You can use absolutely any HDD or SSD. I have a mini pc, with only a single m.2 nvme slot which holds the os and system only. Then I have 2 internal 3.5" hdd’s and 2 internal 2.5" SSD"s all connected over usb via powered docks and hubs. Been running over 12 months and been 100% reliable. Usb3.1 is slightly slower than sata, but it’s negligible. Usb3.2 is faster.
Permissions were a pain to get right for my volumes and data I migrated. Other than that, It’s really not that complicated, it was just a case of covering my compose files to systemd service files and starting the update timer.
No, that would be deceit. Similar, but not the same. You can deceive someone by lying. Lying is an act of deceit.
I recently moved from docker compose to podman quadlets. Took a bit of effort, but fully foss, and for me it’s set and forget. Have about 30 containers across about 12 services. Have them set to auto update and it all runs through systemd.
Honestly it all depends on what you need both now and in the future.
I’m running lots of services on a cheap mini pc I got for £80, it’s an N100 CPU, 32gb ddr4 ram, 512nvme, then has 2x8tb hdd’s and 2x2tb ssd’s which are in a raid1 area served with lvm.
Running vault warden, immich, navidrome, adguardhome, torrent setup, sterling Pdf, filebrowser, radicale, WebDAV server, searxng, syncthing. This has 4 daily users.
It’s barely under any load running all that and is silent and draws a max of 15w. I feel I could double the services if I wanted
I personally plan on building a desktop pc specifically to be my server in the next few years as an upgrade to my current setup, but won’t be for at least another 18 months as currently have no bottlenecks or issues.
Nano is the easiest most straightforward to use, and it’s what I always use. I have nvim setup and I really believe it is better but I have had 20 years using nano and I really struggle forcing myself to switch and get used to it as it’s so completely different.
No, not at all as far as I am aware. It runs itself periodically.
Ive been trying to get rid of YouTube for over a year now, but haven’t found a solution im happy with so still sticking with revanced YouTube.
Got rid of Spotify 2 years ago and self host navidrome and it’s perfect for me. I use dsub2000 on my android and feishin on my Linux desktop pc.
I’m UK based, so fairly strict internet laws and I torrent to supplement my owned media. I don’t use flac, I’m sure if I tried I could hear the difference from 192kbit MP3, but honestly I don’t care. 192kbit or similar mp3’s are more than good enough for me.
Self hosting costs money. Hardware setup initially is expensive, both in money and time and effort. It’s only a solution if you believe there is a problem that needs fixing.
For me it’s well worth it for music. Video not so much, not yet anyway. I listen to the same songs 100s of times, but videos only once or maybe twice at most.
iPhone isn’t a phone for doing things of your own choosing. The whole concept of iphone is you slot into the apple way. Apple knows best 👍
It’s on my mother in law’s iPhone, and connects to my server running syncthing. It’s very reliable. Been running for around 6 months with no issues. I have 4 mobile devices connecting to my server with syncthing, 3 android 1 iPhone
Mobius sync is syncthing for iPhone. It works really well.
I just put appimage files in my $PATH. what else does this do?
Could have also not voted for the clown and that would have saved the world and the us a lot of bother.
Backups, backups, backups and backups. You will nuke your system drive by accident at some point. You will nuke your data storage by accident at some point.
I used a pi4 for a while and found storage speed was too slow as the usb c speed is too poor. I also found nextcloud too heavy for it to handle. Immich was great when I disabled ml, when I enabled it, it was ok. I moved to a mini pc and kept my pi4 as a 2nd server running just a few lightweight services and to ping wake on Lan signals to my mini pc in the event of a power cut.
Regards actual security, I can’t comment on your path as I chose the nginx reverse proxy option with my server fully exposed to the big scary www. I have 3 ports open on my firewall (ISP provided router) and on my server firewall with ufw for 80, 443 and a randomly selected high numbered ssh port. I have all unused ports closed, and I have fail2ban running very strict to block ips after failed login attempts. The way I say it is if nginx or ssh get compromised, then the world is gonna burn, and I will be 1 in a billion+ affected.
I use steam with no issues with runit on void. Plays all the games just as performantly as my previous arch build did.
After over a decade using systemd in arch and Debian, I never had any direct issues with it. However, I never truly got my head around it or got comfortable with how it functioned. I recently swapped arch for void which uses runit, and after over a month using it I to an amazed both how clean and simple it is, how everything just works, how easy to interact and use runit is and am blown away by boot and shutdown times. My arch / systemd setup was heavily optimised for boot, and I thought was quick, but runit starts in about 4 seconds and shutdown is about 2 seconds.
Radicale on my server and davx5 on my android to sync contacts and calendar.
You don’t need separate disks for this to work. I have my main distro and a recovery one all in the same disk in different partitions, and no grub. It is called efi stub and it’s really easy to set up and use. You can have as many boot options as you want.
I don’t think there is a problem with it. It’s a piece of software that people can choose to use if it fits their specific use case. It has a long list of features and abilities, and lots of people find it sufficient for what they want.
There are also a lot of people that don’t find it suitable for what they want and they can choose to not use systemd and use some other options.
I personally don’t use systemd. I have used it for a while, originally I used sys v for a long time, then arch adopted systemd, I tried to get used to it and understand it but never felt comfortable with it, so I moved to void Linux which uses runit plus other items to replace systemd, and I feel a lot more comfortable and happy with this.
You do your research and testing and find what fits your use case.
I have never been on a machine where I can’t install and use nano. I can use vi / vim / nvim, but I don’t have muscle memory. I have tried to convert away from nano, but it’s just too easy and what I have been used to over nearly 2 decades on Linux. I have nvim installed with a few plugins and a bit of a custom config, but anytime I need to do something important or complex I jump into nano. If I remember and am not in a rush I’ll jump into nvim to try and practice.