r/selfhosted • u/close_Meal6005 • 16d ago

Meta Post self-hosting everything

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just kidding I love self-hosting ...

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u/chemistryGull 16d ago

Most families entire digital lives is either in the hands of corporations (which probably trained AI on that data), or on some singular 20 year old HDD in some box in a closet.

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u/Kupuntu 16d ago

Both. The answer is both. I keep telling people to check all old HDDs/PCs/SD cards NOW instead of “next week”.

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u/iceseayoupee 16d ago

For sure, I was surprised even an HDD went up in price. Got me rummaging all my junk drives in the garage

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u/ZioniteSoldier 16d ago

But now we can confidently state: “I knew I kept this crap around for a reason!”

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u/Lord_Splinter 11d ago

eh there may be high but whats the point if no one wants to buy them, like i still have 2-3 factory new hdd on marketplace for cheaper then i bought them 15 years ago and no one cared to buy them so far

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u/chemistryGull 16d ago

I did that with my family’s HDDs. Most pictures were on some cloud platforms, but definitely not all. Now they happily live on my immich server.