Mastodawn

How to start off small with the intent to expand

https://sh.itjust.works/post/48373760

How to start off small with the intent to expand - sh.itjust.works

A couple of weeks ago I spat the dummy with windows and shifted to Linux. I think I am now ready to drink the coolaid. What I have available currently is an ISP router and a decade-old gaming PC with a failing hdd that used to host games. I also have some budget to spare so that I can set things up nicely or in a way that I can add on it in the future. Here are my goals are in order: 1) Proper onsite and maybe offsite backups - my migration to Linux illustrated gaps and I expect in the future I will run VMs that should be backed up 2) Home security cameras (Which I don’t own yet) 3) Replacing something like onedrive. I expect this will be NextCloud 4) Yarr. Sonarr, 5) Hosting game servers 6) Block adverts and maintaining privacy 7) Improve the latency of my steam link to my TV via chromecast 8) Hosting webscraping and analysis of data off some local websites 9) Maybe set up some some smart home automation things 10) I’d like to get solar power and monitor how the whole setup is doing. 11) Self host my bit warden 12) I dunno, backup Wikipedia or something. Give me ideas So where would you recommend I start off with hardware? Simply replace the old pc hdd or look to having a NAS? A better router to handle VLAN? Go all in with Ubiquiti products which I have heard mixed things about? About the only thing I know is that a UPS would be a waste for an aspiring enthusiast like myself. Any advice or pointing me at wikis or other resources would be greatly appreciated.

President Oct 31, 2024

Hiding entire servers

https://sh.itjust.works/post/27415198

Hiding entire servers - sh.itjust.works

Is there a way to hide entire servers instead of specific communities from the Voyager app or anywhere on Lemmy? I have to keep up my hardboiled business facade and am sick of blocking each new community on ani.social…

President May 7, 2024

Open Source Equivalent to Project Planning?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/18929015

Open Source Equivalent to Project Planning? - sh.itjust.works

What I am after is something that I can use to plan out a home project and not have to deal with realigning things manually like if I did in something like libre office calc. (It would be a bonus if I can self host it across a few devices.) It doesn’t seem like any of the recent threads are questions, so apologies if I have missed a rule or FAQ by asking this. (I left reddit in the debacle last year and have only just made an account) I’d also love it if somebody could point me at any aggregated lists of open source software since I have already picked up some new ones and confirmed my intention to use some that I had heard of. Thanks in advance!