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Transforming e-waste into a home server
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Say nothing about the machine
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Storage almost full.
Google gives you 15 GB free, shared between Gmail, Drive and Photos. Apple gives you 5 GB.
Everyone in the room has seen this message
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So you sat there choosing which photographs to delete.
Pause. Ask who has done it.
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Meanwhile, an old computer sits in a cupboard.
It can keep your photographs and block adverts for the whole house.
The two jobs in this talk
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Think of it as an appliance
It sits in a cupboard and does a couple of jobs, like the router and the TV box you already have.
The word server puts people off. Say appliance from here on.
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Job one, live: your photographs, kept at home
- The phone app copies each new photograph to it
- Browse them by date in any web browser
- No cloud account, and the only limit is the size of the drive
Immich, on the YunoHost machine, opened in the browser on this laptop
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Job two, live: adverts blocked for the house
- Set it once on your router, and adverts and trackers stop on every device on the wi-fi
- That includes the television, where you cannot install anything
AdGuard Home. Leave the blocked count on screen while you talk. Some televisions ignore the router's setting.
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Before you start
- It sits in your house, so keep another copy of your photographs somewhere else
- It needs looking after: install its updates now and then
Say this before anyone asks
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Three checks on the machine in the cupboard
- 01 Memory6 GB at least, 8 GB is better. More can be added.
- 02 Processor64-bit, with two cores or more.
- 03 StorageRoom for your photographs. A bigger drive can be fitted.
Immich's published minimums. Blocking adverts needs far less.
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The way in: YunoHost
- Install it on the old computer from a memory stick
- Add Immich and AdGuard Home from its web page
Not taught here. Come and ask us at the bench.
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An old laptop. A five-pound memory stick.
These slides ran on it: Linux Mint, booted from the stick, nothing on its disk touched. The photographs and the advert blocking ran on YunoHost, on another old computer.
The reveal
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Photograph this
Two jobs for the old computer
- Your photographs, kept at home, with Immich
- Adverts blocked for the whole house, with AdGuard Home
- Check for 6 GB of memory, 64-bit and room on the drive
- Start with YunoHost
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