Lifebandit666

I think you should have a thin sheet of steel kept in your car or somewhere safe, so you can just use that like a locksmith.

I haven't heard any news that we in the western world have moved our whole economy to war yet, but I have heard that about Russia.

So not as bad as Russia I guess.

Plex was easy enough to set up. I use plexamp on my phone but can access the Plex server via a browser, which includes my music

Meh my Usenet provider also partners with a VPN provider. Still costs me £5 a month for the VPN but I may as well use it, I like having a VPN

Douch or turd sandwich?

Either way you're paying lots of money to watch a man sing that can't sing. At least with NOFX he wears a tutu too

Kick back, watch it crumble

See the drowning

Watch the fall

I feel just terrible about it

That's sarcasm, let it burn

I'm gonna make a toast when it falls apart

I'm gonna raise my glass above my heart

Then someone shouts, "That's what they get"

For all the years of hit-and-run

For all the piss broke bands on VH-1

Where did all their money go?

Don't we all know?

Parasitic music industry

I had a friend bring up this very topic this weekend and I replied "What would be more creepy and more likely is that the ad giants have algorithms for working out what you'll buy that are that good that they know what you want before you do and you're just noticing how good it is"

I had a friend at work who said "People who pirate stuff are just as bad as burglers" to me. I had just been Burgled 2 weeks before Christmas.

I replied "Right so I'm as bad as the smack heads that robbed my kids presents, is that what you're saying?"

He did that thing folk do when they look like a fish breathing then tried to backtrack, but that's when he became a "work colleague" again.

Yeah I mean I get it because I was also thinking about self hosting for a long time and had a bunch of questions myself.

The problem is that a lot of the questions were not needed, and a bunch of the other questions I answered myself by just tooling around with the stuff.

Great comment btw, it's a good idea to have a list of the services you'd like to run, in order of importance z then work through it.

I did that then found ways to combine a bunch of services, to the point where I had multiple stand alone VMs that are now just one for Home Assistant and second for Plex and Docker

I see a lot of posts like this and it's always people overthinking something they haven't tried to do yet.

So my advice is to just do it.

You may lose everything at some point in the future, Satan knows I have a few times, but because you've actually done it, you can do it again.

Now, because you're just thinking about doing it, it seems like a massive deal because you've not gone out and done it yet.

As for recommendations, I use a Proxmox VM with Debian and Docker. My Proxmox does backups, but my Docker compose is also a text document on my PC so I can recreate it all from scratch from that. I also have an idea what I did when I was learning how to do it, and have retained a good bit of that info so I could probably do it without either the backups or the Docker Compose, it would just take longer.

Just do it

To be fair it IS their job to take the piss. It is just that they should be processing it instead of pumping it into rivers and such