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Self hosting as a gift (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by Kaffeburk@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello selfhosters! I read here a lot, longing for the day to get back into it. I have a little plan to do so I have access to some thin clients with decent enough hardware to run a small file server. I’d like to set one up for myself and as a gift to my partner

I keep getting lost in the jungle of options and incompatibilities so I was hoping to enlist some help in selecting a stack

I’m looking for open source software in the base, maybe truenas but I prefer debian and my partner uses LMDE already.

  • On top of that should be a simple file server for backups/network storage. Some interface for managing storeage would be huge too
  • Wireguard with an interface
  • Having a simple container interface for future features like homeassistant and jellyfin et al is great too.

Open source and free is a must and I want to avoid risk for future lockins and freemium/ripe for enshitification-software as far as possible. And no or at least responsible llm use if that even exists anymore. Happy to shed featues to acheive that in combination with longevity. Is plain debian or even ubuntu the way to go or are there more optimised distros? Or am i just describing fedora with cockpit? Im not lost in linux itself, just overwhelmed with the endless options hoping someone can help me make a plan!

Would you make someone you love a home server?

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[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You could do them a solid and set them up with an ad blocker on a cheap SDC, but if you really want a loved one to manage proxmox and learn how to yaml and manage containers, all while learning everything you never wanted to know about networking, IP addresses ports and Linux all at the same time.... The best thing you can do is get them interested in figuring it out for themselves. Give them the bug, spread the addiction, don't give them hardware/responsibility

[–] Kaffeburk@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I put openwrt on their router and an adblock dns already but a dns sink would be cool too

Neither of us want to learn proxmox, but I am still convinced there are simple and feature rich solutions that don’t require that.