Familiar
MEDIA
Self-hosted services running out of Ponta Delgada, Azores, PT — mostly for friends and family of Kai, Emily, & Reverie.
- Jellyfin
- Movies, TV, and music — stream the family library from any device.
- Immich
- Photos and videos — auto-backup from phones with shared albums and timeline.
Why self-host?
Photos and home video held by a cloud provider sit in someone else's database. They get to see what's there, build a profile around it, train models on it, and decide what's allowed — and a breach on their side is a breach of us. Running our own boxes means the family library stays with the family. No one else has a copy. No one else is indexing it. No automated classifier is going to lock an album because a baby photo tripped a filter.
The same posture applies to the rest of what we use day to day: if a vendor would hold a record of who we are or what we do, we try to avoid it. Vendors that just move bytes without keeping a profile (hosting, networking, anti-abuse) are held to a different bar. It's a slower way to run things, but the data stays ours.
For the curious: everything runs on NixOS. The whole system — packages, services, config — is declared as code, so a server can be rebuilt from scratch in one command if it ever dies.