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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Super easy with Docker, and also quite portable. Usually is a copy paste and minor changes that irk me, but now I don’t have to explain my family what are torrents, how are torrents, what is a tracker, give them my credentials, and teach them to SSH to the server in order to copy a file let alone show them how to properly name it in order for Jellyfin to correctly recognize it.

    All I have to do is log them in the app once, and tell them "If you want a movie, find it here, and it will probably be available in Jellyfin in and hour or two.






  • Jira would be okay without needless amount of plug-ins, extensions, and dumb workflows one has to follow. Accidentally put it in the wrong state? Enjoy writing to someone who can fix it. Besides, it is slow as fuck and is getting slower with all the tickets (over 80k on our instance) it has to track. Search is shit, and it is shoving AI in my face on every step.

    Plain Jira is not bad. In my second company that I work for, I set up OpenProject and it has been working flawlessly for about 5 years already, it can easily track GitLab commits, branches, and merge requests, and do basic time tracking. It has some nifty features like “budget users” when you want to do budgeting with a “ghost user”.


  • There a million ways, and you will probably find tons of tutorials each different - Docker, Docker Compose, native install, VMWare, Kubernetes, Portainer, etc. I recommend starting with a clean machine - preferably with an attached monitor - and installing your favorite Linux distro (Ubuntu is among the easiest), getting Docker and Docker Compose running, and familiarizing yourself with these technologies.

    Then you can start with a simple app like Paperless (document digitization), Vikunja (TODOs), BookStack (wiki), or PrivateBin (pastebin), getting it running and persist state over a period of time, then setting up a reverse proxy so you don’t have to use IPs all the time (with just editing your hosts file to point a URL to IP of your machine), and then it is a free world.

    Of course, having the whole setup secure, independent, and easily manageable is partially eyperience and partially understanding your needs.

    You will probably even find whole ready-to-deploy git repositories that are easily configurable, so you can go with that too.