Ayyy! Look at that! I got it to work this time :D thanks for the reminder to look at it again lol
gballantine
joined 1 year ago
I tried setting it up awhile ago but gave up pretty quickly. I'll have to give that another shot though
Nextcloud - easily access my self-hosted cloud storage from anywhere when needed. Firefox - browse the web, been a Firefox Stan for ages K-9 Mail - I love the flexibility offered by this mail app AntennaPod - it's been the best podcast app that I've come across that's also pretty configurable Jerboa - Lemmy :P
It's not bad per se, but you really just need to understand the risks involved and have an idea of how to secure your services properly. I personally won't expose anything if it doesn't have some sort of centralized auth solution (LDAP preferred) and 2FA to better secure accounts.
It's also good practice to have some way of mitigating brute-force attacks with something like fail2ban, and a way to outright block known bad IP addresses.
For me it was a couple reasons:
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my brother installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop for me when I was in high school, and I was enamored with the different desktop layout. It got me started on the journey.
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maintaining it is much easier than windows. Running one command/script to update a system is much faster than heading to the right window or menu and hoping Microsoft delivers you an update. Plus if it breaks it's easier IMO to troubleshoot and fix.
At home my systems use Star Wars planet names like Naboo, Coruscant, etc.
At work we use Game of Thrones characters (and we've somehow exhausted that list...)