I recently started using https://github.com/immich-app/immich

It’s basically a self hosted Google Photos and it’s working really well. You can just mount your heap of photos into the container, declare it as external library and you’re good to go.

After a few hours/days of training the face recognition, extracting meta data, generating thumbnails ans possibly transcoding videos you’ll have a very responsive and easily searchable timeline of ALL your pictures and videos.

VPN limiting your bandwidth? Sounds like a CPU issue. You’ll be surprised how much CPU overhead it takes to encrypt and decrypt traffic at such high speeds.

One warning, though: After moving, you’ll probably need another Google account again, to use the Play Store… it sucks.

I did as well, but then I went Microsoft and never looked back. Google’s platform still feels like a shitty startup with missing stuff everywhere, compared to Azure (or AWS).

The only thing I’m missing is Google Photos, but there are self-hosted alternatives out, that I’ll try soon.

I mean, they kill services willy nilly. Sure Gmail will probably survive, but the rest drove me away (Reader, Music, …).

Regarding your Android purchases: At the time of my move I went through my list of apps I bought and tallied the ones up, that I still used. It was less than $50 of repurchases.

Don’t let those old purchases hold you back. Cut this old baggage loose.

Do NOT self-host email! In the long run, you’ll forget a security patch, someone breaches your server, blasts out spam and you’ll end up on every blacklist imaginable with your domain and server.

Buy a domain, DON’T use GoDaddy, they are bastards. I’d suggest OVH for European domains or Cloudflare for international ones.

After you have your domain, register with “Microsoft 365” or “Google Workspace” (I’d avoid Google, they don’t have a stable offering) or any other E-Mail-Provider that allows custom domains.

Follow their instructions on how to connect your domain to their service (a few MX and TXT records usually suffice) and you’re done.

After that, you can spin up a VPS and try out new stuff and connect it also to your domain (A and CNAMR records).

A self-hostes RSS reader? Probably the ability to read your stuff from anywhere without installing something. Like on your work PC… ;)

Media Server? No content backup at all.

If you lose everything, just download new stuff you want to watch, or redownload a few TV series/movies.

Music? There are streaming services.

Only backup configurations and maybe application data, so that the reinstall will be easy. Those few kB/MB could sit anywhere. I’m using GitLab for this purpose.

Edit: Images! If you have your photos on there, back them up! They can’t be replaced!

Es is echt ein Trauerspiel! Ich bin froh, dass nach mehrfachen vergeblichen Versuchen endlich der Mist funktioniert hat. Ich fürchte mich jetzt schon vor dem nächsten Handywechsel.

Musste damals die Handysignatur-App und die Digitales Amt-App (=ID Austria… wie behindert kann man sein und die Apl so nennen???) installieren sonst gings nicht… Habe übrigens ZWEI Benutzer, denke ich: einen der auf der Handynummer basiert von der Handysignatur, aber für ID Austria wurde mir ein neuer angelegt der meinen Namen beinhaltet… Auch wieder saudeppert!

Es ist einfach unausgegorener Scheißdreck, ein Flickwerk aus ÖVP-Kickback-Aufträgen, damit ja jeder Freunderl was von Steuergeld abbekommt!

I have had this issue for about a year, while trying different monitoring and logging solutions to try and find out what’s going on.

This was such a bitch! Now I’m spreading the word, so that other won’t suffer as long as I have.

Hahaha! I’m keeping this typo 😂

Do you run your PiHole on top of Docker? There’s an issue with docker and Raspberry Pis which makes the network crap out periodically. So if your PuHole becomes unavailable until you restart your Pi it might be this:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4092/

Solution is to add “denyinterfaces veth*” to the dhcpd.conf

Why not renting a few machines and virtualizing yourself? Can you install ESXi on a Hetzner server?

Oh man, that’s actually really good advice! I recently switched to Vaultwarden, but you’re right: If my server goes down, I can’t even restart it, because the password for my account is in there! Damn! Close call!

Genau das hab ich mich auch gerade gefragt!