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nginx-proxy becomes almost a must have if you have multiple services and prefer remembering domain names instead of port numbers https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy
Why not just have a main page on a single domain that has links to all the services? That way you only need to remember one domain name.
I love self hosting useful apps. I wish finding more things was easier. Right now I self host a jellyfin server and home assistant. When I learned a subscription for home security was $75/mo I said “there has to be something out there” and there was. I pay the developer their $6/mo even though everything works without it. Jellyfin has been amazing for physical media backups. It’s nice to experience old VHSes and DVDs…
> When I learned a subscription for home security was $75/mo I said “there has to be something out there” and there was. Can I ask what it was you found?
He said normally it’s $100/mo but with this deal, it’s $75/mo.
No thanks. $900/yr to $1200/yr + installation fee for home security kinda stinks. I was told the equipment wouldn’t work if I didn’t have the subscription.
I’m sure I was taken for a ride too, being told false information (the equipment really wouldn’t work? It’s really $75/mo?). I indeed felt like I was being treated like a mark. At the end I said delete my information but honestly I doubt they did. But who cares because now I got myself into this pretty fun world of home automation and security through Home Assistant and self hosting.
I use mpd and ncmpcpp but arguably I don't need much in terms of features, I just play all the things on shuffle. No point in using my phone as when I'm on the LAN, I don't need it, and when I'm out of it, it's counter productive to connect to it (because Canada still has third world mobile data rates) and better off replicating the entire library on-device.
In Nepal I pay $4.38 per month for 60 GB of 4G mobile data.
It's often cheaper to buy an European eSIM and roam, it's laughable and has been stifling innovation for decades. But hey, someone's getting rich.
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honestly the best way to discover new artists for me is last fm. i can look who has similar taste and see what they like. Allways wanted to implement this somehow
I have not explored this in a long time. Moved to ListenBrainz. Will check it again.
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Same! I use syncthing-fork to automate the process: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android
isn't syncthing on android dead? https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...
What do people use for a NAS nowadays?
I'm probably missing something. Why self-host when for $10/mo. you can access a nearly unlimited catalog of music on Spotify with integration on phone, PC, car, Sonos, etc?
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> to directly support artists with buying the albums or songs at full price, rather than letting Spotify barely pay artists anything for their music (especially independent ones without industry connections) You can't post an open source project on this site without half the thread speculating that you're a grifting sociopath. <1% are going to pay for music on here.
I am curious, with the way you are using “ Is your point that people aren’t willing to pay for things if they have a choice not to? Or is it that independent artists should be grateful that people see their work at all and that “most” people will just think they are a grifting sociopath? Not sure what your issue with my comment is, but I’m interested in what you meant, as I feel I’m missing context that only you have…
The context is people on this site regularly treat open source authors with complete hostility despite what they give us (even going so far as to call them sociopaths). Sometimes this same crowd justifies this rudeness based on protecting open source "purity."
It's not uncommon for them to upvote posts like this that take a shot at Spotify or promote piracy as an easy feel good moral high, even though they themselves treat artists/authors worse. Doesn't take away from the substance of your comment.
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(Are you havoc from the JB community?) I agree! I just don’t know if this would pass the wife test. All of our music and photos and videos tc etc being hosted by me where I could potentially lose everything. All the work needed to properly store enough backups and test upgrades and maintain things I just figure the tens of dollars I spend monthly to host this stuff for me in iCloud and other places is worth it.
Nope - not familiar with JB community so must be someone else. Just got lucky on hn grabbing a nice nickname early. Re wife test - yeah music selfhost is a risky one. People get really grumpy when they can't get their tunes
Totally get you with the wife approval factor. More for me it’s I think I might screw something up and nuke the whole thing. I do light admin work for my day job as a data engineer — to have to do it at an even higher intensity for the family is too much stress.
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In hindsight it is crazy that tiny iPods from the early-mid 00s had 120-160 GB storage, more than what a flagship $1000 iPhone starts with twenty years later . Yes they used HDDs, but for media consumption it didn't really matter. And then when Apple switched to flash storage we took a massive step back to 1/2/4 GB with outrageous premiums for extra capacity.
I remember reading articles at the time running the numbers on what it would cost to legally fill an OG iPod with mp3s at $0.99 a song or $9.99 an album. My memory is fuzzy but I remember it being something like $15,000 to fill an iPod legally with music from iTunes. Many articles concluded that the device was speced for piracy. I don’t think the storage size was reduced for technical reasons. I suspect a lot of back…
Rather, it's Apple who has intentionally been keeping storage capacity low for 2 reasons:
1.) Push users to use iCloud storage, which isn't cheap and purposely doesn't even offer storage tiers that match their phone capacities.
2.) It provides incentive for users to upgrade, especially in an era where keeping an iPhone for 3-5 years has become common and new models offer very little from older ones.