s/but/at/ and it makes sense

I haven’t had any issues by (mostly) following their recommended structure for Music. Do you have all the albums in the same folder?

• how do you use ansible? Is there a good source for roles or playbooks to set up services? I feel like ansible is 30% more headache right now during config.

I write my own playbooks and roles, but often I can just copy paste an existing setup and use it for a new service. For example containers, you can probably write one role once, copy it and modify some variables to set up another container service.
For stuff where there are well maintained community roles (e.g. community.zabbix) just use those and configure with variables.

• how do you deal with motivation loss?

I just don’t work on a part I don’t want to do atm. It’s supposed to mostly be a hobby and as long as my services I care about are running it’s fine.

• how do you deal with the overwhelming amount of choices and information and disciplines (networking, storage, VMS, Linux…) that comes with selfhosting?

I’m on my 2.5th setup now, just choose something and see if it works. If not, see how much it bothers you and what parts you want to migrate.
I’m a big fan of VMs, so I’m using XCP-ng. IMO this makes testing and backups very easy, I just take a snapshot and figure stuff out, no big deal if it breaks.

• how do you find the sweetspot between ease of use, ease of set up, security, redundancy? I feel like I am maybe too pranaoid to loose my data again (dropped a hard drive many years back, I lost all of my projects)

You’re better than 95% of people just by thinking about this. For backups, identify which data you want to back up and do that. If you don’t want to deal with Ansible right now, just set something up manually and automate it later (paste your commands into a readme for reference)
For me, I make sure to backup my Nextcloud data. That included personal photos, files and other hard to replace stuff. Other than that I have daily VM backups to a Hetzner storage box and my NAS. I don’t backup my media on Jellyfin, that’s just not as important.
VMs also make it easy to replace your host. Just install the hypervisor on a new server and restore VMs to it.

• maybe overall, how do you manage your perfectionism?

I guess I’m not a perfectionist. It took me multiple months and monetary incentive (avoid renting two servers) to migrate from my Debian single host setup to VMs years ago.
Some of my Ansible playbooks are “version 1”, where I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m on version 3 now. They still work, I even use some of them occasionally, just haven’t taken the time to migrate them yet.
Maybe you can take a similar approach with some of your services that aren’t that essential and spread out the work more so you can enjoy it when you want to.

I think Memories schedules its scan with the normal cron job for Nextcloud

I use FolderSync to push my photos to Nextcloud. Much more reliable than their app

Sure, but that’s only relevant once we have 100% clean energy

Couldn’t find it in there, but maybe this opens up live collaboration between desktop and web users on the same document.

Still much better, especially with respecting opt-outs, than most other LLMs

Kidnapped would be the correct term, no?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Funny you should mention that, Nextcloud originally forked off OwnCloud due to drama.

I think the server is working, it’s basically OwnCloud Infinite Scale but rebranded. Not sure about the client apps, those might be work in progress still. I haven’t really kept up with it either though

Many of the people who worked at OwnCloud Infinite Scale are now at OpenCloud due to disagreements between them and the company which purchased OwnCloud.

In practice many Exchange enterprise admins disable or restrict protocols other than EWS. This feature allows you to use Thunderbird anyways and will also enable calendar sync in the future, another often restricted part.

Lemmy has a perfectly fine cross posting feature you could use

You can use host_vars to set different variables per host. You’d still run the same playbook against both hosts, but each has different services activated.

1. Make the folder host_vars in the repo root
2. Make subfolders for every host with their hostname
3. Enable services you want by writing the variables into a yaml file for your host (any file name as long as it ends with .yml
4. Write an Ansible inventory for your hosts
5. Run the playbook with your inventory

Slightly fancier would be using group_vars instead, you can add a host to multiple groups. Then deploying the same services on a new hosts would simply be adding it to the group

Link to the actual blog post

The point is to sell a license which allows inclusion in proprietary applications. Your target aren’t end-users, but corporations that want to use your project.

New Zealand and looks like they walked back on it

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/28/asia/new-zealand-smoking-ban-reversal-intl-hnk

It annoys me that the title in the first graphic is expressed the opposite way to what the legends mean and you have the actual meaning just below. Seems like a very bad choice of wording.

Metal can not be changed by Ruin

Maybe wrong community for this