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+1 for Synology photos. I back up automatically to my NAS, and sharing is a breeze.

If you're going down the "self-hosted" path, Synology will be the answer a lot of the time. All your music and videos, etc. There's even a Google Docs-like office suite.

I'm have kiwix on mine via docker and have self-hosted Wikipedia.

[psychphysic]

What does self hosted Wikipedia achieve practically?

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I created an intranet portal for the house with a kind of prepper Internet. Plenty of things to do but no connection required, which is nice. It contains wikipedia, and other good kiwix packages like project Gutenberg. Our media and stuff.

Raising a young child, my partner and I try to model minimal phone usage and low Internet usage. But when you gotta use the Internet, it's fun to open up the intranet and let the answers flow from there.

[samstave]

If private, a private familiar photo history would be great...

There was a company called ORIGAMI that launched into private claiming to solves such - and they got acisition-hired before they could even launch and then the entirety of the team evap'd

but we still need a solid solution in a PI powered black-box with "facebook in a box for a family" with a familial social calendar...

this is what Nextdoor attempted to do - but its run by sketchy people I would never trust - we need a solid little container on a Pi that allows for a NAS of pics and a calendar and an air-tag tied to all our shit so we have a home hub that with a single click shows all the things/folks attached and then a timeline of all the pics taken (I appied to YC to this FN 10 years ago)

[crumpled]

You don't need any external accounts or services. You can turn on a dyndns service or a proxy service optionally, for convenience. You might need an account for those. You can and should wall the thing off.

What happens is, your photos only back up when you are at your house, or when you connect your phone to your VPN.

[crumpled]

I misunderstood.

You were talking about sharing to external family, oops

It would be cool if we could do peer to peer federation.

[reacharavindh]

The problem with centralizing everything like this is it becomes a honeypot and to make things worse it is expected to be run by the common non IT person who may not even recognize that they have been pwned. I admit it sounds like a dream, but realistically, I see how difficult it is to achieve.