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<blockquote data-quote="Hacker News" data-source="post: 70983" data-attributes="member: 365">tl;dr Please point me to a true beginner’s reference/tutorial on networking.Gradually, patiently, persistently, over the past ten years and more, I moved from Windows and Mac to all FOSS apps and then full Linux. Doing the same with my phone. Total success. Independence and self-reliance.In short it’s all about control, privacy, and security, in that order. And: it’s a long term process that requires a commitment.I understand desktop Linux (Ubuntu/Pop!_OS) well enough to get myself out of trouble when I mess up or an update breaks. But I have no clue about networking, and I don’t know where to start.Syncthing keeps a handful of my important directories of user-files synced quite reliably.I deleted my Google account years ago. But I’m still in iCloud and iOS for all the photos. Highly recommend Fastmail incidentally.I have a small cheap Linode VPS (doing nothing right now), a Mullvad client on all my devices, Tailscale on all my devices (doing nothing because I don’t understand what it can do), and a Synology NAS in the closet with the modem/router (none of which I understand).I want to:- host my own photos and get out of Apple.- host my own bare git repos and not rely on GitHub.- host my own BitWarden server.- host my own Tail-/Headscale (whatever the noun is).- follow up on ideas that pop up after I comprehend networking.I can HERPaDERP install packages on client and server, and copypasta configs I don’t understand. Where do I go to understand?<hr />Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33095823" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33095823</a>Points: 29# Comments: 21<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33095823" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hacker News, post: 70983, member: 365"] tl;dr Please point me to a true beginner’s reference/tutorial on networking. Gradually, patiently, persistently, over the past ten years and more, I moved from Windows and Mac to all FOSS apps and then full Linux. Doing the same with my phone. Total success. Independence and self-reliance. In short it’s all about control, privacy, and security, in that order. And: it’s a long term process that requires a commitment. I understand desktop Linux (Ubuntu/Pop!_OS) well enough to get myself out of trouble when I mess up or an update breaks. [I]But I have no clue about networking[/I], and I don’t know where to start. Syncthing keeps a handful of my important directories of user-files synced quite reliably. I deleted my Google account years ago. But I’m still in iCloud and iOS for all the photos. Highly recommend Fastmail incidentally. I have a small cheap Linode VPS (doing nothing right now), a Mullvad client on all my devices, Tailscale on all my devices (doing nothing because I don’t understand what it can do), and a Synology NAS in the closet with the modem/router (none of which I understand). I want to: - host my own photos and get out of Apple. - host my own bare git repos and not rely on GitHub. - host my own BitWarden server. - host my own Tail-/Headscale (whatever the noun is). - follow up on ideas that pop up after I comprehend networking. I can HERPaDERP install packages on client and server, and copypasta configs I don’t understand. Where do I go to [I]understand?[/I] [HR][/HR] Comments URL: [URL]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33095823[/URL] Points: 29 # Comments: 21 [url="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33095823"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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