Self hosting looks interesting, but I’d generally rather keep things offline. Even as a software developer, I value simplicity, and most online “services” I find entirely superfluous ; self hosted or no.
Jellyfin ? How about a big external drive with movies on it, just plug it into your viewing device of choice.
Hosting my notes ? I take my notes on physical paper. (Loose sheets, because notebooks have the same scaling issues computer notes have. Sometimes I just want to splay everything out on the table and do big picture work. That’s also why I only use one side of the sheet.)
Music streaming ? I dont even know if you can self host this one (probably yes) but I’d rather just copy the file over ; even a huge library doesn’t take that much space.
Photos ? I just have folders on an encrypted drive, with some backups elsewhere. Though I guess Immich looks interesting…
Documents ? Okay, I should self-host this one. For now it’s all local, on-disk (encrypted of course, there’s no good reason not to), but it can be quite inconvenient if my only copy is at home on my desktop.
So no, I don’t self-host yet, and when I do (hopefully soon) it will be only in a limited capacity ; mostly out of a convenience concern, privacy being a distant second.
Self hosting looks interesting, but I’d generally rather keep things offline. Even as a software developer, I value simplicity, and most online “services” I find entirely superfluous ; self hosted or no.
Jellyfin ? How about a big external drive with movies on it, just plug it into your viewing device of choice.
Hosting my notes ? I take my notes on physical paper. (Loose sheets, because notebooks have the same scaling issues computer notes have. Sometimes I just want to splay everything out on the table and do big picture work. That’s also why I only use one side of the sheet.)
Music streaming ? I dont even know if you can self host this one (probably yes) but I’d rather just copy the file over ; even a huge library doesn’t take that much space.
Photos ? I just have folders on an encrypted drive, with some backups elsewhere. Though I guess Immich looks interesting…
Documents ? Okay, I should self-host this one. For now it’s all local, on-disk (encrypted of course, there’s no good reason not to), but it can be quite inconvenient if my only copy is at home on my desktop.
So no, I don’t self-host yet, and when I do (hopefully soon) it will be only in a limited capacity ; mostly out of a convenience concern, privacy being a distant second.