Self-Hosted Main

The end of google play music.

I wanted to learn how things work.

Poor/Inexistent documentation

Self-hosting was the logical progression of using Linux as my primary computing environment for 10+ years.

Can you be born radicalized ?

Born & raised in a communist dictatorship country, were even a joke could make you disappear (aka torture/dead) followed by a bloody revolution as a teenager followed by a simulacrum of democracy combined with very high corruption in form of an idiocracy.

I did not need any vendor lock-in or software lock-in to open my eyes... I just don't trust by default :)

Animal agriculture

I'm about to go over Google photos limit, and I already pay for it, next tier is more than double what I pay now.

I forget which show it was, but it was pulled from Netflix while I was watching it.

Porn, heh…

I found that my favourite videos and channels on Pornhub kept getting removed, so I decided to download my porn. But I needed to organize the collection, so I found a little app called Stash, which allows you to self-host a private porn site with all the bells and whistles! I then decided to download Jellyfin and do something similar for movies and TV shows. I wanted to have my media collection available on-demand from all my devices, so I got a little HP mini-PC and a Synology NAS which are running my services 24/7

It's hard to say exactly what motivated me, I knew there was a few things I wanted, and self hosted options kept popping up, so I went that route.

1. Gitea, I wanted GitHub like interface, but didn't want my stuff uploaded to open internet, like gitlab. I use Gitea to backup thingiverse models, especially when they seem to 404 randomly over time.

2. Inventree, inventory management for stuff I use in electronic or 3d printed projects.

3. Jellyfin media streaming along with books

4. OpenHAB, honestly this stuff seems way over my head, I wanted to use this for a few things, but I know I wanted to log power consumption of my smart plugs I have for my 3d printers. Idk if it's actually working, I think I am using something java related to save the stuff, but I gotta go through the stuff again.

It all started with my father, who dreamed of re-watching films from his childhood. As it was difficult (impossible) to find them in the shops, I used the alternative method. It all started with collecting old films from his era. For my part, ever since I was a child, I've had this "little voice in my head" telling me "what would happen if one day the suppliers of music, films, books... disappeared (because of politics, war, the end of sales... or whatever). Since then, I've digitally preserved everything I can (I only keep things that are hard to find, useful or that I like). And... mainly because I love technology and discovering all the things people can build with their keyboards.

The number of different subscriptions for not hugely complex services plus I don't need to pay for hosting services when I'm working on hobby projects. Had played with Raspberry pis over the years but picked up a mini pc a year ago and has largely been online and doing various different things ever since. The ease of being able to access services when I'm not at home is great.

Almost off topic: You can self host Spore?