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!Selfhosted - I would encourage @Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ to cover both options - VPS and locally / selfhosted in a guide to setting up Yunohost - and include plenty of references to doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get_… - I'd also encourage you to include some suggestions on areas/things that its worth learng a little more about (e.g. DHCP, some basic routing, Firewalls/Portforwarding )
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You can host yourself at home (on a small computer), or on a remote server. Each solution has their pros and cons:doc.yunohost.org
Hello Fedi friends,I'm currently planning my written tutorial for #YunoHost - from the POV of a newbie.
The guide will have a simple but ambitious goal: to encourage non-technical people to try self-host their own #NextCloud instance... and show them that it's something accessible to all, thanks to the wonderful YunoHost.org
I have tried other similar tools and YunoHost IMHO is simply the best and most secure solution. I've been using it for 11 months now and I have ZERO complaints. It just works... and it's effortless.
I'm thinking of splitting my written tutorial in a 3-part series... because doing everything in one go for a non-technical person could be overwhelming.
Part 1: registering a domain name and signing up for a VPS*
* yes I know technically you could forgo a domain name but I think having one is more empowering long term... and I'd go the VPS route because it's the most headache-free for a newbie. I can do the whole thing in 12 minutes with a VPS... and experienced headaches with a Raspi. I think for a total newbie the VPS is the way to go... especially if we factor in security issues. The stakes are lower
Part 2: installing YunoHost and tweaking DNS settings (assigning domain for NextCloud and creating a subdomain for YunoHost admin stuff, etc.)
Part 3: installing NextCloud (which people voted for when I asked which app I should install in my tutorial) and seeing what it can do.
Thoughts?
Is a 3-part series overkill or ok? I'd like to encourage people to set aside 30 minutes a day for this, so that the whole thing is not too overwhelming.
Eager to hear what you think about this!
P.S.: tangentially related but ICYMI: my Ghost blog is now federating thanks to MagicPages.co. You can follow it here: @ele
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YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.yunohost.org
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!Fediverse - This may have already been shared here. Apologies if it has. I saw this on #Reddit Fediverse group and it seems interested. Hopefulyl it work well with #Friendica post locations. (If I can ever figure out how to use those properly. )
Do you know of a community that could use their own Federated mapping server? Please DM me.In six weeks, I've made TONS of progress on Atlas Maps, and I'm confident with real people using it in the field.
So I spent this morning reaching out to a handful of integrators and consultants, but I can't find everyone.
Please help me reach out to the activists, builders, and organizers you know who need to map local events in their communities.
Who should I contact next?
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Do you know of a community that could use their own Federated mapping server? Please DM me.
In six weeks, I've made TONS of progress on Atlas Maps, and I'm confident with real people using it in the field.
So I spent this morning reaching out to a handful of integrators and consultants, but I can't find everyone.
Please help me reach out to the activists, builders, and organizers you know who need to map local events in their communities.
Who should I contact next?
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really interesting! any thoughts about how this could integrate with events (mobilizon/gancio etc)?
Yes. Both of these are on my radar -- particularly Gancio, because it would also help out the #Bandwagon project.
Basically, everything is #ActivityPub, so we should just be able to crawl other sites for the posts they publish. It may take a little work to discover posts and to massage them into the right format (Mobilizon's address formats make me sad) but all the plumbing is already there.
what's wrong with mobilizon's address format?
Actually, I should take that back. Mobilizon's address format is fine. I'm just being cranky.
Mobilizon is doing something custom --because Activity Vocabulary doesn't define a standard for addresses.
So, Mobilizon is using schema.org definitions instead, which are probably the next best thing.
In general, address formatting *anything* is a hot mess. Every different organization uses something almost the same but slightly different from everyone else.
"type": ["Note"]Are you trying to be an interoperability problem creating jokster?
Also UNCHAIN THE BUFFALO. If I was in college, I would now lobby to steal UC Boulder's mascot, so I get something cute to cuddle.
There's apparently a whole security apparatus around "Ralphie" the Buffalo. Even her handlers don't exactly know where she lives. I think the Air Force Academy kidnapped her once, so they instituted James Bond level security: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralphie_…
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As for the Not type - you're right, it should be a single value (ActivityPub spec be damned).
Anyway, It's fixed on the demo site now. Check out this awesome commit :) github.com/EmissarySocial/atla…
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"UC Boulder" ... I apologize. It's CU Boulder.
@helge I will never understand how "University of Colorado, Boulder" becomes "CU Boulder". It's just weird.
But it's not the weirdest thing going on in Boulder, and I won't get dragged into the big-endian, little-endian debate. :)
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Only 2 names for the same University?
TCD, aka Trinity College Dublin, aka Dublin University, aka The University Of Dublin, aka "The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars and the other members of Board of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin", would like a word (or 25).
The College and the University were founded (by royal charter) in 1592, and defined as one body by a High Court case in 1898.
This is great! One day Fediverse will have its own version of Foursquare/Swarm. :)
@michal That would be awesome. I'm putting the base tech out there, but probably can't develop a full Foursquare on my own. I'm hoping some others can jump in the fire with me to take this further.
If you know anyone who's good with HTML, Javascript, and basic data modelling, I'd love to get their help!
It feels to me that you work would make a great feature in #Friendica
Yes, it would. There's two aspects to this:
General ActivityPub Interop
This *should* work with Friendica now, but I have a task on the project board to verify and tweak as necessary.
Building Into Friendica
I don't know its code base, but there's no reason Friendica couldn't do this, but it would take some work. This uses features that (I think) only Emissary has at the moment: search queries that natively implement ActivityPub actors, and a bunch of geospatial code, too.
#Friendica seems a fairly general purpose almost Facebook replacement (if you can get your friends to join) - But I get your idea of federating location in a controlled way (I like Friendica because of its built in focus on thinking about who you are sharing stuff with ) I also like the idea that it includes location and events (thought I think they are still being developed)
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Yes. At the end of the day, the Fediverse is better because all these different projects can work together seamlessly. There can’t be one über system that does everything — but many, many different things that absolutely crush their own little niches.
oh I completely agree. Being able to try things out, implement, reimplement Its great. I think there is a degree of bringing things together for users - My idea is a fairly streamlined drop in replacement for ISP Routers that could run some basic selfhosted federated socialmedia, messaging and collaboration services for a family that would cover their main needs.
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This is so cool! Original idea, and the execution looks really good.
