anyone willing to walk a noob through getting some services running?

I’ve tried to figure some of this stuff out but I really don’t know what I’m doing. Most documentation is written with a vocabulary I don’t understand. Tutorials assume a high-level understanding of coding, software, CLI and a bunch of other stuff.

So far I’ve got an old gaming PC with a R7 2700x + 2060 Super and I think maybe it’s overkill. I’ve got TrueNAS running on it but that’s about as far as I got…

Thinking maybe we can have an open Jitsi meeting and just anyone who needs help can get it (myself included 🙂)?

Would anyone be interested in something like that?

E: some people have imagined up some things that I said so let me be clear about what I did not say:

At no time did I insist, beg, or demand that anyone help me.

I did NOT ask anyone to help with a specific issue, nor should I be required to.

I asked if anyone would be willing to help myself and possibly others to get some services running, and I asked to do it in a videoconference setting where we can have a discussion and where you can see what I’m doing as I’m doing it, out of respect for both of our time.

If you are not interested, you do not need to come in here and announce it, and you sure as shit do not need to speak for anyone else on whether they will want to. Just keep scrolling.

E2: special thanks to those who actually reached out and offered to help!

TheButtonJustSpins,

You don’t need to use the cert, but I’ve got a basic setup here that you could get running in docker, then play around with understanding it / adding to it:

homelab.express

helenslunch,

Sorry can you explain what I’m looking at here.

TheButtonJustSpins,

A quick docker setup to get you going with a reverse proxy (Traefik) and insights/management (Portainer).

helenslunch,

I don’t know what any of those things are :( is there a tutorial?

MigratingtoLemmy,

It’s not that hard. Go to awesome-selfhosted to have a look at what you’d like to host. Then, go to YouTube and find videos that host said thing. If you don’t find the specific application, watch simpler tutorials deploying containers (most people will use Docker if you’d like) and go from there. Read some documentation on the container runtime and maybe some networking. That’s it.

helenslunch,

I’ve already explained why none of that is helpful. If you can point me to tutorials intended for straight beginners I will try that. It isn’t “hard” but it is complicated, and there’s a lot to learn, and I don’t appreciate you downplaying that.

MigratingtoLemmy,

I suppose it feels like an info dump when you’re coming from zero. This community shares a love for hosting and orchestration and it takes a second to get out of that hole. My apologies.

In my opinion, DBTech has some of the easiest tutorials on this subject. Just search for how to set up Docker on YouTube by DBTech. TBH I’d always recommend reading the documentation, Docker devs tell you how to install Docker and he basically follows that. Should be doable if you have a distribution set up. The documentation covers most use cases whilst he just installs on his distribution in the video, but the process should be similar if not the same.

Good luck!

helenslunch,

Thank you, I will check out DBTech

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    helenslunch,

    I’ve looked at a lot of channels. There are a bunch by DigitalOcean and Akamai that are just ads for cloud machines.

    jvrava9,
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    helenslunch,

    I don’t use Google, sorry.

    jvrava9,
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    helenslunch,

    “Just Google it” is just about the most useless piece of advice anyone can give. I know how to use a search engine. I have used a search engine. I came here after that. This is not helpful.

    BK85,

    If you need something running fast and easy buy a synology nas. Not the best hardware and expensive geat if youi dont have the time to mess around with stuf like unraid etc. There a lots of great guides on setting op docker containers on that. drfrankenstein.co.uk is a geat example of easy to follow guides.

    Hawk,

    Honestly, Switch to a basic Linux distro and use docker directly.

    I ran TrueNAS for a while and it’s just too complex and janky. I dropped back to void (for ZFS) and have a directory of compose files for radar/sonar, jellyfish, mediawiki, Lemmy etc.

    helenslunch,

    Thank you. Someone else also suggested this.

    NullGator,

    I’d suggest proxmox. Sinple web UI for management, but debian backend. Very powerful virtualization. Supports GPU passthrough, LVMs, ZFS, and a bunch of other stuff out of the box. If you get another machine, you can also put them into a cluster.

    SheeEttin,

    I asked if anyone would be willing to help myself and possibly others to get some services running, and I asked to do it in a videoconference setting where we can have a discussion and where you can see what I’m doing as I’m doing it, out of respect for both of our time.

