I dont get it…why does the cat impact storage needs?
You would take many photos of your cat being cute or doing stupid things
What do you guys use to self-host your cat photos? Does your solution include (cat-) face recognition?
That’s what I’m kind of outraged about. These crazy prices are taking computation out of consumer’s hands again and placing them back in the iron grip of giant corpos.
Now make a graph for kids. I swear my wife has a couple of 4TB SSDs filled to the brim. Her mother might even have more.
16GB (decimal).
Modern day Android is outrageously bloat, it takes up half of that. It also needs 64GiB RAM to compile. Anyways, my everything else is around 7 gigs. I didn’t fill it up fully because the Android package manager refuses to update or install anything when a certain amount isn’t free.
/dad:on Cat owners need a pet a byte while gardners make do with a ter®a byte. /dad:off
/dad:on Musicians need a gig a byte while fans of the Disney movie Hercules need Meg a byte. Then again, the real assassins need a kil(l) o’ byte. /dad:off
Are we forgetting about the porn needs of single people?
Years ago I was tempted to get a 4TB SSD for data storage as prices were getting reasonable and I just kept thinking wait for it to drop a bit more. Now 4TB HDDs are pushing the same price SSDs were back then. Fuck.
My PC is currently 512GB SSD boot drive and 3TB LVM from a 1/2TB HDD. Those HDDs are getting pretty old now so I probably should replace them at some point but I resent having to pay the prices they ask right now. Maybe I should just uninstall half of my steam library that I realistically won’t play any time in years or ever again. Reduce my storage needs. Data backups only take like 50GB or so.
Yeah real backups are typically not even half of what we use, I bet about 2/3 is useless junk we could never be arsed to delete
Second hand SSDs are getting kinda tempting tbh. But even they have seen their prices rise. Wish I bought all of the 512GB ones I saw for £10 each now. Got plenty of SATA ports, why shouldn’t I use them?
In late 2024 I managed to get a good MVME 512GB SSD for less than 40€! It also clearly has a DRAM cache because it’s really fast. That SSD probably costs at least four times as much now, I should have gotten another one
The maniac who got a spouse, kids, a dog, two cats, and hamster, and also gardening, does woodworking, and also rearing farm animals:
1PB.
(this is a log scale)
The greatest thing selfhosting ever did was give me an easy way to search “cat” in immich and get rid of all the stupid, useless photos of places and people. Just get me to the good stuff, man.
… Gets pictures of Cat Stevens and Cathmandu (misspelled)
Yeah! Photo storage was the reason I was able to get my brother into self-hosting!
Found u/gedaliyah’s sibling
Pretty much 50% of the reason I started selfhosting
