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- Comment on We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting 3 days ago:@batmaniam @SelfhostedResearch Completely agree. Its a said state of affairs that we really need ML based filters for our app notifications
- Comment on Where do I even start? 3 days ago:
@Toasted_Breakfast @Faltsm Garbage in . Garbage out. If the content is focused in applications AI will just relfect that. Its not a thinking function.
And even if its only trained with the best content you still need to know the questions to ask.
- Comment on Where do I even start? 3 days ago:
@portnull @Toasted_Breakfast I don't think these self hosting articles are that useful and much more than a list of applications. They send people off in the wrong direction.
They only answer that 'what do I want/could I do' but they don't answer the 'what device do I want to do it on' and 'where do I want to be able to do it' questions - They also don't answer the 'what do I need to learn to do it' - what do I need to protect my data?
And frankly I think they take the wrong approach when there are now more comprehensive solutions that could put selfhosters in a better position and get them thinking about questions like 'What happens when the cheap laptop I'm running this on dies/house catches fire/ How can I stop someone get into my application - How do I not forget all these passwords? - Sure they are great to play around with but would you really recommend anyone start ouy by spinning up Nextcloud and then putting stuff on it they really don't want to lose?
Sorry that might sound grumpy.. I don't mean it to be. Its great that people are being encouraged to try - but they should also be really early on talking about things like 'doing things with a friend or a group of similarly interested people' (I know that sound weird - but you need offsite backup people .. and someone to be able to step in of something happens to you .. or things go wrong. (It takes a village to raise a baby)
- Comment on We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting 4 days ago:@decended_being Where are you located?
- Comment on Where do I even start? 4 days ago:
@Fizz @Toasted_Breakfast I had a look at a few guides. They all come with a few assumptions and get into details but I was thinking that any guide needs to cover:
options:
Infrastructure - e.g. VPS/bare metal at home ,
Applications - nextcloud, media server, home automation etc.
Middleware - identity/authentication/ reverse proxy, backup, email, Patching/updates , xdav and other support tools for mobile,
Networking - home network, subnets, vpn/tailscale, firewall, port forwarding, static ips., ipv6
- Comment on We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting 4 days ago:
- Comment on We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting 4 days ago:@decended_being Yeah .. While I find forums can be really useful. just chatting and getting to know people feels more rewarding socially. maybe a #SelfHosting #meetup
- Comment on Where do I even start? 5 days ago:@LordKitsuna @Toasted_Breakfast I wouldn't recommend this as a starting point. Rather I would go down the route of starting to learn about VPNs and DMZs - Open ports on networks can end badly.
- Comment on Where do I even start? 5 days ago:@net00 @Toasted_Breakfast Now you need to start getting some knowledge around routing and networking. Have a look at #Wireguard or #Tailscale to securely access your network remotely. Remember its a journey .. you are going to learn things bit by bit.
- Comment on Where do I even start? 5 days ago:@Hawk @Toasted_Breakfast I get where the thought is coming from - Playing around with a cheap #OpenWRT router can be a way of getting an idea of routing and networking. - They have a gui and config files you can edit directly. You can figure out things like a #firewall #portforwarding - That kind of thing.
- Comment on Where do I even start? 5 days ago:@SharkStudios @Toasted_Breakfast If you are going RaspberryPI - Isn't an SSD a better starting point for storage? - But the best is to work with what you have - the PC
- Comment on Where do I even start? 5 days ago:@Toasted_Breakfast How aboit starting with something like #yunohost
- Comment on We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting 6 days ago:@SelfhostedResearch Something I havent quite reconciled is that I would enjoy self hosting more of it came with more mutual connections woth others that self host. Its a activity that has a focus on self sufficiency but I think I would learn more and be better if I was doing it more socially.
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@irmadlad I think this is beyond one person. I certainly think there has been progress.
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@mspencer712 Yeah .. though I suspect that perfect could be the enemy of the good enough. I can't really comment - but whether its a single pyhsical device or modular - for me an integrated solution available to regular people is the key.
- Comment on What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation? 1 week ago:@julian Yeah I definately didn't think their concerns weren't valid - I wasn't sure that I could clearly demonstrate benefits / address concerns. (and they were technical forums) - Don't get me started with my desire to include a link to a fediverse post in any comment I make in Reddit
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@MentalEdge @HelloRoot Its going to have some really basic questions - Where are you located, who is your ISP, what kind of connection for the internet do you have coming into the house, but then also things like - what do you want your domain name to be - who else is in the house? are they an adult? get them to connect their device to the wifi, what domain name do you want to register/ use? Do you want to connect to any friends/family? Do you want to configure some of these home automation devices I we have detected?
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@MentalEdge @HelloRoot Yeah I'm really thinking about something that you could fling at a friend - maybe someone who setup their phone, home router, google home or amazon alexa - and they would come out at the end with something that resembles a working internet connection and online identity.
