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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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  • Yunohost is probably more secure than you figuring everything out yourself. More people have a vested interest in keeping it secure. They have a minimal page on security but they have fail2ban, unattended upgrades,and a secure SSH configuration. If something is discovered, you might be vulnerable but at least there will be knowledgeable people fixing it.

    Security is always difficult and nothing is 100% secure. The three letter agencies around the world have been hacked and they are in the business of hacking others. Hackers themselves get hacked on the regular. Using yunohost as a noon probably reduces the chance of you getting hacked.

    If you have something only you need to access, you can also host yunohost for yourself and make it accessible only via a VPN. Headscale, tailscale, maybe even your router provides a VPN service, or setup wireguard yourself. If others have to access it... I dunno. That's a good question to ask on /c/selfhosted

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

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  • 256 GB of RAM? Wow. And game servers too? If that's small, them I don't know what you consider big...

    Anyway, proxmox does fit your scenario well. Separating your hosted services into VMs or containers makes a lot of sense. And a few game servers also have installations specific to different distros, so instead of fumbling about with your specific distro, just creating a VM with the distro you need is way easier.

  • Too lazy to code currently

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  • Or just stop being poor. Or win the lottery. Or marry rich. Or just be successful.

    Clearly OP hasn't worked hard enough.

  • The Original Sin of Computing...that no one can fix

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  • I'll hold on to my opinion, you'll hold on to yours. Just don't think your opinion is fact, or even worse, universal.

    One last thing: videos can be sped up.

  • Flow chart for choosing a Linux distro because I disagreed with the first one

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  • I see. Yeah, then you're mostly right 👍

  • The Original Sin of Computing...that no one can fix

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  • Thanks, I fully agree with you.

    The elitist attitude that "videos can't teach you anything" or "information is worthless if consumed as a video" just bothers me. It's just contra productive to the goal of disseminating knowledge and understanding to completely ignore or belittle one medium.

  • The Original Sin of Computing...that no one can fix

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  • I know learning styles have been disproven, but you might find it worth your time to read the findings where they talk about how certain things are better taught or absorbed in a different manner. Mocking others for consuming things differently doesn't make you look more educated.

  • Flow chart for choosing a Linux distro because I disagreed with the first one

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  • Rght, they'd pick Mac.

  • Flow chart for choosing a Linux distro because I disagreed with the first one

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  • If the package manager has a GUI, sure, maybe. But if you're managing stuff with the command line, things do take a turn depending on distro.

  • The Original Sin of Computing...that no one can fix

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  • Dude, people are still asking wtf functors, monoidd, monads, and other such things are and there are papers written about those things all the time. Why is it so hard to accept that not everybody can stay awake while reading a scientific article? Are you just unwilling to accept that videos are easier to consume?

    Some people cannot understand what such scientific articles are saying because of how they were written and for which audience. Are you unaware that visual aids and animations exist? Do you think describing something is always better than showing it? There is a reason the expression "a picture can say more than a thousand words".

    Yes, there are some videos that are just somebody reading an article to you with no added content, but I feel like this argument is brought jp regardless of video. Providing a DOI:// link just makes me shake my head.

  • I've recently turned into a blocker.

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  • I don't understand this view either. What's it to ya? You cant see what the person does anyway. There doesn't seem to be a point behind it besides control.

    Also, it simply is difficult to implement. You have to tell every server "do not show my posts and comments to these accounts". Other servers can just choose to ignore that. It's centralized thinking to believe the "feature" will work all the time.

  • Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Completes Massive Migration to Open Source Email Systems

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  • Test their email by sending them one!

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

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  • Depends on what you want to do. For a small server, if you want to host multiple things, hosting them straight on the metal without putting a VM in between would be more performant. If your server doesn't have much RAM and CPU to give, then getting rid of the emulation layer makes sense.

    Can you tell me why you want to use proxmox and what for?

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

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  • Glad you like it! If it's useful to you, don't forget to donate or at least say thanks to the contributors once everything is up and running and stable.

    Don't forget backups! Restic is in yunohost and should be useful for that. Yunohost has a guide.

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

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  • Yunohost should be the software you're looking for. Install stuff by clicking. Much less terminal stuff

    https://yunohost.org/

  • Making Slint Desktop-Ready

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  • Damn, I was hoping it would be an announcement about making it mobile ready, but this will do too. Being able to easily write mobile apps in Rust is the dream...

  • GitHub is down

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  • Once radicle becomes viable and federated source forges are finally in vogue, github can suck it and these kinds of things will belong to the past.

  • The illegible nature of software development talent

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  • That sounds like me! But I'm not a good engineer, just good at hiding and doing the bare minimum. Somebody looking at my work would just say it's average and that's pretty much all I aim for. No need to stand out because it doesn't get rewarded with money but more work - I hate more work.

  • Why Nix Will Win (and What's Stopping It): A 3-Year Production Story - Ryan Rasti

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  • I want to be optimistic about nix but the main community on discourse is a travesty. It's a more a political arena than a coding forum and actively hampers nix development. Any important decision is either made in isolation (a small group of high up people) or on the forums, and the forums are a mined battlefield. Code and words don't matter, only who wrote or said them.

    Nix has had many opportunities to be the basis for something amazing and supported by a large company. Valve could've used nix to have dependency locking. Imagine bazzite, the most gamer friendly distro, being built on nix. That would've propulsed nix at least onto a mountain to visible to many Linux users. But if I were Valve and had a single look at the forums and documentation, I too would've chosen something else.

    I'll also just mention nix flakes and its experimental yet widespread use with no official documentation or support. Imagine joining and being told to use flakes then being pointed to blog posts from 2019, example repos, and YouTube videos to start using it. That isn't a good look at all.

    Nix has potential but the community squanders it in favor of culture wars, pride, principle, and just anything unrelated to Nix.