I’ve definitely pulled my hair out with docker too. Banged my head against the wall for a couple days before finally giving up.

I’m not ridiculously tech savvy, but I’ve tinkered with Linux since I was young, daily drive it on my laptop. I’m not afraid of the command line, and I’m smart enough to search for help and guides when I need it.

But something about docker just breaks my brain. Maybe I’m too old and there’s too much abstract thought required, I don’t know. But I can’t figure it out.

Just wait until the AI assistant gets added 🤢

Exactly. I’d love to use jellyfin, but it’s just not feasible

Thanks for the suggestion, I may go for this, that sounds much more simple than manually setting each one up, while still being just manual enough to remain customizable. And thanks for the offer of help.

I did buy a hexos license over black Friday. Mostly just to help a thing I think should exist, but I was also gonna give it a try when it got out of beta.

Glad to hear I’m not alone 😬

I wish it were that easy. I’m fairly computer competent, comfortable enough in the Linux command line to follow any tutorials, and Google my way through most problems I run into.

But docker? Dang. Maybe once you figure it out, you forget how hard it was to learn. But that learning curve is STEEP. I banged my head against that wall for like a week before giving up. Everything is so abstracted away. I’m baffled every time it’s recommended to newbies as easier than other options, especially when those newbies are struggling with ports of all things (no offense to OP).

Maybe I’m just dumb I guess 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the write-up!

I see now I was conflating zfs with RAID in general. It makes sense that you could have the benefits of a checksumming filesystem without the need for RAID, by simply restoring from backups.

This is a great start for me to finally get some local backups going.

Can you explain this to me better?

I need to work on my data storage solution, and I knew about bit rot but thought the only solution was something like a zfs pool.

How do I go about manually detecting bit rot? Assuming I had perfect backups to replace the rotted files.

Is a zfs pool really that inefficient space wise?