Debian.

It’s stable. Everything has support for Debian. I’m comfortable with Debian. Also everything that is not available as a deb-package goes in a docker container.

I run a bunch of Minecraft servers, the *arr stack, and pihole on a single NUC.

I also have a VPS. Also Debian. It is my VPN gateway for my home network (tinc is nice) and everything that needs to be public facing (minecraft proxy+a website that I host for my sister).

My work laptop + gaming rig is LMDE which is also Debian.

I’m not so much a Debian fanboy but my tinkering days were in the past, if I would still have the time I would probably run something cool like Arch or NixOS. Now I just want something that works.

Oh yeah, my media player is a Pi with LibreElec. Write to SD card and you’re done :)

Agreed! I feel like there is an underlying question here. Like, did the OP get called out for not-really-selfhosting-because-VPS?
You do not need to define the word just because you want to host your own server for product X.

I’m not here to recommend a NUC (because I don’t know), but a thing about the Pis: I have several, some have been constantly running in some form ore another for 10 years, and I have had 0 issues with overheating or SD-cards. Also I only use the official power supplies.

The Pi 4 and 5 have heating issues, so I added passive cooling to them (if I would do heavy tasks like transcoding I would add active cooling, but that is not my scenario).

They are reliable little machines :-)

(Also they are limited in CPU and memory, so I also have a NUC. It’s an official Intel so not the kind you want ;-) )

You can rent a vps for 4$ / month, Forgejo for server is open source.

I entered the world of Java a few years ago, there were already memes about eclipse back then, so I was prepared to prefer Intellij.

I tried both. Intellij is much more polished, it had some annoying bugs too, but the selling point for me was that eclipse was (is) really good at syncing every change directly to wildfly. This is a huge timesaver. The maven to eclipse plugin I think?

I’ve tried with jrebel but it’s not as quick and reliable as with eclipse.

I am fully prepared for a solution where Intellij is better so please let me know, but no one in our organisation (which has about 50 devs) has found it.

This … is actually quite accurate.

And for most cases this is perfectly fine!

Back then it was a place for us nerds, techies, early adopters.

Now it’s a place dominated by the rest of the world. Including all the bad stuff like politics, big corporations and ads.

It was nice for a while… We need a new place :-)

I don’t use Whoogle myself, but I’ve checked the code and seems like Whoogle indeed uses HTTPS when sending your query to Google.

(And as long as you are on your own private network at home you should be fine using HTTP)

Allergic to Indices? If your database is slow just add more Indices until you have one on every column of every table! :-)

LOL phrased oddly? English is not my first language.

I thought it was common knowledge that paying for something (console) and owning it was not the same these days, so I just want to know what I am buying…

No, the message is: you might do this and don’t worry, you’ll be fine :-)

What is it?

I have no clue what partysite is.

If the containers are related you could use docker-compose, which has commands to stop / restart/ remove all containers at once.

I have never owned a console, but have been playing games since I was 4 (that would be 1981). Also I can’t remember paying for anything in those days :-) Everything came on cassettes and floppies.

I made some very basic text based games back then. Nothing that anyone else would ever play :-)

(Also I am a developer, but not in the FOSS sphere)

Everyone is making jokes but the thought has occurred to me: Yes, we have an organisation in place that is ready to replace him. But, from what I understand, he IS the benevolent dictator, and he has used his power a few times to stop some changes that otherwise would be in the kernel right now. And I think that’s a good thing.

Debian actually does security updates on those old packages.

Debian is more a “stable and boring” kind of thing :-)

Moccamaster is the best coffee

Mine isn’t

Incoming mail is very doable.

Outgoing mail is hard because no one will your trust your server, the easy way is let someone else send your mail.

People get stressed about your receiving server being down sometimes, but this actually not a big deal. Mail senders typically will try for 48 hours or so to deliver mail, and if it doesn’t get delivered it will be sent back to the sender with a “could not be delivered” message. Very little gets actually lost.

So… tl;dw?

This is just lazy, copy pasting a link to YouTube without context? Please tell me why you shared it, what was interesting about it?