If you want it as an article, here are the detailed show notes: https://discuss.james.network/public/d/48-episode-8-shownotes-self-hosted-tooling-dead-tech-papercrafting

Not possible for me to know if it works if people don’t listen. No pressure though and thanks for the feedback. My intention is to make it worth the listen, haha.

Good to know. I’ve actually been using the tools I discuss on the show, as opposed to only naming off whatever is the newest thing without having actually used it. Good to know if that isn’t clear.

Linux Prepper is related to doing everything myself with fully open tooling as much as possible. I’ve never seen another show do the same, so I thought it would be fun to try. Self-hosting everything, and using foss tooling for everything all the time, might not be practical, but it is a fun challenge. That is the intention.

Well, it is a podcast that is self-hosted and also focusing on self-hosting, Linux, DIY, and fully open source tools. My goal is to DIY everything possible using free and open tools. This episode is about going to a recent Linux conference, visiting a makerspace, and discussing distributed file shares of Tahoe-LAFS between a number of self-hosters.

What kind of work do you do? Curious since you don’t write by hand.

Because multiple people asked about setting this up, so it is a group effort. Certainly doesn’t have to happen.

Well, I hadn’t hadn’t thought about that. Will definitely think about it.

I’m literally learning about it just like yourself.

Tahoe-LAFS is actually much older than Storj https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/OldNews

Please continue submitting questions! I will look into clarifying answers. Do see the documentation. FAQ is probably a good place to start: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/FAQ

My show is still super news (6 months), so if you know people that would be interested in this kind of thing, please do share. Hope you enjoy,

Yes, I’m running Castopod, which you can find on the fediverse at @linuxprepper@podcast.james.network Basically, I am hosting this myself and people on places like Lemmy, Mastodon can follow episode releases and leave me comments directly from the fediverse. Pretty cool.

What would you use instead? It and podman are nicely interchangeable.

I find your experiments inspired. Thank you! I’m learning about this myself on an rtx and excited to discuss on my little podcast.james.network one of these days. Been using paperless minus the AI functionality so far. About to start testing different AI services on an arm64 device with 16gb ram that claims some level of AI support; will see how that goes. Let me know if there are any other specific services/models you’d recommend or are curious about.

Which specific models did you try and how would you rank each is usability?

afaik Ollama would fit that bill, but perhaps others can chime in. You could probably run it on your local computer with a small model based on CPU alone.

Have to agree on that. Certainly only makes sense to have up when you are using it.

Didn’t know about these image generation tools, besides Stable Diffusion. Thanks!

Well, let me know your suggestions if you wish. I took the plunge and am willing to test on your behalf, assuming I can.

Would you please talk more about it. I forgot about Open-webui, but intending to start playing with. Honestly, what do you actually do with it?

Great, hope you enjoy. Feel free to send feedback; cheers.