Caveman

I bought a used desktop with 4 SATA ports. Has i5 7th gen and currently 5 TB and an 500GB SSD and has max ram of 64GB. I guess the HDD are not included in the price?

I’m not sure what your software requirements are but if you go the DIY route a desktop works. I made the BIOS auto turn on on power restored and have services start on startup so it gives the server feeling.

Bonus is that you can use it as a gaming server and upgrade the components easily for a while depending on the motherboard.

Because most self hosted things are free already. It doesn’t apply to FOSS.

Buying a used desktop is very nice for these things. You can set up a steam gaming thing.

Maybe be more specific?

For traveling I would suggest a laptop to behave as a server but the IP address changes a lot when traveling.

I’d personally opt for something hosted at home if possible like Nextcloud and Jellyfin with static IP and port forwarding to access on the go.

Tbh though, if you just want storage on the go buying a portable 1-4TB drive that connects via USB-C is enough.

I feel like I have to add some historical context.

We know a lot because of Roman documents and people take it for granted but the amount we know is miniscule and a lot of it is archaeology and guesswork.

The documents we have are a tiny fraction of everything written. The books we have are often referencing other books that are lost, documents are mostly lost unless by some stroke of luck end up in a sterile dry environment.

The rest was copied. Not just once, over and over, spread over large geographical areas. This is how we still have the Strategicon from the Byzantines for example.

It has taken a lot of work and many lifetimes to preserve history. Now in the age of technology the people keeping the digital past alive are called pirates.

Be proud. Future generations will thank you for pirating an absolute garbage BBC sitcom that makes reference to the working class views on Margaret Thatcher since it’ll be one of the few things they’ll have to piece together the past.

That depends on how much you watch. People with 2 under 3 year old kids sometimes only watch 3 hours a week TV and would definitely benefit from it.

The thing is that we need an class action Anti-Competitive lawsuit that says that streaming providers are not allowed to only host shows on their own platform and need to “sell themselves” their shows at the same price as they sell to others in pay-per-view terms. That way all streaming providers can host all shows and everyone gets theirs.

It’ll also bring out other streaming services that specialise in low-volume purchases with an a-la-carte payment model.

All shows on every platform should be the standard and subscriptions should focus on packaging it into “100/200/1000” views per month, SD/HD/4K model just like Internet service providers do.

Rip not going to see that before I die so that’s the pirates life for me. 🦜🏴‍☠️

I started using docker myself for stuff at home and I really liked it. You can create a setup that’s easy to reproduce or just download.

Easy to manage via docker CLI, one liner to run on startup unless stopped, tons of stuff made for docker becomes available. For non docker things you can always login to the container.

Tasks such as running, updating, stopping, listing active servers, finding out what ports are being used and automation are all easy imo.

You probably have something else you use for some/all of these tasks but docker makes all this available to non-sysadmin people and even has GUI for people who like clicking their mouse.

I think next time you find something that provides a docker compose file you should try it. :)

Yeah, not arguing that, it doesn’t cost them extra to allow those. Still, you can use 8080, 8989, 5000, 7878 etc, for plex, Jellyfin, nextcloud and so on.

You can even workaround it by using cloudflare functions that forward requests to your specific port, DNS it to cloudflare and run a commercial webapp out of your garage anyway.*

*Except if you want to honor whatever ToS they had you agree to.

That’s pretty nice compromise. 80 and 443 are the ones mainly used commercially

I don’t know Canada laws but does it only apply if you make money off it (or intend to). Self hosting Jellyfin server is basically just delayed uploading.

Big E (warhammer 40k)