Sustainably? They don’t (mostly). Most are either pet projects, paid for out of pocket by the instance owner or run off donations. Neither are particularly sustainable long term, with rare exceptions like sdf.org.

The SDF runs just about every federated service you can think of, and has done so since the 1980s, run almost entirely off donations. Started as a dialup BBS (still active).

I think “gender” in this context means what equipment their body currently has.

Personally, I think yes, it is worth it, However your friends bookkeeper might shit a brick. Building up IT infrastructure from the ground up is not cheap. Although storage cost is coming down.

Seriously, running with Google and company will be cheaper in the short term. What you can potentially gain doing it yourself however is resilience from catastrophic 3rd party events. If your not dependent on a third party for your IT infra, it doesn't matter what they do, or don't do. For a recent example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/influxdata-apologizes-for-deleting-cloud-regions-without-performing-scream-test/ar-AA1dIPX2

I willing to give them the same cost of living increase I got this year. It was about $800. I think that’s fair.

Umm.. Florida, I’m not entirely sure you can do that. I think you have to honor other States documents.

In the Lemmy side of the fediverse you are subject both to your home servers moderation guidelines as well as the moderation guidelines of the server that the community you are posting to has. Each has different things they can do. Same is roughly true of the other fediverse applications.

So if your home server doesn’t allow nudity you should not post nudity from that account.

Here’s the relevant documentation: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/04-moderation.html

Personally, I use Gitea. My needs are simple though and I probably don’t use 99% of what it can do.

Not a new question. When I first got into Linux every one was asking “How can we get everyone to dump Windows and use Linux instead?” I long ago got tired of hearing about THIS year being the year of the Linux Desktop.

The answer is the same in both cases. Make it default, because most people don’t really care so long whatever is default does what they need it to do. Add in the network effect GitHub has and things would have to get incredibly bad before everyone would switch.

The reason everyone uses Windows? Because “everyone” uses Windows. Why does everyone use GitHub? Because “everyone” uses GitHub. Both have become the default. That would have to change.

You should be fine. If you are using port forwarding the inbound traffic on that port should be sent only to the system you have designated. The only way that changes is if the system (rpi in this case) is operating as a reverse proxy. Even then net side should only see the proxy.

The biggest vulnerability would be the system that you are forwarding to, and if that system is a reverse proxy whatever the backend systems are. Make sure everything is fully updated/patched and that you trust the services that you are running and you should be good.

My only comment on your setup would be to make sure you fully understand what you are doing and more importantly, why. Cargo Culting is a bad way to admin. Good questions like yours are a good way to start.

Not a bad write up, but if your using a BitTorrent client to download media you will probably want it to download only through a VPN so as to minimize attracting unwanted attention.

Sorry, couldn’t help…. This meme just popped in my mind!

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/c4/c4bef59cc926feccafd5c625a030ee194c620ca07dd9e96970dcab5193f7c12d.jpg

When I’m home it is usually my wife that notices first. That said, when I’m away from home I almost immediately notice any issues. My self hosted services are the backend for almost everything I use. Just need to find a decent replacement for GoodNotes on iOS.

Personally, I chose to run my own. Setup was a headache, but then I had to do things the hard way. Server on a subdomain but advertising my root domain with an Element web client running on the root. At least that was how I was setup originally. System updates borked the web client and as no one ever used it, I couldn't be bothered to fix it. The Matrix server itself though has been running without a hickup for over 2 years. Just gone down for updates.

If you haven't seen this list yet, you might take a look at it and see if anything strikes your fancy. https://joinmatrix.org/servers/

I will say that the Matrix.org homeserver is said to be rather slow as everyone seems to go there as default for some reason. Couldn't say why. /s

Glad to hear it. Been bugging me as well.

Happy Birthday!!!

Hmm, looks like France and Germany are each smaller than Texas. Didn’t realize that.

And if you ever have difficulty with the Roomba docking, you probably just need to clean the charging contacts with wet melanin foam.

Damn, is there anything they don’t want to know?

And now I’ve got an old song stuck in my head.

“Glory, glory! What a hell of a way to die!”

Generally, it’s Proxmox, debían, then whatever is needed for what I’m spinning up. Usually Docker Compose.

Lately I’ve been playing some with Ansible, but it’s use is far from common for me right now.