Selfhosted

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In the grand scheme of things the only thing on my server stack that's really worth anything is immich. The rest will have very little value to anyone once I'm gone. Plan is to create printed books from the photos and those should stay accessible for the future generations, our archive just needs a ton of work on creating those photos and possibly adding descriptions on who's on the pictures and when they're taken.

I don't really plan for ww3 nor solar flare frying half of the planet, but one thing that's a real problem is that if something happens to myself. My wife or kids don't know how to manage/access a majority of the stuff there is even if their everyday digital life is using network and services in it I've built. They'll be just fine without pihole or jellyfin, but data in immich/nextcloud is valuable and bus factor for the digital environment is pretty low.

I should at least verify that all server passwords are on my bitwarden vault and set up dead mans switch on that. Then they can at least get someone to pull the data out of the systems or even hire someone to maintain them. Best option would be if one of the kids would learn the ropes, but so far it doesn't seem like they're interested on anything like that.

https://github.com/Crosstalk-Solutions/project-nomad and https://github.com/DadsMmoLab/dads-mmo-lab, that's about all I might need in the apocalypse, with me having solar powered battery banks enough to last me a good while. Project Nomad would be perfect, I would just have to get the resources before said apocalypse but it sounds like a neat little project just in case. I also would use kiwix for reading, idk.

None of it will matter. That said, short term FUBAR can be mitigated. I have a semi-portable solar setup that currently runs my internet, NAS, Fridge and to some degree, the A/C.

To prep for the serious mess, I have to get Faraday bags for my server, drives, and solar generator and have enough time to bag everything before the EMP hits.

I have survival guides in book form as well as on the NAS, and I work the land enough to bring the soil into balance and build its fertility, plus feed the bees so they'll be there when I need them.

Kill a relative or two as a final favour. Check if the wife still wants to live, check if I can be bothered to carry on. If so I’d either head into the mountains or down to the coast (get a boat) and try and get away from population centres for a year.

Edit: Sorry, just seen “selfhosted”. I’ve got about a terabyte of stuff on sd cards - super packable. Those, a handset, a wind-up radio and solar phone charger.

I hope to avoid the apocalypse, Armageddon and black Friday but I know I must eventually succumb to time.

In most of those situations I have bigger problems to deal with and can always restore from backup later.

If it's so serious I don't even have backups left then it doesn't matter anymore.

I got a generator, a rifle and a lawn chair.

My plan is "I'll probably be dead" but if not, I have enough parts to cobble together a solar charging station, and keep my laptop running for a few days between needing to let everything charge back up.

I have one off-site backup on an hdd inside a faraday bag and waterproof case that I back up once a week(ish) and after every project. I have local backups daily, one in a faraday box.

I have never once needed any of them and honestly if shit hit the fan hard enough, I will likely never be in a position where having backups for digital information will matter again. I'll probably at most have my old phone/battery/solar charger combo that's in a case in the garage, I keep a ton of survival references, maps, and things like that on it.

UPS for 1-2 minutes.

They won't find my server ;-)

Feds are coming

...most important: I am not inside Usa.

There's a street not too far from me. This street has, I shit you not, at least thirteen baptist churches. I think I'd go burn them all down. No particular reason.