solrize

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to prepare a self-hosted machine I gift to remote friends - Learning Together⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should explain that in the post body, not expect someone to click a link that says “podcast” in hope of getting a non-podcast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to prepare a self-hosted machine I gift to remote friends - Learning Together⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The link is to podcast.james.network. Why would I expect it to be something other than a podcast?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to prepare a self-hosted machine I gift to remote friends - Learning Together⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see, you are trying to make a home theater PC (HTPC). That would be a clearer term to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to prepare a self-hosted machine I gift to remote friends - Learning Together⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does this question even mean (no I don’t want to listen to a podcast to find out)?

  Sometimes I think people have been using the term “self-hosted” to mean what we used to call a home PC. I have always thought of a hosted computer (whether self-hosted or hosted by a company) as meaning a server which normally would live in a data center, and sometimes even means a rented box or VPS on which you self-host by installing and managing the software yourself (as opposed to using managed hosting or cloud services).

  So what is it that your friends are going to do with the machine? That would be pretty important about how you prepare it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to avoid "things going wrong" and immutable distros?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used proxmox and have played a little with nix and guix, but simplest is just use debian, put /home on a separate logical partition from the system partition so you can reinstall the system without clobbering user files, and as people keep saying, backup early and often.