I finally made it work last week. I was overcomplicating, as usual: nextcloud AIO includes all the requirements to run Talk, I just had to modify the config file to point at my domain and add a new entry at :8081 on my reverse proxy. Hosted a 2 hour video call with 3 friends without issues!
I didn't start with a spare, so by the time I was semi-reliant on my self hosted stuff, a breakage was an issue. Also I started with bare Linux, then CasaOS. There was no easy rollback from snapshot/restore backup like on proxmox
I will probably get flogged by this answer but here it goes:
I'd throw you right into the deep end: get a spare machine (an old laptop or PC) and install proxmox on it. Play around, breaks shit, delete the container/VM and start over.
Grab stuff from the Community Helper Scripts and see new stuff, try alternatives, see what works for you and don't be afraid of breaking stuff.
It takes a bit longer and some basic concepts might fly over your head, but the stuff you learn like this, you learn by heart.
It's been a few years since I started tinkering with a laptop with a busted video output circuit. Now I serve NextCloud and Immich to my family, keep receipts and documents neatly organised on Paperless, have a decent arr stack and a bunch of extra goodies. All from "a PC without video? Might as well make a server" now with a proper machine with several drives on ZFS pools, health checks and redundancy.
Man, being earwormed in the main menu and through the entrire game to reach credits and have the full song blast through was mind blowing to me back when it released!
The only game so far that achieved this (and surpassed it by a lot IMO) is Outer Wilds
No joke here, try (internet) radio. You'll discover stuff you'd never get on algo-based recommendations. I might be biased by growing up with Winamp's shoutcast
Sadly they are clamping down on that front too. AOSP is no longer being developed in the open. They are also moving to a standardised internal emulator instead of releasing the "recipe" to build on real hardware development platforms (aka pixel phones)
It's your system and you agreed to licence your data to them. So technically it's not theft.
But also technically, pirating isn't theft either, you're not breaking into microsoft HQ and stealing a product key.
On a practical everyday way, yeah, I would say they are "stealing" your data, since they hide that as a clause in a massive EULA that can be altered at any time, and you either accept it or don't get to use what you bought.
What's that? There's English, French (aka weirdo Canadian), German (aka hate speech), Spanish (aka Mexican) and China
What are you on about?