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7 votes
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Open-source self-hosted Google photos alternative
Hello, every now and then I find myself looking for open-source "self-hosted" (VPS accepted) Google photos alternatives. I have searched every now and then but I have never found something I felt...
Hello, every now and then I find myself looking for open-source "self-hosted" (VPS accepted) Google photos alternatives.
I have searched every now and then but I have never found something I felt that suits my needs.
I don't mind setting it up myself with command lines and stuff from an empty VPS as long as the monthly fees are pushed to a minimum.
I do have a certain set of constraints and I was wondering what would be the best app to do it. Any app that I end up trying fail one of these somehow. Or it is an app that I couldn't test adequately on my 2GB RAM VPS. Should I be upgrading first and then testing them?
Here are my constraints:
I would like to be able to share photos privately to friends and family. Like maybe a secret link to share photos or albums with friends.
I would like to be able to view photos on mobile, using Internet. I don't mind opening a mobile web app but I would like to be able to show it.
I would like to have some privacy-respecting face recognition. This also opens up the question of what RAM of VPS I should be using.
I would like to leave the file and folder structure untouched. I have already somehow arranged the files into albums by using folders so bonus points if the app figures that out. However, I would bite the bullet if there is a good solution that asks to "copy" the files into a new folder thereby doubling the storage needed. But I hope to avoid it.
Any help towards the right direction would be appreciated!
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Generative AI for Krita
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Does something like a charity fund for FOSS exist? If not, do you think it could be a good idea?
There are a lot of awesome open source projects that I'd love to donate to, however, I can't afford to donate to all of them. It would be great if there was something like a charity fund (eg....
There are a lot of awesome open source projects that I'd love to donate to, however, I can't afford to donate to all of them.
It would be great if there was something like a charity fund (eg. GiveWell), but for FOSS. So a lot of people donate to it, and it distributes all collected money between some curated projects (most influential/important/promising/underfunded/etc.).
Do you know if something like this already exists? if not, could it potentially be a good idea to do? It seems like the idea of donating to open-source is currently more prominent in the community due to the xz backdoor thing.
23 votes -
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
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From the makers of the Monocle, Brilliant Labs releases open source AR Glasses
26 votes -
On the XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094): FOSS delivered on its pitfalls and strengths
27 votes -
PortMaster: a simple GUI tool designed to facilitate the downloading and installation of game ports for Linux handheld devices
3 votes -
Are Free Software developers at risk? A potential threat to Free Software developers looms in the form of an ongoing lawsuit in the UK involving Bitcoin and its core developers.
27 votes -
This month in Servo: tables, WOFF2, Outreachy, and more
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OpenTofu denies Hashicorp's code-stealing accusations
18 votes -
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
56 votes -
Backdoor in upstream libxz targeting sshd
104 votes -
Plasma 6 and me
21 votes -
Open source Minecraft mod platform Modrinth goes indie, returns funds to investors
31 votes -
The race to replace Redis
35 votes -
Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
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Playtron’s wildly ambitious gaming OS aims to unite stores, lure “core casuals”
14 votes -
Tachiyomi development officially ends
39 votes -
Suyu Switch emulator
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Is a NAS for me?
Hi, I keep reading about this thing called a "NAS" and I don't have in my social network a bunch of reasonable geeks to figure out if this is something for me or if it is overkill and I can get by...
Hi, I keep reading about this thing called a "NAS" and I don't have in my social network a bunch of reasonable geeks to figure out if this is something for me or if it is overkill and I can get by with less -- trying to be frugal and all.
The Situation
At the moment, I have a Raspberry Pi 3 (that a colleague gifted me) which runs Jellyfin, mostly for music. I'd use it for watching series and movies, but given how slow it is at transferring files and the fact that it has a 1GB (maybe 2GB) RAM... I was afraid to break it. On top of that, its storage is a years-old external hard drive.
I use Jellyfin mostly to have music on my iPhone. I can access it when I'm out and about on Tailscale. I hope to find a solution for my photos as well.
I'd also occasionally use the pi to experiment with some self-hosted open-source apps.
I constantly find myself wanting to upgrade because I want to also backup my important photos (with face recognition if possible) and documents "offline" (i.e. in my local network) to something more stable than an aging hard drive. They're all in the cloud, but a second backup option could be great.
What I understand from reading about NAS's is that I basically have one, it's just not... reliable?
The Question
I understand there is definitely a buy-in cost for buying an actual NAS, I'd like to know how much... so that I can make an informed decision on if and when I would buy it. What is an entry-level NAS and how much will it cost? What could it NOT do that an RPi could, and vice-versa? Am I missing an in-between or even an alternative solution for my use case? Is it overkill and should I just upgrade the pi? What are my options?
