Some modern workloads can take advantage of multiple computers. You can usually compile using things like distcc and spread the load across them.

If you make them into a Kubernetes cluster you can run many copies or many different things.

It’s still an unsolved problem: we still end up with single core bottlenecks to this day, before even involving other machines altogether.

The AUR is a source-based. You can’t install directly from it. The packages must first be built before pacman can install it.

Envoyer des gens désespérés dans les églises c’est ptête pas la meilleure idée. Y vont tous se faire brainwasher.

Back in the days we’d get free hosting and slap phpBB on it. Run for kids by kids, no pesky adult rules!

Those were the days. No credit cards needed, no nothing, just free 50MB of Apache/MySQL/PHP4 hosting with no strings attached.

If the fediverse was a thing I’d probably have had my own instance starting age 14-15ish.

I was totally above 13 or had parental consent when I went to forums in the early 2000s. I totally wasn’t actually 9.

It’s wild to me this concept disappeared? It’s literally never been a good idea to reveal you’re a minor online. The laws are against you. Companies don’t want to deal with a curated minor experience, even less so in the current times. If they do, you get the crappier version of things.

The worst thing to happen to the Internet is when Facebook normalized using your real name and real info online.

A lot of those identify as christian because of cultural heritage and because it’s the “not some brown people’s religion” but are non-practicing or straight up non-believers otherwise. Those that do maybe go in the church once a year for the christmas stuff

The churches are packed with mostly tourists and the parking lot is filled with Ontario plates.

You’re just not gonna find many nutjobs like the rest of Canada and the US here. Even my grandparents pretty much just go out of habit from the old times. I haven’t once been in a religious argument in Québec my whole life. It’s basically unavoidable in the US.

The quiet revolution is a fairly interesting piece of history.

A good chunk of them have already been converted into condos and shops. I even hooked up with a guy that lived in one of those.

Christianity died in the 70s in Québec, you won’t find many people under like 40 that still gives a crap about religion in Québec.

It’s still not ideal but you can at least set a charge limit and set it really low like 50% which is about where those batteries degrade the least.

But yeah using a lithium ion battery as a capacitor ain’t great. BMS is just gonna charge it some, let it drain, charge it some, let it drain, repeat over and over again. There’s a reason store phones tend to become spicy pillows so much after a while of being on display always on always running some animation.

This is already what happens when you leave it plugged in to charge overnight, except it uses very little power so the battery only gets topped off a handful of times.

The heat caused by the busy CPU would also be a rather big problem for the battery.

It’s not impossible, been running my own email server for about 10 years and I inbox pretty much everywhere. I even emailed my work address and straight to inbox. I do have the full SPF, DKIM and DMARC stuff set up, for which I get notices from several email provides of failed spoof attempts.

Takes a while and effort to gain that reputation, but it’s doable. And OVH’s IPs don’t exactly have a great reputation either. Once you’re delisted from most spam databases / old spam reputation is expired, it’s not that bad.

Although I do agree it’s possibly one of the hardest services to self host. The software to run email servers is ancient and weird, and takes a lot to set up right. If you get it wrong you relay spam and start over, it’s rough.

I’m just curious if ‘B’ still retrieves the content from ‘A’ to show in user feeds.

It works the other way around: instance A pushes the content to instance B. Therefore if A defederates B, then obviously A ain’t gonna be pushing the content.

There’s an edge case where instance C is involved: A could comment on a post on C, and then C would forward it to B as well. But then B wouldn’t be allowed to fetch the user profile from A anyway and might just drop it regardless. I’m not sure the particular way Lemmy handles this.

Ordered two drives from them, came in very well packaged and even included the PWDIS adapter. Very good deals. Could throw the box across the yard and the drives would probably survive.

As a starting point. Are there any hardware recommendations for a toy home server?

Whatever you already have. Old desktop, even old laptop (those come with a built-in battery backup!). Failing what, Raspberry Pis are pretty popular and cheap and low power consumption, which makes it great if you’re not sure how much you want to spend.

