You can make or buy something like this if you can’t do clips.

I know it’s valuable, I do, it’s just not something I am interested in at this time. It’s on my to-do list, I’m just not there yet, and so it isn’t what I’m looking for right now :) it’s a lot of extra effort I have no real reason to put forth for the basic setup I have.. and sure, keeping my settings would be nice, but really not worth the extra effort at this particular moment in time if I’m being honest.

Easier is relative.. can I move it? Sure! Will I ever, though? I mean… even if I could, probably not.. so I don’t really care to do legwork when it probably will never actually matter. If my server computer dies again, I mean it’s not like I have RAID backups or something.. ima have to rebuild the lot either way. Again.

The only things I want to learn docker for are the rrs. Sonarr, radarr, overseer, etc. I don’t have them now, so no rush.

But yeah, I only have a rpi3b+ (iirc) and that’s so much overkill for a pihole.. but I got it back when it was cheap for that specific use and now I regret not getting a zero or something really shit to run the pihole off. But I’ve heard people run Plex/jelly off like suuuuper simple server configs. That’s actually why I’m here and why the docker chant has been super disenchanting. Because I figured more than a handful of people would give some sort of option for just.. lightweight stability.

Debian seems to be the main rec, and I’ve heard mixed things about that as a daily driver, (and I know server software is different.. sometimes.. for………..reasons? That probably don’t remotely apply to me..) but the fact that the rec comes almost exclusively with containerization concerns me tbh because that’s not the kind of setup I have right now.. and I don’t think I need that..

Cool, thanks I’ll look into that :) I like easy!

I don’t typically need hw acceleration for transcoding (my users baaaaarely would use it, if at all, and I bumped up the default buffer to account for stuff anyway while testing other issues, and never set it back from 30k seconds because it works nicely for me (pre load or load, seems to work the same but this is better for bad internet) so that works! I’ll probably have to reconfigure but that super long buffer has worked wonders for my partners parents. They have super shit internet and are, other than a couple friends, my only real users.

That does help, thank you!

I’m not ready to dive into docker, so very helpful. :)

Hey, good for you going through and downvoting all my comments on my own post.

Good for you. So very mature.

I don’t see anywhere that I wasn’t engaging with people and asking questions so.. I guess I’m super sorry I don’t know the things you think I should.

But honestly please just go away. :) I don’t want you in my notifications :)

Im super glad it works for you, same with a self-directed name :)

No need for sorrow, I think I'm just too old to see myself the way I’d have liked several decades back :)

Either way, I hope you have a wonderful night friend! I hope to run into you again :)

Mostly just nobody having a simple os choice that doesn’t seemingly need docker.

I don’t want docker, I don’t need docker, everything has been running for over a decade without it and maybe that makes me old and shit but.. so stupid to just “docker!!!!!!”.

It’s way way overkill for my setup and needs and yet nearly all of the replies to my post require or strongly encourage it. Maybe someday I will learn it but this isn’t encouraging, at all. It makes me want to avoid using docker because if this is what happens when people start using it (they have zero other options) and I’m not into it.

Cool, I’m well aware of what people have told me thanks. I’ve gotten literally all of the notifications.

You -are-being a dick, whether you are “trying to” or not :) and clearly didn’t even read the OP, so have a great night friend.

Temple isn’t even a valid useable os, how are you -not-being a giant dick? 🙄

There’s no name I actively want to go by, is the problem. I’ve tried with minor changes but nobody took them and they aren’t things I can just be like “this is me” because it… wouldn’t be actually? I’m envious of people who have the option to choose their own name, or how to apply it. Mine is so short there’s like 2 nickname options and I hate both. Passionately.

Best I’ve ever come up with would take a full name change (first middle last) to be worth doing. And that’s not worth doing.

I’m super glad it was effective for you, though, honestly that’s what matters. If it matters enough that you have a preference, it matters. My preference is just “anything else please” and that’s not a good option for most people, which.. legit.

No judgement on your relationships, whatever works. I haven’t the energy to be weird about it :)

Thanks for taking the time to interact! I appreciate the recommendation and I’ll look into it (because it’s not Debian and docker. Debian is great, I’m sure docker is fine.. but I’m super disenchanted on docker after this thread if I’m being honest)

Is it a pi because it’s made to run on a raspberrypi/orangepi/bananpi sort of system?

That’s not a bad thing, just asking. I use my rpi for pihole, but I know the os is just a pretty Linux distro.

I hear a lot of people use rpi as a host for such things. It might work for me but I have shitty old hardware that also does the job.

That’s too much work; I don’t know how to do it and have it work; I don’t want to put forth that much effort to learn an entire new dynamic for something literally nobody actually cares about but me.. I mean there’s tons of reasons I wouldn’t want to do that.

As a self-host community that should be like.. understood..? But I was apparently wrong to make that assumption. Most of this community can’t even suggest anything that doesn’t involve docker. Which is super lame for low-level hosts.

That’s super fair and probably much more so than the tech bros..

