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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I actually started giving my home Mastodon instance 8 bucks a month as a little “thank you” for hosting and maintaining it, because I think they’re doing a solid job at keeping the place wholesome and curbstomping less wholesome instances, and keeping it up and running.

    Also, I pay the subscription for Home Assistant/Nabu Casa, because I think it’s worth for having a locally-hosted home automation platform that is completely independant from any cloud provider, but can make use of cloud features if need be. Yes, I could set up my own SSL certificate for the instance, and set up the connection to Google Home manually, and run a completely local TTS (which I actually have as a backup in case the connection drops), but there, I pay for the convenience on top of supporting the developers a little bit.

    And before I switched to Jellyfin, I was happily using Plex and paid for the Plex Pass.




  • I use RSnapshot and make incremental backups to an external harddrive, and (I know it’s not a backup) run my two RAIDs (one for media, one for general data) in mirrored mode.

    When I eventually upgrade my home server, I will upgrade from 2x2 2TB drives in RAID1 to four 8TB drives in either RAID5 or 6 - I am still undecided if I am willing to sacrifice 4TB of capacity to the redundancy gods and get an extra harddrive that can fail without data loss in return.


  • On my “home server” (an old office PC we were about to throw into the junk at work that I installed OpenMediaVault on):

    • Portainer (Docker container manager)
    • AdGuard Home (DNS-based ad blocker)
    • Audiobookshelf (Audiobook library)
    • Bitwarden (Password manager)
    • Jellyfin (Media server)
    • Kavita (eBook library)
    • LetsEncrypt + NGINX (SSL cert + reverse proxy)
    • Nextcloud (cloud storage, notes, calendar, contact and browser bookmark sync)

    And on my Pi 4:

    • Home Assistant (smart home management and orchestration)

    (EDIT: Apologies for the double post, the post button kept showing the loading throbber, so I thought I may have had connection issues and submitted it again after refreshing the page)