You used AI to explain a joke to you? Bruh

That’s overly dramatic phrasing and you know it. Adding this kind of hyper technical quip to a thread aimed at beginners is insane. Stop doing that.

Look into docker containers in general. If I was going to start from scratch in your position this is what I’d do:

Install a Linux distribution on the computer you plan to use for self hosting. I found Debian with the KDE plasma desktop environment to be pretty familiar coming from Windows. You could technically do most of this on Windows but imo self hosting is pretty much the only thing that a casual user would find better supported through Linux than Windows. The tools are made for people who want to do things themselves and those kinds of people tend to use Linux.

Once you have a Linux distribution installed, get docker set up. Once docker is set up, install portainer as your first docker container. The steps above require some command line work, which may or may not be intimidating for you, but once you have portainer functional you will have a GUI for docker that is easier to use than CLI for most people.

From this point you can find the docker installation instructions for any service you want to run. Docker containers have all the required dependencies of a given service packaged together nicely so deploying new services is super easy once you get the hang of it. You basically just have to define where the container should store it’s data and what web port you want to access the service on. The rest is preconfigured for you by the people who created the container.

There’s certainly more to be said on this topic, some of which you would likely want to look into before you deploy something your whole family will be using (storage setup and backup capability, virtual machines to segregate services, remote accessibility, security, etc). However, the above is really all you need to get to the point where you can deploy pretty much anything you’d like on your local network. The rest is more about best practices and saving yourself headaches when something breaks than it is about functionality.

Do something better then. Take ownership or quit bitching

I hope I’m there already. If I’m not then I’m not being vocal enough about how much I despise the current US government

That’s fine if that’s your decision, but then don’t complain about prices being too high

No, but there’s not another option available to the consumer. Antitrust action from the government could solve the problem but that’s clearly not going to happen so boycotts are the only viable alternative.

It’s so unbelievably stupid that we have to frame destruction in economic terms for it to resonate with people. A society that is rational, empathetic, or even simply pragmatic would not need to rely on financial incentives to stop killing the planet.

Live, laugh, love little ladies

First, I didn’t say they were pedophiles. I said more than 10% support a pedophile.

Second, depending on how you define what it means to be a pedophile you could very easily end up with more than 10% of the population falling into that category.

Look at any survey/poll/study on any topic. About 30% of people support whatever the bad option is. The subject matter doesn’t impact that result significantly.

More than 10% of every population does stuff like that

I’m pretty sure we’ve already designated Australia as the place to send our undesirables. No take backs

The difference is that it’s only newsworthy when Dems do bad shit or when Reps don’t do bad shit.

That really will be the perfect repost when he dies and MAGA inevitably tries to call out everyone celebrating as disrespectful

That lip bite really sells the idea that he wants to fuck those noodles

I’m ready and willing. It’s well past time we set some shit on fire 🔥

Fair enough. I get what you’re saying. I just have so little faith in the government that even pointing out obvious legal obstacles feels like a pointless endeavor.

How do you still have this kind of optimism about our government?

I’ll never buy a computer that can’t be run without this shit. If that means I run what I have until it breaks and then never have a PC again then that’s what I’ll do