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20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple (hey.paris)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by femboi@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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A large department store sold someone an apple gift card that was likely stolen/already redeemed, apple responded by permanently closing his apple account, bricking his devices and causing him to lose access to 20 years of saved media in iCloud

Edit: in the FAQ section he says that he has backups so that's good. Main damage is that all of his apple devices are tied to the deleted account and won't work anymore

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[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If your goals are:

reliable photo hosting 2.relatively simple setup and maintenance
affordability

You could easily get away with something like:

Item	Price
RaspberryPi 4B 4GB (Case/heatsink dependant on luck)	40-60
500GB SSD x2 (Storage && Redundancy)	100/ea
128GB SSD x1 (OS)	50/ea
Powered USB 3.0 dock (Pi4 struggles with more than 5W pulled over USB)	25
Hetzner offsite backup (advanced!)	5/mo per TB

*NB: prices are estimates in US$ and GB£ and based on my last time getting stuff like this. * It'll be enough for Immich (albeit maybe a tag sluggish) and 500GB is way more than most mobile cloud services offer. Once set up they're pretty low maintenance too, bar the rare OS update or software hitch.

You can even get a decent NAS with redundancy for a similar price, but slightly larger and power hungry (though my chunkier system with 6 drives doesnt cost more than £1/day to run i dont think)

I ran Plex and Nextcloud, two pretty intensive services, from my 4B for years and only moved to a dedicated system last year to allow for 5+ streams concurrently (I share my Jellyfin with family n friends 🫶)