tl;dr Please point me to a true beginner’s reference/tutorial on networking. Gradually, patiently, persistently, over the past ten years and more, I moved from Windows and Mac to all FOSS apps and then full Linux. Doing the same with my phone. Total success. Independence and self-reliance. In short it’s all about control, privacy, and security, in that order. And: it’s a long term process that requires a commitment. I understand desktop Linux (Ubuntu/Pop!_OS) well enough to get myself out of trouble when I mess up or an update breaks. But I have no clue about networking , and I don’t know where to start. Syncthing keeps a handful of my important directories of user-files synced quite reliably. I deleted my Google account years ago. But I’m still in iCloud and iOS for all the photos. Highly recommend Fastmail incidentally. I have a small cheap Linode VPS (doing nothing right now), a Mullvad client on all my devices, Tailscale on all my devices (doing nothing because I don’t understand what it can do), and a Synology NAS in the closet with the modem/router (none of which I understand). I want to: – host my own photos and get out of Apple. – host my own bare git repos and not rely on GitHub. – host my own BitWarden server. – host my own Tail-/Headscale (whatever the noun is). – follow up on ideas that pop up after I comprehend networking. I can HERPaDERP install packages on client and server, and copypasta configs I don’t understand. Where do I go to understand?
Story Published at: October 5, 2022 at 03:12PM
Story Published at: October 5, 2022 at 03:12PM