Is spotube just another client for Spotify? Or what does it do? How is it getting rid of Spotify? You could host navidrome on your NAS and access it via webbrowser. If you don’t like the interface, there are several subsonic alternatives.

I paid around 200€ for a used HP OEM desktop machine. It got a i7 9700 and 32 GB of RAM in it. Still idles at a pretty low power consumption. But I never have to worry about resources, haha. I come from a long history of windows, just recently switched one of my main PCs over to Linux. I like a GUI, still. I got unraid for my server, back when the lifetime licences were still the norm. Makes it really easy to manage services, especially in conjunction with storage (say Immich or Navidrome). Containers and VMs are managed via a GUI and super easy to set up. I work IT-adjacent, but I’m far from being as professional as probably most people here, so this works fine for me.

That’s what I do, but with mailbox.org instead of proton, to name an alternative. They even offer temporary random addresses with the click of a button.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkCentre-A-E-M-S-Series/adding-hdd-to-M720s-power-connector/m-p/4377028

Seems to be the way, this thread on the Lenovo forum supports your idea.

There is also a guy on the german mydealz forum, who is running 2 HDDs on one power connector and it seems to work for him (account required to read): https://www.mydealz.de/deals/lenovo-thinkcentre-m720s-sff-office-pc-intel-i3-8100-8gb-ram-aufrustbar-256gb-ssd-window-11-pro-hdmi-usb-c-refurbished-office-pc-2535136

Every night my NAS wakes up, fetches the data from my unraid server, backs it up and also sends an encrypted backup to a hetzner storage box on a server in a different country. Haven’t had to use it yet, but in theory works fine. Should do some more regular testing though…

Man, I just set up navidrome and it instantly seems so much better and easier to maintain. Thank you so much for your input :)

I recently switched my phone from Android to GrapheneOS and now rely even more on my selfhosted services. Immich is such a great project. Still gotta figure out my music collection though, since switching from YT Music to Jellyfin. Most of it is sorted by date of purchase, because that worked best with my DJ workflow. Now I gotta bring it over to a folder structure that works for jellyfin. It seems like the answer is musicbrainz Picard, but I gotta figure out how to configure it.

Also been thinking about some AI ideas I’d like to try, but I have zero intention getting involved with openai, meta, google or whoever the fuck. So self hosting it is. But on what hardware? Option 1 seems to be to get some professional server board, CPU, ram and start with one RTX3090 and go from there with the option to hook up more GPUs. But a setup like that sounds like it would cost some serious money in electricity. Option 2 seems to be a Rzyen AI Max+ 395, configured with a fuckton of ram, available to the whole apu and as suchs usable for memory hungry models. This seems to be much much more power efficient. But its all integrated and I couldn’t swap out components or upgrade in the future. Leaning towara option 2 atm, but maybe I’ll just wait a bit longer and see what else comes up in the coming months.

Same boat for me, works great! I got the NFC Yubikeys which work fine with Android.

Did you, by any chance, ever wonder, why people deal with hunger instead of just eating cake?

Can you link me to what model you are talking about? I experimented with running some models on my server, but had a rather tough time without a GPU.

Shockingly, several things can be bad at the same time. What do you think will happen to places that already tend to struggle with heat (like quite a few places in the middle east), if they get even warmer? What will happen to the people that live there? Will they be able to move to colder places? Or will they simply run into borders? Borders, which are protected by more and more money and weapons (and drones controlled by AI, funny, huh?)?