And now I'm realizing that my wife will have no idea what to do with that server in the basement when I'm gone.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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I wrote a little garden plot called Exit Planning which was my initial plans for how to take over after I die. The end result is a sealed folder in a file cabinet that my partner knows to look at. In there, I have a page on my servers: contact information about who to handle administration/takeover, how much it costs, and what I would like to be done with it.
I have an agreement with two of my buddies that one of them will take my server and maintain it for my family if something happens to me, and I will do the see back.
How do you prepare against it?
Even if I explain to my wife what to do, there's no way she'll do it. I don't have any friend capable of running my server.
I guess that's how everyone finds I died.
Same. Mine is pretty automated but the second the power blips she isn’t going to find the power button and I’m sure the NAS will eventually get tossed in a box.
Sorry for your loss. Solid movie, though
Thanks! He was a good dude who loved music so I thought it would have been fitting.
Still in shock.
Sorry for your loss. Definitely keep some movies loaded on your server for him in case they have a plex server in the sky
My condolences. But is that something you think the family would give You since you it was a shared hobby.
Sorry for your loss