I hope the best possible future for this!
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Is there anything that I could do to help @Ben Pate 🤘🏻
Sure! There's tons to do -- and I'm happy to take guidance, suggestions, code commits from anyone who's interested. Atlas itself is very simple (just HTML + Javascript) because all the hard work is done by #Emissary
Since you're already familiar with Friendica AND Open Street Map, so you're probably already more of a subject matter expert than me.
So where do YOU think we should take this technology?
I'm still getting my head around it.. But my immediate thoughts are how it relates to other services - Of course like Friendica, blogging and photo sharing but also geotracking apps (e.g #owntracks - owntracks.org/ and tools around OpensStreetmap like #Openreviews - open-reviews.net/
cool. definitely has the potential for some interesting use cases.
I'm trying to understand the value of #emissary vs the #Atlas implementation - I can see that having something that allows you to standup federated sharing across multiple activity types for multiple domains / organisations / groups makes sense but i'm immediately thinking that use cases are inevtiablly going to involve integrations with many other systems.
Yes. Every new implementation will require some additional integrations in the core server. Atlas (for instance) required a ton of new geographic services.
But I DIDN'T have to rebuild the user ActivityPub integration, user authentication, image processing, ... you get the idea.
By necessity, all Fediverse apps have tons in common. Much than the surface issues that separates them. So #Emissary is that common core, with a programmable layer on top to support different needs.
Yeah .. I guess for the non-text post based activity its going to be key to find relevant use cases and applications that would provide the user input - or the situations where someone would then go to the UI to add a location , event or whatever they are adding. (I mean I wonder if an ical to ActivtyPub translation would be something)..
It could be interesting if you were packaged up with something like #Postiz ( nevodavid@lemmy.world
) - so that an agency could offer organisations both a activitypub based server and cross posting capabilities
) - so that an agency could offer organisations both a activitypub based server and cross posting capabilities
Is this silly but ..woukd such a service be of.interest to the guys at @MapComplete or #EveryDoor or even @OpenStreetMap community ? I did think the other day it would be cool to be able to publish the updates I am.making to #openstreemap as an Activitypub feed so friends coukd get updates as I map.. or groups could chat and comment on mapping .. I assume that given that each map point is a post there is nothing stopping people replying to a post/point?
@abeorch @openstreetmap #openstreetMap is centralized by design, as there is (generally) only a single truth that we should agree on. Sharding the OSM data into multiple versions is unmaintainable on the long run.
Having your changesets available on the #fediverse however is somewhat cool, and something we're already doing with a little bot: @mapcomplete_edits
However, only a fraction of the OSM-community would probably want this.
Oh yeah completely agree. I'm not thinking of this replacing #osm - its more like a RSS feed of your changeset that you can chat about with friends. Your exisiting feed is cool .. but being able to subscribe to what some of my fellow mappers do - either via a particular app or at an osm level would be cool - Agree that only some would be interested but then that's always the case. I do feel it could make things a bit more social - kind of like - and I'm hesitant to suggest it - #Strava - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strava
More general query about #openstreetmap - but is it possible to subscribe to a feed of changes for a feature? That would also be cool .. As would being able to subscribe to a feed of events related to that feature
you can use osmcha.org/ to track changes in an area and a specific kind of object but it is really more a QA tool than anything else (there is no guarantee that a real-life-object will always be modelled by the same OSM object aka you can't rely on the id not changing). As a historic note there have been attempts to create a distributed OSM look-a-like but none of them have ever gained much popularity.
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Yeah this is definately not a dstirbuted OSM - its just encouring engagement around the changes that you make to OSM or just being social about the changes you make to OSM (since they are basically public)
@simon @abeorch @openstreetmap As a matter of facts, @mapcomplete_edits uses #OsmCha to get the relevant changes...
I’m a bit late to the party, but this seems perfect for players of ar mobile games like ingress and pokemon go, since they have to coordinate raids and stuff for physical locations.
Cool 😎 there are so many unexpected uses coming up for this. I wouldn’t know how to reach mobile gamers like this, but I’d be happy to help you set up a server, if you’re interested!
Ben.. I was thinking - could you team up with the podcast app Podcici ? github.com/XilinJia/Podcini.X/
Sure. I’m up for working with anyone.
There’s a few “spoken word” albums on Bandwagon.fm, but I haven’t really cracked *podcasts* yet. That would probably take some improvements to the RSS that we auto-generate. So in this case, we might not be ready for them.
Or, are you thinking of this from another angle?
Hi Ben sorry slow reply to this - As always life continues to be a serious of craziness. Classic sorry for the random reply as well as I haven't had time to really get my thoughts together.
I've just started to try out #Podcini so still getting a feel for that.
I also found minipub.dev/ - a framework for Commenting on podcasts which I thought was interesting (Maybe more from the use cases it identifies ) and I think covers what I was thinking - Basically your Podcast app provides a stream of what you listen to and allows you (and others ) to share comments and forward songs/programmes that you recommend to others.
This approach of having comments tied to a thing works across other domains (locations, activities that you do) basically anything that could be tied to a URI
But you are right - there is a need to sketch out some use cases and user journeys and see what the interest is and whether there are others that might have the capability to bring some effort to bare against them.
At the risk of rambling - That's something that I find hard to figure out with Opensource - not all people who are users have the capability to develop/build and hence there is a squew in what is developed.
Rambling back to the point about these use cases - There is also a challenge around identity - Do you want separate accounts to post updates on your running, listening, openstreetmap updates - or do you want to link/bring those all together under one identity/account. (I guess plugins that operate under a Friendica account would do this second approach)
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I just visited Damascus for the first time since 2006. I grew up there, so the trip was a LOT of emotions.
A few photos from the trip.
1. One the major streets of Damascus, Nasr Street
2. A community centre in the old city. Film directing students are gathered in the courtyard for a lesson. Very neglected treasure of a building.
3. The Hamadieh market in the old town
4. Sunrise/moon set in the edge of the city. Solar panels everywhere.
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I was chatting to a Syrian yesterday about good times I had visiting in 2006-2008. It was a mix of smiles, sadness and hope of recent developments.
So nice to see your pictures.
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@abeorch It's such a beautiful city, filled with tragedy, hope, and endless contradictions. I can't wait to be back again.
Yes.. its like the opposite of the places I grew up in - and a place I was so tempted to live in for a while. I wished I'd taken that leap back then.
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And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.
