The kids are obsessed with the Pikmin Bloom app. We’ve cycled 16 km each day and walked around the local lake four times today! Got us up to 18.5k steps. Not sure how long it’ll last once we’re back home but certainly can’t complain about them not being active.

The weather is lovely here, but it’s also lovely back home and I can’t help think about all the summits I want to do. However, I tell myself that there are always more sunny days and the hills will still be there. Hoping to do a couple next week when we’re back and I go visit my sister. Just hope it’s not pouring with rain.

The more I think about the server the more I think I can delete stuff. Got a lot of tv and movies from over the years but all I need to keep are kids things, as they actually watch them again, whereas we never do. If it’s that good - like Lord of the Rings - then I should get the bluray. I also bet I could slim down the photos folder. So many raws I’ll never go back and edit, so many pictures taken of events that I really only need 10 of to remember it. We’ve made photo books every year, so I don’t need to worry about deleting the “wrong” photos. Although how I’ll actually go about doing this will be challenging and extremely time consuming.

I do have some home videos. The ones I’ve made into proper clips, I’ll just keep the final product but there are some I never did. Am I going to make those now? (no) but I don’t need 10GB of clips when a 2-minute video will suffice.

I came across 85GB of DnD related pdfs and helpers on my computer. Completely forgot about them and, surprise surprise, I’ve never used them or even opened a fraction of them. I keep them as “maybe the kids will play dnd” but if they do, they don’t want 85GB of pdfs. They want to learn and find out themselves. That needs deleting when I get home.

Would be great if everything would comfortably fit on a single 4 TB drive, and key items: photos, videos and documents are well under 1TB so I can use the Hetzner Nextcloud backup for everything.

I’d also like to have all the keeper photos on iCloud via Photos.app without having to pay the 2TB tier. Mostly so nice stuff pops up on the AppleTV or I can find nice photos on my phone.

Not sure what I’m going to do about Home Assistant. I don’t do any automation, and at most I look at the dashboard I made every so often. The most I do is upgrade the components and restart the service. It’s basically a glorified logger…of data which I never look at. It’s always “I could do so many cool things”, but I don’t. I like using Apple HomeKit as stuff just works and I can do it from my phone with no bother. It seems a shame not to keep using HASS but meh. I don’t want to install proxmox just for it. Perhaps I can setup a VM…I’m sure someone has a script for it. I can run it in docker but it doesn’t get all the features and that makes it annoying. Really, I should just not bother with it as it’s another thing that needs looking after.

I’m either going to install Debian or Arch Linux on the server and just use docker for services. I want it to be arch linux as I like the OS but installing Debian takes 10 minutes and zero thought.