How to prepare a self-hosted machine I gift to remote friends - Learning Together
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from kiol@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2025 22:03
https://lemmy.world/post/25452338
from kiol@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2025 22:03
https://lemmy.world/post/25452338
Actively working on a guide, as a companion to my recent podcast episode on the same topic you can hear at podcast.james.network/…/byebye-raspberry-pi
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By the way, concerning the loose surge protector: Good thing you replaced that. If you see something like that, and it's mains voltage, always replace it ASAP. Not because it doesn't look nice or the RasPi gets unhooked... But because it's a proper fire hazard. A whole house can burn down if you have a loose mains connection and that somehow leads to electrical sparks.
Well said.
Addressed on the new episode. Cheers
What does this question even mean (no I don’t want to listen to a podcast to find out)?
Sometimes I think people have been using the term “self-hosted” to mean what we used to call a home PC. I have always thought of a hosted computer (whether self-hosted or hosted by a company) as meaning a server which normally would live in a data center, and sometimes even means a rented box or VPS on which you self-host by installing and managing the software yourself (as opposed to using managed hosting or cloud services). Of course if you have good enough internet, you can self-host a server at home, but the considerations are otherwise about the same. I.e. it would usually not also be your workstation or gaming box.
So what is it that your friends are going to do with the machine? That would be pretty important in figuring out how to prepare it.
The recipients are watching Jellyfin content on a smart tv and accessing whatever else pops up on a static page available at hostname.local
Don’t use
.localas an internal domain it can cause problems. Use.internal, it was recently reserved for this purposeThanks!
Until August 2024 only .arpa was reserved for residential network services. Glad to hear there is something new less akward!
Addressed on the new episode. Cheers
I see, you are trying to make a home theater PC (HTPC). That would be a clearer term to use.
It is running way more than that. Serving my media has been my starting application for explaining this process.
Addressed your suggestion on the podcast. Best. …james.network/…/audience-feedback-on-selfhosting
err, I don’t actually know what you mean by question. Your response is to a how to guide. Anyways, cheers since you aren’t interested. No worries.
You don’t even have to listen to a podcast to find out how misguided this comment is. Click the link, it’s all transcribed. It’s not a question, it’s a guide.
If you’re not interested in the content, scroll past instead of being rude to people.
The link is to podcast.james.network. Why would I expect it to be something other than a podcast?
The in-body link is to the podcast, but the post itself is a link to discuss.james.network which is a transcription of the guide
You should explain that in the post body, not expect someone to click a link that says “podcast” in hope of getting a non-podcast.
I dunno if you’re trolling me or if your UI just looks different but
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Having the link at the top of the post like this, because it’s embedded into the actual post instead of the body like the second link, makes it pretty clear to me that that’s a discussion link and not a podcast link
I see roughly the same thing:
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Your post says there is a podcast at [url] and that you are working on a guide as a companion to it, but it doesn’t say anything about where the guide is or whether any of it is online yet at all. Ok, I see now that the link url is discuss.james.network which is a different domain than the podcast, but that is still not much help. If that’s where the guide is, you should say so. I’d expect to see a discussion forum on a domain like that, not a podcast transcript.
Really, though you should just include the guide in the post. Otherwise you’re just promoting your podcast and discussion site.
Lemmy is a link aggregator, this guy posted a link to his website and a brief (albeit lacking, I will agree with you there) description of what the links were. I don’t see any issue promoting free content in the forms of links on a link aggregator.
I also think there’s sort of a social agreement that if you’re going to make a comment about a post that exists purely as a link to elsewhere, you should probably click the link so that you know what is being discussed instead of what we’re doing, discussing the link itself lol.
There’s no reason to expect anyone to click on any type of link, without giving them an up-front reason to do so. Expecting otherwise would be a spammer’s dream. You have to spell out in the post what the link is for.
The upfront reason was so that you would understand the discussion you’re part of lol
No it doesn’t work that way. Nobody should be expected to follow clickbait.
I just don’t understand your logic. In your mind it’s okay to make an assumption about the content of a link based off the name of the link. However, it’s not okay to make an assumption about the content of the other link and find out why the OP started the discussion. Rather, you believe it would be better to attack the OP for not explaining what their links were to your satisfaction.
Is that right?
Addressed on the new episode. Best.
listen to my podcast, guys. /s
Absolutely, hate listening strongly encouraged.
I wouldn’t trust a computer donated by anyone let alone for self-hosting personal data on it. No thanks!
Haha, that is why it is with friends and family for people who want that. Definitely not for everyone. Cheers.
Addressed on the podcast. Cheers. …james.network/…/audience-feedback-on-selfhosting
Thanks for the shoutout, lmao!