Joelk111
@Joelk111@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is your self hosted power draw? 1 week ago:
I use Home Assistant, and prefer Z Wave or Zigbee, as those are gaurenteed to not call home and not rely on a third party server. Third Reality makes some pretty good stuff. And yeah, it’d go between the wall and my server rack.
- Comment on What is your self hosted power draw? 1 week ago:
I am, and it does, that’s how I got the 300-400w estimate. It is connected to the NAS and shuts it down gracefully when power goes out. Wonder if the NAS can also read the power usage over that cable. Might just be easier to use a $15 zigbee plug though to get the data directly into Home Assistant.
- Comment on What is your self hosted power draw? 1 week ago:
About 300-400 watts. I should put it on a smart plug to track it over time. I have a NAS with 16 HDDs, an outdated super overkill switch that I should replace to save some power, and a few old laptops.
- Comment on Release v3.3.0 · immich-app/immich 1 week ago:
I’m excited for memories as well, but I’m not sure you’re using the phrase deal breaker correctly here haha.
- Comment on Release v3.3.0 · immich-app/immich 1 week ago:
4tb it pretty high. I back up my files to backblaze, HDDs on site, and a cold copy on HDDs off-site.
- Comment on How do you monitor your servers? 1 week ago:
They’re in my attached garage. In the living room when it’s quiet I can hear them humming. Does that count?
- Comment on Self-Hosting Survey 2026: What are your favorite self-hosted apps? 3 weeks ago:
Oh my god I need LubeLogger. I only looked it up because of the… questionable… name but I currently use Fuelio and I hadn’t even thought to look up a self hosted thing.
- Comment on Self-Hosting Survey 2026: What are your favorite self-hosted apps? 3 weeks ago:
Data Hoarder 💾
- Fleet: 6–10 devices · More than 50 TB
- Motivation: Fun / the hobby itself, Customization & full control, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions
- My MVPs: Immich, PeerTube, Ghost, Actual Budget, Home Assistant
I create videos for YouTube/PeerTube and backup all of the raw footage. I also have the benefit of being able to get reputable used commercial grade HDDs from work for $10/TB, even right now, it makes it way too easy. Shameless plug: joeltube.com
- Comment on How is everyone dealing with Android 17's "Nearby Devices" change? 3 weeks ago:
Why are permissions so damn confusing? I say this as someone who knows why permissions are needed, such as location to find nearby devices. But why must we keep track of “permission X is for thing unrelated to X” in our heads? Now I haven’t tried to make a permissions system for the masses, so I guess I can’t say too much, but it doesn’t seem that difficult.
- Comment on how do you manage your server? 3 weeks ago:
Twice a year is crazy. I suppose most of my maintainence is adding drives (I’m a creator and I definitely totally need to archive all of my footage), but I also run a fair few apps that have needed manual update steps, so I do all my updates manually so I can fix stuff if it breaks.
- Comment on Tired of expensive disposable batteries and rechargeable AA suck. So I made a 10k mAh pack for my deadbolt. 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure I can’t afford that these days
- Comment on Tired of expensive disposable batteries and rechargeable AA suck. So I made a 10k mAh pack for my deadbolt. 3 weeks ago:
Ohhh, there is a keypad but it’s mechanical. Neat!
- Comment on Tired of expensive disposable batteries and rechargeable AA suck. So I made a 10k mAh pack for my deadbolt. 3 weeks ago:
You can’t read? Damn I don’t think I’d admit that.
In case it still isn’t clear, I said I am forgetful.
- Comment on Tired of expensive disposable batteries and rechargeable AA suck. So I made a 10k mAh pack for my deadbolt. 3 weeks ago:
Oh thanks I’ll never forget my keys again, awesome, I hadn’t thought of it like that.
- Comment on Tired of expensive disposable batteries and rechargeable AA suck. So I made a 10k mAh pack for my deadbolt. 3 weeks ago:
How would that even work? How would they know when the door was closed so they could automatically lock the deadbolt? Or would you need to use a key to close the door from the outside?
- Comment on Tired of expensive disposable batteries and rechargeable AA suck. So I made a 10k mAh pack for my deadbolt. 3 weeks ago:
Damn, didn’t know they made keys that automatically lock the doors when I leave the house so I can’t forgetfully leave the doors unlocked.