    Sure, I can do that. My rates start at $90/hr, 4hr minimum.

    helenslunch,

    Sorry, I charge $10/reply

    You can send it to my Bitcoin wallet:

    KekBsodnKhxojHsidkd9nHqisbHsinIjrnnMJJHjeweornva

    Grunt4019,

    You want to charge people to help you?

    helenslunch,

    Sorry, I charge $10/reply

    You can send it to my Bitcoin wallet:

    KekBsodnKhxojHsidkd9nHqisbHsinIjrnnMJJHjeweornva

    AdminWorker,

    If you are successful in this, perhaps a twitch channel walking through the basics running on a regular ish basis

    helenslunch,

    What do you mean? Like hosting a Livestream and asking the viewers for help?

    AdminWorker,

    I was imagining a “I just wiped my hard drive and flashed the current version of Debian. Let’s get basic services up.”

    I wish there was a “hey watch me code/self host” channel that helped noobs see how to approach the problem of starting. Usually their is a “hey watch me code” YouTube that is old enough to have a critical breaking point (some library updated) so a noob finds it impossible.

    Rootiest,
    @Rootiest@lemmy.world avatar

    This will forever be the problem with video tutorials.

    Development often moves fairly quickly and videos on most platforms can’t be edited after posting.

    The result is your best outcome is if they make an update video to address the changes. Unfortunately that’s also one of the least likely outcomes.

    Otherwise the options are:

    1. Take the video down and lose any income it generates
    2. Put a note in the description linking to a document addressing the updates
    3. Keep the outdated video up and keep making money from it

    If you’re lucky you might get option 2, but in most cases you’re gonna end up with option 3.

    In the vast majority of cases content creators aren’t going to pull or replace a profitable video even if it becomes outdated.

    It’s a tough situation, I can’t really blame them for doing what is in their best interest as a business.

    Ideally you should try to get comfortable with non-video tutorials.

    Sidewayshighways,

    I’ve been running trueNAS for about two years now. I went with trueNAS for the native emby plugins that are now deprecated? Idk but it still works after learning how to manage jails.

    Adguard home. Heimdall. Couple other things I can’t remember. I tried nextcloud but it’s a steep learning curve.

    Mainly smb shares. Not too tough to walk through on guide. ACL is not forgiving to learn

    But I want to do more cool stuff, and truenas core is kinda not able to play with much more.

    So I’ve been pondering docker or proxmox, and thinking about reducing truenas down to a smaller machine that uses less power.

    I wouldn’t say that I’m good enough to teach anyone else but it’s fun to learn!

    ikidd,
    @ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

    Proxmox as a host for a VM running Docker is the way to go. You can snapshot and restore things when you mess up, and you can install Proxmox Backup Server alongside to take point in time backups that you can restore to a new VM if you have to. I probably have a couple dozen inactive VMs of various learning projects that I can fire up and play with as the mood takes me.

    helenslunch,

    Well I did find another taker. I can loop you in if you’re interested?

    Corgana,
    @Corgana@startrek.website avatar

    TrueNAS is good but has a steepish learning curve for many people, it’s way more oriented towards being a NAS than running services, which can be confusing overkill (only using ZFS for example).

    I recently discovered CasaOS which is now my go-to recommendation for people starting off. It is a good combo of “just works” with the ability to tweak for those who are interested in diving deeper.

    possiblylinux127,

    What services are you looking at? TrueNAS can be good for some situations but isn’t always the best it terms of flexablity. It really depends on what you are trying to host

    helenslunch,

    I mean I want to run a lot of things. Some of which include

    • Home Assistant
    • Jellyfin
    • Own tracks
    • PeerTube
    • Frigate
    • BitWarden
    • Jitsi
    • Possibly hosting my own website(s).

    Etc. None of these are things I explicitly need, I just want to mess around and learn.

    possiblylinux127,

    In that case I would either go with proxmox, debian or Ubuntu server with docker.

    If you are wanting to do virtualization then go for proxmox but if you want to just run the services as containers I would just use Ubuntu or Debian. Once you have Ubuntu or Debian installed I would look into how to write docker compose files. There are plenty on the internet and they make setup very straight forward. If you want a web interface you can install cockpit.

    Sorry to be a bringer of bad news but I believe your truenas install is going to be the limiting factor.

    helenslunch,

    Thank you for that. I went back and forth for a while trying to figure out which one might work best and eventually just picked one.

