You can view the source for my comment and copy paste :)

Do this in order:

1. Install with LUKS full-disk encryption and Btrfs subvolumes for @ and @home so snaps are atomic.

2. Enable automatic snapshots with Timeshift or snapper.

3. Export your package lists:

   • Debian/Ubuntu: dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt
   • Arch: pacman -Qqe > pkglist.txt
   • also flatpak list --app > flatpaks.txt

4. Put your dotfiles under version control and manage them with chezmoi or GNU Stow.

5. Use Flatpak for GUI apps, containerized toolchains (podman) for dev environments, and keep only system-critical packages in the distro manager.

6. Back up with Borg: borg init --encryption=repokey /path/to/repo ; borg create repo::$(date +%F) /home /etc --stats ; borg prune --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6

7. Keep a small, bootable USB with the exact kernel/tools you use so you can unlock LUKS and mount Btrfs snapshots.

8. Test restores quarterly: restore a snapshot to a spare partition and boot it. Do that for a year and tell me reinstalling is fun again.

Looks good!

I have one suggestion, the white text on bright green on the website is hard to read. Maybe you can pick different colors, or put borders around the characters.

I have Jellyfin, but I haven’t tried it with music. How does it compare to Navidrome?

For chat, I was thinking something super simple for the weird situations like this. Alternatively, Briar if you’re near the person you want to contact

It makes me wish I was selfhosting more services, music & chat in particular. It wasn’t important enough to set up yet

Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?

An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work

Is tailscale running / logged in on those other devices? Does it auto detect the server like it did on the phone?

Unless they mean something like the Respondus rootkit

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/best-way-to-use-respondus-lockdown-browser-for-school/26098

IMO some exams should just be proctored in person

Is this because it’s getting difficult for students to mess with the boot options?

Have you tried the third party ones? I’ve seen recommendations for Swiftfin

https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

I’m not sure which guides to recommend, but in case it helps narrow down your search, you could share more about your situation:

• Do you have any existing hardware or are you planning to buy? If so, what is the budget for the equipment and where in the world are you approximately?

• What did you want to self host? Some services would benefit from a certain type of setup. For example, if you’re serving lots of media, if you need redundancy and uptime, if you’re running AI models or something that needs a GPU

General tips:

• take lots of notes on your process. This will help you iteratively improve your setup. If it all falls apart, it will be easier to quickly get going again since you know what options you picked at each step.
• Make more posts here when you get stuck on something :)

For Linux, a lot of people go with Ubuntu server because there are a lot of existing guides for it. You don’t need much Linux knowledge to start self hosting since you can learn by doing over time. Some concepts to explore before getting started might be cron, the Linux file system, and user permissions.

For Docker, you should be fine if you know the basics. I’d recommend using Docker Compose since it’s easier to understand what’s happening when its written out in a nice yaml file. Install Docker and Docker Compose on the server, and then install something like DockGE to manage the compose files. When you want to run a service, copy the Docker compose file and then swap the port to what port you want to use, and the volume to the location you tend to use.

For a very basic setup, I’d find a video guide for

• installing Ubuntu server on the machine
• basic setup of the Ubuntu server (file permissions, docker, docker compose)

Assuming you need to keep your account for work, here are the direct links:

1. Go to this page and turn it off: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement
2. Submit this form: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-DPRO

In addition:

• check this page for other privacy settings: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/privacy
• Delete unnecessary personal information:
  • Profile image > Manage > Posts and Activity
  • Profile image > View Profile > remove anything you don’t need to include
  • Go to this page and delete old resumes: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/application-settings/

The AI tool that I saw on there was to give users advice on “how to make your profile better”. The tips were generic garbage, so maybe after they train the AI on member profiles, the tips can be even more generic garbage.

I haven’t heard of any learning curve with Jellyfin. It seems easy to set up, and the apps are about as user friendly as you can get (especially the third party ones)

Most sites run as well, if not better, on Firefox for me.

If you’re running a quick and dirty test, you might not get an accurate picture of the performance differences. For example:

• Your usual browser might have cached some content from the last time you used it
• Unless you kill them properly, your computer might not have the RAM/processing to be running two browsers at the same time with the best performance
• One browser might be bogged down with extensions / issues that built up over time

You could try giving Firefox a clean install, or opening it in safe mode (it’s now called troubleshoot mode), to see if there’s any difference

Also YouTube

https://lifehacker.com/tech/stop-google-slowing-down-youtube-firefox-edge

Changing the user agent seems to help in some cases

There are some other projects in this space already, with varying levels of open source / selfhostability / features

https://zulip.com/

https://revolt.chat/

https://mattermost.com/

https://www.rocket.chat/

Zulip and Revolt looked the most promising for Slack and Discord replacements respectively

They do make it possible to adjust the ratings on your own account for the ones you disagree on. It doesn’t affect the newsletters, but I find those to be too american-specific anyway

That sounds rough

If you don’t mind sharing, what is your hardware setup? Maybe someone can recommend a distro that’s more likely to work out of the box with your computer. While I haven’t tried it myself, Bazzite might be better for you if it can get you gaming without having to do too much additional work:

https://bazzite.gg/

It depends on how you want to sync. If you’re selfhosting freshrss for example, my personal preference is Capy RSS

I also recommend Foliate as the other comment said. Frog is great for extracting text quickly, especially with the screenshot tool