Tiritibambix

Hello, unbroken family.

I'm glad to find a peaceful place to share our epic stories revolving around calcium and lactose.

I'm Stéphane, aka Tiritibambix. I'm French, that's maybe why you'll sometimes notice weird formulations and vocabulary in my posts. But hey, who cares about some typos when you're unable to break a single bone ?

I'm also a sound engineer, musician, photographer, and self-hosting enthusiast.

I drink around 11 gallons of milk a day. Not that I need them to be stronk-boned, but I know it pleases the Almighty God of Unbroken Bones.

I hope you'll have a good time with us.

Now, your turn :)

Hello !

I'm pretty new to Lemmy and I created a community I want people to know about.

Is there some place I can do that without being spammy or disrespectful ?

I left reddit a couple weeks back, when the API debacle was starting. I kept the sub private for a week as a protest, and reopened it for the last week to let people talk about what was happening, stating that I would be leaving reddit for good, thus, leaving my position as a mod.

People didn't really talk about it. I just had a comment saying that I was punishing subscribers to the sub. Not the conversation I was willing to have.

Of course, I'm not punishing anybody, as I am not responsible for the poor management choices reddit's CEO is making, killing his platform and its community. The fact that I have principles I want to stick to has also nothing to do with this community.

The thing is that the sub's owner and other mods haven't been moderating the sub and they did not come forward during the events, leaving me alone as the captain of the ship. I do really hope they'll show up at some point and do something with the sub.

In the meantime, I'm here, willing to go forward with the community. Tag along if you will.

Stay stronk, drenk melk.

I am so excited. I wish I could have an invite for this summer closed beta but I highly doubt so. They're legitimately giving invites to people really involved in the community.

I've been using Lemmy for almost a week and I'm loving it. But some aspects are still a bit obscure to me. For instance : I have my account on lemmy.ml. I used https://browse.feddit.de/ to find some communities. I want to subscribe to https://reddthat.com/c/rts.

What's the easiest way to do so ? It looks like the search function only shows communities from the instance I'm signed on.

Edit: apparently, the servers are experiencing a little slowdown. Typing !rts@reddthat.com is the search field returned nothing at first but finally worked at some random moment after spamming ':D

Hello all !

Following that post, I'm offering to noobs like me the opportunity to learn how to install docker to a Debian system. Being a beginner myself, I don't pretend to know the perfect or more appropriate way to achieve this, and I hope that more experienced people will join the conversation to correct and complete the informations I'm about to give.

The first way I know of is the way I first installed docker and portainer on my machine. I used OpenMediaVault and omv-extras, which was quite straight formard. But depending on the version you are using, you might not find omv-extras anymore in OMV, and the new way of getting docker through it is in my opinion quite painfull.

So let's go with the simple way:

Pre-requisite : having Debian installed on your machine and SSH into it.

Set up the repository:

1. Update the apt package index and install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release

2. Add Docker’s official GPG key:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

3. Use the following command to set up the repository:

echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

Install Docker Engine

1. Update the apt package index:

sudo apt-get update

2. Install Docker Engine, containerd, and Docker Compose:

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

3. You can verify that Docker Engine is installed correctly by running the hello-world image.

sudo docker run hello-world

Install Portainer

1. Create Docker Volume to store the data:

docker volume create portainer_data

2. Install Portainer Server:

docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9000:9000 --name portainer \
--restart=always \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-v portainer_data:/data \
portainer/portainer-ce:latest

Access Portainer Dashboard

1. In a browser, visit the following address:

http://<yourmachineipadress>:9000

2. The first time you access Portainer, the system asks to create a password for the admin user. Type the password twice and select the Create user button.

3. Select the Get Started button to go to the dashboard and start using Portainer in the local environment only.

You're set up ! Now, you can use simple docker-composes in Portainer stacks tab to deploy new apps and services.

Hi all !

Like many of you, I'm coming from reddit.

I haven't posted much back there because I'm basically what many people call a noob.

I started learning self-hosting 2 years ago, and oh boy, this has been a journey. I've spent numerous sleepless nights trying to figure out stuff, and I now proudly run numerous services for fun, family and work.

But damn, how hard was it to KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR. To know what to ask. To know how to ask. To get out of the anomalous state of knowledge, where you want to learn, you want to know, but you don't know how.

Even though I'm comfortable with computers compared to many people in my surrounding, I'm no genius either. I had to learn Linux from scratch, had to find out about docker, containers, network and so on. And I did it mostly all by myself.

I tried posting to reddit, and I was also reading the sub thoroughly, but I was sad to see that beginners weren't always welcome. Many many downvotes, lots of "have you tried google" and more downvotes. I ended up creating a post to talk about this state of the sub, stating that veterans weren't welcoming at all. This post got a lot of traction and upvotes, comforting me in the idea that I was not alone.

It was important to draw a line between lazy posters, those who don't know how to use the search function, and those stuck in the anomalous state of knowledge. I know this might look like a thin line, but in reality, it is not. Because most of the time, a person really willing to learn (even though it is the most simple thing) will go into more details and passion than a lazy crowdsourcing newcomer.

I'm fleeing reddit because of the shitshow it is now (among other things), and I'm really happy to use Lemmy. From what I have seen, it is more consensual and a lot less toxic. I'd love to keep it that way, and I really hope this community will follow this direction.

That's why I decided to create a post on some sundays, when I'll have time, directly targeting the noob audience. I believe it will be a quick tutorial on how to install some popular service using docker. If I see that people dislike it, I'll stop.

But I really hope that we'll all remember that we all had to start somewhere, that we don't all have the same skills, capabilities and time.

I hope this wasn't too long of a post and that it wasn't too hard to understand. English is not my mother tongue.

See you all on sunday, have fun :)