thelocalhostinger

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how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? (lemmy.world)
 

i am not looking to manipulate or convince anybody, just something informative in general, like "this is the bigtech world, this is the open source / selfhosted world." any good knowledge bases, blogs, youtube channels and alike that you would recommend? the less technical, the better. it's not about "how to install this and that" but rather "what do i need this and that for, what are the advantes and what are the downsides". also, are there resources like that in your language (if you or your people are not english native speakers)?

also very interested in anything else you have to share regarding your personal selfhosting experience and how it may or may not affect those around you.

i'll start: in my own experience, there are so many other things going on in people's life, that i understand are far more important than whether their todo list is stored on their own disk or in some other part of the world. especially in the beginning, going open source / selfhosted does often feel like losing comfort, only to be left with more to take care about in return. so getting started as a non-technical person seems incredibly difficult. another thing that comes to mind is, yes i could do the selfhosting for related people and friends, and yes they would trust me with some of their data – but no i don't want that. not because i am not willing to help, but i honestly don't want to have access to their data, it just doesn't feel correct.

thanks for your inputs and have a nice weekend!

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[–] thelocalhostinger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks a lot for bringing yunohost up, this looks very very interesting. I will bring it up there.

When it comes to docker, I think at least Mac would be close to Linux (at least from my experience in my previous job – there are some integration issues, but managable I think). Windows I have no idea to be honest, could be a nightmare. For me the benefits of docker seem to be: isolation from the rest of the machine, and that pretty much every selfhostable app has a docker compose file.

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[–] thelocalhostinger@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I also love the "files over app" approach, I am doing it more and more for simple stuff like (habit-) tracking. With the tempo that applications become outdated or even obsolete, I think this is something very powerful.

I think your radicale/caldav approach is interesting. Would you then also run radicale on your phone? Or simply not have the calendar on your phone? Would syncthing only sync in your home network too?

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[–] thelocalhostinger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I'll check languagetool. stirling pdf already has a desktop client, although I don't know if it offers the same functionality (but I would expect it).

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[–] thelocalhostinger@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Nice, thanks for the syncthing use case.

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[–] thelocalhostinger@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I thought about backups/snapshots too, especially snapshots before version updates, such that users can always jump back if something goes wrong.

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[–] thelocalhostinger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for that input, I have to look deeper into it. It seems to me that their idea is an approach you choose during software development, while localhosting is about hosting somebody else's software that's already out and probably does not include these local-first principles.

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localhosting: selfhosting to the min (thelocalhostinger.dev)
 

Hi everybody, I wrote this piece and it might seem a little half-baked, but I'll never get it going if I don't throw it out there.

Let me know what you think, thanks and selfhosting ftw.