😄 thanks

I never notice the names of posters, but I’ve been looking through loads of self hosted stuff and clearly come across a lot of your stuff. This is the latest thing I’ve gone waist deep into and am enjoying. Glad to see you’re trying to make this welcoming for noobs.

There are so many hobbies that I enjoy isolated… Home server, gaming, retro emulation, making electronics, podcasts, movies and TV shows. I’ll always be up for sharing interests with those who are into the same niches.

Oh man, the gore videos. Forgot about those. That was thoroughly unpleasant as well.

Never knew who to tell this to, so I always kept it to myself. Probably not the theme you’re looking for, but here goes:

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Edit: changed my mind. Redacted.

Labour doing something meaningful and stopping their attempt to cater to conservative immigration ideas would make young people vote Labour. A wealth tax would help too.

You’re right,it is very complex.

I’m a noob and started my learning in July. I’ve loved it. Still learning. Did a lot of dumb shit. Got lots of useful services up and running. Happy to point you to resources I used if you want to shoot over a DM.

Or even just leaving a porn video at loud volume.

But hey, everyone’s entitled to enjoy a good pegging. You don’t need to wait to spite your neighbours to do this.

As in, communities of developers who are contributing to open source projects?

Have you tried: not

Then it’s finders keepers and operating theatre staff can walk off with whatever they find.

Better solution:

I’ve lost the podcast episode now, but there was an excellent documentary about organ ownership. Basically after you’re dead then there’s no ownership of the organ. If you want to donate a kidney to your brother, you can’t say that they can take it out of your corpse. If you’re a living donor then you can direct who you want to give it to. If you donate after death then it can only go into the national system for the organ transplant list.

Yup, they correctly learned that they were completely helpless and reacted in a completely understandable way.

If you’re getting a mini PC then your NAS can be older and really underpowered since it’s literally just housing your HDDs and not running compute heavy tasks.

You might need a bit more horsepower if you want to use Immich AI and PaperlessNGX AI.

eBay has been great and secondhand tech is worth taking the (small) risk on for the big savings. Get an old NAS that still gets firmware updates. Synology has worked great for me since it handles reverse proxy safely without me trying to learn that myself and doing a bad job to leave my server exposed and vulnerable. Get a mini PC suitable for your needs. I got a 12th gen Intel one earlier this year for £230, many companies dump “old” stock that’s perfectly functional. Look out for which CPU has a good enough iGPU for your needs if you need something like Jellyfin video transcoding.

I don’t plan on having more than 7-8 services running: Immich, Nextcloud+office, firefly, audiobookshelf, paperless and a maybe few more if they’re useful.

This will change when you get confidence and start realising how much good stuff is out there.

I’m a noob with this stuff who has recently self learned some of this and got a decent server setup running. Feel free to DM if you want detail about my beginner resources, how, what and any other questions.

I started with a Synology NAS. I don’t know about your specific NAS, but NAS hardware can be underpowered and quickly becomr too underpowered for the stuff you want to deploy.

People online recommended a mini PC for and keeping the NAS as just a NAS. I thought I better double check what’s suitable for my needs…R.Pi, DIY build server computer, NUC , Unraid, TrueNAS, HexOS, etc.

So I put in loads of work to come round to realising the initial recommendations was correct. I’ve kept my Synology for only NAS and use a dedicated mini PC. I’ve put Debian on it as my server OS. No RAID configurations, but critical data is backed up across 2 to 3 different devices and media.

Super happy (and quite proud) of my setup. It is slowly expanding.

I would recommend taking it slow, document steps you take (because you will fuck up and need to redo things), backup all important data and keep it completely detached from the devices you’re tinkering with, find suitable and appropriate beginner guides. Don’t go underpowered, and don’t get caught up with very advanced user setups with huge overkill.

It really has been a lot of fun. Welcome inside the rabbit hole.

What are you going to do with your 3 GPUs? Open an AI data centre?

A lot of things I’ve done may well be very poor practice. But at least I’ve got this thing off the ground and am learning from there. If I couldn’t make a start then I wouldn’t go down this rabbit hole at all in the first place. Without trying, implementing, breaking and making mistakes…it’s not like I would have browsed Stack Overflow for months. I have no programming or PC qualifications. Self teaching ain’t easy. AI did a lot more heavy lifting initially. Now it mostly double checks my YAML draft and makes sense of error logs so I can be pointed in the right direct to know where to even start reading.

Everyone’s wrong here. New users should try to look up some basics, and existing advanced users should tolerate beginner difficulties and not say anything if they can’t support and welcome the beginners. It would be perfectly acceptable to have a self hosted noobs community so advanced users are isolated from noobs if they want to be.

Frankly, this has been a longstanding barrier for me in adopting Linux and self hosting. Communities can be really unhelpful. It’s not like hobbyists are starting with reading an organised textbook. Knowledge is picked up piecemeal and sometimes there are glaring holes in beginner knowledge. For Linux adoption and self hosting, AI has helped me a hell of a lot. I wouldn’t be able to do any of this without AI. In my mind, this is a perfect use for AI. I can ask my dumb beginner questions without annoying AI, and it’s a very low risk situation for when AI gets things completely wrong and it doesnt really matter much. Also I find it amusing that I used the big tech company’s tools to move to platforms that deny big tech companies from exploiting my data, which is now safely local.

Isn’t this something Linus Media Group is focusing on by investing in HexOS…lower the barrier for entry. I see no sense in turning away people who are interested in privacy and security. Communities should really have a “gates open, come on in” attitude.

If you’re willing to to tinker with tech and taking some extra steps, you could be open to trying Linux too.

If you need things to work easily/immediately and tech scares you, then you’re going to be self - selected out of even using Lemmy in the first place.

The right to live with dignity should not be dependent on productivity.

Anyone working full time should always be able to easily provide for themselves and a “reasonable size” family.