Nice thanks for sharing. I’m thinking of doing something similar but to Hetzner (it’s dit cheap)

Would just need to figure out encryption

It’s a “Democracy” where you can only choose one of two parties.

Both of which suck. One clearly more than the other, but your only two options are terrible.

Do you have backups in place if your house burns down?

That’s the problem I’m looking to solve for myself right now.

For Photos the lazy route is to just pay Hetzner 5$ a month for 1TB storage and Nextcloud
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
(I tried this for a month and loved it, decided to then host myself)

The not lazy route is to host Nextcloud yourself, but because it’s important thigns like your family photos, you need to be sure your backups are solid.

I bought myself a Hardkernel H4+ and will be setting it up as a NAS with Nextcloud

Nice!! Happy you found a easy performance improvement

Thanks I’ll see if I can get the thumbnails on the SSD for more snappyness.

Thanks I’ll look into this, I’ve never setup ZFS but the hardware I need to comes next week. looking forward to it

Samsung S23 Ultra
The Sybian
PS5
Doxie Die Cast 3R
ODROID H4+ mini pc

Wish there was a tl;dr

I think that’s overkill, he already knows how to drive.

He just needs to learn how to use the clutch. A few YouTube videos, and a few hours of practice getting used to the clutch and he should be good