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Much has been written about the loss of color in the twenty-first century. Our environments offered practically every color known to man not so very long ago — and in certain eras, granted, it got to be a bit much.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
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Got my robot vacuum running Valetudo the other night...
....then proceeded to get stoned and watch it roam the house, doing it's thing.
And then it dawned on me - I now have a completely self-contained autonomous robot that is free to roam my house, not attached to any cloud services, doing actually productive things; and I have full control over it.
I know it's an odd thing for a grown-ass man to get excited over, but I can attest to the fact that 14 year-old me would be over the fucking moon about this. My parents got me the first Lego Mindstorms set for Christmas when I was younger, and I had an old Palm V handheld from my uncle; I managed to figure out how to control the Mindstorms controller with the Palm V's built-in IR blaster, using just a "universal remote" app.
How far we've come.... Just accomplishing this has given me a renowned motivation for self-hosting shit; it's incredibly freeing. And knowing that the manufacturer of this vacuum could access it at any point and just outright shut it off without my knowledge.... I don't have to deal with that anymore.
The robot is a Wyze "Robot Vacuum" (model WVCR200S), which is based on the 3irobotix CRL-200S - the very same robot one author recently discovered was being intentionally shut off after he had blocked some telemetry URLs. I bought it for $20 on eBay. Fully functional, but the battery only lasted ~10 minutes from a full charge. Luckily it just uses four 18650 cells in series, so replacing those was a pretty simple task. I did not buy a whole new pack (most of them are expensive and falsify their true capacities), rather opting for individual Molicel P30B 3000mAh cells for ~$5 each. I ended up having to peel off the nickel tabs from the old cells and carefully solder them to the new cells, as I don't have a spot welder. Lots of flux and a soldering iron set to 450C were key here. I would not recommend that method 😅.
Edit: My parents dropped by last night and I gushed about it to them... My dad is a tech guy, so he was pretty interested. My mom was more "I have no idea what you're talking about but I'm happy that you're happy" 😂😂
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Still sounds easier than getting my roborock on valetudo. I had to take the entire thing apart to get to the other side of the mobo to flash the thing. Felt like I needed 3 hands to ground one place while doing a bunch of other things just to get it to flash. My workspace was a mess of screws and tiny robot parts I only half remembered taking out.
In the end it worked and I'm very happy with it. Was sweating for a bit though. It was a $400 vacuum iirc.
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Of you ever feel like you can't find the right screws or it just doesn't hold back together well, just Goop the bastard back together.
So much stuff in my life is now Gooped together - I even Gooped some drives into a desktop that lacked enough mount points.
That stuff is magic in a tube.
Worth it IMO. These things get hella filthy inside. I took mine apart to replace its motherboard, and I'm glad I did because it needed a good cleaning.
These things get hella filthy inside.
LOL Reminds me of when my Jack Russel was a pup, training him to poop outside. Well, one day early in his training, he decided to poop under the dinning room table and I didn't see it. Turned the vaccum loose, and sure enough, it found the poop, smeared it all over the floors and made a complete mess of the guts. I spent the day with a toothbrush and some cleaner. So, yeah...can confirm they do get filthy.
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Oh noooooo hahahaha
The previous owner of mine was absolutely a pet owner. It was chock full of fur. Luckily nobody in my house has any pet allergies...
~/copypasta/gunfortheprinter.odt but it's a JTAG header for the vacuum
I've patiently waited until the flashing guide for the roborock s8 was out, went to buy the s8 pro ultra, just to discover valetudo has dropped the support, because appearently a different version of the same robot was silently released, that would've been turned into a brick if I tried the installation procedure.
Now I have a dumb robot. It does like 95% of what I expect it to do, but I might at least solder an ep32 to the top buttons so that scheduling through the home assistant would be possible
Yeah, that's a rough one. Manufacturers really don't want us mucking about and will release different versions under the same name all to obfuscate that process.
A lot of TVs are like this as well; we have a curved Samsung 55" that lost it's backlight last year - not only did I need the model and serial numbers, I also needed the specific T-con board revision. A similar thing happened on my former TCL Roku TV several years before. Same deal.
And then it dawned on me - I now have a completely autonomous robot roaming my house, not attached to any cloud services
I have one of the older model rumba's. It does have wifi capabilities, but I've never connected it. Do the newer models require you to connect to wifi? Valetudo looks interesting tho.
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I'm honestly not entirely sure. I've been eyeballing Valetudo for a few years now, but the price of the supported robots was out of my budget until I happened onto the $20 Wyze from eBay. Took a chance and won big. I'm into it a whopping $65. And a bit of labor to swap the motherboard (mine refused to run ADB at all). But that's the fun part for me.
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Responded with the wrong account... I try not to have any crossover between my accounts, but here we are...
Anyway.
Do the newer models require you to connect to wifi?
Probably. I only have the two robots: the aforementioned Wyze, and a cheap Eufy Robovac 25C
Valetudo looks interesting tho.
It's really quite fascinating. Valetudo is not a 3rd party firmware - it's a cloud replacement that's hosted on the robot itself, and also runs a webserver which gives you access to the actual controls and relevant firmware options.
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Valetudo is not a 3rd party firmware - it’s a cloud replacement that’s hosted on the robot itself, and also runs a webserver which gives you access to the actual controls and relevant firmware options.
Yeah but can it run Doom? That's the burning question
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Well these robots run a Linux distribution as a base. So yes, sure, they will run doom just fine.
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If you can manage to get video out, I'm sure it can be done. Maybe you can even stream Doom to a web browser.
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A Growing Number of ‘Repair Cafes’ Are Popping Up Around the World to Curb Consumer Waste - Inside Climate News
Local communities are hosting events where people can bring in their broken goods for repairs—free of charge.Inside Climate News
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Rossmann and chill
Rossmann is the literal opposite of chill, hearing him talk gives me anxiety. I'd rather just read his writings.
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Or just look up Indians
Think i may have found my "retirement job" lol
Over the past week, I’ve repaired an air filter that had a corroded trace inside its fan motor controller, a pair of Bluetooth headphones that had sweat ingress bust the power button, and I’m working on rebuilding an LCD driver for an old piece of Mattel electronics.
I’m very interested in this article.
Edit: and I forgot to mention the time a few months ago where a friend ordered a walking treadmill from Amazon that was DOA, so they just sent her a new one and told her to scrap the original. Turns out the power connector was unplugged from the mainboard receptacle.
