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?
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?