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  • Tape is unfortunately uneconomical for regular people due to the drives costing so much, unless you get a used, older generation one.

    How many GB’s do you mean? Maybe try some optical discs, BD-R at 25GB maybe.

    Otherwise just rent some online storage. Hetzner Storage Box is cheap and Storage Share is only slightly less cheap, and has lots of sharing features (it’s really NextCloud).


  • Not that good a thing to be doing as each such project potentially balloons into drama, dealing with each new client and their often confused or inexperienced expectations will be its own hassle, etc. Working full time or having a few long term clients is a lot better, as is getting leads through people you know if you have some special expertise in something.

    I’ve heard people suggest looking for bug bounties. I haven’t tried that myself so I’m just relaying the suggestion.

    Front-end web stuff is its own circle of hell but back-end is just like any other programming, so you could look for that.

    I mentioned the “freelancer” HN thread a while back, but it’s mostly people looking for work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434575














  • solrize@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPlex has paywalled my server!
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    1 month ago

    This almost seems like a leopards ate my face situation. I remember Plex supplanted some other proprietary media server that went evil. I couldn’t understand why people burned by the first one switched en masse to another one like it. Once wasn’t enough? If you’re going to switch at all, go to something that is 100% libre.