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Maybe consider paperless-ngx.

Its primary purpose is document management, but you can easily upload receipts and pictures as well. I use paperless-mobile to interact with my instance.

Nice

Only host what you need.

It depends if underpowered means “too slow” for you, or “slow”. I would consider the meaning more similar to “too slow”, i.e. I think the reference point matters. Therefore for me the pi is not underpowered, just low powered. [Edit: to keep the discussion on track, I would therefore consider the pi “good enough”, which was the original claim in the second level comment]

Of course in terms of absolute numbers the pi has not a lot of processing power.

It entirely depends on what you want to do with it. So calling it underpowered is not a statement that can be made in general.

I have a pi4, 4GB. And running off of an SSD (connected via SATA to usb adapter). Sorry, forgot to specify.

Even slower would still be worth it IMO, digital document management is just so much better than keeping multiple folders of paper organized. Also I can access all my paperwork from anywhere, because the pi and my phone are both in my wireguard VPN network.

About a minute, 1:30 maybe (edit: per page on a pi4). I use an app to upload jpegs though, I don’t have a normal scanner at the moment. The higher quality scan and smaller file size may make some steps of the process quicker (no need for alignment and color correction for example) if you use a normal, proper scanner.

It doesn’t matter though. When I get home and see I got a letter I scan it and by the time I drank something, put away my clothes and stuff i had with me, the pi is done and I can edit the metadata in the web ui.

You should get a scsi enabled adapter though, otherwise you may have to disable it in the kernel boot settings. And if you forget that it will run at like kbit/s.

I have a vps for 2€/month. It’s not a powerful machine, but easily enough to host wireguard and caddy.

Yes. All hosting providers will comply with requests from law enforcement.

Signal and proton mail were forced to hand out information as well in the past. All you can do is choose which provider you distrust the least.

Oh, don’t worry they’re a random mix of old drives I had lying around, they’re most certainly not the same model, let alone batch!

(But yes, fair call if you have a big Nas. I have 2TB in my desktop)

It protects against drive failure. That is the threat I am most worried about, so it’s fine for me.

Their Download stats look very sus though. Maybe they process their logs three days late, but that drop does not look pretty.

With the price of SSDs I’d recommend an internal SSD and SATA or m.2 to USB adapter instead. That way you can choose the enclosure to provide enough cooling, and even open the adapter and add a fan if you really stress the SSD.

I’m pretty sure rpi3 as well.

When I started it worked out of the box on rpi3 already and a year after rpi4 came on the market the firmware was updated to support it there as well. New pis ship with recent Firmware, so they work out of the box, early rpi4 might need flashing.

You’ll find plenty of tutorials if you Google “RPI 3/4 USB boot”. I run mine from a SSD in a sata-usb adapter. The storage space and peace of mind, not having to fear corruption is definitely worth it (also SSDs are dirt cheap right now (just make sure you have an adapter that supports all block device access modes if you need all the speed you can get, there is one that is not always supported by the adapter)).

(Edit: sorry, only talking about the B+ variant! I don’t have experience with other variants)

A new RPI should have USB boot enabled out of the box. I know the first year after release you had to update the firmware to get it working, but iirc that is no longer needed. Just burn the image to the stick instead of the SD card and it’s plug and play.

You can boot from the SSD directly btw

What a hilariously and refreshingly honest company! I don’t think I want to join in the beta phase yet, but I’ll definitely keep it in mind and will check back in the future.

I signed up at gandi.net earlier this year. I even read their Wikipedia, which said they merged with another company in February. Still went ahead, because they had email included in the cheap domain name. A month after I got the mail they’ll be increasing prices too. Not sure if I’ll go somewhere else now, or if I’ll just start paying for email (4€/month or something)