I do it so infrequently that I just do it manually. Sometimes my friends send too many YouTube links in our group chat. I care enough to respond to them but not enough to watch them all if it’s going to take up a good chunk of my day to do so.

I use yt-dlp to download the audio from a YouTube video and then use MacWhisper to transcribe, and summarize the audio. Not sure what a windows or linux equivalent of MacWhisper would be

I run Qwen2.5 Coder 14B locally for boiler plate stuff that I then edit myself and it’s been great. I write code irregularly so using an LLM is nice when I know what I want to do, how to logically do it, but I’ve since forgotten the syntax.

Edit: I figured this would be a little contentious. If you write scripts so often that you feel like it’s worth it to invest time in becoming better at them, then by all means. This is just a hobby for me. As much as I’d love to do so, investing time in getting better at scripting is unfortunately a waste.

I have 4x 8TB WD Red Plus drives in my NAS. I started with 2 and added 2 later. 1 of the original 2 failed a little under the 4 year mark. I replaced it with another 8TB WD Red Plus drive. I’m happy with them. I wouldn’t say they get particularly loud unless I’m writing a bunch of data to them.

SMART Power_On_Hours (converted to years):

sda = 5.42
sdb = 1.58
sdc = 3.85
sdd = 3.85

Damn…I feel bad doing this but maybe you can cut your losses now and invest time in another project :/

https://immich.app/

I’ve been pretty happy with Kavita as the server. You can read the books directly from the web app but if you think you might end up in an area with no signal, you can download the book from Kavita, and use a separate eReader app to read the file locally.

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And file away your scanned papers separately

This^. No matter how many layers of backups I have for paperless, I’m still keeping the most important physical documents in a file cabinet.

I’m not sure exactly what you are looking for but here is my workflow:

1. Laptop - This is where I do most of the uploading to paperless. When I get an important document over email, buy something online that’s expensive enough for me to want to save the receipt, or buy something that comes with a digital manual, I download the PDF and upload the document to paperless in the browser.

2. Phone - I have an iPhone and use Swift Paperless to upload physical mail, physical receipts, or physical manuals I can’t find online.

I know I can set up Paperless to pull documents from my email automatically but it’s not very good at guessing the tags and correspondents in my experience, and because it’s not good at guessing the correspondents and tags, I have to manually edit the documents anyway so I might as well upload them myself. I’ve just got into the habit of getting a document, knowing I might want to view it later, and upload it right then or later that day. The built in OCR works great.

Edit: Oh, my behavior has changed a little because of paperless too. I now ask everyone for a receipt, email confirmations when talking with customer service, or if I’m dealing with a business that only hands me paper documents, I ask them to email them to me too. I’m pretty annoying about it. Basically, if the transaction is important enough to me, it doesn’t end until I get proof that I can upload to paperless.

Oh got it. Thanks!

How does Hetzner work? I just looked at their storage box prices, and it seems too good to be true? €40/mo for 20TB. And they break it down to €0.0651/hr. Does that mean I could run the backups only when needed and pay less than €40/mo?

I have a NAS with a couple of SSDs configured in a ZFS mirror that backs up to a Raid Z2 storage pool on the same NAS. Again, on that NAS, I run Paperless-ngx in a docker container. Finally, I use the iOS app Swift Paperless to upload documents to Paperless-ngx. All done over Tailscale.

My load bearing NAS has a lot of redundancy but no offsite backups so I still keep some important documents in the cloud. I’m saving up for another NAS that I can keep at a family members house but prices are insane right now :/

If you can follow the 3-2-1 storage rule without using the cloud, that’s awesome. However, the upfront cost can be expensive depending on how much you are storing. Just do the best you can using whatever you have available to you, even if that means using iCloud as part of your setup.

I agree. I’ve got a 9060XT 16GB card running some version of gpt-oss:20b. I understand how to program more or less but I do it so infrequently that I forget the syntax of whatever language I’m working in. It’s ability to spit out boiler plate code that I can edit for my needs has been a huge time saver and I’m extremely happy with my setup.