[Buny]

::EDIT:: The title of the article is a joke that this thing wouldn't be as powerful as a cyberdeck. A deck in English is also an exterior area, frequently made with wood planks, where outdoor furniture is placed. A stoop is a much smaller area that is typically where one stands outside the front door. Always hilarious when you explain your own joke.

So I won a Lenovo ThinkCenter M710q. A little enterprise machine. Got it from Goodwill, so I feel better about the money I made, but there is a chance on it being a dud. I'll be chronicling getting it running here.

Here's the specs:
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Insignia_ ... S-P10W8100

You might put two and two together and the other thread about hosting my own cloud service, and you're right! That's the initial thing I want to do once I get it running.

Right now, aside from not having it yet, or it not being shipped from Texas yet, the biggest issue is that it has no hard drive. There's a Pcie and a SATA (III?) port. So now I have to decide if I buy a cheap-ass drive, a used decent brand drive, or pay about the same I did for the whole rest of the computer for a new good brand. Any suggestions?

[Buny]

So, I got the device. Messed around a little with Debian distros, then realized Yuno Host needed a GUIless Debian, so I just installed their prefab version.

The issues I'm having at the moment are a couple.

I don't understand Port Forwarding enough to get it to work.

DNS is fighting me too. I'm trying to use a domain I own that I'm already using for emails, but I don't know if I can do that. I found a cheap one I'd get if I need to, but I'd rather keep just one if possible.

I'm not sure I get how to find the IP address I need to give Porkbun to have the URL direct to it.

Yuno's page on Port Forwarding is here:
https://doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get_s ... orwarding/

Screenshot of the Port Forwarding rules I've set for what I think is my ThinkCenter

I haven't bothered with the email ports as I don't intend to use them on Yuno. I've got Tutamail for that. The IP address I've given is the static one I've set for that computer through the router. Should I be using a different one? Sites like https://portchecker.co/ give me a radically different IP address for my laptop. It seems to be the "default gateway" IP listed in my router.

So...yeah. I'm kinda clueless.

There is a higher learning curve to this than I expected.

[bitform]

I want to like Yunohost so bad, It's got everything I want, and the vibe is great, but fussing with router shit feels so opaque, and weird

Hope you can get some insight on this, also for my own knowledge

[Buny]

So there was a option in my router that no one talked about that after I activated it, port forwarding worked. I had to make the device "trusted" or somesuch. I wonder if Port Triggering would also work now. that sounds safer than forwarding.

As to the DNS stuff, I think I could have gotten away with it had I read more of Porkbun's docs, but that was solved by buying another domain. I went for cheap rather than funny, $28 for four years. I had to delete two of the records Porkbun puts in to park the site, after that, it worked. Now though, if I want to set up an email server, I can. I have no intention atm, Tuta is good imo, and safter, but who knows.

One other hangup is they suggest using a VPN, but only have documentation for a single English VPN. Plenty of French and German, but yeah. So I'm going to see if I can get Mullvad to work, but it's a lower priority. I might end up making a pihole that is also a vpn or something.

Now my problem is Nextcloud. It coughed up a bunch of errors I have to work on, but my big thing is I want to to use my external HDD for storage and not the OS one. Which is apparently a PITA to set up. I'd also like it to recognize all the stuff I already put on that drive so I don't have to upload it.

We'll see.

[bitform]

Now my problem is Nextcloud. It coughed up a bunch of errors I have to work on, but my big thing is I want to to use my external HDD for storage and not the OS one. Which is apparently a PITA to set up. I'd also like it to recognize all the stuff I already put on that drive so I don't have to upload it.

I've been wanting to do that for a while but somehow my external hard drive can't be seen by nextcloud without partitioning, and that has some hesitancy connected to it on my part. (no hard just scary)

[Buny]

Well, I think I've bought my final hardware component. At least for a while. I got another piece of RAM that's identical to what's in it. I probably didn't need it, but I had Firefox open and that was sucking up like, 1.5-2.5GB right there. And now I'll have double threading or whatever it's called.

Purchases:
Lenovo ThinkCenter, Seagate 1TB external HDD, Samsung 8GB RAM, & HDMI port.
Total cost with taxes, shipping, & handling:
$182.30 USD

That is...more than I was hoping to spend by about $83. But, I should be good for quite a while until I use up that storage. Or components start failing.

Well, I might buy some stickers for it.

Still, a perfectly serviceable desktop for under $200 is pretty rad.

[Buny]

Now my problem is Nextcloud. It coughed up a bunch of errors I have to work on, but my big thing is I want to to use my external HDD for storage and not the OS one. Which is apparently a PITA to set up. I'd also like it to recognize all the stuff I already put on that drive so I don't have to upload it.

I've been wanting to do that for a while but somehow my external hard drive can't be seen by nextcloud without partitioning, and that has some hesitancy connected to it on my part. (no hard just scary)

I was reading up on this. From what was said, what drive it lives in should be done when installed. Which for me is a problem, as neither Yuno nor Fbox offered that option.

It's a PITA, but you can do this after. You have to go in and copy the files as a backup, move the files where you want them, teach apache how to use symbolic links, use those to point to the new place.

Then, you have to repair all of the stored items with the system so it can display them. The more there are, the longer it takes. You could also run a command that will remove the missing ones, though it will eventually do that on it's own.

I've been avoiding this for like, a week and a half.

[bitform]

I was reading up on this. From what was said, what drive it lives in should be done when installed. Which for me is a problem, as neither Yuno nor Fbox offered that option.

It's a PITA, but you can do this after. You have to go in and copy the files as a backup, move the files where you want them, teach apache how to use symbolic links, use those to point to the new place.

Then, you have to repair all of the stored items with the system so it can display them. The more there are, the longer it takes. You could also run a command that will remove the missing ones, though it will eventually do that on it's own.

I've been avoiding this for like, a week and a half.

I've mostly had the problem with casaos, which seems like I have to set time aside to partition my drive for it.

Your siuation though....You're right to take that long or longer. It really shouldn't be this hard still