I was trying to get into self hosted services to keep my mind active and stay engaged whilst going through a cancer diagnosis.

Unfortunately it’s spread to my brain and whilst there are some odds we don’t know what will happen. I’m here to say if you self hoat anything self host your own joy, hopefully you’re already doing it! Life is short and we all live on borrowed time.

I hate the wankers that earn multiple times median earnings, most of which I’ve met are self entitled egotists if you scratch the surface. So I’m proud of all of you who contribute and try. It can be be weird, personal, or a huge success but you turned up and gave it a whirl!

It’s disgusting thinking about the profit margins tech companies feel entitled to, even though they’ve supported me most of the career I did get to have and all I say is that nothing replaces painstaking and exacting work and freedom isn’t something to give up without adequate compensation (whatever that means to you).

Power to the grass roots and power to all of you for showing up in any and all capacities just to ask how can I help you out here.

❤️ safe journeys and many surprises I hope for many of your best years continue and grow.

  • entinthemountains@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Never Give Up

    All the best for your treatment! Thank you for spending your limited time with us here :)

    Any tips/tricks/wisdom you feel keen to leave us with? Would be very much appreciated

  • Realestaste@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Wonderful message and i wish you the best but post removed under rule #5 lmao

    jk and i’m sorry about your cancer; we are all on borrowed time and there are people getting hit by buses tomorrow who thought they will live another 50 years so hopefully you don’t feel alone.

    I take your message to heart, I’m one of those earning a lot but I started humble and my only concern is making enough money to show my mom a good life.

    Wishing you the best and a successful treatment

  • EriksonEnterprises@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I totally hear ya on that! If it were me I’d be trying everything even natural remedies / holistic / etc

    It’s crazy how they have “cures” for basically everything but cancer… Science for ya… Profits for ya…

    And yeah, these big tech companies have really monopolized. There’s nearly no way to outperform them and they know it

    Wish you well :/

  • ptman@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Best of luck with your cancer.

    If you have anyone other than you using your selfhosted services, manage their expectations. Tell them to take backups, how to migrate, write handover documentation. So that you don’t have to worry about them. Should be done anyway, since all of us can end up under a bus.

  • machstem@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Caregiver for wife with cancer right now, and two kids.

    I self host pterodactyl for the kids, and my *rr stack, jellyfin + some funky process of using my kids camera roll cloud backups, and sync the shared album up with an rclone cronjob that keeps all our stuff we do together, from each of our individual cameras, and they’re all on jellyfin for anyone to watch, any time.

    Keep memories alive with mkdocs and write poetry for others to access over a nicely crafted markdown+css web page

    Self hosting has kept me sane from my own suicidal ideation and depression since the mid 90s.

    We’re with you

  • jmbenfield@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You’ll get through this bro, you still got servers to configure, apps to dockerize, and keyboards to smash!