Yep they changed this somewhat recently I believe? Like a year or two back, not sure - before my time.

Last I checked I think it’s now like $50 or $60 for the first year, and renewals are half that, so definitely not terrible.

At this point my whole setup is mostly in maintenance mode - I’ve got everything I need up and running, making some minor changes here and there (like swapping out StirlingPDF for Bento), and keeping things up to date. I only started this hobby about 6 months ago or so, and I’m really satisfied with where things are at. We’ll see when the next Big New Thing arrives.

Mixing disks is the #1 reason I went with unraid over any other option.

StirlingPDF always rubbed me the wrong way and felt super corporate, definitely gonna replace it with this

I’ve been running this setup for a few months now and haven’t looked back. Works super well, and essentially acts as an approval process for letting a container update or not.

The author also recently added a followup article to this one for using Forgejo instead, made migrating the setup super easy.

Nothing fancy. I use Backrest for all my backups, and a few of my plans just include the Immich directory. My NAS is an entirely separate machine so my local backups go there, while everything is simultaneously pushed to a backblaze bucket

Seriously. I love GOS and can’t imagine using a phone without it at this point, but their social media is a shitshow and a half.

I stopped using it because it was constantly eating up nearly a gig of RAM at all times just by existing. The dev’s AI generated avatar is a big turn-off too.

I went back to Readeck and it works much better for me without hogging system resources.

I completely upgraded my desktop like a month before I decided to make the switch. If I planned ahead just a bit more I would’ve gone with an AMD card for sure. This 4090 is still new enough that I can probably trade it in, but that’s such a pain in the ass.

I maintain my own private invidious instance and that motherfucker has to be rebooted every single day istg

I switched to OpenCloud a month or two ago and it’s been much better overall. A bit of a pain to set up but now it’s running smooth, does everything I need it to do and is much more performant than Nextcloud was for me.

Capitalism

Y e p. It’s a nightmare tbh. No ethical consumption under capitalism etc etc