You should be a teacher. You made me go from despising Networking to interested in learning it more

Wouldn’t this be insecure? Is that what the reverse proxy thing is for - to keep it safe?

Also, is it possible to make it so the name is simpler? I bought a domain name just in case.

Is there a place I can learn about ports and networking more? Something like Khan Academy but for networking?

ease of use.

I’m a noob at networking.

Ah, I already nuked everything and started from scratch on Debian… Many thanks tho

No worries - I was just starting to worry myself that Cosmos was routing stuff through their server 😅 but looking into it more I think they automate Samba

Update: I don’t think it worked because I can’t access it via localhost. I’ll maybe try a bit more later but if it doesn’t work I’ll just start over like some suggested in my other post and go with a classic Debian installation

I’m confused - I was asking if it was possible to run Cosmos Cloud in a VM for easy remote access. I’m not using any external cloud services am I? I’m not paying for anything

yes, so something like nextcloud for example. But also I currently am using the machine to stream Qobuz (we have 2 years free is why) and to run VacuumTube. I also want to set up the Arrstack on it.

So basically for things like Nextcloud or Immich, I was wondering if it would be easier to use Cosmos Cloud on a Debian VM than it would you set it up through Podman, such they don’t recommend anyhow

thanks for all the info! it actually gave me an idea even!

So I’ve been looking more into it, as well as what others have said, and currently trying to learn how to use the podman desktop (because immutable distros apparently work different so can’t just dnf docker).

As for Zima, the Arr stack wasn’t really working for some reason, and I couldn’t figure out why

wait how did Claude help set things up then?

thank you! I’ll try to set up a shopping list program first then to test it. If anyone has any to recommend, I’m willing to hear suggestions!

I don’t think the mini pc can run an AI 😅

I tried Zima (because someone said that’s the new Casa?) but I couldn’t get certain things to work on it, and somehow even though I can see it’s made to be easier to use, was harder for me to figure out what to do than even Dietpi. I might revisit it again though

Nice! I’ll check those out and especially the YouTube channel

But with unRAID do I have to pay for updates as well? Also confused on what it is exactly - is it a whole OS, or something you run on an OS? If so, how would I run services on it that I can also watch locally, like on the TV?

So is Tailscale the first thing I should set up next? or do I figure out the Arr stack and other software first and then set up Tailscale?

I know, but the guide I found only covered for hosting on the cloud, and apparently there’s extra steps for doing it locally I didn’t understand. also apparently I need to buy a domain to self host locally as well? I’m unsure - the guide on Yunohost itself seems outdated, since the set up looked different my screen than what their example showed.

I do want to learn the command line more, but was having bad luck on it. At first I tried Fedora server but couldn’t get Bluetooth to work on it properly. Then I tried installing postmarket is but it never installed and always would fail. Next I tried dietpi but the GUI wasn’t TV friendly and Bluetooth also had issues - the keyboard/mouse combo would connect, but the mousepad didn’t work properly, with inverted controls and always drag dropping.

that’s when I finally decided to just do Fedora Kiinoite and it just worked. I can even control the tv brightness and sound from the keyboard