Lucky that you live somewhere that you may see the bright light. I do not live in the middle of bum fuck no where but I can see it from here. If I did not already have the plan of downing a lot of narcotics and just falling asleep I would suffer from so much radiation poisoning it would not be fun.
Don’t be afraid to try one thing, it may lead to another, and another, to having your LAN changed forever.
I was going to suggest this as well
looking at your list, make sure you have a good understanding of whatever tool you are going to use and a place to back up your photos before you remove them from Google or where ever you have your photos stored.
If WW3 breaks out I am going to the nearest pharmacy and finding ways to get all the narcotics and going peacefully asleep, even though I do not live in the middle of Bum fuck nowhere I can see it from here. I wont get the pleasantries of a painless death of having a nuke dropped anywhere near me but I will suffer from the massive amount of radiation poisoning, all my data would be gone as is from the electromagnetic shock so yeah no worries from me.
I am in the process of getting homelabbed up as well, I have been running piholes for years but I have gotten deeper into doing my stuff recently. My ISP is finally running fibre to my place this week and I had a game plan to get a lot of things setup so that I could do a switch over to my own firewall the day or two before the fibre was installed. I have a pi 5 with 1gb ram running openwrt, the plan was to do the switch over to it the day before the fibre was installed so I listed out all the things that would need to be changed, and on what days I would do it. My plan kept getting more compact as I am excited to do the actual switch, I have been crash testing things across my LAN but all the stuff I had planned on working on until Wednesday got comprised into this weekend so that I could do the important switch over and crash testing Monday and Tuesday and some fun stuff on Wednesday for the fibre to be installed on Thursday.
Talking about parents and setting things up for them I plan on showing my father the things I can do and try and convince him to join me use my services for the small price of off site backup.
I only really started getting deep into self hosting when the orange guy started threatening to make Canada the 51st state. So that is when I found immich, not sure how far I was into Lemmy when I found it but I have no complaints.
I am a fan of Immich but know nothing about Synology. Does Synology have a subscription or something? Immich has done a much better job at tagging things and putting them in to albums than Apple’s Photos ever did for me, it took the stuff that Apple had tagged and than did a much better job.
I run immich on a pi 5 8gb ram with a bunch of other services, highly suggest.
Last time my power was out all of my vaultwarden passwords were on my bitwarden install on my phone.
Run your own vaultwarden, you get to use all the bitwarden things for free. With rumours of enshitification coming let the people who do not do the self hosting pay for the development. If I had the money to donate I would have stopped the moment I heard the enshitification rumours.
I only pay for two .ca domain names, I originally was not self hosting when I got the first one so it is rather expensive as I use a different email address for every service/site I sign up for. I get next to no spam. The next domain I have as a test domain, I will be using it to test out things before I commit to them being on my main domain.
The first domain is something expensive, as they are currently doing all the hosting, the second one was something like $11 or $12. Once I get my test setup running I will move my main one over to my self hosted system.
I have a pi 4 running HAOS, I have an 8 gb pi 5 running a bunch of services, with head room to spare. I have a pi 5 with 4gb ram running Jellyfin with headroom to spare. Both pi 5’s are also running pihole.
I also have a pi 5 with 2gb that will hopefully handle my personal blog and email, hopefully! I have a pi 5 with 1 gb showing up on Thursday that will run my OpenWRT and LuCI. I had a pi zero 2 that handled wireguard but it could only handle it for DNS, with OpenWRT on a pi 5 I will be able to do more than just DNS over wireguard.
I personally have a handful of pi’s doing things, with plans to get more to do more (I have one in the mail to become my OpenWRT router). I was thinking of getting something simple to be able to do STT and TTS as I want to replace my HomePods as I slowly leave Apple and have have no interest in joining Amazon or Google for home automation, so I looked at my university’s used computers. I am not really a fan of buying some random persons old hardware but maybe a business is selling their old stuff.
I started my Home lab adventure with a pi 4, still have it sure it has gone through many different OS’s and has been used for several different things and worn several different hats but it is still working. I think it has found its forever place in my home lab as a HAOS server with the POE hat booted off of a USB drive.
The only working things in my home lab that are not pi’s are: my printer, my wifi router, and the ISP modem. I have finally got around to ordering another pi 5 to act as my firewall so that modem will be switched to pass through. When I get that setup I will have a pi zero 2 to retire as my wireguard host.
I have 2 pi 5’s running pihole, one of them runs a bunch of other services while the other runs my arr stack and Jellyfin. I have a pi 5 that will host my domains, and hopefully email server(s).
I have plans to get another to replace my AppleTV as the media server in the not to distant future. I had plans to use one to act as an audio amp in my home theatre set up, I may look at that again.
Who knows just for shits and giggles I may find some way to turn a pi into a wifi router with VLANS and a bunch of wifi APs.
My ISP does not have a data cap or anything like that so I pay no attention to that. What are you doing that you only use that much?
I heard that it was going 10x 🤪. My suggestion get a pihole and don’t pay the, checks calculation $0.00, plus you get ad blocking on a lot of the web.
I am relatively new to the whole paperless thing but I have a couple of email addresses that it watches, one that saves the email as the document and one that saves the attachments. My pi 5 has no problem scanning documents that I can then send to one of my paperless emails. I can also forward emails I want saved to the other paperless email. I am still going into the web ui to make sure things are tagged right, but paperless is awesome it does OCR and it fixes files that were scanned at a bit of an angle.
I am trying to work through a system that prints documents according to events on my calendar, with HA.
Did something to import all my photos to nextcloud, sorry do not remember what I did but was unhappy with how my devices were not syncing that fast. Then I found immich and just put them there, still not as fast as Apple photos but faster than nextcloud.
I like this idea but as soon as one nuke is launched so are all the other ones. As much as I would love to join you in doing this I do not want to suffer from the radiation poisoning.