Introduction I’ve been a keen photographer for a number of years. Not professionally, of course. I mainly just enjoy taking holiday snaps and the odd luxury vehicle at car shows and the like. As you might imagine, being a digital hoarder has resulted in me having many thousands of photos stored on my various computer … Read more
Introduction Although Microsoft released Windows Server 2022 way back in the latter half of 2021, I still hadn’t tried it out until last week. The truth is, I’d not had a need to deploy any new Windows Server instances over the past year and I didn’t want the hassle of upgrading my older Windows Server … Read more
Introduction I’ve been reading good things about Open Media Vault (OMV) for a while now, and have decided it’s time to give it a try for myself. I have a new Proxmox host that isn’t currently doing a great deal so I’ve decided to spin up a new VM and install OVM there. Until this … Read more
Preamble Many people have difficulty deleting data from their systems, even when this data is outdated and still widely available online. If you are one of these people, you may in fact be a digital data-hoarder. For example, if you’ve watched last night’s episode of Coronation Street, do you delete it from your Plex or … Read more
I was reading on a forum recently about a guy that was boasting he had a private database containing pager messages dating back decades. A lot of people were asking him about his setup and why he bothered getting into this. Unfortunately, he was being quite secretive and not giving much away. I hoard lots … Read more
Introduction Hi, fellow datahoarders. I’ve recently decided that I’m going to cancel my Spotify subscription and move to a self-hosted music streaming solution. This isn’t going to happen overnight, I love my music so I need to prove my self-hosted solution is 100% capable before I cancel my Spotify subscription. To be completely honest, I … Read more
I recently moved my hoard of data from various NAS devices to a consolidated VM running TrueNAS. After some research, I decided to use Proxmox as the host OS. Aside from it being open-source, it has several features I like the look of, including native support for Linux Containers (LXC). I’ve decided that the first … Read more
As a digital datahoarder, I tend not to throw away any old software whether it be on CD, DVD, or anything else. Last week I was moving some old boxes around whilst decorating and I caught glance of a CD-ROM that I’d completely forgotten about in one of them. The CD-ROM looked really old-school, but … Read more
As a datahoarder I am constantly buying new hard drives and consolidating the contents of old ones. I personally wipe the old drives in software and then donate them to a local charity for them to sell. I’ve noticed in the datahoarding community that a lot of people are in the same position and seek … Read more
If you’ve ever tried to download or install JDownloader (aka JDownloader2), you may have been surprised to find that either the download was blocked by your Web browser, or that the installation file was quarantined by your Anti-Virus software. In fact, this is exactly what happened to me and it made me worry that the … Read more