I must have been having more basic problems than you. I found LLMs to present the most common solution, and generally the most common way of setting it up is the “right-way”, At least for a beginner. Then I’d quiz it on what docker compose environments do, what “ports: ####:####” meant, how I could route one container through another. All very basic stuff. Challenge: ask gpt

what does "ports:

-####:####" mean in a docker compose?

Then tell me it doesn’t spit out something a hobbiest could understand, immediately start applying, and is generally correct? Beginners, still verify what gpt spits out.

By the time I wanted to do non-standard stuff I was better equipped with the fundamentals of hobbiest deployment and how to coax an LLM into doing what I needed. It won’t write an Nginx config for you, or an ACL file, but with the documentation and an LLM you could teach yourself to write one.

Goes without saying I’d take the output of the LLM to Google for verification, then back to the LLM for a hobbiest’s explaination, back to Google for verification… Also, all details are place holders: don’t give it your email, api-keys, domains, nothing. Learn to scrub your input there and it’ll be a habit here is a bonus too.

Properly made software has great documentation and logs. If you know how to access those logs and read documentation (both skills in themselves)… Not to mention not all software is “properly made” some of it is bare bones and just works™. Works it do, absolutely not a criticisms for FOSS projects, I love your stuff keep making it, and I’ll keep finding ways to teach myself to use it.

For all its flaws. Low level tech support, rubber duck, command explainer is something LLMs do really well. Kept my early mistakes off the web and got me where I needed to be most times.

Thank you, saved. I’d still be a little but fucked, but not entirely.

I guess I should get on with learning/donating to this soon while the sun’s still shining with Tailscale. Slower, more gentle transition, fuck up in some dev environment instead of my actual server. Goddamn was tailscale so easy though.

Big words. I hope, though don’t trust, they can live up to them. But if tailscale goes, I’m just plain fucked. Thats certainly an indicator they’re worth some money to me, but there’s many a FOSS project before I get to paying a VC one.

As an aside, an interesting service would be a fund allocation type thing. You donate £x, tick which services you use and the funds get divvied up by what you use. Only able to donate £10 but use a lot of services? Each service gets very little, too little to donate as an individual, so little the individual doesn’t. But, on aggregate (with hundreds, or dozens of users) it would add up to a worthwhile donation. I thought of "round robin"ing my donations: pihole gets 10 this month, jellyfin the next, audiobookshelf the month after that… but yikes the admin.

Funds are donated when £x is accrued at the end of the month, and the service is maintained by earning interest on the funds held through the month. Idealistic, ripe for abuse, and out of my league to write and administrate. I promise I’d publish all the finances to keep me honest though.

It’s not weird at all. They’re share holder corpos, anti-morality is par for course. Corporations are not our friends.

Agreed. I’ll get over myself one day and build one. For now Airvpn supports port forwarding at an affordable (to me) price, so I let them deal with the moral dilemma.

It’s coming though, i2p is where my server is headed, even if I keep a VPN up too.

I really want to build an i2p router, and have started a couple times, but the lack of control of what goes through my hardware stops me every time. It’s a cool project and, sadly, looking more necessary every year.

It’s weird I don’t have these hang ups for other systems. Running a meshcore node doesn’t give me the willies. Just for i2p I worry how much csam is going through my router.

Someone doesn’t know the folly of extending straight lines graphs into the future.

Vikunja feature request: once a day export “due today” tasks to printer, mark as done when printed. One day I’ll learn python and could script this myself… One day.

Vikunja is how my fiancée and I keep track of housework, we’re both neurospicy. But, like the author if I forget one day, the system completely breaks until I make a conscious effort to start again. By then the list is over run with "overdue"s it’s a little disheartening.

Hardware wise I’d go AIO. A mini and a pair of mirrored USB drives is my setup. I have an off-site backup running: another mini + USB. Finally, I have an inherited laptop as a redundant network box/local backup/immich compute. I have 5 households on my network, and aside from immich spiking in resources (hence the laptop), I have overhead to spare.

An n100 mini (or n150, n200, whatever) is cheap enough and powerful enough for you to jump in, decide if you want to spend more later. They’re small, quiet, reasonable Value for Money, easy Wife Acceptance Factor, and can age into a bunch of devices if you decided self hosting isn’t for you. I’d make a retro console out of any spare mini.

This way, when spending £x00s on a server, you’ll have some idea on what you actually need/want. The n100 can the age into a firewall/network box/local back up/etc if/when you upgrade.

All that said. An AIO storage-compute box is where I’m headed. I now know I need a dedicated graphics card for the immich demand. I now know I want a graphics card for generative AI hobby stuff. I know how much storage I need for everyone’s photos, and favorite entertainment, permanent stuff. I know how much storage I need for stuff being churned, temporary stuff. I now know I don’t care about high availability/clusters. I now know… Finally, the ‘Wife’ has grown used to having a server in the house: it’s a thing I have, and do, which she benefits from. So, a bigger, more expensive, and probably louder box, is an easier sell.

“TRaSH-guides” into your favourite search engine. Even if you don’t want to set up a *arr, the pros and cons of file format are discussed there.

Prowlarr suggests Knaben, then TheRARBG are my most successful sources of Linux ISOs.

Agreed on both counts. It’s true that I went in hoping for a delve in what it means to be severed, but the show told me early it wasn’t going to be that and I accepted that.

I didn’t see the show as promising to critique capitalism, but explore cults through the setting of an office. Everything outside of the exploration of cult was incidental.

Early on the show told us it wouldn’t be a deep philosophical exploration. By making that aspect of the show (personified as the brother in law) be comic relief.

The specific works? Who knows. It’s irrelevant

My point is your original premise was wrong. Creation DID happen without IP laws. People DO create with out the need for compensation/copy protection.

I propose, people will create things because they always have.

Creation happened before intellectual property laws existed.

Creation happens that can be immediately copied with no compensation now, open source software is an example.

I thought Libation merely broke the TOS, not violated the law (UK). Doesn’t matter, I’m on a different vendor now.

Me? None. But I left room for someone who might.

Seeding to ratios is self correcting, in my inexperienced opinion as I only share ISOs.

Unpopular thing sits on someone’s computer (not mine) for ages just happily waiting until it’s useful. Popular thing is in and out. Purely for files intended to be churned; try a distro (in facebook’s case a book), use it, and delete it.

1:3 could be said to be a minimum (1 for to pay back, 1 to pay forward, and 1 to pay for a leecher)

Things that are going to be archived can be set as limitless as long as strain on hardware can be tolerated.

I’m glad I’ve already pulled my audible library in to audibookshelf, I didn’t have many ebooks so didn’t bother with them. I’m moving to librofm this month I think.

Update went fine on a bare metal install. Customising the webUI port is a little easier now, instead of editing lighttdp.conf I think you can do it in the UI.

I struggled to find some settings, I looked for ages for the API token. Found it in all settings: expert, scroll for half a mile down the webUI API section.

Also, struggled with adding CNAMES in bulk, I thought you could do that in the old UI. You might be able to in the new UI. I just 'one by one’d them.

Docker update went flawlessly.

I have an lxc and to go which is a task for another day, unless TTeck’s updater beats me to it.