If only there was a way for you to get your point accross, without insulting others.

Calling a bunch of people ‘dickriders’ is just as toxic as the Linus-message. Do what you want, but you are not an inch better than Linus.

But yes, the mail is toxic and unacceptable.

I bought a used Synology before knowing more about NAS alternatives. I hated every minute with it… Because it was a bit older, security updates could stop anytime. And using the proprietary OS felt even more unsave. Who knows what backdoors are build in there? I sold it after I found out that there is no way to install a custom OS or any alternative to the proprietary version.

Edit: found a picture of it:

However to expect things to just be done for us out of the kindness of people’s hearts I think is bordering on entitled.

Yes, there are people who do that, but there are many more people in the FOSS world who don’t expect anything and instead contribute.

Focusing on the entitled people won’t make you happy, reagardless the topic.

My father printed the GNU license 100 times, rolled it up and gave me a good beating with it. The only true way to learn about the four freedoms.

I can only assume, that these downvotes are meant as a not so smart joke.

What was the problem with Docker? I want to host it myself, the docker option seems to be the easiest one.

What is the name of the client software on the pi? How did you connect your pi to an amplifier?

Nano is only helpfull because of this nifty little info bar at the bottom… No one can actually remember nano-shortcuts.

I am confused. Wouldn’t you call it racism when I say “All russians smell bad” or “All white people walk funny”? I thought I checked all the boxes with that: I ascribe (in a negative way) a fact to a group of people, who in fact, don’t all smell bad. So for me is saying “All south africans are racists” and “All Japanese people are too, but slightly better” in fact, racism.

And every south african I have ever met was as racist or not as racist as every other person I met in my country.

If you met 10 racist south africans doesn’t mean all south africans are racist. This thought leads to… racism.

Even the Japanese are not that bad. Although they’re pretty awful too.

Maybe you meet that many racists because you are one yourself. But what do I know, I am german, we don’t have humor.

Still a privacy nightmare, with and without ads.

And I have no intention of living off the technological grid to mitigate that.

I would argue that you are already living off the technology grid. Before starting my FOSS journey, every software I used was a dull ‘Just click here and let the algorithm do it’s job’. By beeing conscious about the software I am using now, I accidently found a lot of joy in technical things, feeling a lot more ‘on’ the technological grid than before.

Can you elaborate on what doomsday scenario you’re referring to?

I am not the commenter above, but my greatest fear with all those data hungry companies is the control and power we give to not elected entities. Knowing all about every person in a state and knowing how to use this data for targeted ads, targeted video recommendations, targeted search results,…, could make a difference in elections and law making. It is basically undermining democracy, and I am a big fan of real democracy.

Firstly, (assuming self-hosting isnt an option) won’t you have to use google or AWS to host your website?

It makes me very sad, that there are many people who believe that the internet comes down to Google, Amazon and Facebook.

The devil’s advocate forgets why the data has a value in the first place. It is used to control and manipulate to the point where elections can be won by the party that has a better understanding of advertisement and the value of the data of their costumers/voters. Thinking you are immune to manipulation because you know you are manipulated sadly doesn’t work. Don’t use free services if you know they act in bad faith.

I am a total beginner in this regard, but maybe maybe this could help you:

Check out PBR - policy-based-routing. On OpenWRT there is an app for this task, vpn-policy-routing (together with luci-app-vpn-policy-routing for a GUI inside LuCi). This app helped me to route all traffic coming from my PiVPN to the WAN interface, instead of my commercial NordVPN. Now at home all my traffic goes to NordVPN and when I am not at home I can easily VPN into my home network.

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/routing/pbr

Other than that, the OpenWRT Forum is very helpful, don’t hesitate to ask your questions there.

Thank you, that sounds like my favorite option so far!

That summarized my situation pretty good. Since a year now I switched everything to Linux, selfhosting seems to be a natural extension of that.

May I ask, since you have a very beginner-friendly way of writing:

I run a separate NAS with an SMB share.

Why did you choose SMB instead of NFS? I read here that NFS is very efficient and fast.

Docker good

Many people here have very convincing arguments for docker. While checking it out I saw that it uses partly proprietary licenses. Why are so many people so sure that docker won’t pull a ‘Unity-stunt’ and make their knowledge about docker obsolete?

LXC is more efficient, but it’s harder to run docker in.

I meant to install a Jellyfin LXC, if there is such a thing, without docker involved. Is that possible?

There seem to be many ways to reach the same goal:

• run Jellyfin in Docker in a VM in Proxmox
• install Jellyfin Server in Debian in a VM in Proxmox
• install a Jellyfin LXC container on proxmox
• … Probably more

I try to find the best way for me.

I understand that I can use a VM to run docker, but:

Wouldn’t make a LXC more sense than a VM with docker inside? And what are the advantages of running jellyfin in a container instead of a normal installation? The VM is already kind of a container, what benefits do I get from yet another container inside? I am curious to learn more!