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spader312, in Private and/or cheap places to register a domain

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SocialMediaRefugee, in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

I used to collect AOL cds. I had a stack a few feet high. I was going to make some sort of artwork out of them.

tootnbuns, in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

Nice : )

GroundedGator, in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

I’m much more interested in your kit in the background.

surfrock66,
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That is a self-made soldering kit box I made when I was in college and had to haul it around a lot. I have actually been meeting to replace it with something more permanent now that I’m a grown up with my own house. I have an air flow soldering rig which doesn’t really have a home, and I could have a much better use of space. I have my brocade ICX6610-24 next to that which I’ve been programming for way too long, and a whole bunch of 3D printer parts on top of that.

GroundedGator,

That kit box would actually be perfect for my needs as this is a hobby I only visit occasionally or when needed. It would be great to have something I can easily store.

floridaman, in Private and/or cheap places to register a domain

there are lots of cheap domain registrar options but if you’re looking for a cheap .com I always go for cloudflare, they also offer .org for pretty cheap and many other options as well. The domains other than the common ones are pretty decently priced as well. I migrated all my domains there last year and it’s really simple, integrates with their DNS really well and payment is pretty streamlined.

subtext,

Yeah tbh if I’m already going to be using Cloudflare for DNS, might as well use them for their registrar as well. One fewer entity to trust.

Fuck_u_spez_, in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

Thought it was just me. Used to have at least twice this many in my old office:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/724fa188-5da2-4f8f-81de-557011dbe492.jpeg

surfrock66,
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That’s rad, and you did an amazing job keeping them whole. Recently I have been wrapping them in cloth, then the kids form clay around them for various fridge and office magnets.

Fuck_u_spez_,

That’s a good idea. Yeah, the trick I discovered in getting them off the mounting bracket without the chrome plating peeling is to grab each end of the bracket with vice grips and/or pliers (after you unscrew it from the drive) and just bend it down and away from the magnet. They usually come off in one piece that way, too.

surfrock66,
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I’ve done some of that, recently I have an old putty knife and I will put it right against the crack and just hammer it which will unstick it enough that I can pull it off. Newer drives definitely have weaker magnets than some of my much older ones.

DontNoodles,

Cool, I’ll try this next time. So far the least damaging way I’ve tried is putting the thing in hot water. The magnet and the base expand by different amounts and it is relatively easy to pry the magnet off. But the thing cools down quickly so it takes a few tries.

feedum_sneedson,

Wow it looks like a light sweeper

BastingChemina,

I was doing some blacksmithing in high school, mostly knifes.

When reaching 800°C steel is not magnetic anymore, it’s also a good temperature to start forging the steel. So I needed a atrong magnet to know when the steel was hot enough, I used what I have available: a hard drive magnet.

It felt quite “mad-maxy” to disassemble a broken hard drive to use it as a tool to forge knifes

peopleproblems, in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

… I didn’t but I guess I could start?

RIP_Cheems, in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?
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I wish I got that many hard drives just so I could do this.

atzanteol, in Private and/or cheap places to register a domain

123cheapdomains.com

thisbenzingring, in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

Challenge accepted. I’ll post our collection tomorrow! I used some magnets to hold up a white board last week too. Hahaha

thisbenzingring,
thisbenzingring,

The mad god thrown of victory!

MXX53, (edited ) in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

My daughter’s drawings are held on my fridge with old HDD magnets.

chris, in Self hosted photo library with S3
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Piwigo has an S3 extension piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=691

JoeKrogan, in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?
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No

ragica, in Self hosted photo library with S3
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I haven’t tried it but I’ve been thinking about it… Since NextCloud supports s3 storage it would seem its photo apps, such as Memories should work that way?

EuridiceSequens,

Yep, that’s pretty much it. I have it working with iDrive this way. Install Nextcloud and the Memories app. Add S3 as external storage. Point Memories to external storage. Done.

aldalire, in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

This man self-hosts

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