I’ve tried to figure some of this stuff out but I really don’t know what I’m doing. Most documentation is written with a vocabulary I don’t understand. Tutorials assume a high-level understanding of coding, software, CLI and a bunch of other stuff.

So far I’ve got an old gaming PC with a R7 2700x + 2060 Super and I think maybe it’s overkill. I’ve got TrueNAS running on it but that’s about as far as I got…

Thinking maybe we can have an open Jitsi meeting and just anyone who needs help can get it (myself included 🙂)?

Would anyone be interested in something like that?

E: some people have imagined up some things that I said so let me be clear about what I did not say:

At no time did I insist, beg, or demand that anyone help me.

I did NOT ask anyone to help with a specific issue, nor should I be required to.

I asked if anyone would be willing to help myself and possibly others to get some services running, and I asked to do it in a videoconference setting where we can have a discussion and where you can see what I’m doing as I’m doing it, out of respect for both of our time.

If you are not interested, you do not need to come in here and announce it, and you sure as shit do not need to speak for anyone else on whether they will want to. Just keep scrolling.

E2: special thanks to those who actually reached out and offered to help!

  • Sidewayshighways@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    I’ve been running trueNAS for about two years now. I went with trueNAS for the native emby plugins that are now deprecated? Idk but it still works after learning how to manage jails.

    Adguard home. Heimdall. Couple other things I can’t remember. I tried nextcloud but it’s a steep learning curve.

    Mainly smb shares. Not too tough to walk through on guide. ACL is not forgiving to learn

    But I want to do more cool stuff, and truenas core is kinda not able to play with much more.

    So I’ve been pondering docker or proxmox, and thinking about reducing truenas down to a smaller machine that uses less power.

    I wouldn’t say that I’m good enough to teach anyone else but it’s fun to learn!

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      TrueNAS is good but has a steepish learning curve for many people, it’s way more oriented towards being a NAS than running services, which can be confusing overkill (only using ZFS for example).

      I recently discovered CasaOS which is now my go-to recommendation for people starting off. It is a good combo of “just works” with the ability to tweak for those who are interested in diving deeper.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Proxmox as a host for a VM running Docker is the way to go. You can snapshot and restore things when you mess up, and you can install Proxmox Backup Server alongside to take point in time backups that you can restore to a new VM if you have to. I probably have a couple dozen inactive VMs of various learning projects that I can fire up and play with as the mood takes me.