    Can you elaborate as to how it is limiting?

    possiblylinux127,

    Truenas isn’t a standard system. Its designed to be used as a NAS and lacks the ability to easy install other software. While it does have support for kubernetes and virtual machines, the UI is pretty crude and you will likely get confused and run into bugs. (Source: my personal experience) Don’t get me wrong, I do like TrueNAS but for your setup it doesn’t make a lot of sense. This is especially true since you want to run a bunch of services that aren’t necessarily storage dependent.

    Honestly you are probably better off with Ubuntu

    helenslunch,

    Thank you. I downloaded Ubuntu. It’s a tough pill to swallow after seeing so many negative things about the workstation version but it does have a reputation for being beginner friendly and I guess I can always move to something else later.

    possiblylinux127,

    That’s true I suppose. Honestly I am just kind of sick and tired of the silliness Ubuntu has. Its fine on servers but for desktop use there are better alternatives that I choose.

    If you don’t notice an issue that’s good but if you run into any snap related issues keep in mind there are alternatives. Don’t blame all of Linux for a Ubuntu issue. (That’s the big fear that leads me to be so anti-ubuntu)

    angelsomething,

    No joke, I learned a ton this summer just by asking AI how to do stuff.

    helenslunch,

    I will give that a shot. Any particular one?

    angelsomething,

    My go-to is perplexity.ai. I found it better than ChatGPT on the web as it uses api calls which are found to me “smarter”. And it also actively searches the web before producing and answer. Worth paying for it honestly. Oh and you also have the option to choose what model to use as it has acces to both Claude and ChatGPT.

    0xD, (edited )

    Since the other people don’t seem too helpful to you, we can gladly setup a meeting and see where it goes :) I don’t have exeprience in all these software like TrueNAS you’re using but I have a lot of experience in a lot of other things, so I’m sure I’ll be able to help!

    helenslunch, (edited )

    Thanks. Maybe we can learn some things together and from each other?

    DM’ed

    stown,
    @stown@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s better if you struggle, you will learn more that way. For me, the struggle is the fun part anyway. Also, if you need these services to be bulletproof you probably shouldn’t be self-hosting them.

    helenslunch,

    I don’t. Not yet, anyway.

    stown,
    @stown@lemmy.world avatar

    It seems like you have a learning preference for conversational information transfer. Maybe try finding a discord group where people regularly talk about this kind of thing. People on Internet forums tend to prefer written documentation and value search engine prowess.

    helenslunch, (edited )

    Written documentation that I can make sense of is fine. Documentation that’s written with a bunch of industry jargon and acronyms, not so much.

    stown,
    @stown@lemmy.world avatar

    So, most of us aren’t in the industry yet we managed to learn the jargon we needed to learn in order to do what we wanted to do. I don’t understand why you are adamant about others helping you when you don’t really seem to care enough to learn some words and their meanings.

    helenslunch,

    What did I say that gave you the impression that I was “adamant” about this?

    Maybe you struggled and spent hours trying to research all of this. That’s something I’d like to avoid. I’d like to make better use of my time.

    I don’t know about you but I enjoy helping others learn. I volunteer my time to help people fix their vehicles all the time. I don’t just tell them “Google it and figure it out”. I walk them through it and try to explain it in terms they can understand, and help them learn more in the process. I don’t understand why this frustrates so many people.

    Several other people have already volunteered so you can just go away now, thanks.

    finestnothing,

    I’m happy to help if anyone needs help with docker and/or Linux stuff. (I’ll probably try to convert you to Linux, the os to rule them all. You’ve been warned) Wont necessarily be everything or set it all up for you, but enough knowledge to get you started and able to learn more yourself is doable

    For op, that setup is likely overkill, most stuff will use more ram than cpu and very few self hosted apps will use the GPU at all (Plex and jellyfin are the only ones that come to mind). Only hurt to it being overkill is a higher power usage than a smaller setup, but if you already have it running full time then it’s unlikely to make a different

    helenslunch,

    I’m already running Linux/TrueNAS so that’s okay.

    Wont necessarily be everything or set it all up for you, but enough knowledge to get you started and able to learn more yourself is doable

    Yeah I’m hoping if someone can walk me through a couple of services I can learn from that and just apply it to other products.

    For op, that setup is likely overkill

    Hoping to host some public servers/websites that hopefully others can use. Also I’m not sure I could sell this thing and buy something else and do better for the same money. I should monitor the consumption though…

    finestnothing,

    In terms of electricity consumption, it’s still not going to be huge, just was noted in case you wanted to go smaller. You can almost certainly go smaller, but at the same time if you already have the hardware it’s not going to be useful to sell it second hand and buy new hardware that has less performance.