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Odds are someone else on the internet will have some of the same broken random crap as you some day
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There is nothing more worthy of a blog, IMHO
Ch00ftech.com though it’s been a hot decade since I’ve published anything.
I still have a floor lamp next to my desk that was given to me broken, which I took apart and fixed. The way the little mechanism works to turn the thing on was (a) not that hard to fix once I looked at it, it's all just wires my dude (b) absolutely fascinatingly interesting in how simple and clever the design is. I was actually really impressed and happy that I took the trouble to take it apart and muck with it.
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There are studies that show that people care for things more if they had a hand in creating/fixing them.
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Though I personally have more of a love hate relationship with my IKEA furniture.
Got some speakers repaired last month at my local. I had the parts but not a suitable adhesive. Brought them in and got them fixed right up. A son's friend volunteers there too, I discovered!
Good.
I’ve worked in tech basically all my life. Everything from IT to shuffling wafer around a fab to now working for an aerospace parts supplier as an electrical tech.
The amount of waste is… it’s shocking. A board fails, and half of these companies throw it away. The other half sends it off to be ‘recycled’ as if that’s any better in the long run. Just because one chip is bad or whatever doesn’t mean the rest of the components on the board are bad.
That being said, I understand the massive amount of labor it would take to desolder every component on a board just to add them to stock. That’s why nobody does it. You’d need an army of people to properly remove and test every component on a failed board.
But, like, you don’t have to? All those components are already in a spot where they won’t get lost and can be retrieved when needed: on the failed board. Thankfully the company I work for now understands that buying things to be shipped takes a lot more time than just… taking an hour to steal a chip from a failed board and using that.
I worked for a company before that had at least half of the boards come off the wave solder machines with problems. Excess solder in places it shouldn’t be, failed components everywhere, and basic assembly issues. They’d toss these boards in a corner of the building to be repaired later. The issue is that they just couldn’t quit taking people away from rework and putting them on assembly. The engineers never bothered to come downstairs and actually do their jobs. So the failed boards never got worked on, and they kept generating a mountain of them.
So I guess what I’m saying is that I’m glad people are actually fixing stuff instead of throwing it away. Were that this would become the norm.
It’s really a good sign of the economic situation. If more people thought about waste before purchase and adopted a make do and mend attitude. That would help. But for a long time it’s been cheap to just replace and not care.
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The other aspect of this is the community and education value. It gets people together having a cuppa, a chat and likely some awareness and education. Pairing these together with small workshops would be great value. Teaching kids how to tinker and fix stuff should be more promoted.
I used to have a pretty sweet Thinkbook for work. It flipped around into a tablet and had a stylus in a little slot, and a solid casing and everything. The motherboard went bad. I told my company to remove the hard drive and let me fix the computer for myself. I even offered to pay for it. It was a nice machine. They said no. I sent it to IT and it went to the laptop graveyard.
Management doesn't understand storage. For a while we had to destroy mobo, RAM and drive from departing devices, to 'protect' patient information.
But why free? Rich countries need repair shops. This should be a viable career.
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My guess is because a lot of cheaper electronics are genuinely not worth repairing if you have to pay for it, even if the repair takes literally seconds to do, and anything that’s worth paying to repair can already be taken to eg computer repair places.
The world we live in now is absolutely full of cheap electronics. That stuff breaks more often than better built and thus pricier models, so it should be the first stuff to get fixed. And that kinda requires free repair.
I mean how much would you pay to fix a $20 coffee maker/kettle?
Yeah but here’s the catch. If you want them to look at your shit it’s a flat €80 fee here. Whatever the outcome. And then you pay for parts with insane markups. And if it requires thinkering well they don’t do that (my American fridge where the dispenser lever isn’t made anymore- no interest in doing custom print or bypass).
So unless you have happy interested passionate persons which usually is a hacker’s club you only have those kind of services it seems 
We're not replacing expensive parts or anything. If something is beyond the capability of a volunteer, or requires something we don't have, we refer them to a local repair shop instead.
There is a free repair cafe near me and I'm thinking of creating one as well.
Since they get money from the city to do so that don't want to overlap on professional repair shops. So they only repair things that professional shop don't repair because it's not economically interesting for them.
Despite this rule they get a lot of repairs to do.
Because currently in rich country, repairing things is not a viable career outside of few niche areas.
Light bulbs are not an example of design for obsolescence. This article is ignorant and spreading misinformation
Wym? Many LED lights have components on them that fail waaaaaay before the diode and could certainly be designed to last longer
At one point I invested in a $10 light bulb from Home Depot because the packaging assured me that it would last for years and years and so it was actually better than the big packages of ones that were cheap. It stopped working in a few weeks. I went back and asked one of their valued team members about it, and he said maybe the "board" on it "went out," which apparently happens to them a lot.
I kind of knew when I bought it that it was bullshit, but I didn't expect it to be such bullshit.
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CFL turned out to be a massive lie/scam.
Pay anywhere from 8x-50x more per bulb... yeah the individual LEDs won't die but the device itself is usually fried in 3 months. Meanwhile I've got $0.25 incandescent bulbs that are 10 years old.
The potential "energy savings" are always trumpeted from the rooftops, but in the actual application you end up spending more because the constant waste/replace cycle vastly offsets any trivial amount of electricity saved.
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Hey, I volunteer at one of these! We do all sorts of repairs, its a lot of fun and a great way to meet people. I reccomend it.
I’ve thought about up-cycling stores, too. Probably not as nice as just getting your item repaired, but if it’s items you no longer want, and no one else will either, could be cool seeing what can be made with it and kept out of the landfill.
#newzealand has #ecostores - when you taken things to the tip / #landfill - they are sorted through and anything useful is put into stock at an #ecoshop where people can buy it for nominal amounts. In the #uk its illegal to - which seems crazy. Id love to see my local waste transfer station to have a 'reuse' option - so you could dump your rubbish and selectnthings you need from items other have left.
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Where do I even start?
I have a Pixel 8.... a PC with Linux Mint. How do I learn to "self host". Mainly for photo storage backup. Where do I start? I know nothing, absolutely nothing
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How aboit starting with something like #yunohost
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+1 for Yunohost. Easy to deploy, and their app catalog is substantial.
I can confirm that Yunhost is one of the best ways to start learning self-hosting. The only "bad thing" I can say is that sometimes it's so easy that you actually don't learn any thing.
The only "bad thing" I can say is that sometimes it's so easy that you actually don't learn any thing.
