Authentik
Replacing Google Photos with Immich
15,237 photos and videos, six ZIP files and one weekend: how my pictures moved from Google to my own home, and why the new storage was full by Sunday morning.
Nextcloud on S3 instead of a disk
My Nextcloud doesn't keep a single file on its own disk; each one becomes a numbered object in a bucket at Hetzner. Here is what that buys me, what it costs, and why the bucket on its own is still not a backup.