I learned the setup from this video. It works great.

The gnu coreutils are amazing.

That ship has sailed. Systemd isn’t going anywhere. The upside is you can run a distro that uses an alternative init if you want. There’s runit, sysV, and openrc that I can think of off the top of my head.

You dont have to like, or use systemd. That’s the beauty of Linux.

Team vim! Learned it five or six years ago, and never looked back. I’ve also got vim motions enabled for my shell, in the browser (firefox with vimium), and in my window manager (sway).

What do they call a Debian?

You’re welcome! I’m out rn, I’ll share the files when I get home.

Thanks!!

I found it to be pretty easy to get gluetun & qbittorrent set up. I’m running it all in docker, be happy to share my compose files if you’d like.

Also late, but here is mine.

From the bottom up:

• An old pc I built forever ago for live streaming when I used to run my youtube channel. It an i7 something or other with 32gb ram and a 32 tb raid (4x8).
• m1 Mac mini
• HP elitedesk 800 G3 mini
• two HP elitedesk 800 G3 sff
• Deku
• dumb network switch
• rpi 4 8gb

And here’s what’s running:

• Bottom pc is the nas
• Mac running jellyfin
• the hps running:
  • navidrome
  • aonsuku (pretty navidrome frontend)
  • audiobookshelf
  • qbittorrent
  • gluetun
  • vikunja
  • radicale
  • Joplin
  • matrix
  • local backup for critical data
  • some other things I’m forgetting
• The rpi is my wireguard tunnel to ssh in on the rare occasion I need remote ssh access.

What are the specs on that pepsi box? How’s it handle the load???

Welcome to the club! Gates are open. Come on in!!

FWIW, if you want to learn how to use the command line, docker, and how to manage and secure your services, I’d recommend installing Ubuntu server or Fedora server on the NucBox; and then install docker and learn how to get your services stood up using the docker cli.

This is the route I went specifically because I wanted to learn more about Linux, and how to manage a server and services.

The tools being offered as suggestions (unraid, truenas, yunohost) are abstraction layers meant to make hosting easier. And to be clear, there is nothing at all wrong with these tools or using them. What they’ll do is give you a GUI to manage your system and services, making using the command line mostly unnecessary. Again, nothing at all wrong with that. Just depends on what you want.

Regarding exposing the services, it’s good to be cautious. I went with Pangolin, which is like a self hosted version of tailscale/cloudflare tunnels (I’m simplifying a bit).

Pangolin allows you to access your services over a VPN tunnel, and, to set your desired level of authorization needed to access that service. I really like it and have found it to be very reliable.

Also, FWIW, I’m not in IT or an expert. Just a person who wanted to learn about Linux and self hosting to take back control from big tech.

I did initially, but then changed my setup a little bit.

My rpi (4b, I think it’s 8GB, but it might be 16. I don’t remember). Also serves as my on site backup for my media. So Jellyfin is connected to the NAS, and the rpi has two drives in a toaster and I have a cron job that syncs new media from the nas to the rpi whenever I add new stuff.

So kodi is direct playing from the hdds in the toaster.

I’ve been running kodi on a raspberry pi for years as my media center and It’s great. There’s an official jellyfin app for kodi too.

10/10 for not using g the arr naming scheme

Hahahaha. Best comment.

Hahaha. No apology needed. And honestly, all fair points.

find and rename/perl-rename/prename (depending on your distro), are two of my favorite cli tools. I generally find both well designed and easy to use. For me, they are indispensable.

sed is great. I use it all the time, and I love it, but sometimes, I hate it.

In the post they say it’s 100% local and not sent to Mozilla at all. For as much bullshit as Mozilla does pull, as of right now I still trust them to do what they say they do and don’t do.

Holy shit, Mozilla adding non AI features that actually enhance the browser? Nice.

This is a feature I’d actually use too.

You’re welcome!