I learned a lot. Definitely a whole lot less than if I had done it "from scratch". But also, I never would have done that. I tried and failed several times.
Another +1 for YUNOhost. I went from zero experience self-hosting to having my own email, fediverse instance, file server and several websites on a VPS. I would never have had the patience to figure this out without it.
So, for all you ^5'ing Yunohost, I have a question that's bothered me for years. Like I said, their app catalog beats anything else in it's category, but they also list apps that don't work....separately of course and labeled as such. I've always wondered why. Is it in hopes that someone will fix them? ....or what?
I would personally recommend starting with a Pi-hole. It's easy to set up and provides an immediate improvement to your whole internet experience.
Try to follow the official guide or use a Docker container.
But pihole is not a photo backup
But a great start to get into selfhosting. What's an IP? What is a DNS? How do I connect to via ssh? What's the job of DHCP? Pretty basic stuff, your learning in the process.
Yup. You got to start with the tedious and the boring before you get to the glamorous where your friends 'ooo' and 'ahh' about your set up.
Start by searching for how to selfhost a photo storage backup. There are multiple ways to do it and the decision depends on your circumstances and preferences, which only you know.
If you are interested in the photo storage then start..... With the storage.
So pick up a nas or something similar, pay a bit more for the super intuitive fancy gui product and the start from there.
Learn what is nas and how to connect to a pc
Thne learn how to do the same with your smartphone
Then learn a bit about networking
Then... Continuous for the hardest itch and try to Scratch it
And if you need support, come back here, check videos and web pages or even chatgpt, for the basic stuff is quite acceptable
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Well for starters if you want something more out-of-the box, just buy a NAS. But what woult be better is to buy a Raspberry Pi 5 and add a micro sd with good amount of storage or maybe some additional external storage and install CasaOS(this is basically a easy UI that allows you to self-host mostly without commands) and install Immich within its App Store, and link it up with your phone(on the Immich app).(If you need any more help DM)
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If you are going RaspberryPI - Isn't an SSD a better starting point for storage? - But the best is to work with what you have - the PC
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CasaOS
I tried CasaOS. Pretty slick piece of software.
Stop freaking out, you can do this. Don't try to build a full server farm on day one. Start small, get something that actually works, then iterate.
Practical path: plug an external HDD into your Linux Mint box and install Syncthing on both the Pixel 8 and the PC. Syncthing is dead simple for backups, it syncs your phone photos to the PC with no cloud, no port forwarding, and it Just Works. Install with apt on Mint, install the Android app on the Pixel, share the camera/DCIM folder, accept the device link. You'll have automatic backups within an hour and you'll actually learn how files move around.
When you're comfortable, add a second copy or offsite backup (cheap VPS, friend's house, or a rotating drive). If you want a web gallery, user accounts, or calendar/email too, then move to Nextcloud or a small NAS OS like OpenMediaVault or TrueNAS SCALE on a dedicated box or a Raspberry Pi. Use Docker if you want portability, and always put HTTPS and a firewall in front if you expose anything to the internet.
Bottom line, stop reading dozens of guides. Do Syncthing + external drive today, then upgrade. You'll learn a lot faster by doing than by overplanning.
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i started in january of this year because i upgraded my wife's computer. that gave me an old computer to tinker with.
i recommend getting an old computer, installing an OS (look up thinks like truenas, proxmox, unraid... there are more and they are different; try them all out if you want to see what you like)
then go onto youtube and search for things like " beginner" and you will get a bunch of tips/tricks/tutorials/etc. for starting out with your favorite.
Immich is a fantastic photo backup service that is a replacement for Google Photos both in form and function.
There's a demo at demo.immich.app to see what it looks like and what you can do with it. As far as self hosting stuff goes it's relatively easy to setup. Work through the setup guide and see if you can understand that to get it running.
What it will do is make it available on any devices on your local (WiFi or wired) network. You will need to open a port on the Linux box's firewall, but that step is easy and I can show you how to do that on Mint. Then you'll be able to connect to it from your phone or any other devices (or right from a browser right on the server).
If you have any questions feel free to ask. I have a few things running on a Mint server I have.
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One option you could explore since you didn't list any other equipment, is a cheap VPS. You can pick one up at LowEndBox for cheap. I have a couple VPS test servers that run about $25 a year. That would help you get your feet wet a bit. You could learn how to deploy Linux server along with the standard defense systems in place like Fail2Ban, UFW, etc.
Or even a small NUC or RPi.
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Agreed. For actual backup, I'd put it in the cloud.
Really, I'd run immich locally, and then back that up to the cloud, but that depends on how valuable the data really is to you.
Really, I’d run immich locally,
There ya go. Encrypted of course. That way OP can still learn to stand up a proper server and defenses before it almost instantaneously attracts the attention of literally any or all of the 1.5 billion known, active, automated bot accounts at this moment +/- show up at your port 22 doorstep and helping themselves to your resources.
The very first linux server I stood up on a vps, was taken over quite quickly. So, that spurred me on to read tutorials, scour chans and forums, just looking for guidance and knowledge. Now, I understand a lot more that I did way back when so it's gotten easier. Not that I house a vast trove of wisdom or knowledge....pffffttt....that does not exist. I learn something new all the time. That's one of the aspects I really love about self hosting.
Of course. Personally I wouldn't expose anything to the Internet but a VPN service.
Zeroth, consider GrapheneOS on that Pixel.
First, Syncthing on the PC and Syncthing-Fork. Now you can sync (and anything else) your photo files from phone to PC and vice versa. Congrats, you have photo storage backup.
Second, either a vpn to your home network so you can backup on the road, or Immich (as elsewhere suggested) for your own google photos experience.
Third, whichever of second you didn't choose.
Fourth, get ye an offsite backup (search 3-2-1 backup). rclone is your friend, but encrypt first locally with Cryptomator, then you don't have to trust your storage provider.
for "photo storage backup", you can simply use syncthing.
unless you want to really learn to "self host"
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apart from syncthing not being a backup solution, the question revolves around seldhosting im general, not purely on photo backup.
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apart from syncthing not being a backup solution, the question revolves around seldhosting im general, not purely on photo backup.
☞ "Mainly for photo storage backup."
also, this is from syncthing-fork tips
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you pointing out "mainly" just shifts his question to the next time he decides to host a service, which is what i meant to point out.
they might state that, but upstream syncthing says that the feature is intentionally hidden in the advanced settings and they plan to deprecate it.
