How sorry didn’t know, so that make him really one of the biggest expert in FOSS 100%

Hi, first congrats for going the way of homelabing.

Like you first the hardware :

The elitedesk are great lines of prebuilt PCs mainly for little home servers BUT I wouldn’t recommend to you to take the mini version as it’s very very tiny and therefore doesn’t have great modularity nor upgradeability.

You don’t need to take massive servers or towers but the SFF versions of these or the normal version (starting to get big) are way better and will permit to you to have more space to tweak it and more generally have some place to put storage or else.

But if you can’t allow yourself to have at least a tiny bit bigger that’s okay and you can stay with the mini version that’s not a dummy choice.

For the storage depending on what you’re going to run in 5 years, 120GB could be not enough, adding the backups, you should consider buying at least 256 to 512GB of ssd (preferable for system (SATA or NVME whatsoever)). When it comes to raw and dummy storage, use hard drive, old schooled at first glance they are dirt cheap when getting them on discount. For storing only some videos, photos and music, 2TB usable is nice and making it mirrored (RAID 1) is nice too. But maybe (if one day comes the idea off having larger sizes) using RAID 5 could be nice as you could expend storage easily, you cannot really adapt RAID 1 to RAID 5 without manually doing backups and restoring them.

So buy some hard disks, if you want, you can buy them used (around 15-20 bucks for 2TB good used hard drive). Or you can buy them refurbished or new as you wish. When it comes to network storage hard disks are the best as you basically can’t max out basic NVME drives with your network, basic ones are at around 3000MiB/s so that means 24,000Mib/s of bandwidth so you would need a 25G network (thing that I think you don’t have).

And using more reasonable sized PCs are going to help you fitting all your drives, and maybe putting external NICs in there.

Secondly the software.

Using docker to easily selfhost is a great idea but I really don’t like portainer and mainly the way they manage docker container.

So I would suggest you 2 things if you want to get a bit into tech simply deploy your docker containers with docker compose file, once into you’ll see that it’s very simple.

But if you prefer a simpler approach while not giving up features, as you said you’re a father (congrats), I wouldn’t recommend to you YunoHost it’s a out-of-the-box platform to self host stuff very easily without pretty much technical knowledge.

If the apps are just for you and your wife (pretty close people) using a VPN that give access people to your whole local network (for really close people) or setting up an overlay VPN like tailscale (and selfhost headscale or use netbird) would be nice and pretty straightforward.

If you prefer to make it available online you can also reverse proxy services to make it open to the www from your IP, or use Cloud flare tunnels (don’t like the idea of having cloudflare snipping out all my traffic) or you can use a vps to do the kinda same thing as with cloudflare tunnels without having them on your shoulders.

That’s it for me, hope I guided you, and feel free to ask questions if you wish. Great homelabing journey to you! :)

That’s a good find that famous people are getting into FOSS (should be free as in freedom too). But it’s really not a good thing that they spread a non expert speaking to the crowd.

Tier lists are meant to be mainly subjective and pretty relative to the person that made it. In that way Pewdipie could quote experts but in no case should make a tier list based on what he found the last weeks (I didn’t fully watched the video so maybe I’m wrong and he made a big disclaimer)

Gonna modify it a bit as sure it’s not that true

I am wrong but you need to use usenet providers to download stuff right? So it’s centralized and company based?

Maybe I’m a bit old school but is this process not against the spirit of piracy,

be generous to share
fight against censorship and DCMA takedown
work in a decentralized way

But what’s your opinion about it, because don’t you think it’s opposed from the original torrenting piracy spirit?

In the way of piracy (maybe I missed it but Usenet piracy is new for me)

I think that the Tor network is proven to be broken by feds if you are suspicious.

The Tor network was in fact used to reveal the identity of someone (https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/german-authorities-apparently-cracked-tor-anonymity-but-onion-heads-say-its-still-safe) but as we don’t know the truth we cannot really make conclusion but we can act that :

(Tor is always more secure if you’re opsec is great from the beginning)

For example you’re one of the biggest drug dealer and you’re doing 100 000 of deaths every say, for sure they will cramp up to you and find you, succeeding to deanonymize you.

But most of the time you are not that attractive so you will be mostly anonymous. They can target an entity to reveal it but cannot deanonynize the entire network

Vivaldi is a no-go for me due to these two reasons:

1- Chromium based 2- Does not respect the “open-source spirit”

If you want to make sure your system stays 100% healthy do not try to install proprietary software on your Linux :)

If you’re a really “mainstream” user not really caring about privacy and such use Floorp or Zen.

If you’re caring about privacy at least a bit and want to get a pleasing experience, use Waterfox.

If you’re a bit more serious about privacy use Librewolf (mainly for privacy itself) or Mullgad Browser (for anonymity and fingerprinting). (These browsers are totally usable if you care about privacy and can be 100% used as daily drivers)

Lastly, you shouldn’t use Tor Browser in replacement of the traditional Firefox as it’s firstly meant to use it with the Tor network and to only browse some sites that are not tracking every move. (The same goes a bit with Mullvad (excepting the fact that Mullvad is not meant to browser the Tor network), it’s an anonymity browser in the sense that you shouldn’t use it to connect to the GAFAM fucking services that will suck 100% your datas, in this case of high privacy without really needing pure anti-fingerprinting and anonymity you should use Librewolf)

That’s it hope you will succeed in your journey! :)

Last advice : You can also harden the default Firefox with some user.js (like the arkenfox or betterfox one) but as today it’s really no more useful in my opinion as forks are doing the same things without the configuration hassle of setting up your new browser. Have a nice day

Because it makes a healthier base to work with or to simply use it without caring

Increasing privacy (and sometimes security)

So what do you about it?

thx

For sure datas are everywere and will maybe try to remove it, but (as said to another person) what do you think about this: https://lemmy.ml/comment/18649355 Thank you

This is surely one of the best option but its time hungry to setup, read this reply: https://lemmy.ml/comment/18649355 What do you think?

Thank you, to be clear these datas are not really compromising but it’s still datas and I don’t want them on internet. My point of view was, is it better to leave it and fake that we are a “normie” (sorry for the word, a little bit negative…) and that I don’t care about being there or to try to remove it. My argument is that trying to remove it would make me shine like a glowstick by saying that I care bout it. What’s your opinion?

Waterfox try to remove some blobs of Firefox out of the box, so it’s better for the normal user

I don’t know what is spam for you, but when you get three message requests from three girls respectively named Tania, Clara and Ella that are contacting you about you carrier or your management skills, I call it spam.

The way that Signal integrates phone number is odd because it opens up the spam door. O understand why Signal use phone numbers this way (to make “normies” adopt Signal more easily like WhatsApp would do) but it not the best to kind of contaminate the network with the traditional cell network