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My favourite thing to do during my work day is training someone up on how to do my job in order for them to be okay with me doing the job that I do every day and have done for over a decade now.
Repeat for each site I go to, often multiple per day.
I just charge for the time, they're the customer. No wonder stuff is so expensive now.
@njrk thanks. I'll push an updated build later today, it works with Ivory and, I hope, with the other apps :-)
@stefano there is also Crowfi on IOS who find the instance, engage the connect process but get stuck on the connect form (no error message)
@chadmccullough@bsd.cafe nah, more than one is good. Just list alts in the profile.
You never know when even something dumb like DNS means you have to use a different one for a bit.
Stepping Up to Self-Hosting
I got into Android at the beginning, with a pre-order of the T-Mobile G1, because I never liked the proprietary-everything ecosystem Apple built with the iPhone. I was geniunely excited about the potential of an open-source mobile OS, even if it was coming from a billionaire-owned tech giant. I rooted my Android phones and flashed custom ROMs to them for years. It was a blast. Then Google and Samsung started closing out that scene, and I lost the excitement that had drawn me in at the beginning. That sense of potential evaporated.
Years later, I found myself drawn back to open-source stuffs when I stumbled into the Fediverse. I love the sense of possiblity that pervades the Fediverse and FOSS projects in general. I've been hopping around for a few years now, trying different instaces running different software, and it's this Fedi project—littleFedi—that made me feel like now is the time for me to try my hand at hosting my own stuff. I know the code isn't ready for me yet, but that's okay because I need time to research self-hosting options. I'm hoping the Fedi can help with some of that.
I'm not a programmer or a techie—perhaps call me an advanced user. From my reading, I feel confident that I could manage self-hosting from a VPS. Honestly, though, I'd prefer my own hardware at home. The problem is that there are a lot of options, and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I thought I'd share what I want from my hardware, at minimum, and see if some helpful Fedizens have suggestions. So here's what I want:
- A Nextcloud instance for file storage. I have hundreds of gigabytes of music, videos, and photos, and I want a place to store all of that in the cloud.
- A chat client. Maybe Nextcloud Talk, but I'm also thinking about a Matrix server. Just haven't read much about self-hosting Matrix yet.
- A Fediverse client. I had been thinking of WordPress with the ActivityPub plugin because I like having the option to write long blog posts as well as short status posts; however, I'm now thinking that I'll run a littleFedi instance once the code is published.
Email. Because if I'm going to be hosting my own cloud storage, chat, and social media, I might as well take care of my own email as well.EDIT 2026-08-12: After both @schmic@hessen.social and @deach@hachyderm.io left helpful comments in reply to this post, and then reading more about self-hosting email, I've decided against this one.
I have limited physical space in my cabin out here in Bumblefuck, so I've been looking at mini PCs. I see that Nextcloud even sells some with Nextcloud preconfigured, but I'm not sure any of those are for me. I prefer Linux, but I'm comfortable with installing Linux on a machine that ships with Windows. (Done that with several of my old laptops.) I'll consider a Mac mini if y'all recommend one, but it's been a decade-plus since I've messed around with macOS.
EDIT 2026-08-12: I'll need 2 TB of storage space, minimum, to start. I'd like a machine that I can easily upgrade with an additional SSD when the time comes for more storage.
I won't be making a quick decision here, so as long as this blog is still published without an update, I'm still looking for options and I would still appreciate tips, suggestions, and stories about your own self-hosting adventures.
Be good to yourself, and be good to others 🫶
So many conlang-projects that invite learners to their discord server, and therefore into closed gardens.
Why can't they talk in the open, like e.g. over the fediverse network?
Or, at least, use discourse as a forum?
sigh
#conlangs #constructedLanguage #learningLanguages #languageLearning
I really, really wish that I could have more granular email settings for Bandcamp releases I might be interested in 🙏
Specifically, I wish I could turn off emails for singles and merch. I understand why artists want to promote those things, but I'm never going to purchase them. I purchase albums and discographies only.
I don't want to turn emails off completely, but I follow 1656 artists + labels and the emails are becoming unmanageable—I'm drowning in them 😖
Ok, IceCubes now works. Ivory not (yet) as it expects more endpoints that are still showing issues.
Goodnight, friends!
The moment I could I left my religion.
- I was baptized when I didn't ask for it (baby🍼).
- I was orally abused multiple times by my cousin who thought that it was in the name of whatever God he was loyal to.
He abused many boys in the street, was never convicted as a offender.
- My right eye was broken by the other cousin, who also believed with pure conviction that his God was telling him to do SO. He kept screaming that at the top of his lungs.
Frayers were looking openly at boys with erections in their pants at boys school. Some boys were brought to the back and anally abused. The frayers raped about 10 to 20% of the boys.
I left that religion as a 12 year old child.
My eyesight and my right eye was restored of course, no thanks to the Roman Catholics, but thanks to the most skillful eye surgeon of that era.
It took a whole year before I could see again with both eyes. Because of that event I wear glasses
Fuck Roman Catholicism
@AnachronistJohn@zia.io @rrb@infosec.exchange @HappyCrow13@mastodon.social @flexghost@mastodon.social @GGMcBG@mstdn.plus
#Catholicism #Catholics #religion #and #abuse #surgery #eye #religious #zealots
I have been manning the helm of @keepmunseeweird@hoosier.social all day because of the weather. For the most part things just run themselves, but when there is severe weather there is more work to be done.