Thanks in advance for reading my post!
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KeenWrite 3.4.7
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Localsend opensource alternative to Airdrop
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KDE Plasma 6 is (mega) released
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MonoGame paid bounties
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nginx forked by co-founder - new fork will be freenginx
39 votes -
A 2024 plea for lean software
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doukutsu-rs, an open-source re-implementation of the Cave Story engine
25 votes -
Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list
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EU Cyber Resilience Act: What does it mean for open source?
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Core Internet – what sites and services should we permanently preserve?
Looking ahead, the commodification and degradation of the Internet is continuing to take away digital resources that we have come to depend upon over the last 20 years. Whether it’s email or...
Looking ahead, the commodification and degradation of the Internet is continuing to take away digital resources that we have come to depend upon over the last 20 years. Whether it’s email or Amazon or YouTube, the decline of all our favorites has been well documented.
But we don’t want to live without these sites and services. Tildes itself is an attempt to preserve one such resource but in a better and more stable way. What other parts of the Internet deserve similar treatment?
Whether it’s open source eBay or community banking or nonprofit versions of Facebook… what would you choose and how would you go about preserving its character and making it workable in the long-term?
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Simple Mobile Tools bought by ZipoApps (company offering apps with ads and tracking)
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Daggerfall Unity 1.0.0 release: an open source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine
37 votes -
I made an open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks
39 votes -
New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android
37 votes -
Discuit is now open-source (AGPLv3)
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KeenWrite 3.5.0: Captions and cross-references
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Show Tildes: Lua Console. Create little programs on desktop or mobile devices.
23 votes -
PHP File Download Hit Counter
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KDE 6 will enable wayland by default (as well as other news)
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Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December
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Show Tildes: how I built the largest open database of Australian law
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We were wrong about the GPLs
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Looking for help in purchasing an eReader
I want to start reading more, and I'd also like to start avoiding screens before I sleep, so I'd like to get an e-ink device that I can use for reading. I've never owned or looked into ereaders...
I want to start reading more, and I'd also like to start avoiding screens before I sleep, so I'd like to get an e-ink device that I can use for reading.
I've never owned or looked into ereaders before so I'm not entirely sure what the general capabilities are in this space, but heres a list of things that I consider important:
- Absolutely essential:
- I need to be able to put my own files (epubs, pdfs, etc) on the device to read without being forced to go through some marketplace installed on the device (if anything I'd prefer there to not be a marketplace on the device at all, or a removable one, as I would never use it). Files don't need to be added remotely, as long as I can connect it to my (Linux) computer with a USB and mount the storage or pop out the SD/microSD to do that then that's sufficient.
- I need to actually own the device, none of the techno-feudalist bullshit like what plagues the smartphone landscape. I want to be able to remove non-essential components (e.g. marketplace) and it'd be nice if I could also tinker and install third party software freely. If possible I'd prefer a device that's mostly or completely open and FOSS by design, but I'm aware that might be asking too much. As an alternative I would also be willing to hack the device to get it in an open, FOSS state if the process isn't too complicated and it's well documented, it'd be preferable if it was that way by design but as long as I can get there one way or another I'll be content.
- Would very much like to have:
- In addition to regular books, it'd be nice if I could also read manga. These tend to be zip/rar files containing a series of images, so I'd assume support for reading things formatted in that way is probably less widespread if it exists at all on dedicated ereader devices.
- Some kind of lighting so the device is usable in the dark. I don't know how this would compare to the blue light from screens (if anyone knows, please share) but I'll certainly want to use it for more than just before I sleep.
- Some kind of system to add notes as I read might be nice, I was never good at studying and note taking in school so I don't know how much mileage I'd get out of it but in theory it'd definitely be a boon to organize information as I read or add notes to myself to look into things later or whatever.
- Would be nice to have, can live without:
- The ability to load music onto the device and plug in headphones to listen to music while I read. Bluetooth for audio devices isn't really something I care about, but might be desireable in case I get bluetooth headphones in the future (unlikely). Unimportant if it has built in speakers or not, as long as I can plug in headphones.
24 votes - Absolutely essential:
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Ardour 8.0 is released - a free and open source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application
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Sovereign workspace openDesk: German Ministry of the Interior provides answers
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Jellyfin - A Call for Developers
78 votes -
Bottles Next: a new chapter
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How to get started with Mistral 7B
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Insomnia 8 forces users to login and use cloud storage
29 votes