If you are mostly hosting files, open media vault has minimal command line, and it’s mostly administered through a web admin. It’s still fairly complex however, and I definitely recommend reading the manual thoroughly and sticking with easy tasks at first. https://www.openmediavault.org/

Can anyone explain what this is

I could never figure out NFS … ( it only works with unix usernames??) But since I have smb servers I can use that with Android

These are the true points, however the 4th reason to use a VPN is if you are using a fingerprint-resistant browser and lots of other people are too, it’s harder to track who is going where, since the exit IP is shared.

If tor isn’t working for whatever reason

To get more information, from the device you are having trouble with, try “dig server.com” from a terminal, or even “ping server.com”. The messages may help you figure out what’s going wrong.

I do not know any Turnkey, so perhaps they have some specific documentation about what to do after installing.

The first time I installed Nextcloud, I did it on bare metal in Debian, following the LearnLinuxTV guide. It went through things like how to configure the Opcache, which is one of the warnings you have. If you’re not following a guide, you’ll have to find one, or search each message individually and research a solution.

Eventually I decided to reinstall with NextcloudPi because they know a lot more about systems administration than me, and had sane defaults set for most things. My first installation had some bugs that were probably from default configurations or mistakes I made perhaps. But I’ve had a good experience with ncp.

One last thing you’ll learn while researching the messages: some may be from bugs in the software that will be solved over time with nextcloud updates. Some will have clear solutions. Some may be generalized messages arising from network instability (like if Nextcloud is trying to sync over a weak Wi-Fi signal sometimes) or a hardware problem that can be tricky to track down, but might not be important. Just make sure you are doing good backups and you’ll be fine.

So rich

I don’t get it either

I’ll just add my 2¢

Tailscale is incredibly powerful and they do a lot of work to make their systems intelligible, but the learning curve is still pretty steep. But still a great option.

Yes it is. I got so annoyed by seeing it unlocked.

Iirc it supports 100 clients on the free tier, but even that is a soft limit – I’ve heard that they will accommodate more devices if you ask (and you’re in a non-commercial setting)

What jellyfin client are you using that doesn’t support self signed certificates?

Is there any reason to think the free Proton VPN is somehow insecure?

There is a huge reason to use HTTPS inside the LAN - so many browsers and other client software show HTTPS connections as more secure, with a nice padlock. For me, this was worth the minor inconvenience of setting up DNS-challenge with let’s encrypt with a domain I already had.

Do you input everything manually? Like if you spend $40 at the store you type that in?

Nice so Actual is free to use? I thought the connection to the bank must cost money. That’s awesome.

I have only used new ynab, what is old like?

Could you use this to log into tailscale?

Adding to this, the eff certbot website has really great noob-friendly instructions which really helped me get set up.

Try to keep track of how much work you invest because it may be time-expensive to switch later on if you built a lot of stuff on their infra. Which is not the end of the world.