I’d like to have my own server at home sorta like a home AWS.

How to set up one and make it available to anyone over the Internet? What tech specs should I buy (RAM, CPU, # of cores, operating system, etc.)?

How much does it cost to keep one running all the time?

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Here the problem: they’re forcing people into the Raspberry Pi Imager with shady tactics. Without it you won’t be able login via network out of the box and by default it enables telemetry. This isn’t okay.

    • bustrpoindextr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’ve already spoken about the “telemetry” but here’s your ssh login. Literally all the installer is doing is adding a blank file.

      https://phoenixnap.com/kb/enable-ssh-raspberry-pi#:~:text=If you use your Raspberry,SD card to enable SSH.

      Then if you don’t want to do that every time, just create an image for it. That’s your new image to flash onto the SD cards.

      There’s nothing stopping you from not using the imager. dd works just fine. There’s no telemetry on the OS itself, so here’s how you personally get what you’re looking for.

      • dd the base image to a card
      • verify the card and image are working properly by booting on a pi
      • turn off pi
      • insert card into computer and create file in boot directory
      • create a new bootable backup image from the card, and save that on the computer it’s plugged into, cloud or local backup storage you’re running, whatever
      • dd that image as the base image for all new cards.