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Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by mrnobody@reddthat.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Anyone else just sick of trying to follow guides that cover 95% of the process, or maybe slightly miss a step and then spend hours troubleshooting setups just to get it to work?

I think I just have too much going in my "lab" the point that when something breaks (and my wife and/or kids complain) it's more of a hassle to try and remember how to fix or troubleshoot stuff. I lightly document myself cuz I feel like I can remember well enough. But then it's a style to find the time to fix, or stuff is tested and 80%completed but never fully used because life is busy and I don't have loads of free time to pour into this stuff anymore. I hate giving all that data to big tech, but I also hate trying to manage 15 different containers or VMs, or other services. Some stuff is fine/easy or requires little effort, but others just don't seem worth it.

I miss GUIs with stuff where I could fumble through settings to fix it as is easier for me to look through all that vs read a bunch of commands.

Idk, do you get lab burnout? Maybe cuz I do IT for work too it just feels like it's never ending...

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's part of having a hobby. If you do it for work too I can understand getting sick of it. But, no one is making you do it. If you don't enjoy it, don't do it.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

While this might be a healthy outlook, these days more and more people do not feel like self hosting is a hobby or an option, but a necessity for a free and fair society.

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This. I self host some things because it's just fun, other things because of censorship, other things because of privacy. I probably wouldn't have Nextcloud if Google wasn't collecting so much data. Probably wouldn't be self-hosting my blog if content weren't as censored everywhere. I probably would still be self-hosting a Minecraft server with a small website for said server that the members of the server can contribute to when they find/do something cool.

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nextcloud is on my list lol, but I need to run a separate box for it I think vs visualizing. It would be easier/cleaner and more reliable.

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it's definitely one of those that's also just... Useful. I usually don't go for software that's trying to do too much, but for some reason I don't mind having nextcloud as 10 different things xD Sync files, sync podcast listens, sync my RSS feeds... A lot of things all in one

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

This sooo much. I’m not a tech person but I’m trying to learn because the giant corporations are clearly evil. I just want to have a modicum of privacy in my corner of the world so here I am trying to figure out how to self host some basic services.