A video hosting service. I cant be bothered collecting and storing all that media.
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I did this for a couple of years and it became such a major hassle I just closed my server and told everyone to go get their own subscriptions. 30 terra-bytes of data deleted!!
Ouch that's brutal. You must have spent so much money on running all that and so much time collecting all that media.
It's not that hard honestly. I only have one TB though but it really isn't that much of a hassle.
I was the same way for a while, but the last few years have just gotten worse and worse for streaming. I have a handful of streaming services I don't have to pay to access (some through phone provider, prime video, parents accounts, etc), but anything not on there I'm just going to pirate. I use sonarr/radarr with Plex so it's super easy to get and maintain media and it's easy to access on all my devices, and my 4 tb hdd was $100, which I more than made up for after 4 months or so by not paying for hbo max and Netflix. No way in hell I'm going to pay for every streaming service for every show that looks good, or buy them individually.
Mail server, but mostly because deliverability in this day and age is a nightmare. If you're some one off running your own mail server in 2023 be prepared to deal with many headaches around IP reputation.
Aegis. Never use a local-only 2FA app on your phone.
Any recommendations for 2FA?
Authy, having paid bitwarden and 2FA in one app is a disaster waiting to be happen in case of a security breach.
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I think someone else already mentioned it, but just to reiterate... Anything for other people who aren't my wife and future kids.
Password manager, file backups, photo backup, whatever.
If something happens to me, or I pass away, wifey has instructions on shutting everything down (probably should write instructions on how to save all the important stuff).
But I don't want to deal with other peoples stuff. I like tinkering with my server and different docker containers, etc. So I don't want someone complaining they can't access their photos because I wanted to try something new. Also, just don't wanna be responsible for storing their photos and important documents.