Mastodawn

I don't know if it's a #selfhosting #IT topic or a #psy #OCD #burnout topic.
I don't know if it's a call for help or if I just need to dump this here.

First, I'm very glad that I could totally leave the #GAFAMs! Yes, they make your digital life apparently easier, but the price to pay is IMHO far, far too high. I despise them!

My #selfhost setup is driving me nuts: #VPN, online services, I can't decide if I'm happy with my #Synology #NAS hosting (backed up on SYnology C2), if I need a #VPS (my attempts showed that maintenance is high) or an assisted hosting service (like #PikaPods which sounds great). Availability of online services would be higher.

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Gauff 🇪🇺

IT part: Hang on if you want to read, this might get long...

- Passwords: on #ProtonPass (in synergy with #SimpleLogin) with family pass.
I'd prefer #Bitwarden (or #VaultWarden on PikaPods), but the bridge with SimpleLogin might get heavier. And migrating my family is a hassle.
- VPN: I love my #mullvad but if I stay with Proton Pass, grouping subscriptions at Proton with Proton VPN would be good... Except that I tried it, it wouldn't connect on my Linux, I gave up and asked for a refund.

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Gauff 🇪🇺2d ago

- Mail: Happy with #Mailfence. I'd consider Proton Unlimited but could not share calendar with my wife. Except if WE move everything to Proton, but again, hassle for my family?
- My Synology is used for calendar, contacts, tasks, file sharing, photos, movies and music.
- I use Synology basic for calendar, contacts, tasks and file sharing
- I use Synology Photos for photos. It's not super smooth but it works
- I use #Jellyfin for movies and music. For movies, it's OK. For music, it is quite slow and the lack of star rating annoys me. I'm considering #Navidrome

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Gauff 🇪🇺2d ago

- I signed up on PikaPods. With #Nextcloud, #Immich and Navidrome pods, (even Vaultwarden and Linkwarden, maybe even Miniflux?), most would be covered. I would then change "paradigms": instead of local data backed up remotely (#C2), data would be distant, and I could consider an S3 backup on my local Synology (if at all possible?).
- Financially, regrouping on Proton would be a good deal. Paying for some pods and stopping my Synology subscription would be fine as well.

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Gauff 🇪🇺2d ago

- Comes the question of data migration!
- CalDAV + CardDAV: easy
- Photos: folders are a mess but metadata is OK, so that should work.
- Music: awful! Jellyfin has my "likes" and a special playlist named "5stars". These 2 pieces of info are stored in Jellyfin DB, not in files. I can't find a way to migrate 5 stars, bulk assign 5 stars to them at the destination, do the same with 4 stars, and then with the rest. Recently, I've seen that using #Symfonium allows stars rating and offline play, but that then goes in the Symfonium DB. Another source of info!

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Gauff 🇪🇺2d ago

#Psy part: I realise that my brain is pedaling at full speed, for nothing. So many people would keep what they have and not constantly question it. So many people actually do that while being on #WhatsApp, #Google, ... So I'm already so much ahead!

Staying aware of how my brain works? Accepting that one of those aspects (for example photos or music only) are used to keep my brain active, and try to not make it an obsession? Make a plan and proceed one step at a time?

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Gauff 🇪🇺2d ago

Yes, I'm already working on that with a specialist... I'm sharing those things with them, it helps, but doesn't make the problem just go away...

I need a break. I'll go a spend a few days on my #StardewValley farm (where everything is optimised, measured, organised in squares, ... ;-) )

Thanks for reading (if you made it that far ;-)), comments are welcome!

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eLearningTechie 2d ago

@gaufff Thanks for sharing. I'm in the same head space on the whole 'tech choices' journey - and I also regularly flee to the valley to escape from it all (although I don't think any of my many farms are all that organised, let alone optimised 🤭 )