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@CompactFlax Yeah - at least logically - I get that. I've discussed the point on other comments.
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@vhstape I'm expecting cloud hosting services to slowly creep up as people get hooked on them - I spent about $150 on a #BananaPiR3 and I think about £80 on a #DellMicro to run Proxmox on (Which I am failing at spectacularly) - There are several reasons why I think its useful - I think we are starting to see the fragility and lack of control that we have with some of these services but also Opensource is slowly pushing back the smoke and mirrors - There is a part of me that wonders whether if something such as this developed ISPs might provide basic versions of then as edge devices - or people might accept that they buy them as the accept a couple hundred quid on an an Alexa or GoogleHome.
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@Onomatopoeia I think in this case redundancy could be better delivered through a degree of distribution / modularity - perhaps through keeping compontents separate (I have an issue with an application but that doesn't knock out router features) but also through chain of trust with friends and family - you can't access your device (network, power, application ) then you could access backups stored with others - But I do take the point - and discused it in another comment - that perhaps modularity is the answer (e.g. Having a battery backup component that cound support a router component and an app server component ) but perhaps I'm over thinking this anyway - I have no practical way of implementing such a solution / framework myself - perhaps I'm just provocatively discussing it so that people like #Netbox and @bananapi see the discussion and think - hmm perhaps we should have closer relationships with Openwrt or Yunohost - or encourage them to come together somehow..
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@zuckey78 Do reach out if you want to talk Openwrt - I struggle with the community around it - I need to see faces and speak to people to connect to them - and posting help messages on forums just feels so empty - (But I'll boost my latest challenges with ipv6 just in case - forum.openwrt.org/t/jazztel-or… )
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@zuckey78 Yeah I do feel that self hosting has sort have become part of that DIY/selfbuild/homebaking/homeownership ethos - Do I think everyone would do it - no but I feel like people are realising that their lives are becoming so thin... (Well I'm trying not to speak too much for myself here.. but we want some ownership/connection
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:One thing that I am going to do is take a look what guided tools exist for #Openwrt - Its not something that I ever looked at before but - I think that's a micro example of what would be required to eventually deliver something like this - If users could plug a stock version of Openwrt in and be guided through setting it up to run on their internet connection that would be a step - soft of like how work with #Thunderbird to make setting up an email address in the application just as easy as possible encourages people to use it.
- Comment on What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation? 1 week ago:@otters_raft I suggested on a few forums that I belong to that using the plugin might be useful and federating content would be a good idea - What I got back was fairly negative feedback - e.g people thought it would cause people who don't have accounts on the relevant forum being able to spam the forum and get around repuation requirements (not true I understand) - but also a kind of - query why federation would be useful - with an assumption people would just come to the forums and monitor them directly.
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:
@mspencer712 On your point regarding a single device - I don't think that separate hardware necessarily provides security - Though I take your point - perhaps it could be about a compatible - modular architecture - a home server, a router, a home automation hub - that are linked together easily and well.
Agree on the issue with Open source be of the "let a thousand flowers bloom" ( i just saw someone post they have a new "templated based home server" lemmy.world/post/38362941 ) - but I think thats a strength - people try stuff out - things are more loosely coupled and rely on open standards - perhaps that's a whole philispophical discussion but I think open source and open standards would attract hardware vendors - (I'm seeing plently more Openwrt based routers on chinese marketplaces than I used to - they just don't want the overhead of having to provide their own fully featured software.
I also get the - at the moment doing it yourself requires knitting together alot of stuff - that's my point - the components are all there - its more about bringing them together and smoothing the surfaces - something that I think #Homeassistant seem to be quite good at - Perhaps what is required is that kind of organisation - where there is the prospect of picking up some funding and selling some hardware that comes with all the branding.
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@trd Yeah I would say it is.. Flashing Openwrt onto it gives you a router - (which you need to configure yourself to get working with your internet connection ) and I have seen that people are experimenting with putting Proxmox on it to allow you to also run other applications in VMs or containers
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@tburkhol Yeah chain of trust requires social connections (link how we build trust in our real lives ) it doesn't answer the question - Do I trust this person - but it least allows me to ask - could I trust this person - Friends of friends - I'd probably only trust them with encrpyted backups of bits of any particular photo where I know they don't have either the whole photo or the encrptyion keys to decrypt it.
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:
@foremanguy92_ Yes. @coopcloud (who I think are more focused on the more technical end of managing multiple servers) have a comparision that includes some other alternatives on the templated #homeserver- docs.coopcloud.tech/intro/comp…
I've also seen that people are building solutions that are a mix of #Proxmox, #Openwrt and some of the solutions above to bring things together on a single server - But that's definately a level of complexity that is beyond almost everyone at the moment (but is perhaps moving the concept in the right direction.
- Comment on My Dream of a Home Router / Server 1 week ago:@MentalEdge @HelloRoot Yeah I think these are all part of the evolution - rather than the coming together of something that really would pick up mass adoption.