My partner is the same way roughly. Biggest issue she’s had was her drawing tablet pen not working. Turned out she was using the wrong pen for that tablet, the correct pen worked flawlessly. An hour of my life troubleshooting I can’t get back haha.

There have been a few games that have had issues, and the updates aren’t the most intuitive on Kubuntu, but she did manage the last update just fine on her own without me even being home, so that’s good.

I don’t need a raw video older than a day after the video is finished. I also don’t need TBs of legally acquired content. I also don’t need TBs of archived YouTube videos. I don’t really need a NAS. I don’t need a phone. We don’t really need any of this tech stuff actually.

To answer your question more seriously, they’re nice to have sometimes, instead of having to re-edit finished videos to make a compilation or something. I’m also hoping that maybe I’ll see some success some day and be able to hire a more skilled editor (or even just me from the future with improved skills) to turn old media into feature-length films or just better versions of what I released. I dunno. It’s data hoarding, but when I do want it, it’s super nice to have.

I’ve also seen multiple professional creators talk about regretting not keeping the original footage from their old videos, so I’m not making that mistake. It’s just nice to have it if you ever do want it, and I have the skills to archive it myself on the cheap, as compared to paying something like BackBlaze $7/TB/mo.

Just checked and my average video this year is currently at 400GB, so that’s $4*2 for redundancy, so $8 per week aka $35/mo. If it were in BackBlaze, my subscription fee would go up by $12 per month forever, and it’d currently be at $630/mo, with zero redundancy. When I frame it like that, I’d be a fool not to do it!

That’s exactly my plan haha, and yeah, it sucks. Thanks Comcast.

Yeah, I have 40Mbps uploads at my house, that’s the best I can get. I create anywhere from 100GB to 3TB of footage per week. On the high end, it’d take an entire week to sync, sucking up all of my upload bandwidth for that time, meaning I wouldn’t even be able to upload the videos I create to YouTube/PeerTube in a reasonable amount of time. When I get faster upload speeds I’ll definitely have to build a remote NAS for closer to real time backups.

Yeah, I’ve considered doing that, but most of my media is static and doesn’t change and, with my upload speeds, would take literal days to sync. So I just have a set of HDDs that I keep across the state. I’ll loose some if everything fails, but at least I’ll have most of it.

Are you living in or willing to move to Spokane, WA? I will say, I might be bias, but it is nice here.

I create videos, and back up all of my raw footage. I make weekly videos, and the size ranges from 50GB up to 500GB or more. I have 105TB available, 90TB used at the moment. I also have a fully redundant set of another 105TB. My employer has unfortunately made it very easy to justify hoarding, as they’ll sell me reputable used commercial drives for $10/TB.

The video archives are 53TB

TubeArchivist is 19TB

Legally acquired movies and TV is 10TB

Immich is 2TB

Those are the main users of data. A bunch of other folders are using anywhere from a gig to 500GB, but those are basically rounding errors.

My work sells commercial tier drives that were used by customers in NVRs for $10/TB. It’s honestly a great perk of the job for a data hoarder like myself with a fully redundant 100TB of stuff (aka 200TB of drives). I also got a dope 16 bay server chassis with slides and a few other components from them. I fully intend to drop like 2 grand on HDDs if/when I move to a new company, assuming they don’t fire me for AI or something first.

I’m kinda surprised they don’t just sell it at cost. We knew they couldn’t subsidize the price with game sales, as anyone could buy this and install a different OS without ever buying a single steam game, but I kinda figured they’d bank on most people not doing that, hence selling at cost.

Maybe it’s just ~$71 margin for component costs to inflate further without the need for them to change the price.

Ahh yes the standard volumetric measurement of dollars.

I’ve used it for when I remember a cool place I’ve been, but can’t pinpoint the exact location, like a campsite or something. It’s the type of thing that I rarely use, but when I need it, it’s invaluable.

I don’t like doing pointless things myself, especially when other nations have solved the problem.

This just in: tourist traps exist

The best part is that, if you’re on the fence, you can just run both. That’s what I did at first, but I’ve since let plex die.

FBQ is amazing. I love it. It’s exactly what I was looking for when I was trying to set up file sharing.

Until we’re hosting a bespoke cloud service for everyone we know

Oddly enough, when I offer friends free cloud storage they don’t really seem to care. I dunno if they just don’t understand what that’s worth, don’t trust me, or what. I do have some family members on Immich, but that’s about it.

Critical functionality like what? I just switched to Jellyfin and hardly noticed a difference aside from a few different bugs.

I’ve finally switched to Jellyfin, even though I have a lifetime Plex pass. It isn’t really a downgrade. I think I ran into more bugs on Plex. Using Jellyfin is like switching from Windows to Linux, on a smaller scale. Plex was always trying to sell you something, get you to use the other features, etc, whereas Jellyfin just gets out of my way and lets me watch media.

Tube Archivist is great, as long as you don’t mind waiting a bit to watch stuff. As far as I know Grayjay is still working fine.

This looks dope! Thanks for sharing.

Edit: I’ve used it and it is freaking good. Really good. Awesome work OP. I’ve tried to find a place to throw a few bucks your way but couldn’t, is there somewhere we can do that?