Also, you could setup users without email. As I don’t think it’s mandatory

Edit: can confirm email is optional

Music assistant has a snapcast server builtin, so you could replace all your Google devices with snapcast clients

Did you I know music assistant can use snapcast as media device and so can announce and play music?

Sounds like us, ta

Not much clearly

I know, that’s why I’m asking.

What’s your number M8?

Dog or cat is one of the questions a new starter gets where I work, you cats have staff right?

Sounds about right

Oh, can I get a high resolution pic of your front door key as well?

I go to bed by about 10, wake up about 8. Does that make me alpha?

If you can cover all that, I would hire you on the spot, that’s more than most of the candidates we have seen in the last 8 months

Thats a long list of things to cover, how much free time do you have?

I would start with setting things up by hand and understand what your doing before you jump into automation, as that will give you a good grounding in how to automate what you setup.

We’re looking for a DevOps engineer and so far have only got bods that have done Aws certifications, most have experience with a terminal and can’t setup a basic web server even with the internet at hand.

That sounds familiar, my dad used to do contracting and worked away from home on the week. When he got back on a Friday, he would as me how he connects to the network. Every week I would tell him the same thing, just plug the cable in to your computer

Of you haven’t cut your fingers off or deleted more then you wanted, your doing it wrong.

I’ve done both many times

Run stuff you use, if you don’t use it delete

hosting a proxy server is part of self hosting, so I would to that anyway. asking me to pay for that is not going to fly

I dont have a problem with donations, thats different from “you must pay me to use my thing”. As donations is an opt in, I would do that. Paying to host my own content on my own server is taking the piss

I never understood why you would pay to do things that you can do for free

Systemd can get in the bin

So I have a tinc mesh for my house, VPS and dedicated server. I have started using pangolin for access to things from the internet, I have also used pangolin as a VPN into my networks from my phone