I’ve also recently gone this way. I used my old gaming PC motherboard, ram, and CPU. Put Ubuntu server on it and it’s been running great. Mine is running in software raid5 and has room for 7 drives (though I’m only using 3 at the moment). I did put a gtx1650 in it for Plex transcoding and that works great as well.

Lab Gopher is a great way to check out eBay listings for used servers.

Thanks for the recommendation. I added watchtower to my docker compose config.

I’ve been struggling figuring it out for the first time in a home server. Without understanding how a config file works it seems like magic.

I’ve had a rough time getting permissions to work right for each container and am still not entirely sure how upgrades work. Though I do have to admit that once I had it set up once, moving it to a new server when I changed operating systems was much easier than the initial set up.

It’s my first time running any kind of containerization service, and my first time running a Linux server (though I’ve used Linux off and on for over a decade) so maybe it’s just how new the idea is to me.

I guess context is everything. I was imagining an engineer trying to make critical design decisions based on the answers to ChatGPT questions.

I have tested it a few times about similar technical knowledge and it failed to get some important things right just about every time. Even going so far as to site nonexistent sources and attribute sources to nonexistent people.

I really hope you are joking.

Ah, yes I have used Notepad before and the experience was quite similar. Thanks! I’d almost completely forgotten.

I love Notepad++. I use notepad apps way more than I should, but I really prefer the lightweight, no formatting text editing experience. It’s lightweight and can be installed as a portable version and supports all kinds of languages and plugins.

GIMP is great but the little things like where certain tools are located in the menus can be frustrating for a Photoshop user. Sometimes the one thing Photoshop has that GIMP doesn’t is exactly what you need.