Rack and some bungee used to be my way to do it.

Hated it every time.

Amcrest are great, but not all of them. Learned that with the stupid ASH-21 I bought.

So check the frigate docs for cameras, there is a great list there.

You could just use a local NFO for artist/album with jellyfin, thats what I do for everything from stuff friends have made to home movies and fanedits.

Sometimes, things don’t always stay around on the internet, so if there’s something I’ll want to watch or listen to again, I keep it local. Or if there is something that should be preserved, like the data dump of patriotfront that is continually seeding.

It relates to my hobbies, too - all of my photos are stored in raw plus my edits. I am also converting all of the VHS tapes my dad recorded of the family over the years and I serve them up to my family on my media server, along with the videos of different things of my kids, like dance recitals.

More recently we’ve seen the intentional removal of information on the internet specifically with the US government, so where possible I’ve backed some of that up as well and contributed it to appropriate groups.

Then of course there’s music, movies, tv shows, documentaries, books, comics, and so on, even fan created edits of shows and movies like despecialized edition and 4k77, Harry Potter and the deathly weapons, hackers the 56k upgrade, etc.

Its not meant to just hide on a drive, so its all served up with various services I run, such as jellyfin, audiobookshelf, kavita, etc.

Depends on the hobby because I have too many…

Photography - not much unless I buy used, which is what I usually do. So some funky old lenses and adapters to get on the body, which usually nets some fun results.

Data hoarding - a couple of hard drives. Which I should really do, I’m coming close to 5% free (which sounds like less than it is when you’ve got about 115tb, which is why I’m not rushing out).

Computer Vision / AI - more processing power! But I make work buy me that stuff so its fine.

General compute - about 5 more tiny/mini/micros at the usual price (plus the usual upgrades) to either ads to the cluster or make a new one! Or one or two of the newer little beasts that I will probably be waiting another year or two to pick up.

Bicycling - a good bike for getting around! My bike is about 15 years old now, it was new old stock because no one liked the color apparently - which made it about 1/2 the price of what it should have been. I’ve been replacing gear on it over the years, but I’m tempted to buy something new, honestly less for going fast and maybe more upright, like a hybrid. Which I can get an OK model at that price.

I do it with podcasts and audio books ive already listened to, too.

Its a nice way to change it up. Its also my nighttime go-to when I just want something to relax to, but I don’t want a new book or episode of a podcast, where I’m going to now have to figure out where I was if I happen to fall asleep.