Data Hoarder 💾

• Fleet: 2–3 devices · More than 50 TB
• Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself, Privacy & data ownership
• My MVPs: Jellyfin, Plex, Foundry, Immich, Pangolin

Well, its hard to vlc your myvideo.mp4 to your mom, brothers, and friends. Selfhosting let’s you de-corp a larger group of people easier that might be less tech savvy

I’ve had good success spinning up an authentik instance, and having my reverse proxy hit it first before it routes to the actual app. Puts another security layer in front in case sonarr itself has an issue, for ex.

Caddy snippet

handle {$host} {
		route {
			# always forward outpost path to actual outpost
			reverse_proxy /outpost.goauthentik.io/* authentik-server-1:9000

			# forward authentication to outpost
			forward_auth authentik-server-1:9000 {
				uri /outpost.goauthentik.io/auth/caddy

				# capitalization of the headers is important, otherwise they will be empty
				copy_headers X-Authentik-Username X-Authentik-Groups X-Authentik-Entitlements X-Authentik-Email X-Authentik-Name X-Authentik-Uid X-Authentik-Jwt X-Authentik-Meta-Jwks X-Authentik-Meta-Outpost X-Authentik-Meta-Provider X-Authentik-Meta-App X-Authentik-Meta-Version
			}
			
			reverse_proxy {this_host_or_ip}:{this_port}
		}
}

Not gonna solve all your problems. Works for 70% of apps. Nice to slap on when you can.

?? Chicken and egg? It’s not that i cant afford the things I like. It’s that i need to listen to it first to know if I like it enough to purchase it. If someone recommends me some band I never heard of froma genre im not familiar with, I would like to give it a chance. A heavy portion of the music I love now wasn’t something I knew immediately I would like within 30 seconds of hearing it. The likelihood is their recommendation isn’t for me, but I dont know until I listen a bit and simmer at least a short bit.

So do I just buy everything anyone namedrops outright? Or do I refuse to give a recommendation any chance whatsoever because I make a guess its not for me before I even listened?

If you read my other post, you’ll see that i hybridize and do both.

I cant afford to buy every artist that someone flippantly recommends i check out. (8k albums in my library atm) Im not streaming. Pirating is the demo/simmer stage. Followup retroactive purchases are the “yup, good shit” support stage

When they get my support they’re getting 100% of my money rather than what drips down through Spotify’s grip. I’d say that’s a win for both sides

Lol, sure. If piracy disappeared tomorrow they’d still squeeze and monopolize until the stream payments were table crumbs just the same. That’s how corps go; has nothing to do with any of us.

Buy direct if you actually care about getting cash into a band’s hand.