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  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldA Beginners Guide To Selfhosting Part 1
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    11 months ago

    Ubuntu and Docker.

    Really? Netplan alone disqualifies Ubuntu as a “friendly stable starter distro”, and I can guarantee you that your guide will somehow become outdated with a single new Ubuntu release, or some poor soul who accidentally selected an LTS release.

    Docker doesn’t matter as much, but there’s a reason beyond just FOSS licensing why podman exists.

    Would highly recommend Debian instead.

    I started on Ubuntu similar to this many years ago and both the server and desktop experience was not fun at all.




  • I kinda hate to agree with the other suggestions here, but entry level and even dedicated NAS products are pretty expensive for providing something you can very easily DIY for significantly cheaper even with the latest hardware.

    Was in a similar boat and just ended up taking an old HP desktop and added some cheap HDDs. I ended up playing around with proper Fedora for some LVM cache tricks and running some other services, but the common suggestion for this is SnapRAID and Nextcloud.


  • Even without a usenet indexer, public bittorent gets you pretty far.

    Also funny how some of the nicest container stacks I’ve been seeing are fully decked out pirate ships with upwards of 20 containers handling various things. Some dude even published his insane 10k USD 320Tb plex server build on pcpartpicker with consumer priced server grade tech like 28TB HDDs and ECC RAM.


  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldC'mon, do a civil war
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    1 year ago

    Why? They want Taiwan for its leverage in the silicon industry and for reinforced access to the Pacific Ocean. They really don’t have any other military targets on their radar, unlike the USA which spent the last 70 years basically pissing all over the world even after the USSR fell. If you want proof, look at Pakistan. They threw billions of dollars at it, yet its a 100% shill platform for the US. They don’t really care about controlling it so long as they are getting paid and Pakistan continues to buffer India.

    US is suitably distracted with internal affairs and can be counted on to be unable to respond

    You seriously overestimate the US being “distracted” by internal affairs. I even doubt they’d recall forces around Taiwan during a hypothetical civil war. If anything, they’d see the insane value of ending a civil war by baiting China to attack.


  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldOptics
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    1 year ago

    Too busy posting about Newsom’s Trump memes on lemmy because that’s definitely the way to fight Trump lol.

    Still, lets not forget the Nepalese military “accepted” the interim PM meaning they likely allowed the uprising to occur in the first place because they want to cycle the civilian government.

    Many 3rd world country civilian governments are completely worthless because they simply serve as the public scapegoat for the military to use. They magically gain a sense of independence from the alleged chain of command to the PM/President until the new party comes into the government. Let them do some stuff for some time and then rinse and repeat with the next generation uprising.


  • There’s more *arr tools that aren’t aggregator automation tools than there are aggregator automation tools.

    Also It was only funny when using an existing words like "sonar, “radar”, “lidar”. Jellyseerr is dumb, even Jackett was pushing it.

    I guess it makes it somewhat easier to associate them as part of a group of software, but now we have stuff like Homarr that is entirely unrelated, but still a useful tool.




  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldProxmox or Docker?
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    1 year ago

    Proxmox or even just lazy old KVM GUI for anything that needs to be deployed manually in a VM (Home Assistant, WIndows VM, etc.). Otherwise you can even just spin up whatever manual service you want to run on an LXC container or bare metal host with the correct security settings with systemd and selinux if you want to be extra careful.

    Docker/Podman (the superior one lol) is just an automated deployment system in container form (like Ansible). It great for automated deployment without having to manually configure the installation process and worry about upgrades, changes, etc. You can even easily create your own images on the fly just for the purpose of having it run a single service inside a container.

    Proxmox equivalent would be like using Terraform/OpenTofu to deploy VMs to do the same thing. Its possible, but just not that common because of the reduced overhead with containers, and well supported deployment images with docker/podman specifically.

    Generally speaking, I’ve seen proxmox used more in lab environments were you want to emulate something like a complete network of machines whereas docker/podman has become the defacto server deployment platform.

    You’re just much more likely to find software with a published docker container and default docker compose script than the same thing in Terraform or even K8s/K3s.




  • Someone I know genuinely tried this in a test branch for a Blazor application developed at a university, and the AI introduced insanely hidden UI breaking bugs because it touched every single file and renamed variables to plural without correctly refactoring in every dependent file lmao.

    AI is a powerful tool, but throwing an entire codebase at it is exactly how you nuke your development lol. Even the latest and greatest models can’t handle complexity beyond a few thousand lines even with increased input limits. And if it’s anything proprietary or even not well published, you’re basically screwed.