- 18 days
Fine. Don’t do it to save money. Do it because we are sick and tired of outsourcing everything to a damn subscription and owning and controlling nothing in our lives anymore.
- pageflight@piefed.socialEnglish18 days
Exactly — money is not the only cost nor benefit. It’s fun, it gives me control, it’s not going to get acquired and trashed, etc.
- Aneb@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
I’ve actually start branching out now since i have a reliable stack. Docker apps are great and fun to configure (less than have the time). So many things I can do with a computer. I found Stash last month and its been crazy how it improved my workflow
18 daysI’ve never heard of anyone approaching the topic to save money. It’s either privacy/ownership or just goofing around with old hardware
- Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish18 days
I mean, saving subscription costs is one draw for me personally, but at that point it’s a matter of making up my hardware investment cost versus the subscription costs over time. This isn’t an instant money saver, and it never was.
- acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
also:
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I hate jumping around between apps to figure out what i want to watch.
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media consolidation is a shitshow and I refuse to give any more money to the industry, especially regressive propaganda machine Fox Corp.
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Also if all of the hardware is recycled that seems like an easy way to avoid paying anything at all
It’s going take me roughly 8 months to break even on the savings from subscription.
Assuming I value my time at -10 dollars a month…
So where can I put 130TB of files for less than $10/TB (what I paid for my HDDs) plus about 50¢ per day in electricity?
On backblaze I’d be spending $910… PER MONTH and I wouldn’t even have unlimited access to my files.
This has to be rage bait.
- bingrazer@lemmy.worldEnglish15 days
I don’t think beginners are going to be in that situation and most people probably won’t ever be in your situation, mostly people doing it as a hobby are going to end up with 100+ TB of data.
EDIT: when I say “most people wouldn’t be in that situation” I was thinking of the typical person who is on the fence about this and would be swayed by the “it will save you money” argument. Its quite likely that most people currently self hosting (I’d imagine mostly hobbyists) could be in a similar situation to you if they aren’t already
Beginners can recycle an old mini/micro PC. You can buy refurbished ones from computer recyclers for like $15.
At both ends of the spectrum you can save money. The people who don’t (like me) are not doing it for the goal of saving money.
Yeah…um…no? I run a dozen different services on a $200 mini pc without issue.
- azezeB@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish18 days
Yeah same, I would like to know what are the 40+ services the writer is using.
- UltraBlack@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
My Server idles at 80w 😭 But at least I’m in control and it’s so fun and interesting
- 17 days
I think your discounting the amount I save on my heating bill.
- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
This is true, self hosting doesn’t save you money. It is, in fact, more expensive and costs your time.
This is because modern technology isn’t sold to you as a product, it’s sold to you as a loss leader so that you use their products and let them spy on you so that they can sell that data to advertisers or anybody who can complete an ACH transfer.
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Use commercial services and sell your privacy in exchange for cheap consumer electronics which will be obsolete next year either by design or through engineered hardware failure.
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Setup the services on your own devices and pay the cost in hardware and free time.
In one scenario you spend a bit more money, in the other scenario you don’t have privacy. Everyone gets to choose which is more important.
- Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
I dont know that they are loss leaders, apple, google and samsung have €2k+ phones. But yeah its about data, control being sold as convenience.
I miss settings menus in everything.
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- GreenShimada@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
What a stupid article.
For real, this almost turned into one of those sarcastic “You better not self-host unless you are some goober that loves privacy, because it’ll take up so much of your time enjoying all the things you self-host!” articles. But committed to just this one guy’s experience with no limits and paying for things as a solution.
I self-host on a laptop I was about to get rid of. It costs nothing. I bought an external HD for immich, which I needed anyway.
- medem@lemmy.wtfEnglish16 days
Whoever thinks self-hosting is about saving money has grossly misunderstood technology…and people, for that matter.
Self-hosting will not give your mouth sex appeal
Self-hosting will not get rid of the nubs
Self-hosting will not make you look five pounds thinner
That last one … Spend all your money on hardware and you won’t be able to afford food. You may lose weight…
Fair point. Especially at the current HW prices, you can starve pretty quickly.
Maybe I should have paraphrased “Whitey’s on the moon” instead. “Data centres on the moon”?
- ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
Yeah idk my power bill hasn’t gone up and I have 0 subscriptions for TV and photo backup so yeah this article is clearly bs
- 18 days
Well I definitely save atleast $100 a month by self hosting and not subbing to streaming services.
- 18 days
Also self-hosting doesn’t actually make you more attractive, and the people who promise it does are lying.
- nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish18 days
As with most other things, it depends on who or what you’re trying to attract. If you’re trying to attract cats, giving them a nice warm server to sleep on is always a plus.
- NGC2346@sh.itjust.worksEnglish17 days
Im not even going to bother clicking this piece of shit article, thats bullshit fuelled by big money, an insignificant piece of opinion for low IQ victims.
