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It always starts so innocently, doesn't it? A pi-hole here, a media server there, maybe a little cloud storage to get off the big tech grid. Next thing you know, your weekend project list is longer than your arm and your electricity bill is looking at you funny. But man, the control. What's the next 'totally essential' thing you're diving into? I'm debating a self-hosted recipe manager just to avoid subscription fees for something i barely use.

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[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

My weekend project list was longer than my arm before I got into self hosting.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you maintain all that stuff?

Like patch it and back it up?

If not then your doing it wrong!