That very well could be. Maybe try it out on your own home network, if possible where its less used.

I’m not having that issue. I am pulling results from both google and wikipedia fine. But there’s also bing, mojeek, qwant, startpage, brave, and yahoo. You can have as many enabled as you want at one time too.

Running your own mail server, as troublesome and annoying as it may be, really is probably the best option.

Yeah, that’s what I gathered from the videos I watched about it, but better to be safe than sorry and just double check.

I saw that that sshole issue was really only an issue for people running older out of date systems, is that true?

I know I have a long road to travel learning the router, networking, security stuff but it is a road I will travel as I find time.

I just looked up YouTube videos on using docker compose when I started. Also https://trash-guides.info/ has some great information. Services you want to use like Jellyfin for example has documents and good information for setting it up. I use docker compose so I would start with their website.

Hmmmm, interesting. What is the name of this distro, if you don’t mind me asking.

Yeah, I actually want to learn to build my own router and learn to set up openWRT, etc. Its a fairly new field to me but I know its something I need to learn. ISP routers are definitely a joke.

I run my containers through Tailscale to be able to access my services away from home. But yes, you’re right one container turns into adding another container and on and on. But its a better way than depending on other services that spy and track, etc. I still have a lot that I need to learn and add to the server but for the most part it accomplishes everything I want when I decided to start a server.

Yep, highly recommend it. Its easy to setup, especially if you already know a little about self-hosting.

Ironfox as mentioned and also Titanium browser which is built from Vanadium browser if you aren’t on GrapheneOS. Both block ads and allow extensions, especially the ublock origin extension.

You don’t need much at all if you’re asking hardware-wise. Depends on what you want to host but I run jellyfin, searxng, slskd and many other containers on a small Intel CPU and 16 GB of ram. I run all of my containers in docker-compose and have no issues. Storage wise, all of my containers run from a 1 tb ssd, the containers themselves only store your config files, etc so you don’t need much storage for that. If you wanted to run like Jellyfin for media then you would probably want more storage.

If you do any self-hosting, hosting your own instance of SearXNG is a much better way to go. No AI and you actually get results for what you search for. It pulls results from all the other search engines and you can choose which engines you want in settings, and it masks your IP so the other search engines don’t see where the requests actually come from. But even if you don’t self-host, SearXNG is just a much better privacy respecting search engine anyway.

OK, I will give that a try for now. Sounds a little quicker. Then when I have more time I can go the other route you mentioned. Thanks again.

Whew, OK that’s more involved than I thought it would be. I will try to find time on the weekend to mess with it. Thanks for the info.

Ah OK, misunderstood. I thought you misunderstood me and thought I was talking about GIMP lol. And yes, exactly. GIMP is just amazing.

Yeah, read your comment again and see where I misunderstood.

My comment was about that person saying photo craft was made in a week and is superior. I was saying that, “photo craft was made in a week by AI, right?” Not about GIMP

Made in a week completely by AI,.right?

Agreed on all of this. I run docker on one of my PCs and have multiple containers running. But I didn’t know you can cluster multiple PCs to run a copy of the containers and I was just wondering about a week ago if that’s possible. Would you have a resource on how to set up a 2nd PC to do this and cluster with my server?

You’re right, it does. But yes, it does suck much less than discord. Discord is and is becoming more and more of a privacy nightmare.