I’m a good chemist, but not IT advanced. Started using Debian out of the box last year on miniPC. Running Jellyfin only on that local machine. Don’t understand coding, but copy/ paste terminal instructions from trusted sites. Have 1TB music, films and documents. Want to move all photos from Google.
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Honestly, I don’t think it’s possible to get by just trusting any particular guide without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing. The field is just too wide and rapidly changing for any source of info to be authoritative (and stay authoritative indefinitely after the guide is written), so it’s super important to develop the skill of looking up multiple different and possibly conflicting approaches to the task, thinking critically about them, and then synthesizing your own approach that works for your specific situation.
without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing
I realize lemmy hates AI, but I use Grok a lot to explain commands, command sequences, etc. Those go in my notes as well, after I’ve refined them, and conformed them to my application. Of course, all the precautions one should take with any online tut in place, and pulling knowledge from multiple sources helps verify. Grok helps me out a ton.
The traditional way is man pages and howto guides, which contain loads of information. You can get man pages in terminal or html (but I can remember how).
Next up is online tutorials like you are using, however with complicated setups, like a full mail server, the info gets very specific and can often go out of date.
Then we have readthedocs, which are the project specific instructions which tend to be very good.
How ever my personal favourite is the arch wiki, you’ll need to know how to change commands to Debian based systems, but it does give a lot of info and insight that is up to date.
For moving from Goole photos look at photoprism, immich and nextcloud, there are others, but these are the ones that made my short list
This is valuable, thank you
Ooh, very interesting, bookmarked, thank you
I’m somewhat of a chemist too, tho, it was back in the 60s…and in my basement…but yeah.
A secret laboratory!
I thought / expected this, and hopefully, I can learn as I go. Grateful for your confirmation
