CallMeAl (like Alan)

In this case it’s Marc Andreessen. He’s not on the payroll. He is the payroll.

not having to trust the server itself for data confidentiality

One of the main reasons to self-host is that you can trust the server, since its yours and you are the admin.

I use a self hosted Wazuh server. There is a lot to it but its very comprehensive.

For European VPS providers:

• Dutch: tilaa.com
• French: ovhcloud.com
• German: hetzner.com
• Swiss: exoscale.com

Great article but this shouldn’t be called “Tricks” it should be called Shell Basics. I’m old enough to remember taking an Intro To Unix course and there was an entire day on the shell where these types of commands were presented as essential learning.

Also people who get hair cuts and/or shave their heads?

I’ve had good luck with these inexpensive hubs which include ethernet for about 12 euro. However it does not work will all phones so you must test.

in you view, was that expected to make it an exception to the rules?

How do you explain this tradeoff to users in a way that feels honest and understandable, without sounding like you are making excuses for Electron?

To people who dislike Electron due to its size, I don’t think you can. To someone with that mindset, saying “we are seeing something like 50–60 MB for the actual usage” itself sounds disingenuous.

However most people don’t seem to care that much about the size of Electron. Most people I know expect a modern system to have enough ram for it to not matter.

what does this have to do with selfhosting?

No, absolutely not

I think most people are way more influenced by nudges than they would believe or expect, as anyone who is successful in sales well knows.

To be clear, I’m not trying to discourage you from posting about your project and I think you should always pursue such personal challenges.

I also think it helps others better contextualize your project if you include a bit in your post about your motivation (like in your reply).

To me, it’s also very nice to mention alternatives you are aware of and how your project compares to them. “It’s doesn’t do as much as Handbrake but it’s simpler” is a selling point for some people.

What makes this better than Handbrake?

People are lazy

Yeah, that tracks. It sounds like Type 1 Laziness: people who don’t want to do anything.

I sense you make this because you are Type 2 Lazy: Happy to learn and make 100 new things to avoid having to do a boring thing more than once. That’s something I can both appreciate and relate to.

Sorry if this is a silly question, but what is the use case for this?

Other than Friendica, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube and PieFed, what’s worth running on a Docker instance with 8 VCPUs, 16GB of RAM and around 300GB of storage?

I usually do it the other way around. I figure out what I want to run and at what scale and then I get the server.

You can certainly do all that learning with or without directly connecting the fiber to your firewall pc. For a mini pc you will likely need to get a USB to SFP adapter. If you want to go that route I suggest searching for compatible hardware recommendations and get a USB to SFP that has worked well for others.

Personally I would stick with the ISP modem. In any case, happy learning!

This is working fine with no issues.

It seems like a lot of time and effort with no upside except having one device in the place of two. Is there more you are hoping to accomplish with this proposed change?

I live in an apartment with a very small fridge that has a tiny freezer inside it. I got a small chest freezer that I use for storage. I only use the one in my fridge for freezing stuff, then it moves to the chest freezer.

Do you do meal planning and if so do your plans include your frozen stuff?