I heard that it was going 10x 🤪. My suggestion get a pihole and don’t pay the, checks calculation $0.00, plus you get ad blocking on a lot of the web.

I am relatively new to the whole paperless thing but I have a couple of email addresses that it watches, one that saves the email as the document and one that saves the attachments. My pi 5 has no problem scanning documents that I can then send to one of my paperless emails. I can also forward emails I want saved to the other paperless email. I am still going into the web ui to make sure things are tagged right, but paperless is awesome it does OCR and it fixes files that were scanned at a bit of an angle.

I am trying to work through a system that prints documents according to events on my calendar, with HA.

Did something to import all my photos to nextcloud, sorry do not remember what I did but was unhappy with how my devices were not syncing that fast. Then I found immich and just put them there, still not as fast as Apple photos but faster than nextcloud.

I use Jellyfin on my phone and just do the screen share to my AppleTV.

I am unfamiliar with Ente, as I use immich to replace my apple photos and it runs great on a pi 5. I only have the stuff backed up locally in a few different places and some of my things on my phone like passwords and pictures. I want to get a pi 4 to act as an offsite place to back up my stuff. My homelab runs off of 4 or 5 different pi’s, I have pretty much degoogled my life, I want to de-apple myself as well.

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Plex may also be harvesting your data.

You mean to say “Plex is harvesting your data.”

it just means the costs to you are less visible, you are still the product you have paid to pretend that you are not the product.

Yes the whole poop load of them would be great to get, I have so many projects I would like to do with them.

I had a pi 5 that I was going to use as my set top box and install the media centre OS on it, Jeff Geerling shows how you can do it with a pi 5, but it got damaged when my place flooded and insurance does its thing to screw you over and I never got around to testing it.

I run nextcloud and a few other things comfortably on a pi 5 Not sure how much ram it has I think maybe 4?

I have my own domains, but I do not use them for Jellyfin. I use Jellyfin on my lan or over my personal VPN.

Yes I am aware one of my static IPs has 25 unblocked.

Every self hoster will say start with something, like… and another will disagree.

My suggestion is look at what you have and think about what you want to do, and go from there.

I personally did not do that, so take what I said with a grain of salt, I saw ads that where super targeted at me and started to get a whole lot annoyed. This annoyance got me to buy a pi zero and started hosting pihole on my network, I did something and the SD card got fried so I got a pi 4 to replace the thing not yet realizing I probably just needed a new SD card. I got grumpy that some ads where getting through so I got another pi 4 to act as a secondary pihole.

I now can say that I have 1 pi zero 2 running wireguard just for DNS, 2 pi 5’s running pihole 1 of them also runs my Jellyfin server and sails the high seas for me while the other one has some other services doing other things. I also have a pi 4 running HAOS, as I try so hard to get out of proprietary systems. I plan on getting another pi 5 to be my firewall and another to act as my blog/email server.

Just wait that “lifetime” package will end and they will say we need your money every month now, sooner rather than later.

Spin up pihole and just look at the data coming to your “smart” TV’s even when you are not using them. Then consider the data they must be sending home, the only thing “smart” TVs are good at is watching you watch them (or not watching them). I would highly recommend getting a pi or media computer for your TV’s.

I do not think I can stress this enough smart TV’s are not smart for you they are smart for whoever made the TV. Manufactures sell TV’s at a loss now because they get more by selling you.

Cool did not know that I will have to look into that when I set up my pi 5 firewall.

I just use wireguard, no there is no simple GUI or anything like that. I also run it bare metal no docker.

It currently sits on a pi zero 2, it has just enough power to use my pihole DNS’s. I plan on moving it to a pi 5 whenever I get around to building my firewall.

I got an unlimitted email package from a host, before my journey into self hosting. I use a different email address for everything I sign up to or need to confirm I am human with. They all forward to 6 or 7 different emails I check I have just decided that those email addresses would forward to paperless email address to keep stuff sorted.

*edit I get next to no spam, if I do I either close the email or tell the company they have had a data leak and close the email.

My scripts work together to find news stories in different RSS feeds and web pages combines them all together and than emails stuff to me, the same news stories should not show up in different emails.