Use any old computer you have lying around as a server. Use Tailscale to connect to it, and don’t open any ports in your home firewall. Congrats, you’re self-hosting and your risk is minimal.

I’ve been daily driving arch for like five years now, and this is just flat out not true at all. I agree it’s not a beginner distro, but if you know what you’re doing and know what you want it’s the best.

Arch is great for gaming, but it’s not for beginners

Ubuntu is dead

Kinda showed your ass with this one

First I’d ask if you need to open ports at all - if this is only for your family’s use then Tailscale or one of its alternatives can accomplish the same goal without opening ports in your firewall or worrying about security flaws in your hosted services.

If it’s for public use, maybe consider cloudflare tunnel?

Personally I use miniflux, which has been amazing. It offers the fever and Google reader APIs, which many phone apps can talk to which means the UI can be almost whatever you want (I’m using reeder on iOS)

It supports all the feed formats, but for sites that don’t offer a feed you’ll need some other solution like kill-the-newsletter.com

• If you don’t have a surplus of time and energy, self hosting is not for you. You’re taking on administration that normal people effectively contract out
• docker is worth learning and using. It’s one thing to learn, and with that knowledge you can run basically everything. It really does make your life easier

That’s fair, but I’ll point out that eating is sort of a subscription model.

‘dd if=image.iso of=/dev/do_not_fuck_this_up bs=4M’ is a complete tutorial

It doesn’t? Been a month or two since I updated the ISO but I’ve never had a problem

I know nothing about this person, but on multiple occasions I’ve had the thought that if I was a gazillionaire, I’d sponsor a bunch of open source. Maybe this is that? I’ll choose to stay hopeful (though I’m kinda dumb about this sorta stuff)

Your quoted paragraph is the only sane alternative to the ad supported internet. Think Fastmail vs gmail - both are run for a profit, but fastmail’s business model is to simply sell subscriptions. Their incentives are better aligned with the consumer, and while nobody’s going to become a billionaire off the company I have to imagine that they have a very reliable customer base.

Good software should be paid for, devs gotta eat

My advice is to just use Tailscale. It’s a 5 minute setup and you get access to your stuff from anywhere, securely, without opening ports to the public internet. It will give your server a second IP address, which you will be able to access from any other device which is also registered to your Tailscale account.

My personal setup:

• Tailscale installed on all devices that need access to my home lab
• Custom domain with root A record set to server’s Tailscale IP
• caddyserver reverse proxy on server, with DNS https authentication configured (regular http with won’t work because it’s not on the public internet)
• services all on subdomains

Pacdiff does this on arch-based distros

Heathrow is the fucking worst, I hate it so much. No windows, not enough seating because they need the space to sell overpriced cosmetics and luxury watches. Fucking keep your gate a secret until 20 minutes before departure to make sure you don’t sneak off and miss a chance to do a capitalism

Sway and I3 as well, without the warning

Depends heavily on your hardware, and you didn’t look very hard

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fan_speed_control

Encryption has very little overhead; modern CPUs have hardware acceleration for all the common algorithms. What are you doing that’s so performance constrained you can’t tolerate even that?

no

This thread is amazing. My own fuckups:

• Tried upgrading Ubuntu
• Closed laptop while updating
• I bork bootloaders with concerning regularity
• While experimenting with writing a PKGBUILD for some personal scripts, ignored a warning having to do with a conflict on /bin. Blew away that symlink.

snapper is good software i like snapper