I checked out the second link, very cool stats. 540 TB Of video files 🤯

How can one estimate the costs of such a massive storage system?

Should; Could; How high of a priority is this update automation for you? This is also how I run my server. Configuration possibilities are infinite.

up to now I install all my updates manually, maybe I should look into this: how to auto-update.

lol. Same issue for me. I run it for months, and surprisingly (for me) nothing breaks at all.

But fucking ssh shows warnings regarding some “post quantum crypto” stuff; recommending software update, that was not there before lol.

I agree; the best option is to ditch Android … those who can do it. Some Banking apps, public transport ticket apps, and post/mail-delivery apps seem to be a hard requirement for people in real live though. Which leads to the question: But what about people who can not ditch their phones and can not afford multiple devices (this decade)? Maybe laws that introduce a hard requirement that everything should work through a (open source) web-browser can help, but then what about “offline” use cases?

It feels like we are building our own digital prison in real time.

I have bad experience with self-hosting termux server on a Samsung-Android device. The background process would be terminated after one week of hands off runtime. I tried to rectify this in the power-saving settings to no avail. Still this is really cool:

Your server works for me, it displays:

Battery: 63% DISCHARGING

Temp: 12°C

How many Terrabytes of storage do you host? Is there any way to tell how many terrabytes the entire PeerTube ecosystem hosts?

Such numbers could be useful for marketing purposes.

I enjoy using peertube, the videos load quick enough for me lol. And there is a large selection of gaming content; Because of the good experience, I consider making a dontaion.

Yeah but for this they need to open source the entire tech stack imo. You can run oss on a closed source bootloader, but the end result will still be the enshittification and hardware lock-down.

Auditable open source hardware and wireless-chips are the real deciding factor in the long game!