I love Immich for the fact that since I cannot hold peoples name in memory for more than a minutes, and I meet a lot of new people, so being able to take a photo and save their name is big for me.

Helps me when I study people's names periodically too

Big fan of Immich.

I have a couple thousand photos that were taken since around time When blackberry was big and before. Older family photos I’ve scanned. Home videos from vcr tapes. Stuff I wouldn’t want to use up my space on cloud drives but it’s sooo nice having them in Immich and organized.

I have local backups and offsite backup btw, and redundancy in the server itself. But Immich is great. Paid supporter.

Hook it up to a UPS and it basically has 100% uptime regardless of internet connectivity or power. I love how resilient it is.

bringing you joy is its purpose, and that is valid.

What plugins do you use?

How are you labelled extras ? By hand or with help of a plugin ?

This! I've been loving flipping through DVDs and blurays at Goodwill looking for gems to put in Jellyfin. I love that they will never go away, and I still feel a little giddy when I can watch something from the NAS in my office when I'm at someone else's house. Today, my daughter and my niece each watched different episodes of Octonauts at the same time on different devices, and both were a thousand miles from my server. ☺️ All from a raspberry pi!

Mail gang in da house.

Everyone should hoat mail. These corps started there for a reason. Take it all back.

Glad to hear people like it because I thought it was really cool....

...But not having that European easy bank import option and having to manually download your sheets and import them is probably why I didn't stick to it very well...

...but then again it imported those sheets like magic so there's that!

The thing that really kills me with actual budget instead of firefly philosophy differences is that a "budget per month" app needs to have some flexibility with dates and categorization which I don't find in actual budget. At the very least, setting a different "beginning of the month".

I get paid on the 27th-30th of the month, that is my budget for the following month but according to actual budget, that is my budget for the month of money I have already spent. Likewise with bills, I transfer money to an account where all the bills automatically come out of after I get my paycheck, but those are bills coming out of the budget for the following month.

You can't budget with money you don't have yet... Especially for people with variable salaries (Belgium pays money for the days you bike to work, getting expenses paid back, etc...)

If I transfer my bills money on the 1st of the month (last possible day) and then before the 1st of the month the next month, then all metrics and budgeting for 2 months are fucked up and inaccurate with no way to fix it.

for me personally, Firefly III works much better and it works with importing from my bank

Game changer is a great way to phrase it. It's no exaggeration to say it changed my partner and my lives. It gave us the confidence to save for and buy a house. I've never felt more in control of my finances before.

I was using Wealthica before they started charging and Actual Budget + Simplefin is so much better. I'm really happy all my financial info is just mine and not exposed to any other company. The expense for Simplefin is worth it and minimal.

I'm going to have to check this out!

Could I ask what cloud storage you went with? Looking for recommendations for potential backups.

Damn, never heard anyone enjoy hosting e-mail servers

that's crazy though

Big fan of baikal. Not having my contacts held hostage by big tech is so nice.

Selfhosting porn is the most neckbeard gooner thing I've heard of :))

It's kinda good the scratch hdd I was using for stash died. I was getting a little too into curating that library and it was changing my relationship with adult content.

10/10 app though, would recommend

100%. Home Assistant has proven to be incredibly useful in my house. My wife loves it for the laundry notifications, the fact that I essentially replaced Life360 with it (Traccar, really, but it ties into HA so nicely), and the automated lighting: our basement (the younger kids' play area), and themed lighting for the outdoor lights.

We've been fighting tangled toilet flapper chains over the last few years. The tangled chain keeps the flapper from closing, which causes the tank to continuously run into the bowl, which causes my water bill to skyrocket if gone unnoticed (we have 5 kids, 4 toilets, and the chains get tangled no matter what I do: new chain, longer chain, shorter chain, different type of chain/string/twine, etc... I blame the hard water). I finally got fed up, so I bought and installed a zigbee water level sensor for each toilet tank, then whipped up an automation which notifies us via Android's "alarm_stream" notification channel if a sensor has been dry for longer than a few minutes. That channel overrides DND, and I am going to add an entry to ping my HA Voice thing as well in case we don't have our phones on us.

Does it have any particular benefits over using a random public instance? All I've heard is mostly needing heaps of bandwidth and storage.

Which ones get he most play?

Same!! I don't trust other sites to preserve my photography indefinitely, and definitely not in the quality I want, so I built this from scratch https://p.drkt.eu/ and it's just sitting on a box in my living room. Feels nice to watch the traffic tick by in the logs :)

My own art gallery

What kind of art? Do you paint, create pottery, etc. My lady friend is a self taught painter, and does some mind blowing stuff. Hell, I can't even put paint on a wall or draw stick figures. LOL She tells me I am biased, but I respond that I know good art when I see it. I always wanted to get into pottery. That seems like it would be super cool.

I think jellyfin is better, isn't it?

what do you mean by "gives back"? To whom? For example, why Jellyfin over any of the *arrs

Man I miss the days of my friend group FTP server. I might have to look into this, but getting anyone to participate is going to be the real trick