cows_are_underrated

Someone once told me somewhere, that if I am trying to learn rust, I should learn C first, so that I know how to shoot myself in the foot, learning to avoid doing so, so that the borrow checker of rust doesnt seam to unforgiving (since you somewhat know, what happens if you dont follow best practices). So thats what I did (somewhat) for the past 6 months. I wrote some stuff in C, but mainly I had quite of a deep dive into operating systems (mainly linux), working mechanics of memory and the CPU and a lot more (I will try to make a list of the stuff I learned and the ressources used below). My question to you is, if there are any additional concepts/things I should learn beforehand, to start learning rust.

The (somehwat complete) list of things learned for the past 6 months:

• Stack Behaviour (Why its so fast, what its used for,....)
• The heap (why its useful, but dangerous)
• Theoretical Concepts of threading (Concurrency vs. paralellism)
• Theory of race conditions (how and why they occur, and some tricks to avoid them)
• Concepts of Memory allocation on an OS level (Address Spaces)
• System calls and the separation between kernel and user space
• Signals
• Basics of Inter-Process-Communication
• CPU-Scheduling (CPU-/IO-Bursts, context switches, different scheduling algorithms up to ROund RObin (based on complexity))
• How loops, conditions and function calls get implemented in Assembly / how the CPU performs these
• Bitwise Operations

I probably forgot a significant part of the stuff I learned, but its quite hard turning it into a list, without writing a whole book, and trying to remeber everything.
Most of these things are mainly theory, since I havent gotten around to code that much in C. However I definitively have some experience in C. This includes on how to handle pointers, basics of handling the heap, strings (even if I absolutely hate them in C) and some system calls (I played around with sbrk for custom memory management without malloc).

The ressources I used for learning is primarily the YouTube-Channel CoreDumped (I highly recommend), LowLevel and some other ressources, but these were the most helpful ones.

So, feel free to send me down my next rabbit hole before starting rust.

So, I am soon going to finally set up my first home server. Exams are not that far away, I am motivated as shit, my first own domain is bought and I want to level up my sysadmin skills.

Currently my plans look like this:

• Host Jellyfin
• Host my own NAS
• Some form of hosted musicstreaming integration with my local music
• Automate Backups and push them on my server
• make all of the above things available where ever I want using my own self hosted domain.
• run my own dns

In the long term I also want to be able to host my own webapps, since I will soon start to develop one for someone.

Now I want to know what suggestions do you have, for stuff thats really cool and that I can selfhost.

Edit: thanks for all the replies. Definitely going to look into this.

These times may also create some really strong women.

I am searching dor some form of software that I can use to watch all the different media I have stored locally, similar to Jellyfin. However the Problem is, that I do not have a dedicated media server (yet), so I am searching for something that I can use like Jellyfin, but that just runs locally. Everything that I have found is aimed at media servers. Do you have any suggestions?

It was literally like that. I had a script of about 310 lines and the main function was like 10-20 lines of code. I had a very nice Setup of objects that handled all functionality possible behaviours independent and so my main function was just receiving a user input from another function and add accordingly which included like 3-4 different scenarios that are being handled in the main function.