[–] [S] 2 points 9 hours ago

It's a good reference guide, yes, but it's not good for beginners. The linked TRaSH guide seems better but I think are still a lot.

The issue I've found when searching for resources for them is that there's really no guide me for people who know very little but want to do this and guides them in the proper steps from beginning to end. I have an IT degree and even I remember struggling a little bit when I first delved into self hosting because I never really studied networking, and networking feels like a different field entirely. Right now self hosting in general reminds me of the early days of Slackware (maybe even SLS) Linux (for those that remember) - you kind of have to ask around and figure things out on your own through a bunch of lookup.

I'm trying to ease the friction a little bit for those that want too start, and want to see if an LLM that can quickly define some words and tell you not only where to start but the steps after that based on your skill/knowledge level can ease some of that friction.

At least until one day self hosting becomes about as easy as modern Linux.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 hours ago

    I am interested in this in general too. I have a 3090 which I know isn't much but have been thinking of trying to get a second 3090 and using an NVLink to increase to 48Gb. Mostly for learning and testing purposes, and then to eventually offer to donate to my wife's local school district a local model they own (since teachers aren't supposed to put student info online, that includes private LLM models like ChatGPT, but they keep accidentally doing so anyway).

    But one project at a time, and setting up this LLM would help my two friends if they have issues (it's easy to forget for people like us that to nearly everyone else, setting up Jellyfin properly with remote access as well as things like Docker are not easy, even when they have base level knowledge), but it might help others in the future too that might then get interested in self hosting. A 24/7 guide can make a difference I think in someone actually trying self hosting or not.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 22 hours ago (2 children)

    I asked mostly because I haven't seen any guides like that. The long video guides are also usually outdated or a very specific method that's more advanced (like bare metal setup or using ignition)

    My plan was to lead them through something like what I use which is base Debian using Dockge and a reverse proxy (though I'm looking into KDE Plasma BigScreen). I think they might be able to figure it out with help and some general written instructions and the AI for further questions.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

    Any step-by-step text guides you'd recommend? They're not exactly tech beginners, but they're also not quite knowledgeable yet. I guided them through Linux install but they use Bazzite and mostly stick to Bazaar on it for any programs they need.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 23 hours ago

    And the Arr Stack, and KitchenOwl, and LibreCloset. They also want something for YouTube, but haven't decided what they might like the most yet - was thinking of testing KDE's new Plasma BigScreen and seeing how Waydroid does at running S-tube.

    If that worked well enough, then I'd probably try setting them up with that

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  • submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
     

    Looking for a recommendation on an LLM that can guide a user on how to manually set up a home server that runs Jellyfin, Arr Stack, etc. Have a couple of friends interested and I have some spare old NUCs I was going to give them, so I was going to download the software for them and then walk them through it.

    But it'll be difficult to align our schedules for the next month or so (school starting and different time zones) so then I thought maybe I could just run an LLM they could use on my main PC for when they have time.

    Why not just use one of the existing services? Those cost extra money and none of us want to financially support those companies.

     

    This isn't Reddit; there isn't a Karma system - so unpopular opinions here should be downvoted instead to show how unpopular they are. It's instinct to want to downvote something unpopular, and without the Karma system we finally don't have to go against instinct. Then we can see what's truly unpopular based on natural downvoted instead of some people remembering to upvote something unpopular.

     

    Like I get what the message is and all that, I've heard the whole Lux album and have context and all.

    But the song itself is bad - precisely because so much of it is good. It does some new things with classic styles. She's a talented singer.

    But the ending is like finding a turd in a wonderful cake you were eating.

    I get that's probably "the point" with the build up, but there were better ways to convey the message. Other songs earlier and later in the album masterfully mix in the discord and show things are wrong without just breaking the song up completely. Heck even having the stupid "I'll fuck you until you love me" be in Spanish or Italian would have been better than having it in English, for the purposes of flow while still causing a break.

    It detracts from everything else the song did great, on a technical level, and ends up feeling like a "couldn't think of a better way to make the point so here's a couple f bombs".

    If the rest of the song was bad or mediocre it wouldn't have been as bad, but having it in makes it terrible.

    At least it's nothing I couldn't fix in audacity.

    submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
     

    Basically looking for an all in one program similar to the Arr stack that's easy to use. If it needs to / can be set up with an NBZ or Debrid service beforehand it's fine, it's mostly on the daily usage part that it should have a somewhat friendly GUI. Also helps if it has or can be paired with an app for remote streaming what's on the server.

    Ideally works on Cosmos, but if it can't for any reason, then CasaOS or Yunohost might be fine too.

    I'm trying to set up something rather easy to use for my two partners, who are not the most tech savvy, and one of which who really dislikes clunky menus.

    submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
     

    Basically, I want to make one for some multiplayer games out there (along with Stoat communities, or something similar - what do y'all recommend? Bonus if it has voice chat).

    What would I need, and how can I set this up safely without having my own network hacked beyond comprehension? I could do it off site from home too if that's better.

    I have a Raspberry Pi 4gb, but also an old DDR3 16gb desktop with a PCI network card available if that's recommended.

     

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39410719

    Error when trying to install Bazzite specifically

    I get the following error message:

    amd_pstate: failed to register with return -19

    And there's more but then the screen turns into a creepy pasta gif looking thing of white and green shifting blocks, except for a few random letters.

    But the issue doesn't happen when I used a Garuda xfce I had laying around I used for an older PC (that was maybe too old for Bazzite?). That went into the installer and live iso environment without issues.

    It's a newish build I'm making for someone as a gift with the following hardware:

    Asus Prime B550M-K AM4 microATX Kingston FURY Beast DDR4 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen 5 4500 AM4

    And a used Nvidia RTX 3060ti.

    I have secure boot off I think (the Asus EZ bios is weird)

    Update

    I managed to install it using the text installer, but now it does this:

    Then blank screen. Ctrl-Alt-F2 gives me a terminal at least and I did just get-logs which gives me the following:

    Is this a Wayland issue?

    Update 2:

    Not a Wayland issue. But tried installing Fedora Kiinoite to rebase it to Bazzite, but Fedora has the same issue Bazzite did when trying to install, only it doesn't mention the Elf 19 error, and it frezzes allowing me to take a picture:

    I really love Bazzite and run it on my own computer, but I'm starting to think it doesn't really run on older desktop hardware.

     

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39410719

    Error when trying to install Bazzite specifically

    I get the following error message:

    amd_pstate: failed to register with return -19

    And there's more but then the screen turns into a creepy pasta gif looking thing of white and green shifting blocks, except for a few random letters.

    But the issue doesn't happen when I used a Garuda xfce I had laying around I used for an older PC (that was maybe too old for Bazzite?). That went into the installer and live iso environment without issues.

    It's a newish build I'm making for someone as a gift with the following hardware:

    Asus Prime B550M-K AM4 microATX Kingston FURY Beast DDR4 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen 5 4500 AM4

    And a used Nvidia RTX 3060ti.

    I have secure boot off I think (the Asus EZ bios is weird)

    Update

    I managed to install it using the text installer, but now it does this:

    Then blank screen. Ctrl-Alt-F2 gives me a terminal at least and I did just get-logs which gives me the following:

    Is this a Wayland issue?

    Update 2:

    Not a Wayland issue. But tried installing Fedora Kiinoite to rebase it to Bazzite, but Fedora has the same issue Bazzite did when trying to install, only it doesn't mention the Elf 19 error, and it frezzes allowing me to take a picture:

    I really love Bazzite and run it on my own computer, but I'm starting to think it doesn't really run on older desktop hardware.

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