Yeh, you’re right

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk

You don’t need to be a programmer to selfhost.

The most important “skills” to have if you want to selfhost imo are:

• Basic Networking knowledge

• Basic Linux knowledge

• Basic docker/docker compose knowledge

But I’d say to not get lost in the papers and just jump right in. Imo, the best way to learn how to selfhost is to just… Do it. Most everything is free and fairly well documented

Aw yep, bought an old HP pro-lient something something with 2 old-ass intel xeons and 64GB ram for practically nothing. Thing’s been great. It’s a bit loud but runs anything I throw at it.

https://fishshell.com/

Who needs to remember commands when the shell can type them out for you :)

(Genuinely recommend it, it’s been my daily driver for years)

ddccontrol… it looks complicated on the surface but it’s really not and being able to control monitor brightness without fcking around in some garbage monitor OSD is a god sent and should be the standard

I mean, when we’re talking about UNIX, yeah MacOS is probably one of the best…

Linux ain’t UNIX though…

+1

I really don’t care about the configuration, as long as all the data is safe

Nope

But will the new install be able to pick them up?

So the fact that the ZFS pools aren’t exported isn’t an issue?

Poppins, RobotoMono, Comfortaa and OpenDyslexic

I currently have 15 on my host and like 3 more in a VM

Not really, all the AI stuff is off by default and doesn’t really nag you all too much…

Zed

I use bitwarden, it’s pretty nice

Some TP-Link thing I got as a hand me down… It’s AP enough

Linux, when you want to tell the computer to shut the fuck up and just do it’s job.

Chimera Linux