Apologies for the poor grammar, English IS my first language and so I’m rather flagrant with runons.
I’m really not half as tech literate as half the people on the fediverse, but my noia about the state of online cloud hosting and lack of control over my data has led me far out of my depth. I’m wanting to set up a LibreCMC router and connect it to some type of home server (made of local office E-Waste) for media storage, email hosting, and fucking Minecraft servers or something. I promise I’ve tried my best in searching for the problem but often find myself floundering in 3-letter acronyms, and relations between systems I don’t understand (like dockers, or the Jellyfin vs Plex argument.) I don’t need an explanation but maybe some orientation on where I am to look for resources on these topics that assume I’m the 6 celled neurobase I am.
Thank you for your help, or your chastising.
Edit: thank you everyone for your replies! I’ll hopefully keep you all updated as I work through learning Linux terminals, and destroying terabytes of data in horribly predictable mistakes : )
For things that are not super complicated, Grok is pretty fair but it has it’s limitations when you get into complexities. At the very least it gives you something to go on for further reading of a topic you don’t necessarily have a firm grip on. I’ve also found that if you ask a question, finish up with ‘explain it for a noob’ or ‘EILI5’. That seems to get the more accurate, step by step instructions, broken down into bite sized chunks, and doesn’t assume you know what to do in between steps.
I find LLMs make a lot more.mistakes when they try to distill a guide down to steps. Its not a bad summary, but they to get confused sometimes when there are forks in the guide. That said they are really good at finding guides, especially older ones that SEs tend to not place as high