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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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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds like you haven't taken the time to properly design your environment.

Lots of home gamers just throw stuff together and just "hack things till they work".

You need to step back and organize your shit. Develop a pattern, automate things, use source control, etc. Don't just file follow the weirdly -opinionated setup instructions. Make it fit your standard.

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This. I definitely need to take the time to organize. A few months ago, I setup a new 4U rosewill case w 24 hotswap as bays. Expanded my storage quite a bit, but need to finish moving some services too. I went from a big outdated SMC server to reusing an old gaming mobo since its an i7 but 95w vs 125wx2 lol.

It took a week just to move all my Plex data cuz that Supermicro was only 1GbE.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

only 1gbE

What needs more than 1gbe? Are you streaming 8k?

Sounds like you are your own worst enemy. Take a step back and think about how many of these projects are worth completing and which are just for fun and draw a line.

And automate. There are tools to help with this.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

What needs more than 1gbe? Are you streaming 8k?

I think they wanted to mean it was a bottleneck while moving to the new hardware

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 2 points 10 hours ago

Also on top of that, find time to keep it up to date. If leave it rot things will get harder to maintain.

I sit down once a week and go over all the updates needed, both the docker hosts and all the images they run.