New adventures of an old geek
I’ve had a blog. Actually more than one…
Around 2007, I used to do bDay websites, with some sort of commenting system. I always wrote from scratch — in PHP — with the hopes to create a better version than the previous year. They usually had a guestbook on plaintext or mySQL, and I used all new CSS tricks I could, to make it pop. Good times. I don’t even know where all that is now. I should have a backup in some CD or portable HDD somewhere.
And now, I thought: well, I could quickly spin up a hey.world space to jolt some notes, and later one create a webhook that would publish in both hey.world and here.
Doesn’t sound too hard, but it needs to start somewhere. And it’s much easier to start writing an email, publishing on hey.world and later figure out how to integrate with the future blog. So here we are.
The important point here is: to express ideas and quickly publish something.
So, what’s up?
Well… a lot actually. In the geek department, I finally bought a NAS. And it’s a Debian underneath, so I installed Docker and Immich, and I’m transferring all my iCloud photos and videos to it. I also downloaded my google takeout and I’m migrating all my Photos to it, using the clever Immich-go.
The master plan? Keep all my photos and videos, indexed, with Ai sprinkles on them to find people and places, all in my living room. No more cloud fees, no more using my data to train models. Even if they say they don’t.
Oh, but what about redundancy? Isn’t it risky to have stuff only in your NAS? Well, a little. It’s 16TB of space, and I’m still thinking to get a cloud backup provider or maybe even some other NAS or external SSD just for peace of mind. In any case, I’m using 12TB with 4 of redundancy, so not too worried about disk failures.
But then… will I only access it when I’m at home? Well, thanks to tailscale, I’m able to access my NAS files from anywhere in the world.
Good things ahead, I foresee. I feel it’s the 2000’s again, where I used to fiddle with servers and linux distros.
The next step is to test if this system works, then migrate the family to it. And ditch the cloud, because I feel much better having my data under my roof and out of Goliath’s hands.