• SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah, I was going to teach myself some of that self-hosting magic, but I was wandering through microcenter and saw a 16TB hdd on sale for $250. I immediately bought it, then decided “in for a penny…” and bought a two bay Synology NAS. I picked up another 16TB hdd a year later for ~$260 for backup, got em in a RAID 1 setup. I like redundancy.

    Got things set up, cancelled my subscriptions, and it’s been two years of mostly good times

    BTW i know next to nothing about computers beyond basic Windows use, and building PCs for friends and family. My first few times trying to get something from GitHub was… challenging. But I’ve managed in the last couple of years to put Lineage OS on an old Pixel, set up the network stuff so my family can use Jellyfin on their TVs and access my “server” remotely. My proudest moment to date was sideloading Jellyfin onto my Samsung TV. That took some work for someone of my limited ability