- Comment on Tired of expensive disposable batteries and rechargeable AA suck. So I made a 10k mAh pack for my deadbolt. 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what that has to do with my comment. I don’t have a fingerprint lock.
- Comment on Tired of expensive disposable batteries and rechargeable AA suck. So I made a 10k mAh pack for my deadbolt. 3 weeks ago:
I was super anti smart locks until I left my garage open and doors unlocked for an entire weekend because I’m forgetful. With smart doors and locks that doesn’t happen and, possibly a controversial take, doors being closed and locked by reputable smart devices is more secure than them standing open. Most crimes are those of opportunity, and a thief is just gonna try the door and break a window when it doesn’t open if they’re willing to go that far.
- Comment on Tired of expensive disposable batteries and rechargeable AA suck. So I made a 10k mAh pack for my deadbolt. 3 weeks ago:
So does me forgetting to lock the door.
I once left my garage doors open all weekend with thousands of dollars of tools in it, along with my motorcycle with the key in it. My garage at the time was quite visible from a very busy street. I got lucky and nothing was stolen. My garage doors are smart now, so that doesn’t happen any more. Sure, someone could hack my home assistant server and open the garage, but that’s way less likely than my continued pattern of forgetfulness.
Based on that logic, my house also has smart locks now that automatically lock when I leave. I will say that they aren’t cheapo who-knows fingerprint locks, they’re made by a real company and just have a keypad with a lengthy 10 digit entry code.
- Comment on please recommend a simple selfhosted photo gallery 4 weeks ago:
You want a timeline feed viewable via web and an app. Immich does that. I don’t get it.
- Comment on please recommend a simple selfhosted photo gallery 4 weeks ago:
I feel like this is a case of not wanting to do the “difficult” thing because it sounds difficult when really avoiding the “difficult” thing is more difficult than just doing the “difficult” thing.
I was replacing the power steering rack on my P2 Volvo XC70 recently. I really didn’t want to drop the subframe because that sounded like a lot of work. Eventually I realized dropping the subframe was the easier way to get the power steering rack out and, in the end, it was way easier to just drop the subframe. It was like 10 more bolts and wasn’t that hard to put back. In this analogy, Immich is dropping the subframe, just do it.
- Comment on Any good file sync server with web interface other than Nextcloud? 1 month ago:
As always, I want to note that seafile is not compatible with existing files, you can’t just point it at a directory, you have to upload them to seafile, and then you can only access them via seafile (at least that’s how I understand it, correct me if I’m way off base).
- Comment on Any good file sync server with web interface other than Nextcloud? 1 month ago:
File Browser Quantum is AWESOME, I’m shocked I don’t hear about it more often.
- Comment on I built a tiny self-hosted corner of the internet made entirely from HTML pages 1 month ago:
If 463 pages sold, why does your website say 0/1000 claimed? Are you lying or did you use an LLM to create a broken website?
- Comment on I built a tiny self-hosted corner of the internet made entirely from HTML pages 1 month ago:
I seriously do not understand this.
- OP claims it’s just for fun, yet it isn’t, as it’s for money.
- OP says they’ve made hundreds of bucks on this, yet zero of the thousand pages are claimed.
- OP says it’d be “interesting … to give people a tiny piece of a website” yet they aren’t giving away anything, it’s costs money.
- “What if every person got their own HTML” but limits it to 1000 so every person cannot get their own HTML.
- OP posts in the self hosting community, yet they aren’t even self hosting the website and, if I paid $1, I wouldn’t be self hosting my HTML page.
- Comment on Recommendations to watch Youtube on TV 2 months ago:
How do I do thing
Have you considered not doing thing
Thought I was on Reddit for a second. Guess some things transferred over.
- Comment on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power 2 months ago:
They were saying they were concerned about fire risk with their non-battery setup. They brought up this setup as if it’d alleviate that risk.
- Comment on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power 2 months ago:
A 40Kwh battery is like 10 grand, I’m not sure why you brought that up. I’d be more likely to invest in a second battery and solar panel. It’s been up for over 23 weeks right now, I’d guess a second solar panel and battery could keeping it up nearly 100% of the time, and it’d cost under $100.
- Comment on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m not sure what relation that has to this solar powered website.
- Comment on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power 2 months ago:
So… If there’s no power the website goes down?