Always fun when it tries to circumvent the problem i gave it.

“Hey claude i have had this issue for a while and i want to explore to understand whats going on to finally fix it”

Many frustrating back and forth later

“This clearly isn’t working, what if we tried to circumspect the issue by doing something else entirely like workaround i have been using for the last month “

I mean i was just making a relatable joke for people who know what its like to struggle mentally, this wasn’t an issue that needs solving, but if you cant relate then honestly that is great for you.

My partner has been looking for a hobby that does not burn them out for over half their life that is not “sleeping till next shift”.

Most of these generic kind of suggestion all amount to “have you tried to just not having problems?”

Ah yes, keep doing the things that are causing you massive chronic stress but please stop doing that one fun activity your using to charge your batteries cause your hearthrate might go up from it and we cant have you waste your remaining health on something that is not economically useful.

Its rather subjective but it wouldn’t be the first time updating arch has broken my system and its fair that some people don’t want to deal with that and much prefer some more mature.

And i have no qualms with people who do use debian for a main system but i do assume everyone who do are retired folk with a long career in computing behind them and aren’t in the market to change to another.

I wouldn’t want to be perceived in any other way.

Being critical towards operating system: Great

Actual argument: fair

Solution: oof

Debian is by all means great, for many things, but for a main pc? Shivers

Sweats in “linux vr is one of my current hobby projects”

I think the general gist is as beginner self hosters we get more and more comfortable too “easily spin up a docker webserver”

At some point we arrive at “what other services can i host” and email is a pretty obvious addition expecting it to at least not be more difficult then running nextcloud.

It may be doable but hell is it not a comparable challenge.

“No ethical consumption under capitalism”

How will you circumvent the employee holding the emergency water bucket ready in the server room?

I have accidentally observed a reflection of a Disney movie in the reflective windows from a house i do not live and saved that information trough my retinas into my brain.

Who needs to go to jail in this situation? I who now possesses illegal information in my mind, or the careless home owner who flashed their copy onto me?

I saw the writing on the wall when they kept pushing me for needing an account on their servers. Glad i left.

The entire add industry has been collecting preferences, likes, dislikes for decades. Its one of the most profitable pieces of information

No data is as useful as what makes you personally engage.

People like to have full context when trying to formulate a response.

This is what my minecraft sword is called.

My week as a windows forced office worker just peaked having seen this meme.

I highly prefer a wireless mouse, but only if does also come with a wire.

“Linux is superior, i am in full control and free to use my device however”

has an iphone

I would still consider myself a noob but i do feel accomplished enough to answer this properly.

Hardware depends on your budget. It does not need to be bleeding edge either, i would focus on a good server case that makes it easy to upgrade over time and maybe fits a few harddrives if you don’t plan on having a nas.

Also make sure to check how much sata connections your motherboard can handle, using an m.2 slots may occupy some of the physical sata connections.

I highly, highly recommend proxmox for an OS.

You can set up every different service into its own lxc container, its wonderful to know you can experiment with whatever and everything else will be unaffected and just keep working. Within lxc things can just run using docker (though this is officially not recommended it works fine). The resource sharing between lxc containers is excellent. Taking snapshots a breeze. And when an lxc is not enough you can easily spin up some vm with whatever distro or even windows also. Best server-choice i made ever!

The zfs format for your storage pool is also very good. And you definitely want redundancy, redundancy makes it so x amount of drives can fail and the system just keeps running like normal while you replace the broken drive, otherwise a single drive failing ruins all your data.

Unless you make every drive its own pool with specific items that you backup separately but thats honestly more troublesome then learning how to setup a pool.

How you want a pool and how much redundancy is a personal choice but i can tell you how i arranged mine.

I have 5 identical drives which is the max My system can handle. 4 of them are in a pool with a raidz1 configuration (equivalent to raid-5) this setup gives me 1 drive of redundancy and leaves me 3 drives of actual usable space.

I could have added the fifth drive in the pool fo more but i opted not too, to protect my immich photons against complete critical failure. This fifth drive is unmounted when not used.

Basically my immich storage are in a dataset, which you can think of as a directory on your pool that you can assign to different lxc to keep things separate.

Every week a script will mount the fifth drive, rsync copy my immich dataset from the pool onto it. Unmount the drive again. Its a backup of the most important stuff outside of the pool.

This drive can also be removed from the cases front in an emergency, which is part of why I recommend spending some time finding a case that fits your wants more then worrying about how much ram.

Best of luck!

He was bad at his job and did nothing to deserve an extra pip.

/s because my conscious can’t handle stating this otherwise.