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Not to be a dick, but to explain why forming the question the way you did will not get you any assistance or responses for that matter.
https://dontasktoask.com
The truth is, not a single person here went to self-hosting school, we got to where we are because of our love for the craft. I hope this doesn’t discourage you from trying. The high you’ll get from finally solving that one error you’ve been trying to resolve for hours is one I love experiencing over and over again which is why I self-host.
Your self righteous answer, is why Linux will never be a viable solution on the desktop. Or in this case why self hosting will never take off.
Don't worry, the Microsoft support forums don't lack self righteous answers either. I won't talk about about desktop Linux because that has nothing to do with this thread and has a plethora of other issues as to why it won't take off but specifically self hosting won't take off because it never meant to. We will never get to a point in our lives where 100% (or hell, even 10%) of the population are proficient enough in how a computer works to self host their own software stack, and that is okay. If you self-host services make them available to your friends and family. Never thought that self-host was a movement of some sort where we're trying to convert people who rely on centralized products into self hosting gurus, guess that's a first for me.
Has been pretty viable for me for the last 7 years or so.
Literally who cares, the community stands to gain nothing from another few million novice users who don't even know or care to learn how to formulate a question or usable bug report.
Lol OK
I didn't read the other comments, only the main post in which I do not see what you define as "detailed account of my situation". You said that you have an issue with some software (you did not even bother to specify which) and that you want people to hop on Jitsi to duke it out with you. Had it been me, I would've posted logs, posted what I'm trying to achieve and why I'm unable to do it so far or where I would appreciate additional explanation. You want people to help you but you do not make it any easy for them to do.
But that's okay, stay arrogant and we'll see how far it gets you.
You didn't. You very specifically asked for someone to commit to helping you personally with nonspecific issues rather than asking for help from a general group for a specific issue (which would have been more likely to get help).
Maybe, but what youre trying to achieve isn't getting a helpful answer for a specific question. You're trying to get someone to commit to helping you for an unspecified amount of time with an unspecified amount of problems. CriticalMass is telling you that is a bad way of obtaining help for a problem anywhere except in school and a job classroom. This is neither of those.
No, he read your post just fine. You just don't like the answers you're getting. Asking for help with a specific thing is exactly what these forums are for. Asking for help getting started is even okay. We love sharing a good tutorial for getting a new user started with a specific software.
You aren't doing any of those things. You're asking for someone to spend hours of their time, in a call with you, to walk you through a process that has hundreds of online tutorials already out there. You're also getting mad when people tell you that what you're after is not what this discussion forum is for.
Maybe try reading more carefully before calling someone out for some bullshit.
No you didn't. You said that you had set up TrueNAS, that means it's working. I inferred from a different comment that you're actually experiencing problems with TrueNAS and even left a reply to hopefully help you.
It was an example. I did not expect you to take it literally. If things aren't working, then we need to know which things aren't working. Screenshots, logs, even "I can't connect to my own server" is better.
I had to infer from other comments that you're having trouble with TrueNAS. Perhaps it's because English is my 3rd language, but clearly the point didn't get across to others in this thread either.
Nah they were quite clear they need help setting up "some services", isn't that specific enough for you? Ha! They really do not know the magnitude of what they are asking for. I tried to be helpful and encouraging and point them towards a path of self learning but after reading all the comments and the way they respond to people, I'm done and they're going on my block list. It's clear from their attitude that this person does not want to do anything for themselves and is doomed to fail at self hosting. Anyone getting involved is asking for pain.
I just read some their other comments on this thread.. lmao.. don't think I'd ever seen such entitlement in this community.
I guess so. Your question was
Which most of us have answered with a clear "no". So I guess we're done here.