I’ve been thinking about this old desktop machine under my desk that hasn’t been used in years. I’m thinking the death of the desktop computer is not too far ahead for me. I can’t see myself buying another in my lifetime and my building days ended in the mid 90s. I don’t really have a need for this thing at all, I don’t game, I’m pretty much off the internet already. Ageing out of all of it I suppose.

My question is, as a bit of a weekend hobby, is it feasible for a bit of an ordinary Joe, middle/a little older aged, to go from a life in MS and never having to run a server or hosting anything, to follow something like this to any meaningful outcome? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911320

I write a bit of vba, do a fair bit of querying to a database someone else maintains for a living. (SQL). Again, never much but basic tables and queries/procedures.

The desktop currently is: OS: windows 10 home Processor: Intel i7-6700k @ 4GHz Graphics: GTX970 Ram: 16gb

Kidding myself? Obviously I’m thinking Linux and learning a new OS to some extent would in theory be in the mix.

  • onlinepersonaEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think what you’re looking for is YunoHost. Install linux on your computer, then install yunohost and you’ll get a web interface to install all the services you like: nextcloud, invidious, matrix, cryptpad, airsonic, etc.

    IMO, it’s the easiest way to get started with hosting stuff without knowing anything about docker, apache/nginx, php, or whatever. Their guide is quite readable and you seem technically affine, so you should be OK 👍