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[–] 28 points 6 months ago (21 children)

I made the switch to Linux and Lemmy right around the same time. Once I was free of it all it was like relaxing a muscle I didn't know had been tense for decades. Android is next... Just as soon as I figure out jellyfin....

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    Jellyfin is the shit. Lemme know if you have questions.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    No questions in particular as of yet. Still assembling hardware. I'm going for a server built on a NAS

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    This will be the hardest thing you will do in your life that you will never regret.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I love how encouraging the self hosted community is.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Dude, it's super awesome, but telling you it's easy could potentially push you away from doing it, plus transparency is always the best policy. Additionally, it's not that it's hard, really, it does have a learning curve, and it's difficulty will mostly be determined by how much you like challenges. The best part is that too many of us have already tried, failed, tried again, and succeeded, so you can always lean on us.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I get you, I wasn't being sarcastic. Going through something difficult has a way of bringing people together, especially if you still love it after the effort.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Oh no, by no means did I think that, no worries bud. I can tell you that, when I started, about 11 years ago with a Synology NAS, I was scared as hell, but I found it so fascinating that I, a complete ignorant on how technology works at the software level, could suddenly own some of my data. I made so many mistakes, list so much data for not following correct backup streamlines, and pissed off a lot of my friends and family when they had to go through 2 or 3 more clicks when I shared something. And it's great. Jesus, I've deployed Joplin and I mich so many times and in so many mixed of bare-metal and containers that I can't tell you for sure what I have running right now unless I start digging into each of my ProxMox VMs and LXCs to try and figure out where each thing connects to the other. Evidently, I've been keeping proper 3-2-1 backups for the last 7 years, and have broken so much stuff over the years, trying UnRaid, truena, OMV, CasaOS, and a whole lot of stuff more. Dude, in all honesty, just make sure your irreplaceable data is safe preferably offline, and go at it. Break stuff, and then enjoy the satisfaction of finally having it running after 2 or 3 sleepless nights, only to break it again by placing a comma I the wrong place because your brain refuses to keep going 🤣🤣.

    It's fun man, that's the best part, owning your data and flipping the finger at big tech and givernments is just the added value. That's my opinion anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I strongly recommend TrueNAS Scale. It's built on Debian, and has full docker implementation.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    TrueNAS Scale's Docker implementation is currently really mediocre - it's implemented as an app store style experience - and deploying/managing containers via the CLI isn't officially supported although it works fine. They do have a more generic container management implementation in beta at the moment.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I also just switched to Linux! Well dual booting Windows for now but only for gaming really, and until I figure out if Ardour is good enough for me for music production. But still: Microsoft has nothing except my game saves now, no tax documents or web history, etc.

    What distro did you go with?

    I'm also looking into making a home server to ditch streaming services and so I dont need 250 GB of music on my. phone. Got to be able to afford the RAM though...

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Mint. I'm not a "tech genius" and it was presented as an easy intro to Linux. I feel no need to distro hop, getting by just fine with my little minty penguin thank you very much!

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Mint is pretty legit. Their Cinnamon desktop is looking a lot prettier these days too.

    I landed on Fedora KDE because I need gaming features like VRR, and still wanted features like Secure Boot & a distro with a lot of users and documentation.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    do you know what to replace android with?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)