Thanks for this post, something I miss from earlier selfhosting communities.

I have simply running two SFF Lenovo Thinkcentres—one for all local services and another for all online services. They could run on one but I keep them separate for security and stability reasons. I often crash the local one by running out of space…

I finally got to building a second backup recently which I am happy about.

Honestly, since moving and downsizing from several services at home and at work, this solution works. I run out of space frequently but it forces me to not hoard things I will not actually use. My previous rack server seeded something like 50tb as I kept everything I leached to benefit the community, now less possible.

This has also made me move away from services that are not needed.

• [ ] I would like to offload all my home videos to an external drive as I am running out of space for actual services and Jellyfin media.

• [ ] I would like to consolidate all of my local and online databases rather than run a new one for each container stack.

The last thing you want to do is give up your life to google and microsoft. Get yourself a graphemeOS compatible phone

So, buy a google phone, lol

Cringe furry

Need to download more fan

Quite insane honestly

That’s always such an insane fact to me compared to how many China has. Their traffic cams are impressive

Your second point is pretty much the most important skill learned in a humanities PhD, how to make your own learning path and learn what you need to know and what you should avoid.

I hardly think memorizing every useless fact in a manual and blowing the technician is the best way to learn. In Linux I encounter problems and seek the answers then I know how to apply this knowledge in the future. This isn’t dynastic China where we must memorize the five great books (/usr/bin, fridge, stove, furnace, and the analects) in order to progress in life.