This is what happens when you don’t scum save.

That’s what everyone says, but you really should just wait until next year comes around.

In line with other commenter’s posts about security, if you’re new then don’t expose anything to the internet. Tailscale is great way to access your data remotely instead and doesn’t require opening yourself up to the internet in mass.

As for hardware, budget will rule over all. If you’re looking for a quick and dirty backup solution, then a raspberry pi with a drive attached and running syncthing will be perfect for you (and easy to setup). Again all on your tailnet/tailscale.

If you have more budget, then your options explode. You can use a whole range of hardware, OSes and software. Regardless, start with one service you want to run and go from there. Sounds like that’s media and pictures for you (as it was for most of us here).

What!?

Plex borking itself a year ago for me is the best thing that could’ve happened. Long live jellyfin

Its all a question of time. 9am? Perfect posture. 4:30? Breaking my back

And it’s still way overvalued. Market cap greater than Toyota? Good one

Its really not so bad once you get over the 12 hour drive.

Having used both, immich wins by a landslide. I was initially waiting until it got to a stable release, but it’s already so much better. I’d recommend anyone to just use immich.

GUMBIES isn’t real, it can’t hurt me…

I wish you hadn’t posted this \s. Now I have so much more to play with on my server. Great software here!

Right? I just ran the numbers and it’s actually closer to $8 billion /s