if it makes you feel any better I have not been able to have a new project in 4 years even though Ive got plenty of ideas. I actually tried working on a FOSS car stereo but I couldn’t Focus because of my damn homelab telling me I need to finish it first.

Of course! And, if you can deal with the faults people find in it, I recommend Jellyfin over Plex. Its your homelab, not plex’s. You shouldnt have to pay to use your own hardware. :P

If you like being in control of your data, like tinkering with new/emerging tech or industry standard tech, want to break free from Google/Apple/Meta/etc, or if you want to have a hobby similar to working on your car without getting your hands dirty and physically destroying your body, homelabbing may be for you. You can really do whatever you want with it. Make an android app repo, create a DNS server, or NTP time sync server, you can host your own videos with PeerTube, have your own private email server, host a Mastodon or Lemmy instance, or a Bluesky personal data server, you can host your own local LLM or have a Google Photos-like AI photo library with Immich. You can use Frigate to get AI powered security cameras. Theoretically, you could even make your homelab your main PC and just carry around a lapdock for your phone to remote into it. Theres really no limit to what you can do other than your willingness to put in the time and effort, and deal with frustrating scenarios when they come up. I’d rate it 9/10 on the worth it scale, just wish some things could be more streamlined.

I would but I’m too deep in with Rocky to switch at this point. SELinux is a major part of my setup

I started on an old optiplex I got off eBay for $150, and it ran great for 4 years until I was dusting it out and accidentally snapped off a capacitor from the mobo. The only concerns Ive really had are hard drive failures and I keep a backup so its not too bad. most of my problems are user error and software. Have you used/are you using docker? it makes a lot of the mistakes hurt less because you can just delete the docker volume for the service and start fresh if u screw up.

I didnt know they had it either but I’m not surprised to find out. I know Snap started it, TikTok has it, I believe Instagram has it, and Reddit having it comes as no surprise to me

but people fall for it, otherwise every social media wouldnt have it

ive got ocd and ADHD so I can’t actually start the new hobby until the old one is finished. my current hobby is a homelab Thats running over 60 services that keep breaking. god save my soul

but le Reddit wholesome 100 chungus is where my me epic friends bacon at night

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get their names out there. switch them on your friends and families devices. not like they’ll notice as long as the icon is the same.

Install Linux Mint and take it back

i’m not defending apple here, but do keep in mind most android users have Samsung’s or budget devices from Motorola, and they will also have all the bloat included with the carrier if theyre in the US as well. So they’ll have Googles bloat, OEM bloat, and carrier bloat. G/OEM usually gives them 2 suites of apps that do the same exact thing (Samsung Internet and Chrome is the biggest example), and then they also have to deal with the carrier preloading shit on phones as well (I believe Verizon has been preloading the NFL app since like 2014.)

Signal used to be the best but they dropped SMS/MMS ages ago, and group texts are historically awful over SMS/MMS, especially when one or more users in that group have iMessage. I would either switch to Signal and get your friends to Switch, use Fossify Messages (very basic SMS/MMS client), or deal with the shithole that is the G app suite. I’m on signal personally, I only use SMS for verification codes at this point.

mister superman no here

I’m glad to see the shitpost sub actually understand why this is a bad idea. I had some chud on c!android telling me that this was somehow a good thing.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/#recommended-providers

i find fox news offensive

theres this thing called a towel. not sure if you’ve ever heard of it. theres also still toilet paper. you have two options at least, maybe even more.

3, I’m in my 20s btw

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