☞ "unless you want to really learn to "self host"."
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KDE Connect works for both
Documentation, take notes on what you setup, ports opened, accounts created. This will be very valuable when you envitally get services setup and forget about them.
Documentation, take notes on what you setup, ports opened, accounts created. This will be very valuable when you envitally get services setup and forget about them.
@Toasted_Breakfast@lemmy.today OP this is advice you can take and apply throughout your selfhosting journey. This advice is worth it's weight in gold right here. I lean heavily on my notes and they are prolific. My memory is shit for a lot of reasons including medical, and my notes have saved my ass many times.
Awesome advice!
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I'm curious if you have recommendations on how to structure or keep the notes. I find that I struggle reading technical documentation or how to structure notes so they're easy to refer to. Have any tips or guides you can share?
I keep a small sized notebook with the first page or so an index of sort, and then a page for each service or server. Doesn't have to be a lot, but be sure to give your future self all the info that will be needed. For instance not just a password, but also the username. Any problems you have had and how you resolved it. Depending on the sophistication of your network, vlans, firewall info, is it wired to your router or switch, what port. What slot of your multi button power bar it is plugged into, so if you need to cut power or restart you dont have e to randomly push switch accidently turning something else off. Basic server specs, what type/size of raid or HDs, do you have room for more HDs later, RAM slots and what's in them currently.
I might get some flack from writing down passwords, but a password manager can remedy that. I still keep some of mine on paper tbh, I have had pw managers break or go offline and I am not terribly worried about normal theifs knowing how to ssh into my linux boxes.
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I would buy a Nas with raid and keep a copy both on your PC and on the NAS
How his looks like exactly what I needed! Thanks. Is this "self hosting"?
I'm surprised I had to go this far to find immich. I 100% recommend it, and yes it's selfhosting if you run it yourself. Still selfhosted even if you use a VPS as long as you control and administer it.
For hardware, I actually recommend against raspberry pis these days. You can get a cheap mini PC that's much more performant and better supported for the same price as a pi plus the accessories (SD card, case, power supply, etc). Use Debian or Ubuntu as host and follow the guide on the github for installation.
I started self-hosting on my desktop first with Plex and the *arr stack, before buying a mini-PC and spinning up these apps on Proxmox.
I set up the server following the introduction instructions, but what I don't get is I have to be connected to the same Wi-Fi or Internet I mean in order to connect to it. What is the point of that? How do I make it so things just upload from my phone to the server?
So I successfully set it up, but I don't understand why I have to be hooked onto the same internet in order for it to work. What kind of crap server is that? How on earth do I connect to it or set up a connection so I can access it from anywhere?
How do I learn
...you say in your OP. Yet instead of learning, you complain "what kind of crap server is that". You don't learn by thinking anything is the softwares fault.
It is perfectly normal, that you can reach the server IN your home network only when you are connected TO your home network. That is a security feature by your router and thus by design. But in order to learn how to open it up, you would need to be willing to learn. About security, about networking, about how to find servers, i.e. the internet and more.
But for the beginning: how is that even bad or crap? Like, it saves your photos when you come home and connect to wifi. Awesome, congrats!
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To be fair until very recently immich would have been a horrible recommendation for someone that is completely new to self hosting because almost every other update was a breaking change that required you to carefully read before updating.
And even if you tried if your installation was old enough eventually your compose file would Drift Away from what main line was and you basically had to seek the help of the developers to fix it up.
It only just recently released what is supposed to be the stable line that should hopefully no longer need these large breaking changes
You need to open a port on your router for it to be accessible from the outside world (example your phone on LTE or a different wifi) , this is not a limitation of the software but a security feature of your router
Judging from your comments, you seem to be lacking some basic knowledge and skills to get started.
None of the comments here are useful without getting those up to speed.
You definitely might want to start of looking into networking: how do computers connect to each other and the internet.
Since you're using Linux Mint, I do assume you have some basic knowledge of using the terminal and basic commands.
Next you might want to learn Docker, which is useful when learning self-hosting, as most solutions will have an option to use that.
I get where the thought is coming from - Playing around with a cheap #OpenWRT router can be a way of getting an idea of routing and networking. - They have a gui and config files you can edit directly. You can figure out things like a #firewall #portforwarding - That kind of thing.
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Do you have any favorite starting points for Docker? I'm still learning myself.
Edit: Looks like Docker's website has some pretty easy-to-follow tutorials.
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Ooof, yeah reading their comments, I agree.
OP, if you're reading this, start even smaller. Not everything has to be right in your house.
I been deploying web apps since 2010, and I jumped right into self hosting during the pandemic and it was a massive headache or challenges I wasn't prepared to face or maintain.
I gave up (for now) and just used open-source apps and AWS, because I needed availability. And every few months, I do a bit more to one day move everything to pure self hosting.
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I wouldn't recommend this as a starting point. Rather I would go down the route of starting to learn about VPNs and DMZs - Open ports on networks can end badly.
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Your right about the last part but then it begs to ask..... Why set up this service or server when I can just use a Good Old USB cable? 😒
I also knew nothing about self hosting, but wanted to move away from Google photos, and that eventually led me towards self-hosting and immich.
Most people recommend using something like Tailscale so you can access your server from anywhere. That wouldn't necessarily work for me, because I wanted to be able to share links to pics and videos with friends/family who wouldnt be a part of my Tailscale network.
I ended up purchasing a cheap domain, and using cloudflare to allow me to share links broadly. (Because my family deserves better quality videos of my adorable children than the compressed crap that comes through in a group message between iOS and android. I have tried SO hard to convince them to move our group chat do a different platform but I have failed.). It's probably ill-advised for somebody who knows as little as I do to go this route, but I'm filled with the un-earned confidence of a middle-aged white man.
Not even looking into VPNs in general. He can start by looking into tailscale specifically. But I agree opening ports should be a NO GO, especially for beginners.
This is kind of an info dump and I havent fully gone through to verify everything but this is a guide from a trusted ytber explaining step by step how he setup and managed his self hosting environment.
wiki.futo.org/index.php/Introd…
For a more bite sized entry into self hosting just join the community (like you are now) and learn about the different services people are hosting and when one sounds good then look into how to set it up and ask questions along the way.
I had a look at a few guides. They all come with a few assumptions and get into details but I was thinking that any guide needs to cover:
options:
Infrastructure - e.g. VPS/bare metal at home ,
Applications - nextcloud, media server, home automation etc.
