Shimitar

  • 38 Posts
  • 1.15K Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: January 28th, 2025

help-circle
  • Lowering the entry barrier is a good thing… Self hosting need critical mass to support and use all the nice things we like to selfhost

    More so, from the point of view of big tech independence, for those who care, again lowering the barrier is very important

    So welcome to docker and stuff, I use docker for half my stuff or more, it’s just so much more convenient.

    But never stop trying to understand and don’t be a passive docker-puller whenever possible :)


  • ShimitarAtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldIs there room for Windows selfhosters?
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    20 hours ago

    Now, let me be polemical here …

    (And this is to be read with a pinch of /s)

    Selfhosting on windows and understanding what you do is so much better than selfhost on CasaOS/ZimaOS/FancyWebGui/Synology and just spin up containers randomly without even understand what a container is and how it does work at all …

    Now roast me :)















  • Agree. I went directly with Jellyfin because I joined late the party, but never regret it.

    So can’t comment on Plex, because I never used it. But I see the news and see the enshittified path it’s going on with Plex

    I understand that they need revenue, specially if they actually provide the bandwidth to let you access your media from outside home. I also understand why people is mad, but I guess convenience come with a price, of you don’t want to pay for it, there are alternatives I don’t see anything bad in switching to jellyfin.




  • ShimitarAtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldEmail ownership, I give up.
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 days ago

    I fully understand your point, but the mailcow as open relay seems strange. Anyway, it’s a risk/cost tradeoff right? Everybody should do it’s own assessment and experimentation. But after the initial setup, it’s zero maintenance. The only maintenance i do is keep the stack regularly updated, and it broke twice in 20+ years (dovecot new config format, WTF…)


  • ShimitarAtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldEmail ownership, I give up.
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 days ago

    Isn’t that the gist of selfhosting?

    Yes you can do it, yes you can have it done for you by somebody else. The first is fun, and risky, the second is less fun and less risky. We are all here for the fun… and probably we all don’t care too much of the risks. But why shut down everybody who ask about email selfhosting with a don’t do it? Let them try, make errors and fix them, maybe they learn something new, maybe it works out for them

    What is the worst that might come out of it? Some spam? A blacklist? Come on, you can survive both. Don’t use your primary email account as self hosted from the beginning maybe, to mitigate all those risks, no?