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habitualTartare@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’ve never used Netbird or casaOS. I run debian and docker containers. I would recommend looking at wg-easy as a VPN. it also uses wireguard but for me it just works. you open 1 port on UDP and route it to wireguard, it’s a secure way to access your network and is quite hard to detect from the outside.

I’ve heard good things about caddy.

“data at rest/LUKS” is something you should consider if your personally worried about someone physically trying to get information off your computer/server. if the server is running or an attacker gets into your system remotely, it doesn’t matter. as a beginner, I would determine if the data your saving is worth the extra headache of encrypted media, especially if something goes wrong/an update breaks something or your configs/setup messes something up. if you do, keep a copy of your decryption keys on a NEW USB drive (flash drives go bad) or printed out in addition to saved on your workstation/laptop/password manager.

Personally for new systems I recommend Proxmox hypervisor instead of running directly on the laptop. having your debian OS/casa or whatever you use virtualized gives you the ability to take snapshots in time of your OS, makes backups easier and can help when you expand later (backup and restore on the new computer running proxmox). mine is: proxmox on bare metal old office PC

| debian > docker w/ portainer (I plan to replace portainer w/ komono)
| TrueNAS > S3 bucket application (garage)

if Casa becomes limiting as you learn and grow, I would recommend docker compose stacks w/ a web gui like komono.

one final note, although AI can be very useful for troubleshooting and getting some code to fix a problem (albiet logic/problem solving isn’t their strength) it’s awful for retaining knowledge and learning in the same way that using a calculator or other tool before fully understanding how to do addition/multiplication manually. I would strongly recommend taking some time to learn the basics without ai if your goal is to understand how everything works. resources to start with are using and reading “man + command”, command help flags, online courses and websites: linuxbasecamp.com explainshell.com - copy paste a command with all arguments and it tells you what it does. …linuxfoundation.org/…/introduction-to-linux/

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Well1@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wow, thats a lot of useful things.

I’ll try again with NetBird and if it doesn’t work, I’ll try wg-easy.

I thought it was some kind of general encryption that could protect me from remote attacks, if it isn’t that way, then I’ll set that aside.

I’ve seen proxmox a lot on tutorials. I guess I didn’t understand it or found it too difficult for me compared to CasaOS and I discarded it. I may try it in the future if CasaOS feels too limited. About Docker, do you know how can I check if I actually installed it via Docker or directly in the laptop? I don’t remember what I did in that aspect. I’ll check portainer and TrueNAS, since I heard of them but don’t actually know about them.

I’ll also check out anything I can about “docker compose stacks w/ a web gui like komono” and have them in mind if I reset my server architecture.

That’s so useful and I’ll totally look into it. This “vibe-coding” style feels (not surpriseingly) limiting and makes me waste so much time. I’ll begin learning actual coding.

Thank you so much for your time and knowledge :)
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- habitualTartare@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  looking at the install script it looks like casaOS is installed directly on the laptop. you can check by running
  
  systemctl status casaos
  
  in a terminal. if that’s not found try docker ps -a to list all docker containers including any not currently running.
  
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  - Well1@lemmy.world ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    I’m guessing it’s not inside docker since it says “Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/casaos.service” When resetting it all I’ll try installing it inside docker. Thanks again🙏
    
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