One of the things I hope will come from the Trough of Disillusionment in cloud computing will be families running redundant file servers hosting the family photos instead of doing everything on IG.

Your three tech savvy family members should all have redundant copies of the photos of memaw’s wedding and Uncle Jim when he was 2 and looked exactly like your cousin’s second kid. I don’t need to see those. Your stalker ex boyfriend definitely doesn’t need to see those. It’s none of our goddamned business.

Someone, I think WD? Already made a play at this but I think it fell on deaf ears and will have to be tried again after the hype cycle calms tf down.

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DrewADesign 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My very vibes-based take is that setting up home servers is the dad jeans of tech hobbies. It's kind of arresting how bewildered many young people are when confronted with anything below the UI layer. I think peak tech savviness happened a bit younger than me: maybe mid-late millennial. After that you start getting into the iPad-from-birth generation for whom tech was rarely a challenge. Tech savviness among young folks feels more like it was in the mid-90s. They're infinity more online-savvy, no doubt, but when it comes to knowing anything about how that works, they're cooked.

I do know some non-developer Gen Z folks that would set up minecraft servers on DO droplets, but I don't know of any that actually made their own and hosted it on their own network.

Aside from more exposure to raw tech, the technology making the internet happen was a lot simpler back then, where servers were actually physical servers,and such. I was able to adopt the complexity progressively as it came into existence which is a lot easier with the base knowledge of how the building blocks worked.

	▲	BrenBarn 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is my impression as well. From what I've seen, many Gen Z people only loosely even think in terms of things like "files". They are used to integrations where everything just lives on some website or in a Google app and the way you locate things is by searching.
	▲	AtlasBarfed 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		We still need a lot of plug and Play with home servers. In theory, AI should be good at helping building interfaces between cloud backups and home server apps. Because AI should be good at apis. In theory

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mikepurvis 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I just set up a little cube server with a Mini-ITX board I had lying around. Overall I'm very happy with it, but right now it's basically just Unraid with the built-in containers running for Deluge, Jellyfin, and the Crafty minecraft server.

I'd love for it to also be a backup of my whole Google Photos account (eg https://github.com/JakeWharton/docker-gphotos-sync) but honestly I can't imagine trying to maintain an app on there that would actually be the first class storage/sync/presentation layer for my family.

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cyberax 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I can't imagine trying to maintain an app on there that would actually be the first class storage/sync/presentation layer for my family.

Immich exists. It really is missing only some editing functionality and some nice-to-have features from GPhotos like automatic panoramas. Other than that, it's superior to Google.

	▲	vachina 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Immich feels too heavy for my needs, so I wrote a single executable server that turns my photo directories into a photo gallery (https://github.com/yhling/go-web-image-gallery) Photo ingestion is via regular samba uploads from my phone.

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esseph 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You might be shocked. Immich is amazing.

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Eisenstein 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Too bad all of the RAM and NAND flash are going to be unaffordable for the next few years at least.

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hinkley 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Once you include internet latency hard drive latency isn’t that much worse. It won’t help but it won’t stop it.

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kalleboo 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Hard disk drive prices are also soaring. Looking up a random WD drive: up 70% since July, a Seagate drive, up 50%

	▲	Dylan16807 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For $125, which is also about the price of one year of cloud storage, you can get a hard drive big enough to store half a million photos and also back up a million photos. It probably won't ever go over $200. And the hardware to serve that hard drive is somewhere between free and another hundred.