    Hosting static websites at home is fine if you really want to, but for anything dynamic and/or that will have a lot of users, get a vps (basically a server that you pay for storage and compute resources on and can use remotely how you like, including hosting stuff like mastodon and lemmy instances)

    helenslunch,

    I have zero interest in having someone else host my services but thank you.

    CriticalMiss,

    Not to be a dick, but to explain why forming the question the way you did will not get you any assistance or responses for that matter.

    dontasktoask.com

    The truth is, not a single person here went to self-hosting school, we got to where we are because of our love for the craft. I hope this doesn’t discourage you from trying. The high you’ll get from finally solving that one error you’ve been trying to resolve for hours is one I love experiencing over and over again which is why I self-host.

    Crashumbc,

    Your self righteous answer, is why Linux will never be a viable solution on the desktop. Or in this case why self hosting will never take off.

    zacher_glachl,

    why linux will never be a viable solution on the desktop

    Has been pretty viable for me for the last 7 years or so.

    why self hosting will never take off

    Literally who cares, the community stands to gain nothing from another few million novice users who don’t even know or care to learn how to formulate a question or usable bug report.

    krolden,
    @krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

    Lol OK

    CriticalMiss,

    Don’t worry, the Microsoft support forums don’t lack self righteous answers either. I won’t talk about about desktop Linux because that has nothing to do with this thread and has a plethora of other issues as to why it won’t take off but specifically self hosting won’t take off because it never meant to. We will never get to a point in our lives where 100% (or hell, even 10%) of the population are proficient enough in how a computer works to self host their own software stack, and that is okay. If you self-host services make them available to your friends and family. Never thought that self-host was a movement of some sort where we’re trying to convert people who rely on centralized products into self hosting gurus, guess that’s a first for me.

    helenslunch,

    dontasktoask.com

    This shit is so annoying and I’m done explaining why. I gave a detailed account of my situation and what I’m asking for but you want to pick apart the title of my post. Go away.

    CriticalMiss,

    I didn’t read the other comments, only the main post in which I do not see what you define as “detailed account of my situation”. You said that you have an issue with some software (you did not even bother to specify which) and that you want people to hop on Jitsi to duke it out with you. Had it been me, I would’ve posted logs, posted what I’m trying to achieve and why I’m unable to do it so far or where I would appreciate additional explanation. You want people to help you but you do not make it any easy for them to do.

    But that’s okay, stay arrogant and we’ll see how far it gets you.

    helenslunch,

    I didn’t read the other comments

    It wasn’t in any other comments. It was in the original post.

    You said that you have an issue with some software (you did not even bother to specify which)

    Actually I did.

    Had it been me, I would’ve posted logs

    Logs of…what, exactly?

    posted what I’m trying to achieve

    I did.

    why I’m unable to do it so far

    Did that also.

    Maybe try reading more carefully before calling someone out for some bullshit.

    DaGeek247,
    DaGeek247 avatar

    You said that you have an issue with some software (you did not even bother to specify which)

    Actually I did.

    You didn't. You very specifically asked for someone to commit to helping you personally with nonspecific issues rather than asking for help from a general group for a specific issue (which would have been more likely to get help).

    posted what I’m trying to achieve

    I did.

    Maybe, but what youre trying to achieve isn't getting a helpful answer for a specific question. You're trying to get someone to commit to helping you for an unspecified amount of time with an unspecified amount of problems. CriticalMass is telling you that is a bad way of obtaining help for a problem anywhere except in school and a job classroom. This is neither of those.

    why I’m unable to do it so far

    Did that also.

    Maybe try reading more carefully before calling someone out for some bullshit.

    No, he read your post just fine. You just don't like the answers you're getting. Asking for help with a specific thing is exactly what these forums are for. Asking for help getting started is even okay. We love sharing a good tutorial for getting a new user started with a specific software.

    You aren't doing any of those things. You're asking for someone to spend hours of their time, in a call with you, to walk you through a process that has hundreds of online tutorials already out there. You're also getting mad when people tell you that what you're after is not what this discussion forum is for.

    Maybe try reading more carefully before calling someone out for some bullshit.

    helenslunch,

    You didn’t.

    I don’t know what to tell you. It’s in the OP. Literally everything you need to know is in the OP.

    You very specifically asked for someone to commit to helping you personally with nonspecific issues

    Yes, that’s correct. Because I don’t have a specific issue.

