It’s really easy. Graphene has a web flasher with very good instructions, and once flashed, you’re good to go. I haven’t looked back. Once installed you’ll want your apps.

If you want to sign in to the play store and connect your google account to the phone for your apps, you can do that, bu then you’re kinda right back where you started. Not fully, because Graphene, but Google is still gonna google and suck up any and all data it can.

So for apps, look to F-Droid, Obtainium, and Aurora store.

F-Droid and Obtainium for FOSS apps, and Aurora store for play store apps without having to sign in to the play store.

The Move Database is great. Yes the info is sometimes not quite as good as amazon, but it’s way more open than IMDb. You can edit info, and the api is great. I use it in the cli tool I built for myself.

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The gnu coreutils are amazing.

That ship has sailed. Systemd isn’t going anywhere. The upside is you can run a distro that uses an alternative init if you want. There’s runit, sysV, and openrc that I can think of off the top of my head.

You dont have to like, or use systemd. That’s the beauty of Linux.

Team vim! Learned it five or six years ago, and never looked back. I’ve also got vim motions enabled for my shell, in the browser (firefox with vimium), and in my window manager (sway).

When you say jeans, do you want them to be denim? Or are you open to other materials?

I work a labor job that is brutal on jeans/pants. Ive been wearing Mascot workwear pants for years now, and they are the most durable work pants ive ever had.

They have jean style pants as well as pants with extra cargo pockets, and the thing that I lovrle the most, they have pants with knee pad pockets. They have saved my knees!

I have worked this job for six years now and I’m on my second pair of pants. The first pair is beat to shit after all this time. Ive been patching them up over the years, I just bought the new pair early last year.

The pair I’m wearing now ive been wearing for close to a year and they have no rips, tears, or wear spots.

I’m not affiliated with the company, they just make good pants that I wear for work. The pants I buy cost around $140USD when I bought the most recent pair.

What do they call a Debian?

Fuck Yeah!

You’re welcome! I’m out rn, I’ll share the files when I get home.

Banger. I love their album as well (Who Let the Dogs Out).

Thanks!!

I found it to be pretty easy to get gluetun & qbittorrent set up. I’m running it all in docker, be happy to share my compose files if you’d like.

Also late, but here is mine.

From the bottom up:

• An old pc I built forever ago for live streaming when I used to run my youtube channel. It’s an i7 something or other with 32gb ram and a 32 tb raid (4x8).
• m1 Mac mini
• HP elitedesk 800 G3 mini
• two HP elitedesk 800 G3 sff
• Deku
• dumb network switch
• rpi 4 8gb

And here’s what’s running:

• Bottom pc is the nas
• Mac running jellyfin
• the hps running:
  • navidrome
  • aonsuku (pretty navidrome frontend)
  • audiobookshelf
  • qbittorrent
  • gluetun
  • vikunja
  • radicale
  • Joplin
  • matrix
  • local backup for critical data
  • some other things I’m forgetting
• The rpi is my wireguard tunnel to ssh in on the rare occasion I need remote ssh access.

What are the specs on that pepsi box? How’s it handle the load???

Eh.

Welcome to the club! Gates are open. Come on in!!

FWIW, if you want to learn how to use the command line, docker, and how to manage and secure your services, I’d recommend installing Ubuntu server or Fedora server on the NucBox; and then install docker and learn how to get your services stood up using the docker cli.

This is the route I went specifically because I wanted to learn more about Linux, and how to manage a server and services.

The tools being offered as suggestions (unraid, truenas, yunohost) are abstraction layers meant to make hosting easier. And to be clear, there is nothing at all wrong with these tools or using them. What they’ll do is give you a GUI to manage your system and services, making using the command line mostly unnecessary. Again, nothing at all wrong with that. Just depends on what you want.

Regarding exposing the services, it’s good to be cautious. I went with Pangolin, which is like a self hosted version of tailscale/cloudflare tunnels (I’m simplifying a bit).

Pangolin allows you to access your services over a VPN tunnel, and, to set your desired level of authorization needed to access that service. I really like it and have found it to be very reliable.

Also, FWIW, I’m not in IT or an expert. Just a person who wanted to learn about Linux and self hosting to take back control from big tech.

It’s a water fountain/bubbler

🤦

I read one of his newer books last year (was just looking for something light and fun), Flybot, and it was TERRIBLE. I didn’t finish it.

I did initially, but then changed my setup a little bit.

My rpi (4b, I think it’s 8GB, but it might be 16. I don’t remember). Also serves as my on site backup for my media. So Jellyfin is connected to the NAS, and the rpi has two drives in a toaster and I have a cron job that syncs new media from the nas to the rpi whenever I add new stuff.

So kodi is direct playing from the hdds in the toaster.