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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to bring to attention something I was just finding out thanks to this post.

  I started self hosting some stuff by installing raw in arch and well… It was a pain, but worth it. Then later I found out about CasaOS, which is recommended by OP, and I agree, it was great to have it to install some more services and a lot easier. But just like OP I just found out about ZimaOS, which is announced even in casaOS project as a better system and an upgrade. So I went to check and the whole project is changing from open source in casaOs to proprietary in ZimaOs. Not content with that, in the latest release of ZimaOs they have added a one time payment to eliminate some limitations of the free version. It is still affordable and a “lifetime” license but if they have added a payment for full access once they might do it again, despite their current promises that they won’t ever make a subscription style payment.

  So, careful with that project, I would recommend to avoid any solution that is proprietary or otherwise it won’t be yours in the first place. I had in mind to change from CasaOs in Debian to OpenMediaVault to handle a DAS and install casaOS on top of that. But now I have to reconsider, so far I have already seen a few worth recommendations in this post that seem nice: FreedomBox and YunoHost to mention a couple that are FOSS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reitti v3.1.0: A year of self-hosting my location history (1.1k stars and 46 releases later)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow… I’m going to set this up right away, I’ve always loved this feature on google maps, but as I’ve been removing google from my life I was afraid of losing this but I definitely don’t want to give any more of my data. This is perfect! Thank you so much!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well hello all again. I come with an update, after a few days of looking around and searching for options after all your valuable feedback and input.

  For all those saying “backups” and “3-2-1”, yes, very important indeed and has given me extra to think about, but it is also not really what I was looking for. That doesn’t mean your input was bad, wrong or unused, it made me think deeper about that topic too and plan towards it, but it was not answering my original question, needing a better, safer, data storage solution hopefully using OSS.

  As I already have a couple old laptops I would rather avoid getting extra hardware in that sense, and the idea of the DAS, which was new for me, seemed exactly what will provide what I need. Expandable storage solution to stack some HDDs, I can connect that to one of my existing laptops where I can install OMV (openmediavault) to deal with the drives and storage and use it for the storage of data. I’m getting a centmate with 4 bays, I’ll put one drive for now of 14 or 16 TB and later add another mirrored with btrfs or raid 1. In the future I’ll increase the space as needed.

  For the backup I’ll keep using my external drive connected to the other laptop where I’ll probably keep EndeavourOS for now. The most valuable data I will set syncthing or some other alternative but I already have backup of some of the most important stuff so I’m not in a hurry with it.

  I think at the time I have the kind of plan I needed. So thank you all for giving some advice, experience, and knowledge. It has kicked me out of indecision hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, that’s actually a nice point to clarify, and to be sincere I kinda saw it as a backup. But thinking it more thoroughly, it is the kind of “backup” I am looking for. I worry mainly about the hard drive crapping out on me. Then after that yeah, I would have an external HD with the most important stuff backed up and then something out of the house.

  To be perfectly clear, I agree entirely with your comment. What you say is extremely important, but the NAS is the actual aspect I need for the house at the moment :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I said truenas as it was the first to come to mind but it is probably overtly complex for my needs and openmediavault might be better, as far as I can use an open source software on whatever hardware I end up with I’m happy.

  Yeah I want an external drive out of the house, but I feel like that is independent of my decision on how to store data at home. Am I wrong? Should I take that into consideration for choosing a nas at home?

  Indeed, RAID1 is what I’d probably choose to have a safety net in case of hard drive failure. Something simple to start with.

  So after all you just have a normal PC using arch with a handful of disks? So is some of the disks holding copies of the others? I’ll check btrfs, to see what kinda use it can provide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm this is the kind of thing I fear of using something like synology, maybe it works better for me, but even then I doubt I will ever be able to make it work for me and I will end up annoyed about lack of options or settings.

  Maybe I didn’t say it clearly, but I am not against pre-made hardware, I just want to be able to use any is I want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it is just that, but I want to make sure I have the set up correct for the proper data transfer, and data copying/syncing.

  But this is where I lack experience, is a mirrored drive any simpler to maintain than a Raid 1? Wouldn’t a raid 1 help with access speed of data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm more options seems like the best way to keep my paralysis healthy :P

  Thanks for showing me your set up! I’ll have to check what would be the price range for me to get this kinda thing. My desktop has plentybof space but I wouldn’t want to use it as the nas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this was my thinking process, 4 bays set up like 12 TB x2 drives in RAID 0 and in the future expand with RAID 10(or 01, whatever makes sense).

  Yeah I don’t like what I’ve heard of synology. I’ll review some qnap or see if I can something else around that is affordable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am going to check what I can get in the second hand market, I wouldn’t mind that. And compare like, say, 4x 6TB drives in RAID 10 (or 01 whatever makes more sense) against 2x 12 or 14 TB with raid 1.

  I would just rather avoid synology, I mostly want something where I have software that doesn’t own me and I own it instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm… As long as I can throw my own OS of choice to it, I would consider it “my” hardware. Maybe I didn’t say it too clearly, I just don’t want to get “locked” into some ecosystem that doesn’t allow me to do whatever I want with it. I wouldn’t discard a ready made hardware.

