Going through my credit card statements and cancelling some upcoming subscriptions that are of low/no value. Automated billing is great, but also has a way of hiding minor leaks. πΈ
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With some planning and effort I was able to cancel all of these in 2024: 1) adobe, 2) microsoft, 3) github, 4) airdata
In 2023 I moved my dedicated hosting from Amazon EC2 to a small US hosting provider in the midwest.
In 2024 I spent a lot of time and expense moving my little platoon of shared hosting sites from Siteground to Hostinger. (I hit a usage cap and was annoyed.) In hindsight, I would not have done that. It was way more trouble and expense than it warranted.
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Overall I'm happy with the current state of things. I'm self-hosting things that are important to me, and getting a lot of value out of the services that are being handled by third parties. And I have a higher level of trust in the third parties I'm using.
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@coreysnipes At this moment I'm waffling about setting up Immich to self-host photos currently on Flickr and Google Photos. It's not just one service though, but a collection: the main service, an AI service for object detection, etc, Redis, a database... not sure how frequently I want to deal with upgrading all that.
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@markstos That's a huge consideration for me. I am capable of self-hosting a lot, but I will gladly pay third parties to avoid maintenance headaches, especially in fragile conglomerations of things.
Photo and file sharing is something I haven't tackled yet. I don't have anything on Google but I do have Dropbox. That's a target, probably for this year. I'm not sure what I'll do instead, though. Immich looked interesting but yeah... possible headaches there.
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@coreysnipes But If choose something simpler than Immich, I expect I'll miss features I've come to expect from photo tools now, like being about to search for a person's name or a topic like "food" and expect that an AI classifier has already identified what's in my photo in advance for easy searching later.
The real solution may be to get good at the Buddhist skill of detachment and not care about keeping so many photos for so long!
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@markstos Agreed on all counts!
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@markstos @coreysnipes Given accounts on Google, Dropbox, and Flickr, I recently uploaded a bunch of stuff to Flickr. That seems to have the best sharing/republication options for blogs, fora, etc.
e.g. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54244336377_1f8f0f9ab0_3k.jpg for a direct image link, or https://flic.kr/p/2qDopmV to the in-context image page.
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@dr2chase @coreysnipes The problem with Flickr is that it seems stagnant, though, which makes me feel uncertain about its future.
Like, it's been slow to add AI photo classification. Like, that's already happening locally on my phone now ith Apple Photos. Google Photos does it. Seems like a basic feature to offer today.
Also, a good mobile photo app would allow you to look at both your local photos and uploaded photos. Both the Apple and Google apps do that, but Flickr does not.
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@coreysnipes I looked at how Immich stores photos. They store the original uploads with original file names in s simple date-based folder structure.
So even if Immich crashes and burns one day, as long as you have backups, it should be straightforward to find the photos and start over somewhere else.
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@markstos Ah, that's great to know. I've been looking for that kind of resilience in my tool choices lately (file-based storage, readable format). TY for the info.
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@markstos @coreysnipes Maybe NextCloud would be a simpler alternative? That's what I've been looking at -- but no actual personal experience. Image categorization is done via an add-on https://github.com/nextcloud/recognize
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@coreysnipes Just cancelled all the stuff that auto renews after being caught out by a 'thanks for your continued support' email. cancelled airdata too, not really used it this year.Never had adobe subs, or microsoft subs to cancel.
I've a small instance to mess about with at digital ocean and some hosting with a UK outfit that may get bundled in with digital ocean come renal time next year.
Quite happy with the few bits of commercial s/w I've bought, and all the open source stuff too!
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@uk_csi Outstanding. Sounds like you have everything well in had. It's too bad about Airdata. It's a small operation and I generally like to support those. It was helpful when they could auto-sync my DJI data but that's been disabled (in the US at least) so there isn't much they can do. Realistically, I'm not likely to manually pull my logs off several aircraft and upload them, just so I can use the Airdata interface. I'm more likely to track what I need in a paper logbook.
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@coreysnipes I have the techDemo/testSite for my seekrit project on a slice of a Hostinger VM. I am curious how happy you are with them so far... our only hassle so far has been rooting out the "Cpanel"-supporting PHP cruft which we did not want installed
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@jsonstein I've been happy with them. The shared hosting arrangements are good, pricing is reasonable, admin UI is clean and mostly arranged so that it's easy to find stuff. Upselling is minimal. I'm pretty sure their first-tier chat support is AI because I burned a lot of time with them trying to find out where I could perform some function. I don't love that, but it's not a deal breaker when the rest of it works pretty well.
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@coreysnipes which hosting provider did you end up with?
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@ezarowny https://www.wholesaleinternet.net/
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@coreysnipes thanks! What a domain name π
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@ezarowny hah, right? their dedicated pricing is super low, and service uptime has been very solid.
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