After successfully teaching to my youngest cousin how not to rely on streaming for her favorite music I want to try to teach her further computing skills to #OwnYourData trough #Minecraft.
Lately she and her friends are enjoying online Minecraft using Aternos to host games.
I'm thinking to install a Minecraft server for her on one of mine machines, I already did that in the past but this time I'll give her a non-root user account with full rights on Minecraft folders so she can autonomously manage her games. To make things easier I plan to not overwhelm her with theory and commands but setup all the basics for her (game server, backup cronjob, some handy aliases...), give her an easy to use shell with auto-completion and some GUI options too (like a SFTP client for file management) and then gradually teach her how to do stuff when she needs to (adding some theory as we go) for example:
- Wanna change server's name and motd from the default ones? Let's see how to locate configuration files and how to edit them
- A friend lost precious loot on a creeper accident and everyone agree on undoing that? Let's explore backups and how to restore them
- Need a particular mod? Time to introduce cURL/Wget

@fedops @justine

It would probably be Luanti ;)

Actually the most I ever messed around with #Minecraft-style #voxel games was in Eden, an early MC clone for iOS.

Spent a lot of time building a house for myself in that back in summer 2012. ;)

Ages ago, now. :P

Strong suspicion I could swap out #macOS for #Linux, do better with #Minecraft and most everything else, and not do much worse at macOS-specific stuff like #GarageBand and Messages under #OSXKVM (https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM).

Anyone done this, or something similar?

Let's see how this setup pans out: https://schmonz.com/2025/04/15/sensible-basic-minecraft-hosting/

#SelfHosting #s6 #ProcessSupervision

What have I missed?

Also, how often might I need to send other server commands?