If everyone else says it works fine and it’s just you, well, I wonder what’s wrong with your system. Firefox is just a symptom. It could just be Firefox. It could be any number of other things wrong. For me a great example is when webgl fails I blamed Firefox. Turns out I have Nvidia drivers broken and it failed to enable hardware acceleration. A system locking up because of a rogue all? I smell something else wrong.

Wait didn’t they kill off the self hosted a few years ago? Now it’s back?

Fair, I usually poke into All every once in a while to see if there’s anything new, and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca is usually pretty good at letting folks know too

I’ve been in the nerdy tech space for decades now and I will never understand how these people expect things like Linux to take charge while they’re also being the most gatekeepy and arrogant people. Sure, I’d love folks to try it out, but I’m not going to demonize them either for not. I also have done tech support and there are the people where I just say “Nope, get a mac” because otherwise I will be the person that they go and demand free support from every week.

There’s passion, but then there’s a line that is too often crossed that goes into ego and selfishness, and I think Lemmy just breeds that.

I think it matters community to community - but I don’t disagree with you. Personally, I suggest curating a list of communities that you like and subscribing to them. It’s been much more pleasant having that than the barrage of All.

I think that’s why it becomes so noticeable - it’s usually so calm and chill that when someone comes in to stir the pot it’s so obvious

Thank you! After Admiral Patrick left I felt like there was a void here, introducing Captain Swift!

This has been in the Ask communities unfortunately

Did someone say AI?

Honestly out of all of the uses of AI… I’m okay with this one.

That’s true in most places, but until now it’s been relatively quiet I’m here on the fediverse

Interesting, I haven’t noticed this but I’ll keep an eye out on accounts

Unsure personally, but I’m keeping an eye on it personally

They always first focus on consuming the free content vs giving any back

There is the standard AI hate, my comment isn’t about that.

I think AI has an actual place in weather - but in the prediction of weather. AI models using info and patterns we can’t see on top of modern meteorology is amazing and I’m happy to see that happening.

This, this is just idiotic corporate pushes of “Put more AI in things”. I don’t need it to drain my battery to summarize the weather. I can see a forecast for the day and know what it means, I’ve been doing that for decades now. It’s more performative for investors than useful for me.

I loved it. I set up all these different colors to tell me what the priority was for checking. SMS was green, email was yellow or something, and FB (so cool back then) was blue. I really miss that, could just glance at it and know if it was worth risking pulling out your phone in school

Try it out, just make sure their software isn’t so locked down that there’s no way to send files in remotely

oh yeah… they’re “white labeling” their own brand of drives and if you use anything else it’ll bitch at you. I think for now it still lets you, but their OS definitely shows you’re not using a “proper” drive. May want to keep an eye on that.

I think you already know, AIOs are the go-to, just make sure you can connect in. I’ve done this with Synology, works fine, I used sftp to sync things. If you want cheaper you can look into a standard linux host and mergerfs/snapraid, but it’s going to be a much higher learning curve, and a much higher risk of failure. If you’re just getting up and started don’t overthink it. It’s good to plan for tomorrow, but think about how much data everyone has, and how much you’ll use today, and then double that. That’ll be a good baseline.

If you’re US based, a trick, buy the WD Elements drives from Best Buy. They go on sale regularly pretty much whenever there is a holiday sale and “shuck” them (plenty of videos on Youtube for how to do this). You’ll save probably double the cost on drives.

From my point of view, you have two separate things.

First, you have a “business”/user case, you need a way for people to sync data with you. For this, it’s a solved problem. Use Nextcloud/Owncloud/something with an app and a decent user experience for this. Whatever you like. On your primary “home” location, set this up, and have people start syncing data to you.

Second is the underlying storage. For this, again it’s up to you, but personally I’d have a large NAS at home (encrypted), which is sync’d either in realtime or nightly (using something like cron/rclone) to the other locations (also encrypted, so not even they can see it).

Their portal to this data storage is the nice user experience like Nextcloud. They don’t have to worry about how data is synced or managed. Nextcloud also supports quotas so you can specify how much they all get (so you don’t have to deal with partitioning).

This approach will be much less headache for you. I think I understand what you’re asking, where your original thought was just a dump of storage that is separate, but I think this is a better approach - both in terms of your sanity maintaining it and also their own usability.