I’m not entirely sure. I spent more than a year in Latin America and came back to prices being about 2-3x what i remember. Groceries before I left were 2x compared to before COVID.

Shits fucking expensive in the US.

It IS a more helpful thing than “This should never happen.”

Oh God. I’ve already got enough baggage 😭

Oh that’s dope. How many hours are you running? Do you also use them for things like encoding or something like that?

Sweet!

What’s up is everything I’ve been running and down is what I haven’t.

not working

I haven’t been able to get friendica to connect to Maria DB, so I’ll eventually try just MySql. Grafana isn’t running bc I would need to change a lot of things to get an exporter into each container and the truenas apps don’t really allow that configuration - fine if you have docker compose though, which I’ve started doing more and more.

new

I just got up and running with Stirling pdf, a free (and paid) PDF editor. That looks pretty sweet.

But I’m now also using 15GB of the 32 on the system, which is still plenty for Arc cache for me

what I want

I want to rent a VPS to host various fediverse apps, probably Lemmy, pixelfed, and write freely to start, for the nomad/expect communities. I’ve been looking at netcup and they have some decent arm offerings.

I’d like to put Talos Linux on it so I can get some kubernetes experience. They have a good sized server for €10, so I could expand to add a DB server or one specifically for logging and metrics.

I was looking at Hetzner, but I’ve read that their block storage is super slow and causes timeouts on DB.

Of course, can I even run these apps on arm? I guess I gotta find that out.

One thing I’d like to do is make a web page that makes signups super easy and would create an account on all services, ideally. Not a huge deal of that isn’t reasonable, but it’d be nice to allow doing it once rather than multiple times. If I could get sso, that’d be good, but I don’t know how supported that is.

How does your skin do in the sun?

you’d probably be better off setting up your own domain server and trying to get that working

That’s technically a subdomain and the same reason email went with @

Yeah, just me and my family for now. I have gotten a lot of knowledge setting stuff up and hope to eventually get some VPSs set up for some public Lemmy, pixelfed, and maybe mastodon instances for digital nomads and expats.

Eh, it’s a document viewer. I figured they’re referring to Plex and jellyfin when they say media.

All these. I just added calibre web and may phase out Kavita.

Elena Rossini (@_elena@mastodon.social) is a journalist who’s gotten into the fediverse and self hosting with Yuno Host. She’s documented it on her blog. It’s worked out really well for her.

This is super cool! You really get a lot just by making a FE for the lemmy API. Good work! 👍

Mine aren’t totally great as they’re both kinda negative. My top comment is https://lemm.ee/comment/16106836, which is pointing out that new jokes are old.

My top post is https://lemm.ee/post/5345101. The image associated with it is gone, but it was a screenshot of an old friend reaching out and acting friendly in a text and trying to sell me on a crypto scheme. That actually really bumbed me out when he did that.

It was a huge pita to get it running, but I have it.

One thing about the WA bridge is that element won’t let me give display names or look up the contact number, so the people in chatting with don’t have names, just “their number (WA)”

For backups, I have two drives that are striped and do nightly backups to idrive. I was able to find a containerized version of the console app and I have it run on a schedule from 3-7am.

I use NPM to redirect a domain name to the server with https.

I’m currently using write.as. It’s a pretty bare-bones setup when in single user mode and doesn’t give the kind of list view you might expect for readers - it loads everything onto a single page. I’m considering maybe using Ghost, which is another big name in the federated blogging space. Write.as doesn’t come with comments by default, but I was able to add cactus-comments, but it was a huge PITA because it requires a matrix server.

I do, however, like the minimalist UI aspect of it. You can take a look at mine here. I was also able to get around the list thing by using pinned posts, which stay at the top, so I made an about, a directory, and subscribe pages.

Write.as will post to mastodon under an account that it creates and I have myself on mastodon as a verified owner of the blog site.

is the baby federating?

I actually really like the easy access subbed list

I posted an edit to the post on how I i solved it. Your feedback was helpful in the solution!