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Shoutout to my selfhosting homies with a partner, kid, and cat(s), with these storage prices. T_T (lemmy.today)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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A bar graph stating "How much storage you need on your phone." Single, 256GB ; In a relationship, 540 GB ; If you have a cat, 28TB.

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[–] 44 points 4 months ago (3 children)

/dad:on Cat owners need a pet a byte while gardners make do with a ter(r)a byte. /dad:off

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    /dad:on Musicians need a gig a byte while fans of the Disney movie Hercules need Meg a byte. Then again, the real assassins need a kil(l) o' byte. /dad:off

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    • [–] 26 points 4 months ago

    The maniac who got a spouse, kids, a dog, two cats, and hamster, and also gardening, does woodworking, and also rearing farm animals:

    1PB.

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    [–] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Years ago I was tempted to get a 4TB SSD for data storage as prices were getting reasonable and I just kept thinking wait for it to drop a bit more. Now 4TB HDDs are pushing the same price SSDs were back then. Fuck.

    My PC is currently 512GB SSD boot drive and 3TB LVM from a 1/2TB HDD. Those HDDs are getting pretty old now so I probably should replace them at some point but I resent having to pay the prices they ask right now. Maybe I should just uninstall half of my steam library that I realistically won't play any time in years or ever again. Reduce my storage needs. Data backups only take like 50GB or so.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah real backups are typically not even half of what we use, I bet about 2/3 is useless junk we could never be arsed to delete

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Second hand SSDs are getting kinda tempting tbh. But even they have seen their prices rise. Wish I bought all of the 512GB ones I saw for £10 each now. Got plenty of SATA ports, why shouldn't I use them?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    In late 2024 I managed to get a good MVME 512GB SSD for less than 40€! It also clearly has a DRAM cache because it's really fast. That SSD probably costs at least four times as much now, I should have gotten another one

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    • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Pretty much 50% of the reason I started selfhosting

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    This is per-cat, having 2 doubles the storage requirements

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah! Photo storage was the reason I was able to get my brother into self-hosting!

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Cat owner. 128gb phone.

    Just download the images to your machine. I'm not paying that much of a markup after they removed micro SDs from our phones.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    This is the way. I just auto upload them to my NextCloud. That being said, I just shared the meme, I didn't make it. 😅 Hahaha

    I agree people getting like 2TB phones is kinda ridiculous!

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    • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Are we forgetting about the porn needs of single people?

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    • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's what I'm kind of outraged about. These crazy prices are taking computation out of consumer's hands again and placing them back in the iron grip of giant corpos.

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    • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    The greatest thing selfhosting ever did was give me an easy way to search "cat" in immich and get rid of all the stupid, useless photos of places and people. Just get me to the good stuff, man.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Is immich stable these days? Looked into it a number of years ago and it wasn't yet

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    They do have a stable release, and so far I have not had any issues at all running the server on pretty shit hardware, even with machine learning stuff turned on (as long as ram doesn't run out, which my 8GB definitely did after I added a 10th container app).

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's cool! I personally use NextCloud Memories, and I'd really like if the recognition component got that reliable!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I mean, it's tolerable, and great for self hosting. Searching for "cat" definitely gets some false positives and straight up wrong choices. The facial recognition ML is pretty good, though. It's kind of wild to suddenly be able to watch family members or myself age by searching for one person and scrolling through 2 decades of photos.

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I don't really take that many pictures of him. He finds it rude.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago

    That's fair and considerate.

    I basically consider picture rights to be rent. They loaf around, get free food, shelter, snuggles, brushing, among other perks.

    In return I get to take silly pictures of them! Although usually they're flattering and regal portraits. :D

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    What do you guys use to self-host your cat photos? Does your solution include (cat-) face recognition?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I personally use NextCloud Memories! It works really well. Unfortunately two drawbacks:

    • Its recognition can mostly get "animal" but I imagine it misses a lot of "cat." I also put in custom tags "Cat - (name)" to differentiate, but that's not automatic and I'm sure my collection is imperfect.

    • Facial recognition; it only recognizes like the first face it sees? It can't handle multiple people in an image. Really strange. The face recognition is also currently limited to humans. Big whomp-whomp!

    But as for integration with the rest of NextCloud, Memories is quite fantastic and I like it a lot. :)

    (If you wanna mess with NextCloud, I HIGHLY recommend the AIO (all in one) install)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the hint! I've heard that self-hosting Nextcloud is a gigantic handful, it's supposed to need a lot of attention to maintain?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago

    Personally I've had a lot of luck running NextCloud AIO on OpenMediaVault, on my little server machine running ProxMox.

    The nice thing is you can keep your data drives separate, and take snapshots of the OpenMediaVault virtual machine before you update NextCloud, and if something goes wrong , you can roll it back without losing stuff stored on it!

    (Sorry I could be better at describing this stuff)

    AIO makes it a lot more convenient to maintain. It has a backup solution built in using Borg Backup, and it automates updates when you tell it to update. Usually the update process is a bit more...fraught and hands-on running bare metal.

    NextCloud can back itself up as mentioned, but I use Proxmox's snapshots in case the little web portal to do all that breaks, which has happened before. But super rarely!

    Haha sorry this is a bit of a mess, I'm at work right now XD

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    • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    16GB (decimal).

    Modern day Android is outrageously bloat, it takes up half of that. It also needs 64GiB RAM to compile. Anyways, my everything else is around 7 gigs. I didn't fill it up fully because the Android package manager refuses to update or install anything when a certain amount isn't free.

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Now make a graph for kids. I swear my wife has a couple of 4TB SSDs filled to the brim. Her mother might even have more.

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    • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I dont get it...why does the cat impact storage needs?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    You would take many photos of your cat being cute or doing stupid things

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I have two cats an not a single photo...WTF would I need photo's of them, they're right here all the time.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    they're right here all the time.

    Well, I don't wanna be dark but uh...that won't always be the case, as I've experienced too often recently.

    So, it's nice to be able to look back. Our own memories are quite unreliable. :)

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    • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Dreamcats

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