SATA expansion card, so that I can triple the number of HDD’s it could hold. I’m slowly going through it once a year replacing the oldest 6TB drives (without about 80,000+hrs of uptime on them) with 14TB archive drives I rip out of seagate external drives. 4 more to go… to add to the 4 already done.

I think my first dedicated server had 3TB of storage (2x 1.5TB) and I still have one of those drives in an external drive that I use occasionally to fill with movies and shows when I go away and take one of my shield tv boxes with me… but mostly I take an external 500gb ssd as it doesn’t require a power supply and I rarely have enough time to watch 1TB of movies and shows whilst away.

Over the last 15yrs, it’s been rebuilt a few times and upgrade many… adding extra drives, swapping out CPU’s and so on. 3 ground up builds with the last one being built in 2020… Normally when I build a new system for myself, the mediaserver gets upgraded with my old parts… Hence the last one being on windows 7 and an AMD FX 8350 with DDR3 ram until mid 2020.

Currently about 70TB capacity.

My next one will have a dedicated raid setup with parity… it’s the one thing I’ve never been able to do with such a random collection of different size drives… hence normalizing them all to the same kind of 14TB ones.

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LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I set up my home server, the. Realized my Internet is shit and my upload speeds can’t even steam 1 4k movie, let alone several at once.

I am not excited to triple my monthly Internet bill for better upload speeds, but it will have to happen soon.

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myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Every time I spin one up. I spend weeks setting things and playing with it. And then never use it again until I get bored and rebuild it.

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edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Cool video and cool shirt! Is it sewn if it is it’s even cooler!?

K.K. Good Day (KK Slider vs Ice Cube) Image

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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Dad said we’re getting a sourcebox!

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lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Pffft, I don’t trust meself with me own dater. Gon’ lose it all in a jiffy, fr fr

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sircac@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
A home server with digital services (from mail to cloud) as we got wired phones back in our timeline, most of the time up, possible terminal of our own and able to unplug at will

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EmilieEasie@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Everyone is a really, really big target

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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
is tilvids overloaded right now? I can barely watch the video. also I don’t see the peer traffic indicators, has p2p distribution been turned off?

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hakkinen@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
but why tho?

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