Middleware - identity/authentication/ reverse proxy, backup, email, Patching/updates , xdav and other support tools for mobile,
Networking - home network, subnets, vpn/tailscale, firewall, port forwarding, static ips., ipv6
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Think of self-hosting as - instead of depending on cloud services from other entities (google/apple/whoever), you host those services yourself by running them on your own pc or maybe your secondary pc running 24/7 (usually locally, in your own home).
Some common services might be automatic photo backup and storage (like immich), or running an adblocker for your home network, or streaming movie/music from your hard drive to your phone/TV (like jellyfin).
KDE connect and/or Synching/Syncthing-fork.
I don't think you're ready for self-hosting, but getting these installed and sorted out will help you move along that path, plus it will meet your needs in the mean time.
Bit, as others have suggested, get familiar with networking a bit.
You might want to get a raspberry pi or cheap SBC with a good amount of memory and disk space, and fuck around for a bit, trying some things.
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Agreed. Syncthing is the first thing everybody should have. Takes care of some many things already that half the (self-)hosting is not even necessary anymore.
If you really want to self host but you aren't interested in a lot of dirty work then you can get a Synology and use Synology photos, right next to Synology drive ( Google Drive substitute) and everything else substitute.
It "just works" and it handles all of the updates/security for me. Even includes secure enough access via quickconnect so I can connect over the Internet.
That said it costs more than diy, and I have hardware limits. I can't just get 2 more drives and hook them up. I have a 2 bay Synology so I would need a whole new unit to get 2 more bays. It's better for me to just buy bigger drives.
Software wise - if it isn't in the Anyone App Store then you can just use docker so it covers everything.
But as someone who is already busy enough with a full time tech job and 2 kids. This solution works for me
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Get yourself the cheapest n150 box you can, the 4 port versions are good im case you decise to upgade and convert it to a fw later. Get a 4tb 2.5 ssd if you afford it and a chewp dual or more jbod external for safe backups.
Every year upgrade and stick to proxmox and opnsnese untill/unless you have reason otherwise.
why sdd for storage? 4 tb hd costs less than half of an ssd. even for the system it's enough, if you can stomach a 20 sec boot instead of 5
I keep seeing similar pricing for both, 110-130€. Could you please share where i might find cheaper?
oh okay if you can get a 4tb ssd for 130€ that's a good deal, if it's not a scam
DMZs on consumer hardware aren't a good idea either. Recently checked my DSL router out of curiosity after reading a post about it . Seems what consumer hardware often does in a DMZ is dropping the firewall to the outside completely for the affected devices while not isolating the rest of the network from them.
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Buy a PC, install debian, install tailscale, install immich. Done.
Going by your comments, I think you need to know a few basics before you get into people's suggestions for actual services. Start with this: more or less, "the cloud" is just someone else's computer. It's bigger, the connection is faster, etc., but the services you use most likely run on a Linux computer much like the one you already have.
For experimenting with the topic, it would be good to have another computer that you can mess around with and not worry about having a usable machine. If you can cobble together a desktop from old parts it will be enough to start the learning process.
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This was just posted itsfoss.com/self-hosting-start…
The Self-Hosting Starter Pack: 5 Simple Tools I Recommend To Get Started With Your Homelab
Self-hosting isn’t rocket science—if I can do it, so can you!Theena Kumaragurunathan (It's FOSS)
I don't think these self hosting articles are that useful and much more than a list of applications. They send people off in the wrong direction.
They only answer that 'what do I want/could I do' but they don't answer the 'what device do I want to do it on' and 'where do I want to be able to do it' questions - They also don't answer the 'what do I need to learn to do it' - what do I need to protect my data?
And frankly I think they take the wrong approach when there are now more comprehensive solutions that could put selfhosters in a better position and get them thinking about questions like 'What happens when the cheap laptop I'm running this on dies/house catches fire/ How can I stop someone get into my application - How do I not forget all these passwords? - Sure they are great to play around with but would you really recommend anyone start ouy by spinning up Nextcloud and then putting stuff on it they really don't want to lose?
Sorry that might sound grumpy.. I don't mean it to be. Its great that people are being encouraged to try - but they should also be really early on talking about things like 'doing things with a friend or a group of similarly interested people' (I know that sound weird - but you need offsite backup people .. and someone to be able to step in of something happens to you .. or things go wrong. (It takes a village to raise a baby)
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Nah not grumpy just good additional advice. Thanks for taking the time to add to the conversation
Initial self hosting should be non critical for yourself only for the reasons you mention. After you have worked out kinks and learned more about it all you can start using software for more critical tasks. I still don't use my self hosting for anything apart from myself (except jellyfin for family) because I don't need the pressure of availability :)
Take this anyway you want but one good thing about ai is they've hoovered up all the guides, instruction manuals, and troubleshooting forums. They can give you advice, help you install, and troubleshoot when it breaks.
Garbage in . Garbage out. If the content is focused in applications AI will just relfect that. Its not a thinking function.
And even if its only trained with the best content you still need to know the questions to ask.
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We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting
Hey everyone,
We're excited to finally share the results summary of the survey we posted in this community a few months ago! A massive thank you to the n=2158 active self-hosters from communities like r/selfhosted on Reddit and c/selfhosted on Lemmy.World who participated. Your input has led to a comprehensive academic paper that investigates the core reasons why we stick with self-hosting over the long haul.
Our study examined which factors most influence the Continuance Intention (the desire to keep using) and Actual Usage of self-hosted solutions. We confirmed that self-hosting is a principle-driven and hobby-driven practice, challenging traditional models of technology adoption.
The Top 3 most important Positive Drivers for Continued Self-Hosting
The most significant positive predictors of your intention to continue self-hosting were all rooted in intrinsic satisfaction and personal gain, rather than just basic utility:
- Perceived Enjoyment (The 'Fun Factor'): The sheer joy, pleasure, and personal satisfaction of configuring, maintaining, and experimenting with your own systems is a powerful, primary motivator for long-term engagement.
- Perceived Autonomy (Control/Digital Sovereignty): The desire for explicit control over your data and services, and the rejection of vendor lock-in inherent in third-party cloud services, is a fundamental driver.
- Perceived Usefulness: The belief that your self-hosted solution efficiently delivers specific personal outcomes (e.g., operational efficiency, powerful features, and privacy) is important, but its influence was less pronounced than Enjoyment or Autonomy.