    CriticalMass is telling you that is a bad way of obtaining help for a problem anywhere except in school and a job classroom.

    I disagree. Seems like a great way to get help to me.

    We love sharing a good tutorial for getting a new user started with a specific software.

    And I clearly explained why those tutorials are not helpful. Wanna take a guess where? It’s in the OP.

    You just don’t like the answers you’re getting.

    Because they’re not the “answers” I asked for.

    You’re also getting mad when people tell you that what you’re after is not what this discussion forum is for.

    I’m getting agitated because people are being dicks just for asking a question. Who made you the arbiter of the intention of this forum?

    If you don’t want to help, just shut the fuck up, and move the fuck on. Not that hard.

    throwawaynumbah8,

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    CriticalMiss,

    Actually I did.

    No you didn’t. You said that you had set up TrueNAS, that means it’s working. I inferred from a different comment that you’re actually experiencing problems with TrueNAS and even left a reply to hopefully help you.

    Logs of…what, exactly?

    It was an example. I did not expect you to take it literally. If things aren’t working, then we need to know which things aren’t working. Screenshots, logs, even “I can’t connect to my own server” is better.

    I did

    I had to infer from other comments that you’re having trouble with TrueNAS. Perhaps it’s because English is my 3rd language, but clearly the point didn’t get across to others in this thread either.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce,

    Nah they were quite clear they need help setting up “some services”, isn’t that specific enough for you? Ha! They really do not know the magnitude of what they are asking for. I tried to be helpful and encouraging and point them towards a path of self learning but after reading all the comments and the way they respond to people, I’m done and they’re going on my block list. It’s clear from their attitude that this person does not want to do anything for themselves and is doomed to fail at self hosting. Anyone getting involved is asking for pain.

    CriticalMiss,

    I just read some their other comments on this thread… lmao… don’t think I’d ever seen such entitlement in this community.

    biddy,

    I guess so. Your question was

    Would anyone be interested in something like that?

    Which most of us have answered with a clear “no”. So I guess we’re done here.

    helenslunch,

    Which most of us have answered with a clear “no”.

    Literally no one has done that. Most of you criticized me for daring to ask the question. If your answer is no, feel free to just move along with your day.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce,

    You’re probably not going to find someone knowledgeable that’s willing to do open ended support like that, because we all know it turns into a huge time sink. But if you post specifics we can try to help.

    The truth is self hosting also involves a lot of self learning. People will help you solve problems, but nobody has time to give free classes.

    helenslunch, (edited )

    The truth is self hosting also involves a lot of self learning

    I tried self-learning but I explained in the OP why that’s not working out.

    But if you post specifics we can try to help.

    I don’t have specifics.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce,

    Don’t give up! There are a wealth of basic tutorials on Youtube. You just need to find one that works for you, and work up from there.

    The problem with someone setting everything up for you is, what do you do when something goes wrong? If you don’t have an understanding of the basics, you’re back to square one of just asking someone to fix it for you. And at that point you’re not really self hosting, you’re just a residential co-lo (datacenter) for your managed service provider (whoever is helping you) that’s doing all the work!

    helenslunch,

    The problem with someone setting everything up for you is, what do you do when something goes wrong?

    I’m not asking anyone to do it for me, just to help me do it and help to understand how things work, for exactly that reason

    sysadmin420,

    When you run into something vocabulary wise you don’t understand, Google is your friend just keep googling and reading to get the gist, Google any error messages too, I’m 43, I’ve been googling my whole life as a big fraud in IT, jk

    But seriously Google Google Google has all the answers and as you use it more you hone your search skills to the point where you just scroll past the crap and wham find things right away. The more you search and work with the stuff the better you’ll get way more comfortable. Maybe try and find a local friend who’s good with computers or search that can help you a bit

    I’ve helped many friends fix and troubleshoot stuff from time to time, but I’m not anyone’s full time IT, I work on retainer.

    I don’t know everything but every day I learn, even stuff I’ll never have to use again.

    I do IT consulting Reiners.io , if you want paid help no problem, but it does turn into a huge free time sink, with no reward.

    Source: retired 15 year Linux systems engineer and sysadmin, turned consultant at reiners.io $60/hr minimum I charge clients much more, including my old boss, who’s at $110/h but I bring my laptop to Hawaii for that guy, so he pays for access to me in 80 hr blocks.

    It is freaking expensive and few people will want to do it for free.

    krolden,
    @krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

    Hey can you suggest a good vinyl cutter/sticker printer/plotter/whatever for making small batches of high quality stickers for under $300? $500?