Otherwise, ideally enough to run everything you need based on rough napkin math. Literally the only requirement is that the stuff you intend to run fits on it. For reference, my primary server which hosts my Lemmy instance (and emails and NextCloud and IRC and Matrix and Minecraft) is an old Xeon processor close to a third gen Intel i7 with 32GB of DDR3 memory, there’s 5 virtual machines on it (one of which is the Lemmy one), and it feels perfectly sufficient for my needs. I could make it work with half of that no problem. My home lab machine is my wife’s old Dell OptiPlex.

Speaking of virtual machines, you can test the waters on your regular PC by just loading whatever OS you choose in a virtual machine (libvirt if you’re on Linux, VirtualBox or VMware otherwise). Then play with it. When it works makes a snapshot. Continue playing with it, break it, revert to the last good snapshot. A real home server will basically be the same but as a real machine that’s on 24/7. It’s also useful to test things out as a practice run before putting them on your real server machine. It’s also give you a rough idea how much resources it uses, and you can always grow your VM until it fits and then know how much you need for the real thing.

Don’t worry too much about getting it right (except the backups, get those right, verify and test those regularly). You will get it wrong and eventually tear it down and rebuild it better what what you learn (or want to learn). Once you gain more experience it’ll start looking more and more like a real server setup, out of your own desire and needs.

I feel like a lot of the answers in this thread are throwing a lot of things with a lot of moving parts: Unraid, Docker, YunoHost, all that stuff. Those all still require generally knowing what the hell a Docker container is, how to use them and such.

I wouldn’t worry about any of that and start much simpler than that: just grab any old computer you want to be your home server or rent a VPS and start messing with it. Just pick something you think would be cool to run at home. Anything you run on your personal computer you wish was up 24/7? Start with that.

Ultimately there’s no right or wrong way to do things. It’s all about that learning experience and building up that experience over time. You get good by trying out things, failing and learning. Don’t want to learn Linux? Put Windows on it. You’ll get a lot of flack for it maybe, but at the very least over time you’ll probably learn why people don’t use Windows for server stuff generally. Or maybe you’ll like it, that happens too.

Just pick a project and see it to completion. Although if you start with NextCloud and expose it publicly, maybe wait to be more comfortable with the security aspect before you start putting copies of your taxes and personal documents on it just in case.

What would you like to self host to get started?

Kinda crazy the devs shut down wchill’s patches and insist on the more fragile “lets generate a random user agent”.

The redirect URL and user agent manual spoof is much more reliable because at least it really does look like someone’s custom app, and closes options for them in the future to block it again.

Same, even with the custom API key. Guess we’re gonna have to spoof the user agent too.

I just use disposable VMs or containers for that stuff, with limited network access. I’d always rather have a real security boundary than databases and heuristics.

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You shouldn’t need sudo for a traceroute, so that’s something special on your system.

It’s kind of like ping, it uses raw sockets and does need special privileges, but some distros make those SUID binaries so normal users can use them anyway.

No, because it’s a balancing act. There’s fraud everywhere, it’s just how things are. It’s not worth spending more than it gets back in the name of moral purity.

The allegations of widespread fraud usually have an ulterior motive other than cutting down fraud. It’s usually about the group of people needing the service as a whole and demonizing them with fraud allegations to cut down important social services. Nobody ever talks about banking fraud, stocks fraud, even when done by the literal president. It’s always poor people on welfare programs, food stamps, healthcare that are somehow “the problem”.

I couldn’t care less about poor people not declaring the 10h of work they managed to find, it’s literally impossible to survive on food stamps and welfare without doing undeclared work and if you do declare it you just get penalized more than you earned. It’s a system designed for you to not escape out of.

What would you run an antivirus for? I trust the software I out on my servers, if I didn’t I wouldn’t be installing it or at the very least would put it in a VM.

I have real security boundaries in place, no need for useless scareware.