Professionally I am an “Architect” and not much involved in system config (anymore), what I describe below is how I do things for my own, private, servers: Not a big fan of docker, it too often means “cobbled together by a dev not understanding security implications” aka “Institutionalized ‘works on my machine’” (of course there are exceptions!). Generally I like using Ansible, because it feels close to how I learned things (ssh, manually), while still making things reproducible (Infrastructure as Code). But, again, not too big a fan of using other peoples “roles”, because you never know how well they actually understand what they’re doing. I read them for a rough understanding, but usually opt to write my own, based on careful reading of a given software’s config manual.
Filebrowser has malware? Where's your source for that? I'm using Filebrowser myself, so I'd really like to know more about that.
By the way, are we both talking about this File Browser?
It's hard to get rid of video ads with pi-hole afaik, because pi-hole works on the DNS level and video ads are a few layers higher. For normal ads I don't seem to need an adblocker anymore, pretty much the stock block lists and a few I found that were recommended, but video ads still need the adblocker.
From my experience, the only way to get rid of YT ads is Brave browser. Firefox with uBlock Origins is not enough, or maybe I just misconfigured it. I haven't tried Librewolf... but I think it'd be the same.
Go to https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett and search for "it translates queries from apps". The one you are looking for is in the list following the phrase.
Most VPS are heavily traffic limited via the fine-print / QoS traffic shaping and will not work for torrenting due to that. And abusing a VPS for traffic heavy VPN is nearly always against their ToS regardless of what you actually use it for.
The only reason I can think of to use a VPN is to get access to content that's location restricted. Setting up OpenVPN on a VPN is pretty straight forward, and VPS hosting is pretty cheap nowadays. I really don't see a reason to use a provider if you have the technical skills to set up your own. Furthermore, if you control the VPN server then you can ensure that it's not logging your activity.
Indeed, furthermore I think it's been the official way of installing it for a while now, at least it has been for over the two years I've been running mine
Check out the TinyMiniMicro series from servethehome
Do not buy something that uses ARM. Things like TrurNAS or Proxmox simply don't run there. You'll also run into problems with Docker images being available only for x86
don't buy a Raspberry-like computer. Yes, they draw low power, but for the same price you could get a TinyMiniMicro-esque device which is upgradeable (e.g. add a 10gbit NIC) and an order of magnitude faster
Are you using the search term tinyminincro? Because that's just the name of the series from servethehome that doesn't mean much outside thag. Try Lenovo m720q, Lenovo m920q, Hp elitedesk, hp prodesk, dell optiplex
Do note that devices come in same names but with different generations of the device (better CPU etc.). Devices with 6th gen CPU are cheaper, but 8th gen Intel start to have 6 cores instead of 4 (in 6th gen)
Are you browsing ebay or local craigslist-type sites? May be possible they're not as popular in your country? I've found plenty in Poland
@audricd@salarua I second this. If you're starting, an unused computer (laptop, desktop, raspberry pi or other single board computer, whatever) you already have is perfect. Or an old computer a friend gives you, or eventually a cheap second hand computer.
You can do A LOT with very little computing resources
For the most part, yes. Some things, like SIEMs, IDPSs, machine learning (GPT, Stable Diffusion, etc.), and other such processing-heavy things should be taken into consideration and "fed" properly.
I bought a 2nd hand laptop from ebay for less than $60. 8gb ram, 250gb SDD to which I added a 2TB external drive I had. It was cheap as the screen was broken and the battery wouldn't hold a charge, both of which things are irrelevant for yunohost. Runs VPN client, Ampache, NextCloud, WordPress and GOGS with zero problems.
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