Holy shit have the answers to my question just been docker bros.. super not into that focus.

I’ve been running my shit for over a decade without docker/docker-like stuff. I’m just really flabbergasted that almost nobody has a non-docker option.. like.. it’s Linux, there has to be a good middle ground, right? For basic uses, like mine with my whopping 12 total users.. maybe this is the wrong community to ask.. maybe Lemmy is the wrong platform to ask. Idk.

And frankly it’s turning me off to Debian… like Debian is great as a base system!! But nobody seemingly wants to interact with someone who doesn’t docker which defeats the purpose of finding a good distro? And like I “know” Debian core is.. apparently difficult to use as a daily driver? and needs tons of modification?.. And I know this is sort of the same thing but at least it isn’t -docker- holy fuck.

But you are probably right, pick something and cross fingers is probably the right option for what I’m doing because.. this has not been a helpful thread overall tbh. But I appreciate you interacting with me, this was worth the effort. :)

I literally took Latin in college for the sole reason that Latin is used in super stupid ways, and my science communication degree would be worth less without that knowledge. Because Latin-base is fully half of the science terms you need to know.

And my college was super on board with my reasoning. Wish I’d also had the mental capacity for ancient Greek, because that’s literally the other half of naming schemes.

Ridiculous.

I’m super into modern scientists giving shit pop culture names. Because holy shit is it ever more memorable than some random Latin/greek bullshit.

I feel your pain. I wish I had a better first name or middle name to go by but I’m stuck between a shit place and a shitter place. And none of the nicknames I tried to get assigned actually worked out for me so.. I either get nicknames I hate as much as the name itself or nothing. Super fun!

And if you want to change names, holy fuck, best of luck!

At least you have something you can relate to? I have never met anyone, of any gender, named Shay. I know that doesn’t necessarily help… but.. it’s definitely not something I’d (as a solid middle age sort of person) consider a gendered name. Not more so than Aaron/Erin or any other neutral name..

When you say database, do you mean the OS and the server install? That’s my current setup; ssd for OS and anything that needs installing, with hdds for the actual content.

I’m sure docker is easier if you know it.. that’s like the point, afaik, but while basic use might be easy, it’s.. never ever that easy for me, something always goes wrong, which is why I haven’t bothered yet. I know I should, I know it’ll make things easier (hypothetically), but it feels like a huge undertaking for someone with no skills. I’ve been looking for a super noob friendly instruction guide, and have not found one that I can work with, tbh, without a bunch of other know-how that I don’t have. (If you know of any I’d be eternally grateful!!!)

The problem with testing is that the server computer and my other computers are suuuuper different for hardware. So I don’t think it would be a representative test.

I have an ancient enterprise (the hard drive had an oooold windows 7 install on, and it doesn’t run anything for shit, not really sure why at this point..), and a gaming-capable laptop (not like what I used to have from ibuypower way back in the early naughties when it was worth buying and not just alienware lite.. but pretty decent for a mass-market laptop I guess.)

Server pc doesn’t match either of those capability-wise so whatever I try is going to be either boringly perfect or nonfunctional. So I’m looking to skip the test environment, ideally.. I know that’s a bad idea, but I’m looking for like maybe 2 days downtime, and I’m only doing it now because I’m also upgrading my hard drives (I literally ran out of space on the 25tb I had so swapping a drive for a bigger one) in a way that kinda breaks the server anyway. More than that and I’ll get complaints from people who don’t get what I’m giving them, just that it doesn’t work.. 🙄

I’m probably not into Ubuntu for the same reason, it’s stable and fine but.. idk I don’t want a company potentially degrading my system for profit. I’d stay on windows for that. Already paid for it with the pc and all.

But you make a good argument for Debian; having guides. That would have been helpful context from the other comments, but I think I understand the recommendations now when core Debian is -not- recommended as a daily driver.

I appreciate your time friend! Your comment was super helpful… probably :)

That sounds pretty easy. I guess maybe docker is just this.. like.. monolithic thing everyone says you need to know and I.. don’t..? So having the vm option is probably chill, thanks!

I’m sure it’s not as big as it seems, but it just.. seems super overwhelming.

I’ll do some looking into that. It’s just been this.. albatross. I’d love to have the rrs set up. I appreciate a non-docker starting point! Thank you!

That’s a pretty good vote, tbh. Thanks!

No docker knowledge at all. So I appreciate the info, genuinely :)

I actually know someone who used to use opensuse years ago. They are the ones that turned me on to Ubuntu, but despite (or because of) being a big-wig security pro, I doubt they remember much of it. :) so I’m just assuming I’m on my own with it.

I do flash media booting to test stuff, but I refuse to test on the actual host pc because there’s too much chance of fucking up (any chance is too much; I have no RAID backup, no backup at all, can’t afford that many drives and I’m playing fast and loose with it).. I don’t even plan to keep my drives installed when I swap, juuuust in case I fuck it up monumentally. Some of what I have is wildly difficult to find and came from the actual library in town..

Thanks for posting that! I have no idea how to do that :)