You must have a good after market body part dealer, for a new setup for local HDD’s I think I would need to sell an arm and a leg! This however may also be because I would want to setup a good NAS, even if it was just a random drive setup.

Joking aside have you considered a VPS? I recently went looking for drives that I could make a NAS with and to keep some things backed up off site, after seeing prices I thought about alternatives. EasyDNS, who hosts my domain name and email, also offer VPS’s so I got a VPS to backup my important things, I also have scripts that run to delete say TV show episodes after I have watched them that I will never watch again. It could be Jellyfin that does it for me or some script I vibe coded to work? Whenever you decide to get a new laptop, if you are not selling it pull the drive out you maybe able to still sell it without the drive if you are getting rid of a computer or know someone who is get the drive out of that my homelab has a bunch of different sized drives attached to different devices.

I heard that recently reddit decided to shoot themselves in the foot, people needing to pay at minimum $10 000 a month or something like that for bots to do the scrapping or something like that. It is a big Fuck you to mods of the groups and small creators looking for news. Capitalism is a horrible thing, they are not making enough money from advertisments hopefully because people where leaving to Lemmy, I do not know but a girl can dream.

I am curious as to how much the Mods are being paid to offer this stuff, what self respecting selfhoster would want a licenses to anything? Especially those three things, there are FOSS alternatives to all three.

Why would you use paid for Adguard; it is good for some devices and even at that it is not good for the whole device, you can use Adguard Home or my choice Pi-Hole where you are doing a whole LAN ad blocker. You can even set up a VPN or two and use the pihole away from your LAN.

I was unaware of what PhotoPrism was so I went and looked, and thought ok it is like immich but you pay for it?

Why would any self respecting homelabber pay for Emby, all they are doing is trying to get money out of you when Jellyfin is right there mocking the other paid for home lab video streamers like Plex and Emby when their prices go up.

I have a script that reads over one of the Canada Lemmy groups I am in and sees if a petition has been posted from ourcommons.ca than shares it in the Lemmy group if it has not been shared yet.

I recently found out that this is not always true.