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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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[–] clif@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I started a blog specifically to make me document these things in a digestable manner. I doubt anyone will ever see it, but it's for me. It's a historical record of my projects and the steps and problems experienced when setting them up.

I'm using 11ty so I can just write markdown notes and publish static HTML using a very simple 11ty template. That takes all the hassle out of wrangling a website and all I have to do is markdown.

If someone stumbles across it in the slop ridden searchscape, I hope it helps them, but I know it will help me and that's the goal.

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would love to see the blog

[–] clif@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I appreciates that but unfortunately it is under a different identity and I don't want to cross the two.

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

Understandable. Stay safe out there, thanks anyways :)