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  • Honestly the single biggest thing to self-hosting is breaking stuff.

    Host stuff that seems interesting to you, and dick around with it. If it breaks, read the logs and try to fix. If you can’t, revert to a backup and try to reproduce.

    If you start out with things that interest you, you’ll more likely stick with the hobby. From there you can move to hosting things with external access - maybe vpn inside your own network through your router?

    From there, get your security in line and host a basic webserver. Something small, low attack vector, and build on it. Then expand!

    Definitely recommend docker to start with - specifically docker compose. Read the documentation and mess around!

    First container I would host is portainer. General web admin/management panel for containers.

    Good luck :).











  • Honestly I’m not yet in that camp. Sure for short term it is for a fact much better than analog smokes, but we know nothing of the long term.

    Gotta remember: for quite a while, doctors recommended cigarettes. Sure tech and general knowledge have improved drastically since then, but the method of proving a hypothesis is still done the same way: testing.

    I hope it is better. Maybe I’m just getting jaded in my age.



  • Current e-cig user here.

    Honestly, as a smoker, it’s a godsend. The smoke goes away so quickly, it has higher nicotine than cigarettes when purchased the RIGHT way, and since I can now smoke inside, I can puff on it all day every day as I work from home!

    In all seriousness, it’s worse imo. It sets the precedent from the 50s of smoking EVERYWHERE and now without any of the negative outward effects like smell or yellowing of the teeth/walls.

    It’s honestly made my addiction worse. To each their own for sure, but in my experience it just made my bad habit SLIGHTLY healthier, but much more accessible.

    It requires a significant amount of willpower to break the addiction, but for those of us that do not, definitely do not pick this up. It will not help. If you have that willpower, it is useful.



  • Yes and no. They do have some connections to NZB, but primarily used for torrents.

    Search on sonarr for TV > add series to sonarr > search for series by episode or season > sonarr asks prowlarr (or jackett) to search torrent providers > find and add episode or season > prowlarr finds torrent and sends to sonarr > sonarr sends torrent to your torrent client to download (I use qbittorrent) > done.

    If setup correctly, once the download is finished, sonarr will copy the series to your media server folder so it’s accessible from plex/jellyfin/emby/what have you.

    It does leave the initial files in the torrent software for seeding purposes. I’m sure there is a setting in there somewhere to disable that, but always seed!

    The search can be entirely automated too. Handful of apps integrate with sonarr/radarr so you can have your server users request shows and sonarr would find them and add them automatically for you.

    You can also specify release type in quality and specifically if it’s a rip or HDTV recording, assuming the provider reports that which most do.

    Lastly, you can specify by size ranges. It takes a good while to find something you like, but to keep your server from filling up, you can limit the max size for a single episode or movie (in radarr).

    My only real complaint is the automated search in sonarr is by episode so you can get a mixed back of quality that way. You can manually search for an entire season. It can’t correctly deal with a full series release on its own so some manual work would be needed there.

    It’s effort for sure, but worth it.