  Raid 1 is definitely enough for now if I go with one very large drive and the same as a copy, but then how tough would it be to expand? What if I want to keep using my external drive as ling as it lasts? Am I over thinking it? I’ll need to see what I can find on drives around and check the second hand market too to see if I can just go with whatever for now… Is qnap like asustor? Can I change the os?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the note about noise, it is hard to remember that at times. In a way I would consider SSD drives only just for that reason, but have to check if all prices are prohibitively expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So thoughtful of you, caring for my decision paralysis :D Actually that sounds like a great alternative, might make me choose for something like it and completely delete my paralysis :)

  Hmm less drives with more capacity… Wouldn’t that reduce my ability to keep more copies? Unless with less drives you mean 3, instead of 6 and 3 for me us more than I have now xd On the other hand less drives mean less complex NAS, plenty of people have been talking of backup strategies, and I was just simply thinking of having a drive with a clone for important data and another drive for less important (media) data. Then maybe have the most important stuff in a cloud service as an extra safety.

  Anyway, many thanks for adding to my paralisys giving a new extra option, it looks promising.

• NAS decision paralysis
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A self-hosted approach to long-term file storage and control⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The reaction to the post was strangely aggressive :/ I feel like I understand why this exists, and it’s really nice to have another open source project for this kind of uses. It definitely looks interesting with a clear focus on creating a safe system to use external storage. For my case it is not the most adequate solution but I definitely see the value here. Keep the good job and don’t get discouraged by the comments!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in Lemmy, in my experience, this goes nowhere. You put it very clearly on your second paragraph. The small crowd with a strong opinion that thinks all AI is terrible in Lemmy is a bigger or at least more active group than the opposite. And with no ability to consider opposite points of view.

  As a developer, most others I know of actually like the ai technology and use it as a way to analyze big amount of data quickly or as a starting point, while at the same time basically all hate the corporate AI side of things, specially idiotic managers and ceo-like asshats that keep pushing AI for all the wrong reasons and in all the wrong ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And fire the CEO :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem of cross-community posting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP and not involved at all in the development of the fediverse. But this is how I would do it, and if someone gets inspiration from it feel free to use it.

  Upon creating a post, unlike now, it wouldn’t be created for a community. Instead posts would be created under an instance. Each instance would have its own rules about posts and the admins of an instance can always decide to remove/edit/hide/whatever the post from the whole instance. As a user of an instance I’d assume they should follow the rules entirely of that instance at any time they interact in it.

  Each post then could have a list of communities it is posted to. A post with no community would be part of a kinda global no-community community with the instance name or something (a different instance would then see it as a community-less post from an instance and can show it just like that.

  Each community would have its own mod team and rules. As a post doesn’t belong in a community, mods cannot remove or edit the post. But if a post breaks rules of a community that are not rules of the instance (like an instance that allows nsfw but the community does not), the mods can choose to hide any post from the community, and maybe even control if the user can attach a post again to the community.

  That would include communities in other instances, which would link to the original post to take into account changes and what not. But now, both admins and mods can only hide the post, from the whole instance or the community respectively.

  Comments belong to the post, of course, but comments could have some user modifiable field to exactly say what community they saw the post in and browsing the comments would be allowed to filter by community, and just like now, comments need to follow the rules of the instance. Mods can choose to hide comments specifically but only mods in that server can remove the full comment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just another dropping kudos for your message, I’ve been eyeing the ink color tech for a while and I’m kinda ready to drop my jailbroken old kindle and was considering the kobo libra color…

  You have given me some thinking with the boox. Kinda nice it has full android although I can read that the battery is the drawback then. Care to share your battery life with the boox? Between good battery life or full android… I might go with the battery I think. As long as I can run koreader that would be enough for my use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is actually an important distinction, with the burger example you only get the “do it myself” part and some people will say “meh I can deal not getting home made burger”.

  Hiring an electrician though for example. You let someone in your house. Without self hosting is like having an electrician constantly knowing what you do with the electricity, like he never leaves the house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I always hated the UI. Big bold ugly boxes of bright colors and a little text in a corner? Ugh

  The best phone hardware and best phone UI, Nokia N900 with Maemo. Will never forgive Microsoft for grabbing Nokia and fucking it up, although Nokia managers were doing great on their own on destroying the company.

  And special mention to the OpenMoko project. Pity it died.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, physicists: “Matter is basically just empty space and tiny particles moving very fast, a hole is just even emptier space”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should stop doom scrolling now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you are right, thanks for the reminder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that’s not similar at all. If you have to stop to consider the political opinions of everyone involved in anything you ever do, buy, use… You’ll never end up using anything. Do you actually mean I cannot enjoy old art done in the past because the ones creating it probably had some shitty ideals, opinions or morals?

  A shitty person can do something good. Accepting something good from a shitty person doesn’t mean we need to share or support everything about that person. You can criticize one aspect of something and accept the good of the same thing. The world is not so black and white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming Win10 EOL Options to buy old Office PCs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Read it again x)

  He wants to buy office PCs as there should be an influx of them. He doesn’t want a new PC for windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the warning, I will do the same then, I was left wondering as I made the rules… Why would they keep using the same release name making it easy to find? This makes more sense :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, you three, setting this up right away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Give me liberty or give me symbian maemo

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know, Tesla never had any relationship, that is, with a human. But at some point he got obsessed with pidgeons and the story goes that he fell in love with one. But I don’t remember many details anymore, or the veracity of it. So take it with a grain of salt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the pidgeon too!