Ah, yeah MX might not be the best choice of a distro for ease of use.

Just pick the webserver you want (nginx, caddy, etc…) and check the docs for Debian instructions since that’s what MX Linux is.

I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one.

Why would someone do that for you when they’re happy using their local LLM?

I generally just use latest for most services. For critical stuff I pin the major version number. Also anything that doesn’t gracefully handle major version updates like Postgres and similar.

If something breaks I fix it, or restore from the nightly backup if I can’t.

Basically a backup is a point in time snapshot that you can restore from. So you’d run backups daily or multiple times per day and can easily get back deleted or changed files.

Whereas with a sync service if you delete that file or change it, the original is gone and you can’t get it back. Some will have versions and trash cans, which gives you some limited ability to restore.

Well one thing to point out is nextcloud and other sync programs are not backups, they’re sync software.

But syncthing would work fine for keeping changes in sync between systems.

That seems like a rather critical feature to have missing!

Well whatever the equivalent is lol, I didn’t see the last little line on the post.

apt autoremove will do it. Just double check what it’s removing for obvious problems.

Do you need nextcloud? Its resource heavy and slow on the best of days.

So if not you could run syncthing plus a web based file browser, and immich or similar for photos.

No it’s not, docker-compose stacks are quite nice and easy to manage.

That works as a specific action type thing, but I’d have to remember to go check every person I follow. Also without an account twitter doesn’t really let you do much, and sometimes completely blocks me from seeing a post.

Nextclouds docker setup is an absolute disaster, I don’t blame you for giving up. It’s also slow as molasses to sync anything.

A couple things to look at, I would probably say look at KaraDAV first.

• KaraDAV, this is a simple webdav server that’s compatible with the Nextcloud sync clients. Uses SQLite for a DB so setup is super simple. Has a basic web based file browser too.

• Owncloud Infinite Scale, still a bit of a setup, but it’s better than what Nextcloud offers.

• Syncthing, this is my current setup, just a robust and solid file sync program. You can pair it up on your server with something like SFTPGo or KaraDAV to provide a web file manager and WebDAV server if you need that. Downside is there’s no selective sync or virtual folder support.

Sure you can, but I can’t follow someone on twitter or bluesky from other platforms.

No because Twitter is a walled ecosystem, you can’t move to Bluesky and interact with people on twitter for example.

With federated stuff you can move and still interact with people on other instances.

old.reddit.com is still the best client.

Yes, set the external library bind mount in the docker compose project to :ro (read only).

I’d say go Debian and Docker, proxmox is nice if you’re running a lot of VMs or want HA and clustering but otherwise you don’t really need it.

If you want a GUI for docker containers there are several, Komodo or Portainer are good options.

IMO no.

Small instances can have issues with federation and now showing all replies/content.

There’s also the aspect that you’ll need to moderate content stored on your server, if someone posts something illegal and your server caches it, you’re responsible for cleaning it up.

The service will always be on a port, that’s just how networking works.

Do you mean you want to get rid of the path and serve it on the root or a subdomain? So https://searx.mydomain/ instead of https://mydomain/searx/