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So last week was very busy, engaging and exciting, since I was finally moving my stuff from Nextcloud to Photoprism and Seafile. And also, I had installed Minetest on my server and many of my friends and relatives came in to join me to build some cool things together. It couldn’t have been any better than this!
This page lists all the tags being used in the blog so that the posts can be easily navigated. In other words, this page satisfies my perpetual need to look back at my past and laugh at my stupidity!
I was revisiting my self hosted setup off-late and decided to have some fun because it has been a long and gloomy day. So what could be better than installing a game in the server and letting everybody else connect to it and play? So, that’s when I came across minetest and installed it in my server. I had been playing for a week now and I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of it
Well, this morning, I woke up to a shock because, my archive of photos and videos amounting to 15GB’s had been mysteriously disappeared. This happened while I was testing Photoprism and Seafile on my self hosted setup after this post. I was migrating my photos and videos from Nextcloud to Photoprism from WebDav. It caught me off-guard and this is just a note I want to make so that I can look back and laugh at my stupidity!
I loved Nextcloud. Still do.. But there are certain things that concerns me being somebody who likes to self-host almost every service under my own nest. This month I was thinking seriously about usability and convenience, asking myself questions like,
“The efforts that I’m putting into self hosting and maintaining xyz service on my RaspberryPi really worth it? Or should I move to some other service or create an account in somebody else’s self hosted setup?”
After this self-introspection, it occurred to me that there are a few changes I had to make in my self hosted setup, and this is a result of a lot of brainstorming related to it.
I never initially thought that I would do this. Maintaining a static generated website using Hugo seemed so customisable and simple then, I didn’t even care to look for other options. But now that I have built my website in write.as, I really hate myself for not trying it sooner.
I regularly post about new things I have come across and things that pick my interest in here. My posts will mostly revolve around new self-hosted services I have found, new books that I have read, RaspberryPi and how my cats ruined my code (kidding). I don’t assure it will be interesting, it might be janky at times, but that’s just me being me :)
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Peace ✌🏻
Originally Posted on Apr 2, 2021
Categorised under #MyTechXperiments
I had always been interested in writing about the things that were of interest to me. Especially, when I started coding with technologies that were unknown to me, everyday was a new beginning and everything was something that I can tweak around with and come up with something entirely new to me. The whole process was so exhilarating that I wanted to document it in it’s entirety and write about things that pick my interest.
Originally Posted on Feb 5, 2018
Categorised under #Opinions
“Leave this ecosystem? No way! Why should I leave it when they are providing everything for free and it’s so convenient when everything is just there when you want it!” Yep! This is me approximately one year ago when I was heavily tied into the Google Ecosystem and I had been totally involved in all aspects inside this Ecosystem for five to six years straight. And it took me couple of months to actually explore the internet and discover why it was a bad idea. It’s very easy to say that any service on the internet is convenient because it makes your life so easier. However, every convenience comes with a cost. In here, your freedom of choice and your privacy is at stake!