The thing is that right now it's not worth it to buy a raspberry pi if you want to selfhost. It is 4 years old at this point but it cost 50% more than when it was released.

There isn't really anything like Spotify. There were attempts to use a service like Last.fm (which isn't self hosted) or libre.fm (which is self hosted but development has been stopped) to track your listening data. Then there were a couple discovery projects that worked with Navidrome (don't really remember the name but they're probably somewhere in r/selfhosted) but they haven't been very succesful.

Even if you somehow managed to solve those problems you've got the next problem which is the fact that you don't have the recommended song available in your library. Perhaps it could be solved wit Lidarr.

Personally I think Spotify is worth $10 a month.

Thank you!

A scary thing about the Fediverse right now is that some instances have many of the bigger communities. And the owners of the instance can literally shut it down at any moment (or stop federating with you).

And right now there isn't an incentive to keep instances alive.

Ok so apparently it's a pinned post in their community.

Tldr Lemmy.world has open registration, which means more trolls/extremists and they are tired of dealing with them.

If I'm not mistaken both Beehaw and Lemmy.world are pretty big mainstream instances.

Why has Beehaw decided to stop federating with lemmy.world?

It's really interesting seeing how fast the community can iterate and improve the models.

And it's really frustrating seeing how some of the companies that benefit the most from open source projects and research, choose to make their products closed-source for profit, at the expense of societal improvement.

That's strange, from what I've read a VPS like that should be able to handle at least 20 concurrent users.

Are you running anything else on the VPS?

I thought that solution completely ideas the homelab IP. Why/How is it visible?

Immich is a very promising app.

Right now it's probably the most ambitious in terms of functionality, and a lot of people recommend it as an alternative to Google Photos.

However since it's still in Beta, if you use it, be sure to have a backup of those photos somewhere else. Just in case.

The first thing that you should do is see if your server supports Nvme drives and which bays do. If I'm not mistaken not all R640 have bays that support Nvme.

If it supports Nvme drives then it has a backplane with U.2 connectors. Both U.2 and U.3 drives are compatible. These type of drives are enterprise only, and unless something has changed recently, consumer grade 2.5" Nvme SSDs don't exist.

New enterprise SSDs are very expensive (used are hard to find) and they're only worth it if you're going to write a lot to the disk.

Apparently there are m.2 to u.2 enclosures, which would allow you to use cheaper consumer drives. I've never used them, so I don't know how good they're. They may be total crap, so do your research before you buy such an enclosure.

The last option is to buy consumer grade Sara SSDs. This is the cheapest by far right now and probably the best idea unless you know you need faster drives. Sequential speeds of almost 600MB/s. Compatible with Sata/SAS ports, but not with u.2 ports.

For drives up to 4TB I'd recommend TLC and if you want 8TB drives I'm pretty sure there's only QLC.

Compartmentalization.

Get another drive for your PC (an SSD is a better idea for gaming especially since now they're pretty cheap).

Install Windows if you want more compatible games or Linux if the games you're going to play are compatible.

Encrypt both drives and don't log in into anything important while on your gaming drive.

Try to buy all of your games on GOG or itch.io (or similar platforms where games don't have DRM).

Use different usernames between each game and/or between games that you play with strangers and your friends. Don't use usernames that you're already using, especially usernames that could link to your real identity.

Avoid games with invasive anticheats like Valorant.

People live to shit on the official app but in terms of UI and functionality is good.

It's far from perfect, but it is very usable.