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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I always compare self hosting to PC gaming: it has some very specific benefits, but you don’t even comprehend, how many downsides you will encounter you cannot even start to anticipate. If one doesn’t like the pain a little bit theses hobbies aren’t any good and I totally understand everyone giving up on them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Self hosting is much closer to gaming on Linux than Windows imo, but it's a great analogy nevertheless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Totally, this means even more pain one has to like a little.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been pc gaming for dozens of years and last few years I have near zero problems.

Maybe a combination of popular and newish hardware combination and dozen years of technical experience.

Linux gaming on the other hand.. (except maybe deck)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

haha, I have the same experience tbh, but I still get the obvious “I don’t want to update my drivers or fiddle with settings and controls, I just want something that works”, responses. I don’t even recognize these topics as “pain” anymore, but this probably just shows how high my tolerance has become in the last decades.