I was imagining a “I just wiped my hard drive and flashed the current version of Debian. Let’s get basic services up.”

I wish there was a “hey watch me code/self host” channel that helped noobs see how to approach the problem of starting. Usually their is a “hey watch me code” YouTube that is old enough to have a critical breaking point (some library updated) so a noob finds it impossible.

If you are successful in this, perhaps a twitch channel walking through the basics running on a regular ish basis

Cost of electricity is non zero. Distributed computing between pis might be the most cost effective way (hardware and electricity)

If you have 3or more HDDs in parallel with some raid-5 drivers, the read write speed gets pretty close to sdd. (Personal opinion, not backed by numbers)

A lot of “degoogling” talk has discussed how to degoogled email in a graceful way (Gmail has huge market share). Let me find that community.

Edit: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3044652

Edit: based on that post, you probably want fastmail to selfhost. Now the official API of mail clients is jmap, so it may not be “rest” and you may not be able to find a “reliable” rest api

Edit final: check this out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers And I still don’t know what ones have a rest api.

Most rpi heat sinks have a foam insulator acting as a sticky tape. Remove it and use thermal paste

Microsoft has been known to detect unencrypted passwords on storage or emails and try them on the encrypted zips that are stored. It may be standard practice to operate across borders.

The jellyfin community is probably best for that question.

I don’t know but I can brainstorm:

• reddit has shown itself to be toxic so genuine questions like this cannot be asked.
• this individual likes the community and wants to know what changed and how to support the parts he/she likes.
• the user is trying to participate in the community asking a silly but known question

Shrug

Well I think there should be a /c/selfhostingnoobedition where an answer (even if it is just a “Google search link”) is expected. The amount of plausible sounding BS from googleing and getting stack overflow copies with unhelpful info or thinly veiled ads that has cost me time and money is huge, and I simply get directed to buy products while I am exploring (I don’t know what I don’t know), so I have gone here as my “Google”. I normally try to include my due diligence in a paragraph labelled “source:”

Regarding Blackreach (this includes spoilers):

I have never figured out what to do with Dravins Bow underneath the thieves guild.

Please make a blog post about your migration. I’m in the same boat.