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  • notleigh@aussie.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldwhat is everyone using for photos?
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    1 year ago

    Photoprism, running on a Raspberry Pi 4. I’m just running it as a single user, and it’s been working well for that. A couple of notes:

    • Video transcoding is a bit iffy on the rpi, but I’m running it under docker and might just move it all to a mini pc at some point
    • I don’t have it accessible publicly, but get to it online via Tailscale
    • No app, but the Web interface is good.
    • I’m currently running it in “read only” mode (mainly out of initial paranoia when trying it out, but it seems fine) so I have syncthing backing up the photos from my phone wirelessly and occasionally do an import of new images in.







  • This is all a little irrelevant because Yotta isn’t in Australia, but anyway…

    I totally get the ick factor when looking at Yotta, because it is definitely using the same hooks as gambling. But it’s sometimes been referred to as a “No-Lose Lottery”:

    You get paid interest, but less than a traditional savings account. The trade-off is that the more you save into your account, the more “tickets” you get to win a larger amount.

    The key is they’re targetting a market that isn’t choosing between Yotta and a traditional savings account, they’re trying to encourage people who would spend on straight gambling to put their money in an incentivised account.

    Some more detail from the founders

    It’s definitely not as good as a proper savings account, but if it’s a way of redirecting money away from gambling and into savings then I figure it’s a net win for society.



  • Same setup here. I’ve got a really basic script running nightly from cron. B2 is cheap as, and having an encrypted backup that’s versioned is great for piece of mind.

    At one point I was away from home and my (little rpi) server wasn’t accessible, but with the restic repo up on B2 I was able to easily find a file I urgently needed remotely. It’s awesome.