Look, I really only like Pacman because they make the little yellow guy go across the terminal as the download bar. It’s just 😘🤌

Not sure about Ubuntu, but for your CachyOS attempts, I probably would have avoided the DEs you tried. COSMIC is still under heavy development, and might work better on its “home OS” (being Pop!_OS, but this is complete speculation on my part). Hyprland and Niri seem like advanced DEs to me every time I see them mentioned, so I would have avoided them for a new user.

I’ve been using Cachy for the better part of a year now with KDE Plasma and it’s barely given me any problems. I’d suggest something with KDE, or maybe even GNOME. If you like the Ubuntu environment (apt, flatpaks, etc) you might try Linux Mint. From my experience it’s a very easy and hands-off setup. I did not need to use the terminal at all when I set it up on my wife’s laptop and MIL’s laptop.

ETA: Just read your final paragraph and wanted to add about KDE:

Easy access to the launcher KDE is reminiscent of Windows. The Launcher is always visible (unless you tell it not to be).

See all background apps at once (next to the network and audio icon)(important for VPN, steam, discord)
Yup.

see date and time in a convenient place (top of the screen) Yup. Can be placed wherever you want.

working file manager Dolphin.

good package manager CachyOS is based on Arch, so it used Pacman and ships with the Arch User Repo helper Paru (and a graphical installer, Octopi). You can easily install Flatpak if that’s your thing too. I don’t know a lot about package managers but Pacman has been good to me.

Based on not knowing what your system looks like (OS, DE, how you’re moving files, where you’re moving them, etc), the first place I’d try is getting Flat Seal from the flatpak app store. It’s a permissions manager for flatpaks that might help you out. If you’re trying to move files into a folder that has escalated permissions, it may give you some problems. Try fiddling with the settings in Flat Seal.

I don’t really use flatpaks, so I couldn’t tell you exactly the setting to look at, sorry. Never had an issue with drag/drop myself.

I agree with your post 100% I think. Removing oneself from big tech/data services like Google and Microsoft is resisting the regime. It’s especially useful for folks that may not be able to get out and protest, meet with their representatives, etc.

As for me, I’m running my *arr/media stack for myself and my close friends and family. Fuck Disney, Netflix, and Paramount. For our household, HomeAssistant keeps the lights on and SyncThing backs up our files to the NAS.

Mint. It’s so easy my mother in law can use it! Very easy to maintain, virtually no terminal use if you dont want to. Cinnamon (Mint’s desktop environment) is fairly customizable too iirc.

I could very easily, I’ve just only use rsync a handful of times for one-off files or small directories. Thinking of using it for several Tbs scares me 😅

Would you recommend nnn for transfering ~5Tb of media between two local servers? Seems like a weird question but it’s something I’ll have to do soon.

I figured it out!!

It was simple. I just told Plex to allow the 172.18.0.0/24 subnet. It’s always something simple huh.

Thanks for pointing me at the logs. Sometimes it all looks like gibberish when you’re learning, then you stop and read and search. Have a wonderful evening! (and the 10000 years of excellent luck, too!)

The only logs from Pangolin are from me accessing https://overseerr.dom.tld/. From Plex’s GUI console though, I get this:

Request: [172.18.0.2:46974 (WAN)] GET / (6 live) #18eb GZIP Signed-in
Completed: [172.18.0.2:46974] 401 GET / (6 live) #18eb GZIP 0ms 464 bytes (pipelined: 1)

That 172.18.0.2 is the IP of the Newt container (that subnet is its bridge network, anyway). So it’s making some request to Plex and receiving a 401?

From Mozilla:

The HTTP 401 Unauthorized client error response status code indicates that a request was not successful because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the requested resource.

So what would cause Plex to throw a 401?

Looks like a good resource to read, thanks! As you may know there are a billion and one guides for doing the same thing across a plethora of systems, and even more variables in between. Appreciate your time.

The few times I do use curl, all I can think of is this sketch. Glad there are some TR fans here too 😁

“YOU’RE IN MY WAY!”

I think for many people, whether they’re tinkerers or programmers or whoever, enjoy the freedom that comes with Arch.

Apps is short for Applications, which is another word for “programs” or “software.” You want to use a PC without any software??

Good stuff, glad it’s working out for you! I use CachyOS with KDE and I can get by pretty easy using Dolphin for most of my file needs. I do use the terminal quite a bit managing the Debian server running our friend group’s Minecraft server though!

I don’t mean to add to the discourse here or to keep giving you hypotheticals but, while learning to self host is fun and cool, you really do not want this thing on public Internet. Even if you can delete files to prevent uncouth things, what if someone uploads something while you’re asleep, or away from your computer? Do you have others monitoring the instance to take down CSAM or other illegal material? What if someone uploads malware and it executes on your machine? If you must leave it exposed, you should allow only family and friends to access via a strongly passworded account(I think that is configurable with copy party).

If you really want to expose services, try a media server like Plex or Jellyfin. You don’t want strangers to upload things to your machines.

I didn’t know that shortcut. No need to be sarcastic about it. Thanks.

Thanks for this info.

I specified locally hosted/managed because we’d like to avoid clouds and subscriptions. I don’t really want to divulge details but this is mostly for home security against a specific individual, and this person might be inclined to attempt logins into a cloud service. From my end I’d just set up a wireguard tunnel and us it to remote into some kind of server/NVR at my sister’s house.

I hadn’t heard of Tapo, and while TP-Link scares me a little, it looks like it could also be integrated into Home Assistant for viewing. Does the camera record over the first-recorded data when the SD Card gets full? Do you use the TP-Link/Tapo app for local management? Thanks for your response.