I agree with everything except the offsite, offline, external drive.

In my experience, cold drives fail more often than live drives, and you get no warning when this happens.

Drives weren’t engineered to be offline but to be powered on continuously. Things like lubricants in the spindle, but especially the read heads pivot were designed around this. How anybody us have heard the click of death - that’s the read head having issues moving.

Plus external drives have heat dissipation problems. They’re good for short, intermittent reads, but when initially copying data to them they can get quite hot. I regularly recover and rebuild drives for family and friends and have registered these things at 120° F+, so I keep an old case fan on them during recovery.

My current backup approach uses Syncthing, but only to replicate all data to a single point, which is then backed up properly.

All mobile devices sync to home, that box is the authoritative data source for everything: mobile devices, user data, media files, etc.

It replicates to two other local data stores (this for quick recovery should a drive/device fail) and is backed up to a cloud service (should I have a catastrophic event).

Its not a perfect 3-2-1 setup, but addresses my risks well enough.

Someone down-voted but I agree, and this from actual experience doing stuff similar to OP.

Flexibility, compatibility, and power consumption are significant considerations for a self-hoster.

I’ve run ST with Pi, and while Pi is great, it’s non-standard so doesn’t have the benefit (yet) of ubiquity. While it’s low power consumption is fantastic, mini PC’s and even SFF (Small-Form-Factor) desktops are in the same range for similar costs (in the used market) while providing orders of magnitude more performance per watt and much more hardware compatibility.

A Pi 5 today is in the $120 range - for a device that on it’s own will idle at about 4 watts, with peak draw at 15w. This without any storage yet, and no case.

A mini PC will idle about the same - but can house a large, standard drive so be a much better package for OP’s intended use-case, and cost less on the used market.

I’d maybe add an online backup for the device you’ve chosen to be the authoritative data source to achieve close to a 3-2-1.

Oh, yea, very low data rate.

Great example of a use-case.

So an internet with voluntary transit

Neat idea to use it for this

The ones with the bears

Fortunately its super easy to get into XMPP, especially with apps like Cheogram as they offer easy account creation.

Wow, Jellyfin on the Tizen store is huge.

I’ve been running it on my Samsung - getting it installed (“side loaded”, uggh, hate that term) isn’t for the faint-hearted. Hell, I had to document it with photos of the TV to ensure I could do it again.

Not that I like installing apps from Samsung’s app store, I really don’t want to use any of the smart features on the TV, it was just the easiest path forward at the moment.

BINGO

The fines aren’t even the expensive part, it’s the increase in insurance.

As a former… assertive driver as a young adult, my insurance increased to insane levels. That got me to re-think my driving and turned me into the person everyone cusses for driving like grandpa.

You can’t pay to not lose your license, that’s not how it works at all.

You should go sit in criminal court for a day.

The reality is many jurisdictions just don’t enforce such things very well - there are many cases around the country of people getting their 3rd, 4th, 5th DUI and not losing their license or worse as the law is defined.

And those are often as not, not “rich people”.

Frankly judges see so much worse crime in their courts constantly that I think they’re hesistant to jail someone who is a mostly functional member of society compared to 90% of everyone else coming through their court.

Then there’s also the plea-bargaining process: prosecuting attorneys are directed to plea-bargain pretty much all cases to expedite the case load - courts are largely overwhelmed. I’ve seen guys in chains accused of multiple violent assault felonies (like assaulted multiple people in one go) plea bargain down to a fucking misdemeanor.

Again, go sit in criminal court for a day and you’ll see what I mean - it’s eye opening.

Some places don’t enforce this very well.

But it would be offset by the massive and recurring income from installing and maintaining the devices by a third party.

Let’s see who the companies providing these services are owned by.

Like when ticket cameras in vans became a thing 25 years ago: 80% of the “ticket” went to the camera van company. I say “ticket” because in many US jurisdictions only a police officer can issue a ticket, so these were unenforceable as tickets.

States had to update their laws to add “civil fees” as a thing just for such cameras.

Exactly, bandwidth doesn’t degrade over distance, so why would the uplibk bandwidth be the issue for Asia when its fine for Europe.

Oh, but your corrections were perfect, and a great example!

I use Syncthing and Resilio Sync for this stuff.

Both of them sync according to rules you define.

I sync my mobile devices to home this way, and access the folders on the server via SMB shares (which are unrelated to ST or Resilio).

No web interface required, as you just use whatever network sharing you want at home.

What “extra steps” are you running into with SyncThing? Its really flexible (especially Syncthing-Fork for Android). Maybe it or Resilio can be configured to do what you need.

For example, I use the Selective Sync feature in Resilio so that I can access any file at home whenever I want without using a VPN.

I love eggs.

I’m having eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, spam and eggs!

Yea, thank you, neither my memory nor my fingers were working.

I’ll leave it as-is so people will know what you’re talking about.

Not exactly a new though, pretty sure Olato covered this 1000 years ago

That’s not very compelling.

“Find”?

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t lost.