That's a welcomed thing, often it's daunting to do it from scratch when all guides assume you're a masters student in computer science lol
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Yeah as someone that was just getting into it not that long ago I definitely kinda struggled through it even though I'd feel pretty confident saying I'm a bit more technically literate than most. Figured I'd try to help others with the process as much as I can! I appreciate the validation lol
Thanks! I've been wanting to set up something like this
You're so welcome friend I wish you the best of luck :)
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I want a future where communities self host their media and circumvent media companies like Netflix and Disney. Local film clubs, TV clubs, hobbyists, etc. can come together and host as a collective bringing down costs and making this more accessible.
Like ham radio ppl
Who's making the media?
Okay, so you don't even need a socialist system for this, just a moderately sane government. Even here in Estonia, the government hands out funding for cultural projects. Now this is still a capitalist society, so you likely can't get full funding for a big project.
In an actual socialist economy, the government will give you full funding for projects. The actors and everyone else working on a movie or TV show have guaranteed income that's enough to live their lives, guaranteed living accommodations, etc, so they're more likely to do it as a passion project, but they could still be paid as extra motivation. Funding is still required for equipment, etc. Unless you go fully money free as a society, in which case you ask the government to assign equipment to you.
There are a lot of independent creators out there too.
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We should have never lost the capability to have LAN parties for all games.
Just yesterday I wiped the drive and installed Linux on the 3rd old PC for the LAN setup I'm putting together, literally "for the children!"
It's an i7-920 from 2008. It has TRIPLE channel ram, baby. I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon and it was as quick and painless as usual.
I already get the warm fuzzies when I walk into the room and find my 3rd grader playing on my PC instead of their tablet or even the console. Our first LAN party is gonna be sweet.
I used to dream once that I would be able to give my future son Q4OS to grow up with and if a daughter, something like PuppyOS. Alas, I'm a single 30-something guy living in his parent's basement with no real prospects of owning my own home or getting laid—so go figure. At least somebody out there is living the dream! 🤝
You're spitting rn
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Started my own home server about a year or so ago. Currently hosting Immich for me and my gf. Jellyfin for archiving movies shows and downloaded YT videos. Forgejo for local git where I backup my work. Homeassistant to manage lights in the appartment and some other small stuff. Linkwarden to archive important websites and links I might need in the future (docs for work, how-tos for the server itself so I dont loose all that setup kbowledge). Syncthing to sync files between multiple devices - which is awesome, easy to setup and pair folders. Seafile to share files.
It has been great, it draws around 20-30W idle.
I am currently in search for Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container - if anyone has some ideas I am all ears.
Vaultwarden is what you're looking for.
Instead of Bitearden you can use Keepass and share db file with syncthing
I'm syncing the files from Obsidian using Syncthing as well, works fine.
That's the primary draw for plain text files for me!
Joplin is a good Obsidian alternative.
You can selfhist bitwarden. Or use vaultwarden.
I often see LogSeq, and to a lesser extent Silver Bullet, mentioned as self-hostable alternatives to Obsidian that people actually appreciate using.
I use Bitwardens self hosted option, VaultWarden, that I run in a docker. works fine. I use it with the bitwarden CLI since I'm using QuteBrowser on all my machines. I then run a weekly backup of my vaultwarden to an external ssd.
Beauty of it is that it will also work with Bitwardens extension on chrome or firefox. So if I'm on another machine and I need access to my PW's I can just install the extension, add my self-hosted vaultwarden, then remove it when i'm done.
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I have my own server and it's great, but the real product these streaming services sell isn't access to content—it's discoverability and recommendations. We need a better solution for that!
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My entire life is Linux and self hosted, aside from Email. I may get to that one day too. Love my Plex server, even with the more recent baloney the company's apparently been up to.
I should be using Jellyfin but once I get home from work I don't want to tinker any more, I just wanna play a game or dick around.
Agree with the message in the video, these companies should be told to pound sand the minute they do a single anti-consumer thing.
I set up jellyfin recently. Haven't tinkered with it any more than plex to be fair
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Thanks for using peer tube
Having my own server is sooooo cool. There are so many services I’m running for my friends and family that are just incredible. That includes this piefed instance! Which is public if anyone wants to register here
The first disclaimer in the video is the most relatable thing I've read in a while
Hosting email just saved the day! My ex got locked out of her email account and password resets were blocked. However she still had one “home” forwarding email configured as a recovery address, so we were able to redirect it somewhere accessible and unlock her email account!
I just have my old PC's running Linux connected directly to the tv or projector.
I use a super basic webdav server or free ^arr^ ^matey^ streaming sites.
I sometimes sftp into devices.
That's my setup.
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Agreed. It's time my occasional minecraft/PZomboid server got a nextcloud upgrade.
I’d urge u to retitle to:
How I host my home server
I had PTSD over that phrase, and how many naïve self starters got doxed, swatted, murdered, thrashed, DoS, pwnd, bitlocked, sued, deISPd, excomm.d, raided, wormed, subpoenaed, etc., etc..
And with fascist laws being enforced, basic guides need extreme darknet praxis updates.
I would be interested to see a figure of people with home servers that have had that happen to them. DoS & pwned yes, especially 15+ years ago before there were good resources, TLS, reverse proxies, or authentication front ends.
I would be very interested to see any stat whatsoever of selfhosters that have gottened murdered specifically because of their server.
It is extremely important to note that in those days, people just opened their, often out-of-date, servers completely to the internet via a DMZ or port forwarding, let ssh be open to the internet, didn't harden ssh at all, and most people didn't use a VPN for downloading.
That is literally like saying that people who light wall torches in their wooden home burned their house down, so let's not use lightbulbs or electricity.
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So lost.
That’s a pretty vague title. What kind of server? I run emby. I also run a ton of other servers.
did you try clicking the link? titles aren't meant to convey all relevant info.
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I set up my home server, then realized my Internet is shit and my upload speeds can't even steam 1 4k movie, let alone several at once.
I am not excited to triple my monthly Internet bill for better upload speeds, but it will have to happen soon.
I would gladly spend more for better (10mbit up atm) but all the upgrades get me to like 25 up and that's it. I have no incentive to spend more for basically nothing. I hate it.
I'm more worried about my electricity bill tbh. Low-power devices aren't easily available and the second hand market is crap in my area.
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How beneficial is connecting via ethernet instead of wifi? My wifi mesh pods only have 1 ethernet out port, so I use it for my desktop. Not sure if I could split it or not, but I imagine if I did it'd slow down my desktop's internet connection, which I'd rather not do.
I can't be sure since technology has so many different factors, but splitting a single Ethernet out into multiple with a network switch won't really affect it much if at all. Cat5e cable/jack (common for most cables) gets 1 gigabit, so unless you have a gigabit connection and maxing out the connections already, you shouldn't notice it.
As for WiFi, even though a lot of newer technology is great, it's not going to beat Ethernet.
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A switch won't slow anything at home.
It's super cheap and literally plug and play.
Every time I spin one up. I spend weeks setting things and playing with it. And then never use it again until I get bored and rebuild it.
A home server with digital services (from mail to cloud) as we got wired phones back in our timeline, most of the time up, possible terminal of our own and able to unplug at will
Dad said we're getting a sourcebox!
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