Heads up on the copyright thing. Copyright is different nation to nation. @ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world seems to be out of the UK or EU. Not sure what the copyright situation is like there but here in the US, anything you write is already protected under US copyright laws from the moment it’s published (such as when I hit “post” here), subject to any applicable agreements you’ve entered into, of course.

You don’t HAVE to register your work for it to be under copyright protection, but to doing so would give you a stronger case if you ever decided to go to court over copyright. To register a work in the US you would do so through the Copyright Office.

In general though, @ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world is right though, you should assume anything you put out in the wild will be used in a manner you never intended, and that you may not like.

For examples of how helpful copyright protection is in a practical sense, might want to check out c/piracy.

For something like this, I think I would use Hugo to generate a static site. You write the post using markdown then tell Hugo to regenerate the site.

If you want to publish and receive comments or feedback via the fediverse, you might take a look at WriteFreely. Simpler to use but more complicated to setup.

Wordpress is also an option, but I personally don’t like it much. I spend all my time playing with all the knobs and never actually publish anything.

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#blogging-platforms

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#content-management-systems-cms

As everyone else has said, if your time is limited, your best path is docker. You don’t need to learn all of docker, but understanding how docker compose works at a fairly high level will drastically speed up setup as well as administrative tasks like updating and backups

As for what to run, you mentioned wireguard and a notes app. The notes app could be solved without needing a central server with Obsidian and I’m not seeing the use case here for Wireguard.

I would start with what problem or pain point are you trying to solve for.

In my case, I had a bunch of IOT devices all making excessive DNS queries and I wanted a network level ad blocker so I setup PiHole (2 in fact, they run my network’s DNS).

I had a large music collection and burning mix CDs was no longer practical so I setup Jellyfin (Navidrome might have also worked), and use FinAmp on my phone.

Google started being a pain in my backside so I setup Nextcloud.

Someone got me some smart devices so HomeAssistant was setup.

I needed a way to find these services so I setup Heimdel as a dashboard.

I wanted some of these publicly available so I setup Caddy as a reverse proxy.

I’m going to have to take a look at this! Thanks!

Didn’t know they existed. Thanks!

I may not understand your question, but I use Jellyfin as the backend for my music collection. It draws metadata from MusicBrainz and passes my listen stats to ListenBrainz. I believe that those plugins are in Jellyfin’s default repository.

Right now I’m bouncing between OSs, but on Windows my CD ripper (EAC) draws metadata from MusicBrainz as well. On Linux I’ve been using K3B as a ripper which still works (nearly 20 years after I first discovered it!), but oddly for KDE software, is not as configurable as I would like. I believe it also draws metadata from MusicBrainz.

I’m just guessing myself, but I suspect it’s probably ok-ish. NextCloud is probably better security wise than most things I self host.

Follow security best practices and things should be fine.

• Don’t expose to the public net anything that doesn’t need to be.
• Keep it updated.
• Make sure it can’t see anything it doesn’t need to on your home network.
• Use strong passwords and don’t reuse them.
• Keep backups (RAID is not a backup!)

Here’s the documentation páge I remember

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nextcloud

Might look into running NextCloud on NixOS. Haven’t tried it myself yet but noticed NextCloud referenced in NixOS’s documentation pretty heavily. If I remember correctly it was as simple as

service.nextcloud.enable = true;

in the configuration.nix file to get it started.

Linux unplugged had an episode on it recently and said they were surprised how performative it was. Sounded like they were going to be moving their instance over to it.

Not sure if it meets your needs but I’ve been using Audiobookshelf for pulling podcasts. The default web interface is simple and straightforward and you can create secondary rss feeds if you have another podcast app you prefer. Has apps for iOS and android, though the iOS app is TestFlight. As a podcast player it’s decent. Not sure if it does notifications, I tend to disable them.

I started using it because one of the podcasts I listened to ended and I wasn’t able to go back and relisten to the episodes. Decided to start archiving the podcasts I was interested in.

Never felt that way to me, but each cat their own rat.

As frequently as I hear about Navidrome though, I may have to check it out.

For me the advantage of Docker is that a random update to my system is unlikely to crash my self hosted services. It simplifies setting up the services as well but the biggest advantage is that it is generally more stable.

I run Jellyfin, but I’ve got a similar situation with our music library. Mine, my mom’s, my sister’s, my wife’s and her mother’s music has (mostly) all been uploaded to our Jellyfin. Before I got married I used to say my music library had everything from A to Z. With as diverse as our tastes are that may now be close to being true in fact.

Jellyfin has the ability to favorite artists, albums and individual tracks, as well as the usual playlist functionality and that has helped a lot. My wife makes big use of the collections function as well.

Mostly good, though I’ve got a bug on my desktop. It’s a two monitor setup and if I am running a game like Minecraft full screen on the second display and close out the game Plasma crashes to the login screen. Works fine if I disable the second display. That system is running Plasma 5 - Wayland on Nixos 23.11.

Otherwise, I occasionally run into an app that just doesn’t work, but that’s about all. Sometimes it’s a Plasma on Wayland thing (like with Element) sometimes not.

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

I’m American and our standard measurements drive me bugnuts. Especially at smaller scales. Me and fractions never did get along.

A meter is approximately the length of my arm which is approximately 3 feet in American. A foot is roughly 33 centimeters, also as you pointed out, the length of my foot. A centimeter is roughly the width of my pinky nail. A centimeter is 10 millimeters. A millimeter is small enough I’m breaking out the micrometer.

How far is it from my home to work? About an hour and a half going in to work, roughly an hour coming back. It’s roughly 50 miles, but expressing it as time makes more sense.

Good to know! I haven’t run a dual boot configuration in at least 15 years.

Duel booting has been a thing for as I have been using Linux, say 2004ish, and it has only gotten easier over the last 20 years.

Some things to watch out for though. First, make sure that you have sufficient free space on your drive before beginning, and make sure that you have backups in case something goes sideways. Good practice anyways.

Second, Windows likes to hijack the bootloader making it difficult to boot into Linux. I would make sure that Windows is installed first and have a live linux disk/jumpdrive available in case Windows decides to hijack the boot loader at a later date. That has only happened to me once, and wasn’t difficult to fix, but it was a pain in the butt.

As for which distro, dealer’s choice. I don’t think that there is a bad distro out there currently. Currently, I’m using NixOS but I think highly of Ubuntu, Fedora and all of their derivatives. Really, it’s whatever boats your float.

And blackbox has nothing in common with KDE? /s

Im off for bed. Night.

It’s not as difficult as the length of my comment implies, and doing it in the terminal simplifies the explanation quite a bit.

The average user though might never need to use the terminal. Most of what they want can be done in the browser.

As for Linux mass adoption, that happened years ago. Just nobody noticed. Android, Chromebook, Steam Deck are all Linux based and MacOS (BSD derived) is a close relative. And Microsoft has even made it possible to run linux command line programs in Windows, with some caveats, using WSL. And that’s not counting the majority of servers, networking gear and space craft running linux or unix.