I’m a good chemist, but not IT advanced. Started using Debian out of the box last year on miniPC. Running Jellyfin only on that local machine. Don’t understand coding, but copy/ paste terminal instructions from trusted sites. Have 1TB music, films and documents. Want to move all photos from Google.
I would like to reiterate the importance of taking notes. As a younger man, I never felt the need thinking, ‘I can remember all that’. Wrong! So as a elderly man, taking profuse notes is paramount. So it’s a good idea to get in the practice of taking notes while you are young.
I use NotePad++ locally, then transfer the notes to an encrypted Obsidian vault on my server. I can actually stand up a server, implement all the security necessary, install 30 or so apps, and be in production within hours just from notes. They house all my Docker compose files and everything. So it’s kind of like painting by numbers.
Get in the habit of taking notes and refine them as well, as you galong.