Findmysec @ Findmysec @infosec.pub

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Do people in Japan use Haveno? Is there any cash-by-mail happening in Japan?

To clarify, I'm talking about being motivated enough to host public facing services like Invidious and SearXNG, maybe a Monero node. But I'm lacking motivation when doing things strictly for personal use like a project tracker for my personal projects, a personal media server. Basically, since I'm accountable to no one, I don't feel the light nudge I need to get to work on something.

In terms of hosting software, sure I can read about configuration. I tend to have the overall process planned out in terms of what to expect.

The main problem is, let's say I give an hour a day on hosting a FOSS project. I could easily give it 4 hours if I were motivated, but I'm not. Because I procrastinate and waste time. It's only during the later hours at night when I realise I have a deadline (need to go to bed) and my mind kicks into overdrive and I accomplish whatever I can in that hour.

That's the behaviour I'm trying to solve.

I will try it, thanks

It would be nice to not be lazy for my own needs for once lol

I see. I think it's the same case as me, I need realistic deadlines to really focus.

Unfortunately, I don't have anyone that I can say this to. Any automated methods to induce such a feeling?

Your saying I'm lacking motivation because I'm not organized enough?

I'm also a privacy and security enthusiast, and everyone wants to have their library of Linux ISOs on Jellyfin lol. I really should get to it

I mean there's no strict deadlines for personal FOSS hosting projects, so I don't think so.

Maybe I'm just lazy

I have no idea what you mean

Yup that's the problem, my mind is screaming at me to do it but I feel lazy every time I touch the configs. It's like I lose motivation.

Maybe I should take a long break

I think I'm pretty dumb. A third person would be very contextual; a third person who is a guru in FOSS, or a random person from the street?

All I really want to do is to find motivation to host FOSS, both for myself and the world

Unfortunately, I have no one like that.

I like FOSS and I like the community. It's probably just in my character to be motivated for someone else, which is why I'm looking for ways to trick my brain

Which book is this?

Yeah but some things are best consumed privately, and a media server is probably one of them (because I'm not going to do any requesting pipelines like sonarr/radarr etc)

Somebody mentioned keeping a guide/blog online about the things I do, which is perhaps a round-about way of tricking my brain.

TBH there's plenty of Jellyfin guides out there haha you don't need (and likely shouldn't) follow a specific one.

Reading theory always has me excited but configuring it in practice makes me slink away in laziness lol

Hosting FOSS on infrastructure is what I want to dedicate my life towards outside of work. I just need to find motivation to actually do things for myself (which will greatly help me) instead of looking for the dopamine hit when I think I'm doing something that will help the community

Not sure - I don't feel like I undervalue myself (although I guess that's exactly what someone in my situation would say lmao). I just don't find motivation in doing something solely for myself, and am instead invested in things that I think the community could benefit from. An example would be wanting to run a Public Searx/Invidious instance

Can you give me an example where the service I need to host is just for myself but I need to trick my brain into doing it? Like a private Jellyfin instance?