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I've been documenting my homelab experiments, set ups, configurations, how-to's, etc in both Trilium and Silverbullet. I use Silverbullet more as a wiki and Trilium for journal style notes. I just got into self hosting earlier this year, so I'm by no means an expert or authority on any of this.

So my Silverbullet set up contains most of my documentation on how to get things set up. I have sections for specific components of the homelab (Proxmox general set up, general networking, specific how tos for getting various VMs and LXCs set up for specific applications, specific how tos on getting docker stacks up and running, etc.)

I didn't document shit the first two times I set up and restarted my entire homelab, but by the third time I learned. And from there I basically just wrote down what I did to get things running properly, and then reviewed the notes afterword to make sure I understood what I wrote. This is never a perfect process, so in the following attempts of resetting my server, I've updated sections or made things more clear so that when I'm coming at this 8 months later I can follow my guide fully and be up and running.

Some of my notes are just copy pasted directly from tutorials I originally followed to get things set up. This way I just have an easily accessible local copy.

When I troubleshoot something, I document the steps I take in Trilium using the journal feature, so I can easily track the times and dates of when I did what. This has helped me out immensely because I forget what the fuck I did the week before all the time.

I learned all this through trial and error. You'll figure out what needs to be documented as you go along, so don't get too caught up trying to make sure you have a perfect documentation plan in place before deploying anything.

I'm one of those people who never really took notes on things or wrote shit down for most my life. Mostly because I've been doing shit that doesn't require extensive documentation, so it was a big learning curve.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I also have a physical paper journal that I've scrawled various notes in. I found it easier to take quick notes on paper while I'm in the middle of working on something, then I transcribe those notes digitally in either Silverbullet or trilium.

Nah, I don't think its being gatekept. I got into self hosting earlier this year, so I have pretty fresh eyes as a new novice.

This community here has been an incredible resource for learning and asking questions, and people here are generally very helpful and kind.

"If you can’t configure Docker, reverse proxies, and Yaml files, you shouldn’t be self-hosting."

• No, and I don't see this perspective pushed. You do have to eventually learn how to do these things though if you want to be able to selfhost in most capacities.

Is telling people they have to learn traffic laws before driving gatekeeping driving now?

Hell yeah I love Tempo and its great to see it getting updates again. Thanks for your work on this!

Thanks for putting this together! This is an excellent write up and is super informative! I'm already using Navidrome + Tempo with Lidarr for my music library, but since the database issues with Lidarr popped up a few months ago I haven't bothered adding new stuff.

I had no idea Explo was a thing, it's just what I've been hoping existed. I'm going to try and get it integrated into my set up.

This is incredible! I'm going to play around with this in my docker stack.

Used phones: exist

Users who constantly repost this same comment: "doesn't look like anything to me."

I've also really struggled with Caddy despite everyone saying its so simple. I'm pretty new to all this, but I had better luck with Traefik - I now actually have a reverse proxy up and running correctly, which I haven't been able replicate with Caddy.

Traefik labels make sense to me in a way Caddy does not.

I think he meant AOC^3, because cubes are so much scarier than squares.

What a complete fucking moron. Doesn't seem to have learned anything either.

This an incredibly fucking stupid post. You're so off base it would be funny if there wasn't an ongoing genocide happening while you're here brushing off Isreals warcrimes with a moronic analogy.

Wow I've been looking for a way to integrate soulseek into Lidarr that wasn't a hacky mess for a while now. This is awesome, thanks for posting this.