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My home server was a totally justified purchase
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Scrath lemmy.dbzer0.com Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-12-08
#52 · Quote Reply
robear wrote:
I have 20 500GB HDDs I got for free off a client who was disposing of some old desktops, daisy chained through a series of powered USB hubs currently hosting my Jellyfin and Immich content. I regret nothing.

I would regret the power usage of running 20 small hard drives as opposed to a few big ones but the cost of electricity is definitely still smaller than the cost of big hard drives
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url feddit.fr url@feddit.fr
Joined: 2025-11-24
#53 · Quote Reply
myszka wrote:
Can you describe your setup? Termux with proot docker implementation (forgot the name)? I'm about to get a bunch of old phones and want to make some use of them.

It's udocker
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ekZepp lemmy.world ekZepp@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-26
#54 · Quote Reply

Home servers are a very valid solution to a whole new series of modern problems.
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thanksforreading lemmy.ml thanksforreading@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-13
#55 · Quote Reply
Evotech wrote:
Cheaper to rent a decent vps than to pay for the electricity for some old slug of a machine in your house in this economy

Riskier too if you care about privacy, sovereignty and self-determinism.
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Evotech lemmy.world Evotech@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-11
#56 · (edited) Quote Reply
thanksforreading wrote:
Riskier too if you care about privacy, sovereignty and self-determinism.

Barely

Higher chance that your machine dies
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BlackLaZoR lemmy.world BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-26
#57 · Quote Reply

Totally worth it.

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thanksforreading lemmy.ml thanksforreading@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-13
#58 · Quote Reply
Evotech wrote:
Barely Higher chance that your machine dies

All factored in. Backups 3-2-1 etc etc. No chance of your cloud service provider suddenly deciding to lock you out of services etc. Not your computer not your data.
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notthebees reddthat.com notthebees@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-06-23
#59 · Quote Reply
djdarren wrote:
People buy home servers? They don't just find them lying about and say to themselves "I'll put Debian on this old piece of shit and see what I can get away with running"? Huh.

Mine is currently a not so old pavilion laptop. Runs debian and has 2 drives in it. I need to upgrade it bc it has no storage space but upgrading the m.2 is a motherboard out procedure.
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