Hey all you beautiful selfhosters,

What are your suggestions for frugally obtaining HDDs in the current economic climate? Specifically the EU (Netherlands).

I’m looking at second hand drives, but even those go for €100+ now, with bad sectors and all.

Can we organise a collective AI datacenter robbery and doll out some stolen drives? 😁

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    if you are also annoyed qbout the tracking and ads shit smart TVs pull off, you could by a mini-PC to fix all of these at once. making an IR remote work will be challenging, but if you go for plasma bigscreen, you can control it fine with kde connect on your phone.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      I block all of my smart TVs at the DNS level with my pi-holes. All of the benefits (native streaming apps, easy casting, a functional remote without any fuss, etc) without any of the ads or tracking.