I’ve tried to figure some of this stuff out but I really don’t know what I’m doing. Most documentation is written with a vocabulary I don’t understand. Tutorials assume a high-level understanding of coding, software, CLI and a bunch of other stuff.

So far I’ve got an old gaming PC with a R7 2700x + 2060 Super and I think maybe it’s overkill. I’ve got TrueNAS running on it but that’s about as far as I got…

Thinking maybe we can have an open Jitsi meeting and just anyone who needs help can get it (myself included 🙂)?

Would anyone be interested in something like that?

E: some people have imagined up some things that I said so let me be clear about what I did not say:

At no time did I insist, beg, or demand that anyone help me.

I did NOT ask anyone to help with a specific issue, nor should I be required to.

I asked if anyone would be willing to help myself and possibly others to get some services running, and I asked to do it in a videoconference setting where we can have a discussion and where you can see what I’m doing as I’m doing it, out of respect for both of our time.

If you are not interested, you do not need to come in here and announce it, and you sure as shit do not need to speak for anyone else on whether they will want to. Just keep scrolling.

E2: special thanks to those who actually reached out and offered to help!

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlOPEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    If you’re asking someone to donate their time to help you, don’t be surprised if they have a few questions first.

    The entire purpose of my inquiry is to not sit here and waste each others’ time going back and forth for hours on end over text trying to figure it out. It’s for us to be able to have a discussion and so that you can see what I’m doing as I’m doing it. If you’re not interested, that’s fine, keep scrolling. No one is trying to twist your arm.

    Wanting to know more about the exact nature of your problem is a good start to figuring out

    I don’t have an exact problem.

    It doesn’t do you any favours to insist that someone commit to teaching a class over video chat

    When begging for a free ride, don’t complain that the car didn’t come with seat warmers.

    You’re going to end up dealing with far too many people who feel entitled to make demands of your time.

    You’ve been nothing but combative and demanding

    You’re literally just fabricating all of this. None of that happened. I didn’t “insist”, “beg” or “demand” a damn thing. I simply asked if anyone would be interested or willing. Because, as you’ve said, that’s the sort of thing you enjoy.

    I’ve been combative because I’ve almost exclusively been met with hostility for daring to ask such a thing.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlOPEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        If you’re not interested, that’s fine, keep scrolling. No one is trying to twist your arm.

    • DaGeek247@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      The entire purpose of my inquiry is to not sit here and waste each others’ time going back and forth for hours on end over text trying to figure it out. It’s for us to be able to have a discussion and so that you can see what I’m doing as I’m doing it.

      I only post on forums because if everybody used discord and other non-searchable communication mediums, the internet would be a complete failure, or about as available as peoples secret mushroom spots. I promise you that the issues you face are not original. Everybody else who comes across this thread looking for a good place to start is going to be pissed because there’s only one or two listed, when there could have been an entire thread full of good places to start, with commentary about specific tutorials and why they suck or what parts a new person could get stuck on.

      These forums are not just for you to use as a dump to vaguepost and hope someone will spend several hours of their life cheering you on while you figure out how to do stuff. They are for everyone in the thread, and everyone who comes after while looking for similar solutions. Trying to take whatever support you end up getting away from everyone who comes after you is called pulling up the ladder after yourself, and is the exact opposite of why forums exist in the first place.

      If people had actually been rude when you asked a basic question, it would be different. But it isn’t. You’re not trying to engage with the way this forums actually works and it really shows. As far as I can see, most everyone here is trying to help. You just don’t want the great help that is being offered. You want an unpaid private tutor who will cheer you on and sometimes give you a tip to make things easier, while you avoid doing things like reading the manual, looking through tutorials, or heaven forbid, googling what aomething is.