The Critical Role of Technical Skill
We found that your self-assessed technical ability, or Perceived Competence, acts as a crucial link between wanting to self-host and actually doing it. Having a high intention to keep self-hosting is only half the battle. Your confidence in your technical skill is what gives you the self-assurance to handle the necessary, demanding tasks like maintenance, security, and updates. Importantly, a certain critical threshold of knowledge is required before competence starts driving that actual, continuous usage.
Other Key Insights
- Privacy Matters: Concerns about privacy in cloud services positively influence the decision to stick with self-hosting.
- The 'Push' Factor: If a user reports high Trust or high Autonomy when using commercial cloud services, they are significantly less motivated to continue self-hosting. This confirms that dissatisfaction with the commercial cloud effectively "pushes" people toward decentralized alternatives.
- Maintenance Isn't a Dealbreaker: The high effort and time required for upkeep, or Perceived Maintenance Cost, was not a statistically significant factor for giving up on self-hosting. Our intrinsic motivation is powerful enough to absorb the necessary effort.
Implications for the Self-Hosting Ecosystem
For developers and the community, these findings suggest that sustained usage depends not only on functionality but also on fostering empowerment and a great user experience. By making self-hosting more enjoyable and reinforcing the user's sense of digital sovereignty, we strengthen the intrinsic motivation that fuels this movement.
Thank you again for helping us publish this research on the future of decentralized digital solutions! This work would not have been possible without your participation.
The full open-access article "A Model of Factors Influencing Continuance Intention and Actual Usage of Self-Hosted Software Solutions": mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/22/10009
This is peak
My self hosting journey is limited mostly by time. When I have it, I try out new setups or tweak my current one. Otherwise it’s just lower end maintenance and updates.
The last time I had ample time I managed to get a double WireGuard (both in and out) working, so that’s something I suppose.
I can’t see anything disagreeable in this summary from my own experience so far though. Great stuff!
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I've broken my Lemmy system a couple of times. Yunohost and Lemmy do not go well together. Went to docker and its slow but dependable. I like playing around with it but how do people keep up with Lemmy.world? It just slams my network.
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Network? That's a small bit. DB is struggling with IO at times, but network usage is fairly low, at least on my end.
If you posted this to reddit as well. I am curious whether they censored or down ranked it because of referencing Lemmy World.
That's right, I have tried to post it also to Reddit, but I've got "Sorry, this post was removed by Reddit’s filters." I have sent a message to the mods, now waiting for response.
That is bizarre.... What could possibly be the issue with this post on reddit?
One of the reasons we all switched. A public modlist is so nice over here. At least we get reasons.
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Just got a reply from the mods: the post was caught in Reddit's filter, and they have now manually approved it.
What filter are we even talking here? Are they filtering any automatic mentions for Lemmy? If that is the case, that is some petty shit
Sadly, no details were provided about the filter. This was the reply I received: "Hi there, I just approved your post as it was caught in Reddit‘s filters. Cheers."
Good paper! It confirms my bias therefore it is great :)
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Big if. That's a trial and error journey unless some of the tools are part of your job description.
Edit: downvoted by Linus Torvalds I guess. Can't even follow a video and hope it's right unless you just duplicate a setup
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Define "properly"...
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Something I havent quite reconciled is that I would enjoy self hosting more of it came with more mutual connections woth others that self host. Its a activity that has a focus on self sufficiency but I think I would learn more and be better if I was doing it more socially.
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I like this! Similar to run groups, but parallel task zoom meet ups or the like.
- "I'm working on am immich install on my Proxmox."
- "Nice, I'm setting up Jellyfin, need help?"
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Yeah .. While I find forums can be really useful. just chatting and getting to know people feels more rewarding socially. maybe a #SelfHosting #meetup
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Not sure, we could work to organize one?
I'm in the US...
Happy to help plan something though, or add a Zoom / virtual equivalent.
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I'd say my interest in selfhosting is multi-pronged. Selfhosting allows me to control my data which fits into my privacy, anonymity, and security posture. It's also a great educational tool for me. I'm always down to learn something, and even tho I've been immersed in computer tech since the mid 70s, I still have sooooo much to learn. I'd almost say that the educational benefits are somewhat more enjoyable than the actual finished product. It also ties in with my desire to be able to help others be as anonymous, private, and secure as one can possibly be, not only in their daily lives, but in their digital lives. The more I know, the more I can help others.
I'm sitting here pouring over a box of about 18 Wyse 3040 & 5010 thin clients that a bud of mine dropped off the other day, wondering what can I get into today. Muhahahahaha! It's gonna be a good day 'tater.
I think people who self host are the only ones who knows they services wont just disappear, their accounts wont get locked and their data wont be shared with big tech.
Others can wake up one day and not have access to their stuff anymore, and have nothing they can do about it.
How mad is it to just rent access to your movies, or documents, and it can go away at any moment?
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One thing I've noticed: my self hosted services are rarley, if ever, hounding me to check out features. I cannot emphasise enough how much I loathe a program fighting for my attention.
Completely agree. Its a said state of affairs that we really need ML based filters for our app notifications
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Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers.
by @TheEconomist
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that is not the only indicator tho.
There is also Bedford's law, and that method is also not a magical tool.
Overall, a comprehensive statistical analysis, spotting non-human behavior, or too human behavior, is necessary.
And that remains statistics, it can never be a proof. No matter how likely, or unlikely, stats can't deliver proof.
That's the sad truth about election fraud: you can be mathematically 99.99999% sure this was a fraud, and nothing will happen...
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If people make up numbers they're more likely to *avoid* 5s and 0s. The excess 5s and 0s likely means they had uncertainty/imprecision in the counts. Uncertainty isn't good, but it doesn't follow that it's malicious.
Excellent illustration!
I would love to see the same plot for the recent presidential election in Cameroon.
they suggest that someone rounded up or down at the least.
But this is focusing the issue on the easiest to detect version of vote manipulation.
This is not how you "detect if an election was stolen" because it is not suggestive of any particular outcome. The way you find this out is over whistleblowers and using many sources.
Election manipulation happens all the time, especially in the west. Propaganda and oppression of opposition has been done since more than 100 yrs.
There is also a talk from @why2025camp this year:
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How to rig elections
Enter the fascinating world of corruption, chicanery, low-tech fraud, and forensic tools that uncover it. The story is told through the e...media.ccc.de
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