    SheeEttin,

    Cricut?

    sysadmin420, (edited )

    Not gonna happen, you need a vinyl printer my suggestion is buy a broken one and find the service manual and fix it. My printer is worth about $5000-$8000, I bought it for parts, $1000 and changed the parts out to make mine work 100% check out marketplace and dial that distance up, I rented a uhaul, mines huge.

    I really doubt there are smaller vinyl capable printers for $500, but if you find one lemme know and I’ll buy one, I hate doing singles on my giant machine, so I usually give the purchaser a 24/42/60 inch line of them, unless I’m running multiple jobs.

    Also hp latex requires a flexi subscription, and my printer doesn’t contour cut, so you need a cutter as well, mine was about $4000, it’s a uscutter titan 3 68 inch.

    If you want to do wraps I use vinyl master dsr, it’s excellent also has masking of images and other cool features.

    Plus you’ll need adobe or some other editing software.

    Honestly, the only reason I purchased the printer is because I sponsor two race cars where I was spending thousands of dollars on decals to a company here in town, I ended up purchasing a printer so that I could print decals for the guy that I sponsor and some of his friends. So far it’s worked out well, but finding people for custom decals is a chore most of the time.

    I’m just kind of saying if you’re having a problem with the $500 cost, you’re going to have way bigger problems with the cost of all the software subscriptions to run the printer. Maybe some of the other solvent printers and stuff don’t require flexi and that might be best. I’m not sure. I haven’t used eco solvent or solvent printers since I did my research. Latex printers are amazing. They don’t smell it all and they’re dry immediately.

    My prints can be powerwashed and usually do not require any protection at all from sun and rain, race decals I do overwrap for scratches, overwrap laminate vinyl is extremely expensive for good quality rolls and the race drivers are the only ones I do it for, and some don’t even want that for cost savings, a wreck can ruin a whole side of a car.

    Rolls of material are expensive and so are inks. But it’s fun and you meet all kinds of interesting people.

    Edit oops accidentally cut some text before submitting pasted in edit

    Edit 2 forgot to say my printer is an older HP latex 260, also known as the HP Designer 26500. I get aftermarket inks, and print heads , you can buy lots of them on eBay, bought about 12 cartridges of most of the colors I need all genuine but expired, works perfectly for me and I’m not worried about warranty as I service it myself.

    Grunt4019,

    And then if you can’t find help on Google or are confused with a specific problem, THEN ask your specific question here or somewhere similar.

    helenslunch,

    I can Google things for hours and it’s just this rabbit hole of shit I can’t make any sense of.

    It is freaking expensive and few people will want to do it for free.

    I understand that. I thought maybe there would be someone wanting to help others get started but I totally understand if they don’t, also. I just hear so many people talk about how easy it is.

    astraeus,
    @astraeus@programming.dev avatar

    If you can’t make any sense of it, keep trying. If keep trying isn’t what you want to do, don’t do it. Really, you don’t have to force yourself into this if it’s unintelligible and frustrating. I’ve hit the wall plenty of times, and I keep hitting the wall, sometimes I wish I could just stop while I’m not stressed and going bald.

    helenslunch,

    I do want to keep doing it. I just want to do it in a way that is efficient instead of scowering the web for more information I can’t understand.

    biddy,

    If you’re confused about a specific term, ask about that specific term, and you’ll get many people eager to help. Sorry nobody wants to get on an open ended video call with a stranger to teach you how to run a server, but that’s just how these forums work. Everyone’s setup is different so there’s not much I could do to help in your video call.

    Learning this stuff is hard, don’t let anyone tell you any different. We all went through the same struggles, perhaps for some people that was so long ago that they forgot how hard it was.

    helenslunch,

    If you’re confused about a specific term, ask about that specific term

    And we would end up going back and forth for hours instead of just figuring it out in a matter of minutes on a voice chat.

    Sorry nobody wants to get on an open ended video call

    Speak for yourself. Others have already volunteered. If you don’t want to join, feel free to keep scrolling.

    perhaps for some people that was so long ago that they forgot how hard it was.

    Seems to be a common thing with tech people.

    TheRealCharlesEames,

    Yeah at this point I’m ready to pay someone for help. I wasn’t expecting setting up a mastodon or piped instance in docker to be so hard.

    krolden,
    @krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

    How much?

    Lemongrab,

    Lol

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