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Futo (Louis Rossman) at it again with great content, this time a Guide to a Self Managed life. This 14hrs long guide comes in two video parts, aswell as a written guide for those who prefer. Both video and written quide comes with complete chapters and timestamps. This should be a great starting point for those who have the time and want to start learning from the very beginning.

Video Link to Part 1: Youtube - Invidious

Video Link to Part 2: Youtube - Invidious

Happy selfhosting in 2025 everyone ✨

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[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

This guide is heavily opinionated and simply outdated. 2 examples:

  1. use of openvpn. Wireguard is by design way more secure (use of keys instead of passwords) and is way more performant.
  2. use of pfSense. Yes pfSense is ok but the company behind it has shown it hostility towards open source and foss multiple times. Why should a beginner use PFsense when OPNsense exists. OPNsense is not even mentioned.

And that are only 2 points i discovered while scrolling through. Louis is a great guy but as it looks like he should leave that topic to other people.

[–] Sunny 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also, you must have not read the wiki properly, because he does mention OPNsense.

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is correct, i missed that part. pfSense is mentioned 259 vs. OPNsense 3 times. But only the "not nice part" is mentioned and not the hostility towards FOSS. Here are some examples https://github.com/rapi3/pfsense-is-closed-source

I have not vetted every single claim but just alone that fact that they have this closed source model is enough for not using it. OPNsense is to my knowledge fully open source.

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like there are lots of ppl angry that i call out the software they use. And they seemingly also have not even any argument.

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