There’s de-googling and privacy and all…thats all great. But it is a completely separate thing to take back attention from distractions, bullshit notifications and letting tech overlords reach into our daily lives and disrupting our focus and attention whenever they feel like it. Notification real estate is hugely valuable and the default for every app should be “off”, with further fine tuning as needed. Better bulk settings are needed for notification settings adjustment.

Technology Connections has done a brilliant video about notifications recently.

It works fine with 2 simultaneous direct play streams. Haven’t tested beyond that.

All that is running fine on 16gb of RAM?

My dashboard says that containers are using 50% of the ram. The server PC itself is using a bunch of ram on top of that because I ended up installing g Debian with the full KDE desktop emvironment. I ended up removing some resource hogs that I didn’t need (Element server, Linkwarden, etc).

The best way to get to grip with how this works is to start using it.

Yup works great. The NAS drive auto mounts as an NTFS drive on the server with read/write access. All works smoothly.

I happened to be driving home at the same time as my wife, but didn’t realise. Was driving a good 5 min while trying to figure out why my podcast stopped playing. Her car was close enough to steal away my phone’s Bluetooth connection. She was just as confused with a random philosophy podcast suddenly cancelling out her music.

You don’t need much to self host and don’t let people online gatekeep or exclude you or intimidate you with complex racks. An old PC repurposed to a home server gets you started and is enough for a lot of stuff. You can always expand as needed in the future.

Here’s my setup:

Storage is on a NAS: synology 2 bay NAS with 8TB (media: photos, movies, TV shows, books, comics) and 2 TB HDD (Kopia backup snapshots). I don’t need RAID configurations. Important data is already 3-2-1 backed up and if an HDD fails then I’ll just replace it when I get to that point.

Server: Headless mini PC with Debian with a 12th gen intel, 16gb ram, 1tb NVME (mostly live data, shared folder, game saves, etc). I’m building a new machine and have yet to decide if I want to replace the server or use that as a gaming machine, but the has a Core 5 Ultra 125H processor and LPDDR5 RAM and is super power efficient and silent.

Docker containers:

• actual (budgeting)

• affine (note taking)

• bentopdf (PDF editing)

• beszel (server status monitoring)

• dockge (Docker management)

• guacamole (server remote desktop access)

• immich (photo application, backup, gallery and Al tagging)

• jellyfin (video and music server)

• jotty (quick notes and task/shopping lists)

• kavita (comic books and ebooks)

• kopia (backups)

• floccus (bookmark backup and sync across browsers)

• mattermost (used solo for sharing text, links, files, etc to myself)

• papra (document scanning and OCR)

• opodsync (gpodder podcast sync backend)

• prunemate (automated scheduled docker pruning)

• samba (file sharing on the local netwrok)

• syncthing (mostly used to keep retro/emulated games in sync across devices)

• tiny tiny rss (RSS platform)

• vpn-torrent-stack (conatining gbittorrent, prowlarr, flaresolverr, radarr, sonarr, all running through gluetun VPN on a VPN server)

• watchtower (automatic docker updates)

Synology Cloud Sync sends the Kopia backup snapshots to my Backblaze online storage and also keeps a local folder synced with my Mailbox.org cloud drive.

Synology also handles the reverse proxy access.

Charisma 1000

Why try to sell here? The number of people on Lemmy is tiny. You need to advertise the phone in a place where loads of people can see. Facebook marketplace or eBay.

Behind the Bastards did a great episode on Steve Jobs in case anyone is interested

https://podcastindex.org/podcast/66646?episode=33701188529

Consume art. It helps a lot to read/watch/hear some content that is similar to your experience and resonates with you. Helps to know that you’re not alone and others have experienced/reflected/studied these experiences before. Reading philosophy helps me as well. Might not talk exactly about my situation, but gives the tools and processes to help me think through my issues.

You would think that in this age of instant, free, accessible communication; finding someone to share with would not be difficult. But somehow people care about each other’s problems less than ever. I’ve never found any Lemmy social group that connects people.

Your answer is something you want to force into the conversation, not what OP asked.

You’re not wrong, but that’s not the conversation man.

I’m enjoying reading how good everyone says it is.

This is going to be a definite purchase for me, but I tend to wait till games are out of early access.

My wife hates Jellyfin. When the whole world’s media is at her fingertips, she gets choice paralysis. She finds it easier for Netflix to serve up a small number of suggestions and just pick from there, even they’re all crap suggestions.

Ive found it so much better to disconnect from suggestion algorithms. I’m much more intentional with what I watch. I never run out of things to watch. I bookmark movies and TV shows from organic suggestions from friends, family and Lemmy, or from podcasts, critic reviews, my followed YouTube channels, etc. Everything on my Jellyfin is curated content that I want to watch.

Is there a good alternative that you would recommend?

I needed to make a chat server for a bunch of normie extended family members. They need an easy to use mobile chat. Registering on PC complicates things. Then adding the mobile client for authorised encrypted messaging wasn’t really going to be realistic for everyone to do.

If anyone knows of a chat/voice/video self hosted app thats easy to deploy and use, I would be very interested in any suggested solution. Vocechat was not easy to deploy or get voice chat working…and the app sucks.

“It finished too early”

Yes, using Element X. I haven’t been able to figure out the problem yet.

I am also interested in the answer. I’ve tried Conduit and it was easy to deploy, but I had trouble with search and new user registration. Now I’m trying Continuwuity and new user registration still isn’t working for some reason.

They’ve also done a cover of The Trooper. Some of their best ones also include Shoog Shoog and Yuve Yuve Yu.

Thats taken me down the rabbit hole of other Mongolian throat singing songs. These will start playing in the car and my wife is like “WTF is this”.

Wolf Totem by The Hu