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What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! (lemmy.nocturnal.garden)

submitted 2 months ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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What’s up, what’s down and what are you not sure about?

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

I finally finished my first iteration of my Minilab including a very smooth migration from the old server yesterday so I can go to the service side of things again. I plan to get some kind of selfhosters VPN for external access to stuff that's not exposed to the internet, I'll have to investigate which one.

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[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Weirdness: My Authentik instance had a PostgreSQL upgrade prerequisite in order to update it.

I'd followed instructions 3-4 times completely unsuccessfully and had to keep reverting to backup.

So, I gave up for a couple weeks and left it be in order to get over my frustration.

Yesterday, I followed the instructions again. As far as I can tell, I did nothing different than I'd tried previously and it worked first try and then I was also able to upgrade Authentik.

NOTE: The instructions aren't exactly difficult! So, I don't see how I'd have gotten it wrong!

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[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I know next to nothing about using the command line, so I’ve been relying pretty heavily on ChatGPT to set my stuff up and so far it has reliably helped me overcome every issue. The problem is, of course, that I often don’t even understand what the issue was in the first place so I don’t even know if the fix that the ai spits out is, let’s say, correct. I don’t really want to become an It expert, I just want to be able to host some services on my own to depend less on corps, is it alright if I continue to rely on the AI? Or do you guys think that I just have to learn this stuff or else I might mess up?

I don’t have great security concerns btw, my ISP doesn’t allow port forwarding, so I access my server exclusively though Tailscale.

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What you can probably do to build some knowledge if you're going to be using AI anyway is ask it to explain some of the concepts to you. You also have the ability to ask clarifying questions about anything you don't understand.

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yes I do that, and it does help me a lot to understand what I’m doing it’s just I’m a top down type of guy. Like I don’t like messing with anything unless I fully understand it, which often makes me very unproductive. I decided to not be that way with this self hosting thing because I realized I would never get around to it with that mentality. Better to break shit as I go.

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