The backup server at my parents house really did not want to run. Something kept breaking to the point that no web interface or SSH worked. Now I’m not new to self hosting, so I ran my fair share of HDMI and USB cables across my space to debug something on my server. But at my parents place it’s just that extra bit annoying, since I only bring my laptop. Finding a screen is doable, but the keyboard got me more than once. The only one they have kicking around has a freaking PS/2 cable… not even my salvaged backup hardware is old enough to support that. More than one time I had to wait for friends to get back from work so I could borrow their keyboard just to press ‘any’ key.

I decided to handle the issue by getting an IP KVM, which should help me deal with that, right? Wrong! I installed a new drive and that piece of hardware goes into some secure boot loop or whatever that is too fast for my KVM to turn on…

I only handle “official” stuff with it. So invoices, some personal documents and the likes. PDF and image files, that’s it.

What do you mean by “change”? Never noticed anything.

I still go through the effort of naming my files properly before uploading. So I could just take all the files and still kind of work with them (outside of paperless). But even that is overkill I think… It is just the last bit I kept from my old ways of working with these things. The more I work with this, the more I want to keep this simple. If I don’t mess with all the settings and whatever, then I’m less likely to break things. And I’m less likely to end up with problems that no one else faces. Let’s say with immich: Say it goes shitty some day or I want to go somewhere else. I’m almost certain other people would also want to migrate their photos while keeping their album structure. So I just wait a little (or create something) and my issues is fixed. Instead of up keeping some folder structure that I only have to maintain and never use. This is obviously just my POV and I’m certain other people with have reasons to do things differently

After setting up paperless and Immich I struggled with this as well. I had a structure before an was very attached to it. But both, like mentioned below, will organize files in their own way. There are ways to keep things like you had them, export them, whatever. But I deemed it to be not worth the effort.

It took me some time, but I just accepted whatever these do. In particular since I really like those two services mentioned. Data is accessed through them, and that’s it for now. I backup everything through proxmox mechanisms, which is way more convenient then messing with the data in any way.

Should I want to migrate, I can always cobble together a migration script that pulls my data in ways I like.

Does it follow the same rules as with Gaming PCs? So +15% print speed?

Proxmox, mostly LXCs

• Home Assistant
• Paperless NGX
• OpenWRT
• Arr Stack
• Jellyfin
• Geoactivity Playground
• Calibre Web
• PiHole
• Samba Share
• Tandoor (more of an archive for grandmas good recipes than anything else)
• PDF editor (with the name I forgot)
• Nginx Proxy

I know that feeling. Broke something in my reverse proxy and setting it back up again was painful. I know that certain things had needed special treatment, but how/what/where? Lost 🥲 Going to migrate to infrastructure as code for my documentation now

Oh that helps plenty! I think everything and more was answered :) Thanks for taking your time!

Thanks for reaching back! Definitely a hefty price tag to it, but no bs with the labels and just a webpage for config sounds pretty good. Does it require internet access?

A little late to the party, but I found your comment while also on the hunt for a label printer. Could you tell me what printer you choose?

IR transmitters

Are you into that? I recently started fighting with my stupid ceiling fans and their IR remotes. Would like to get them into HomeAssistant, but are IR transmitters any good across rooms? Or would you have a transmitters right by the receiver and the transmitter speaks some other language for longer distance communication?

What are your use cases for an app like this? Not trying to hate or anything - I just never used timeline and don’t really get what it is doing for you?

Looks very cool in any case!

I didn’t even research into frames, but might if I like the feature on the TV.

Just to be clear, I don’t run it all day just to look at photos. Rather I have it show the photos on startup in the few minutes that I might take to select something to watch.

Thanks for your comment! Sounds like an awesome journey, I love that it makes you think about what you really need. Maybe I’ll give my current setup another thought to try avoid buying another device!

I might look into that, thanks!

OsmAnd was what I used so far and while I love the routes it gave me, navigation always felt cumbersome. Often times I turned the screen of to save power, which caused me to then take wrong turns all day. Not a big deal on most days, but on some it really is…

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Thx for making this post and pointing me towards CoMaps! I installed OsmAnd during my own little move away from big Corps last year, but ended up with the same issues. Just installed CoMaps and within a minute I already like it more!

With the intention of getting into 3D printing myself, I spend quite some time researching printers. Prusa checks many of my requirements and I love their approach. But the printers really seem a lot more pricey in comparison to what the competition has to offer. I get where that comes from and I’m likely to get a Prusa in the end just because of principles. But this is something you have to consider I guess.