Supports Invidious

As I was reading down the post, that’s what I was thinking. Would be great to pipe it through Invideous. I may have my next project.

The future of validating if people are “real” or not is beginning to feel like fighting with ghosts.

On the internet, no one knows I’m a horse.

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In the future, I’d delete these…LOL. It’s like touching off a power keg in here. But, using AI for language translation is perfectly fine for me.

They are correct in that a basic foundation is crucial. Once you get that down to a note, then you can work on maybe running some Docker containers. I would just start with one and learn it. How it interacts with the rest of the stack, what else is it doing behind the scenes. Small steps lead to great strides.

My server is left on pending and no matter how I try to activate it, it doesn’t work.

Not to throw shade on your efforts, but this is pretty much the experience I had long time ago when I explored ‘free’ VPS. I do hope you get it going tho. They would send me a termination of my account for inactivity which is pretty ironic.

Use Cloudflare for now, because they handle a lot of security stuff for you that you definitely don’t want to screw up.

This is mainly for OP, but you mentioned Cloudflare. OP, if you decide to go with Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust, I have some notes that might help jump start that process. They’ve seemed to help a few people set up Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust, and I’d be happy to share them with you.

https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/

Not sure how trustworthy this fork is though.

If the ruckus was about AI code, it would seem to me that the fork would contain some, or all of the code, perhaps modified. I’ve been using Calibre Web for quite a while now and it’s stable, ticks all the boxes.

and it never required

That’s cool. I was thinking one of the free tiers like Amazon, Google required a CC to open one. Side question: What do you run on Oracle, and how fastidious do you have to be about controlling resource consumption? I’ve read about people on one of the free tiers getting socked a big bill, in fact it’s a meme now.

I know of a few VPS that are ‘free’, and I use that word quite loosely. Long time back I explored a few, and I can tell you that they are not worth the time of day. Very cheap VPS can be had. I had one that ran me $25 USD per year. It wasn’t the most thread rippin’ VPS you could have, but it certainly was cheap, and at one time I had about 25 different containers running on it with out much trouble. A good place to look for cheap VPS is at lowendbox.com.

Oracle offers a free tier, but you really have to watch your consumption of resources, and I believe they require a credit card to open an account. There are horror stories of people who went over the limit and ended up with a good size bill

I realize $25 USD is not free and does not fit within your request, and I empathize. As far as using your own computer with something like Docker, and shutting it down each evening…I shut my server down every evening via a cron job. I am the only user, and I just couldn’t justify letting it run while I slept. So I guess you’d say it’s an intermittent service.

Because that’s just the way I do. LOL

It’s commerial setup to get your dependent on it

Honest question: How is it different than anything else we are dependent on? The ‘dependent on’ list is quite long and includes things like transportation, infrastructure, power grid, fuel, food supply, water supply, industry, internet communications, et al. We are very dependent upon these things. Are they ‘enshitifications’ as well? I’ve tried to construct my life to be as independent as possible. I grow my own food, pump my water from several wells on my property, employ solar power while still connected to the grid. Try as I may, I am still dependent.

I’ve had a computer in front of me since the mid 70s and I’m quite certain I have only barely scratched the surface of what there is to learn.

ETA = Edit To Add

Kind of like P.S.

And that opens the door to making your setup a netbot.

…then you learn. That’s pretty much how I did it. First Linux server I every deployed on a VPS, got taken over almost immediately. So you drop back to your trick bag, and spool up on security.

Never used it, but TugTainer. I use the fork of Watchtower and run it with '--run-once' '--cleanup'. You can run it and let it update your containers as soon as an update is available, but I just like to run it manually.

…aaaaaand away we go! qwerty!

OP, I took a cursory run through of the site. Looks good. Could really have potential for those just dipping their toes in the self hosting pool. I haven’t tested the ISO created tho. One thing, Tailscale client id & secret. I’m not sure I would want to disclose that on an unknown website, because of privacy issues. I understand why you included it, but it seems like an brief explanation as to how to do that manually, once the ISO is deployed, for those who might have some of the same reservations. Perhaps I overlooked that if it exists. Otherwise it looks like it would be a great introductory to self hosting.

Onward and upward.

ETA: I like the name too.

Experience is something you never have until after you need it.

Yeah. Maybe it’s time to adopt some new rule in the selfhosted community.

Tho I chafe against rules and regulations, I realize they are necessary.

I just want some say in what I install on my computer. And not be fooled by someone into using their software.

Me too. It’s why I try to carefully pick seasoned projects, and I don’t jump on the bandwagon just because it’s a new twist to an old solution. I selfishly want others to be my beta testers. LOL Hey, I admit it. Also, I am truly thankful that there exists in the community, those who can and do look at the code and understand the issues involved. I do not possess those skills. I know a limited amount of code and use it for me locally. I would never dare publish it tho. I’m too afraid of what the ramifications would be should someone use my code and the wheels fall off their server. I would feel very responsible. It’s the reason I do not even publish my notes to a wiki of some sort.