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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

No no it’s fine . I still have soo many questions

Like I said my man, I'm willing to answer anything I can. I am not an expert nor a IT guy. There are many more skilled and knowledgable here. I just do a ton of reading, and a lot of trying, until it works correctly, then I write all that down because my brain is shit.

I saw in your dashboard that you have tailscale

I have Tailscale as an overlay VPN on both the pfsense firewall, and the servers themselves as a security measure. I can 'tunnel in' via Tailscale if I need to. It's also useful if pull a boner like I've done in the past and locked myself out of my server. DOH! Dumbass. LOL

I would like to get into reading any recommendations ? any genre is fine

Such as technical material, or just casual entertainment reading? If you're a new kid on the Linux/selfhosting block, I highly recommend Linux Upscale Challenge. TechnoTim has some good stuff to read. There's also blogs like https://selfh.st/ and https://noted.lol/ tho noted.lol doesn't seem as active as selfh.st.

Your answers were written in near perfect english........ How did you do that !

Well, English is my native tongue, tho I wouldn't say I speak it perfectly. I do know a few other languages such as Spanish, Patois (which you'd hear throughout the Caribbean), and a couple others just enough to get by. I also use spellcheck prolifically. If anyone ever got access to my browsing history, they'd see a ton of searches to see if I'm actually using a word correctly. I really can't explain it more specifically than that, other than it's just the way I converse normally? Thanks for the compliment tho, I guess. LOL

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[–] nexttech@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

I have never thought of using tailscale like that ! it's so genuis you won't ever lock yourself out of your own server.

Because i don't have much experience with exposing services on the internet i am going to stay on tailscale for now. but it would be so cool to have my friends reach my server on the internet without having to deal with tailscale

( O . O ) , New kid on the block likes the reading recommendations especially Linux Upscale Challenge because i can easily see what skills i am missing and the areas i am already comfortable in.

It's way better that doom scrolling / binging animes for hours on end (which i am guilty of) .

Your way of conversing is genuinely amazing , i wonder how you are able to express your thoughts into words in such detail

Edit: How come here on selfhosted many people are used to linux? i thought linux was a small community! Can't you selfhost on Win11? (I use Arch btw)

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

i thought linux was a small community!

No, it's always been a fairly large community, globally. Maybe relegated to geeks and nerds tho. It's early iterations didn't have a 'Windows like GUI'. It did have interfaces, but not what people using Windows were used to. Then as the versions became more user friendly with a GUI that had icons, and such, it gained an even wider audience. Now, gaming has exploded on Linux making it even more popular. A program called Wine, can run some Windows apps in a Linux environment. If I were to guess, I'd say about 60%+/- of the global servers are Linux/Unix. It's a very powerful OS, and one that I will probably never use to it's fullest capabilities. Hopefully, in the future as all us old heads die off, and the younger generations who have adopted Linux as their OS of choice, will influence even more subsequent generations.