We do not build gaming PCs here. But imo selfhosting hardware related questions should be allowed. All about NAS, HDDs/SSDs, computers and abilities of CPUs for selhosting purposes, what OS to pick for which tasks - imo all these fit this sub.

There is a big influx of newbies/normies lately. Many want to escape paying for expensive and useless subscriptions and are willing to host their data and tools locally. People do have these questions. No need to gatekeep selfhosting. It should be a welcoming community.

To think that right about a year ago I was jumping into the deep hole of selfhosting and was thinking to get Plex perpetual license. Happy I didn’t.

Technically, nothing. I do not get much of disposable income and I did donate to 2 projects that are my favorites. Others are on the way, but not sure when I will be able to in near future. I really want to support them.

What would stop me from donating is frequency of how I use that particular project. Say, I run uptime kuma. In reality I barely use it and no one except me even knows that I run one. I might as well just disable it and nothing would change in my setup. There is not a single service integral to my setup that I need to inform my users (there are like 2.5) to check uptime of.

As another example, Tailscale will skip my donation. A useful thing, yes. They have paid memberships and their free tier is barebones WG setup that is just easy to do. They are getting paid by commerial users. They dont need my 50 euros as much as say Jellyfin does.

The other point to skip donating would be vibe coding. I doubt vibe coding project will be updated enough, will be secure, and generally a solid projects. Everything I’ve seen so far is either abandoned fast, has some major vulnerabilities, or does something that other projects have already figured out. I skip even trying these.

Other than that, if I’d have a disposable income that I can spend on anything, I’d donate to all (F)OSS that I use. The community rocks and we should support good software anyway.

Anyone can delete their posts.

Problem is that if they ask questions, get resolutions and then nuke the post - resolution gets nuked too. That is how communities die. Firstly, no one will seek answers here because it is not here anymore. Secondly, users will spawn lots of posts with the same question since the answer got nuked, which will annoy prevalent users.

Wouldn’t it be more better if a question with an answer stays on the forum for everyone to see? Hasn’t it happened to you to find a post with an issue discussed that is similar to yours except there is no answer anymore since it got nuked and all it has is a post title?

I know I’ve seen

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too many times.

I don’t get it why would selfhosting-related hardware questions be irrelevant? If we are talking about 14tb drives having weird behaviour, I’d say this is the right place to ask.

People do that? That’s fucked up…

I set it to my domain.

If i type oc.mydomain.com, page loads. If I type 192.168.1.99:9200, page seems to load at an instant but is clear white. No error codes. Browser detects that page has no SSL certificate. SSL cert should not be the issue as any other service I run across all devices including this one does work without a cert. It is just this one doesn’t

Vibe coded, innit?