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Willdrick

@ Willdrick @lemmy.world

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  • I am attempting to get into Selfhosting after a shockingly frightening experience, but I am very lost.

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  • I will probably get flogged by this answer but here it goes:

    I'd throw you right into the deep end: get a spare machine (an old laptop or PC) and install proxmox on it. Play around, breaks shit, delete the container/VM and start over.

    Grab stuff from the Community Helper Scripts and see new stuff, try alternatives, see what works for you and don't be afraid of breaking stuff.

    It takes a bit longer and some basic concepts might fly over your head, but the stuff you learn like this, you learn by heart.

    It's been a few years since I started tinkering with a laptop with a busted video output circuit. Now I serve NextCloud and Immich to my family, keep receipts and documents neatly organised on Paperless, have a decent arr stack and a bunch of extra goodies. All from "a PC without video? Might as well make a server" now with a proper machine with several drives on ZFS pools, health checks and redundancy.

    Its a helluva rabbit hole.

  • Self hosted chore app

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  • Selhosted Spotify Alternative for Closed Social Network?

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  • I loved the idea behind Funkwhale but damn it was such q a chore to set up I ended up spinning up 4 navidrome instances lol

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • No joke here, try (internet) radio. You'll discover stuff you'd never get on algo-based recommendations. I might be biased by growing up with Winamp's shoutcast

  • Only one generation knows how to fix tech...

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  • presses Ctrl+G to foghorn

  • I think my server might not be a fan of the upcoming heatwave

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  • What computer life hacks are your most used?

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  • Recently had to help a relative who still uses windows, so here's a freebie from Linux:

    You can use super + number to launch any pinned program on the taskbar. For example let's say you have your browser right of the start button and file explorer on the next spot right, pressing super+1 launches the browser and super+2 the explorer

    Edit: super = windows logo key

  • Can anyone help me identify what cable this is?

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  • Ethernet with built-in netcat

  • PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

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  • I kinda use most of proton's stuff. Also I'm not on the us so no idea what the second part means

  • PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

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  • It's on my to-research list. I heard some rumblings that tailscale might go IPO. Not that's bad by itself but I have been burned by stuff like that leaving me stranded once they "pivot their operations to maximize investor satisfaction" (aka enshittification)

  • PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

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  • Thats what Felix said, im personally a fan of OrganicMaps

  • PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

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  • Articles too much time too, so I made you this

    • Google bad, tracking sucks
    • Android -> graphene
    • Keep -> joplin
    • Docs -> nextcloud
    • Gmail -> proton
    • GMaps -> car GPS
    • Tailscale
    • Selfhosted on SteamDeck

  • Insufferable

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  • Best I can offer is a ruby icon

  • Plex now want to SELL your personal data

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  • Jellyfin user here, glad I dodged the bullet when I had to pick between it and plex.

    Tl;dr you want something like plex to:

    • manage your media files for you
    • get metadata for extra features (eg. show me similar movies, select an actor from the cast and see all your media with that actor, etc)
    • track your watch progress
    • play on several devices (tv, mobile, pcs consoles)
    • transcode media to a compatible format for your client device
    • share your media library with your family
    • get notified of related media being released (new season of a show or new movie onba series)

    And the biggest one for me

    • tidy up ripped dvd/br movie collection, download missing CC or subtitles
    • create a self-hosted alternative to shitty subscription services

  • Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Go)

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  • Have you tried Synching? If you only need transferring files back and forth and no version control or snapshot-like backups, that might be even simpler

  • Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Go)

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  • Tried OCIS a while back and its way faster than NC syncing files, even the initial sync was so fast I didn't trust it was fully done (but it was).

    That being said, OCIS is missing several key features I daily use: namely proper DAV support (contacts, calendar, todo, journal, etc) as well as integrations for stuff like SeedVault for mobile backups.

  • How do I securely host Jellyfin? (Part 2)

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  • Here's an idea: on your android device use something like Insular to create a work profile, that way you get its own VPN slot, add your selfhosted-related apps there along with Tailscale. You can keep ProtonVPN on for your other apps, while using TS for your "LAN away from home" stuff. Since Tailscale already encrypts all traffic, you don't have to worry about HTTPS, certs, et al.

  • Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep

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  • Oh no, don't take it as "don't reinvent the wheel"! I meant it in the true sense that sometimes we spent so much effort and focus building something, just to post about it somewhere and getting a reply "Oh nice, it's exactly like X project!".

    Currently I'm running NextCloud on prem, so DavX5 and JTXBoard cover most of my note taking and todo tasks, and I guess one could deploy the server-side encryption module on a NextCloud AIO on a VPS and keep everything (probably) safe and private. I'm kinda lazy too, that's why I liked the hands-off maintenance of NC-AIO. I get notifications to update stuff, and I get regular security audits from NC itself.

    BTW, never take that "doing stuff already done" is in detriment of helping FOSS projects. There are tons of examples of people randomly tinkering around and accidentally finding some huge fix for other projects. Off the top of my head, some weeb wanted to play Nier Automata at decent framerates on wine and a few years later, here we are with DXVK and all the proton stuff making most stuff playable!

  • Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep

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  • Really interested on seeing this, although if I could make a suggestion, start by scouting around and see if you can adapt FOSS apps, maybe fork them and add/remove features to please your objectives and tastes.

    Although I'm eager to see these through, I like projects like murena (/e/OS) that cobble together good Foss projects into a single cohesive ecosystem (without making the word ecosystem gross and vendor locked in like in most cases)