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

That’s what I started on! Honestly, RAM is likely to be your biggest bottle neck. Pretty much anything will be doable though, with enough swap and a fast drive. Just don’t expect great performance.

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

I largely stopped using Reddit,so…… Can’t say I care.

Same for iOS with the added pain that iOS will kill the background process if you don’t open it back up from time to time.

Edit: spelling

And at least in my case, shipping got faster once I canceled my prime. Lol. Fast shipping had been the only reason I had signed up in the first place.

That, and you have to take into account each person’s available hardware and resources.

I have an under powered 10 year old desktop, a resonably specd 5 year old laptop with a busted screen, and 8 Raspberry Pi’s (3s and 4s). And can’t currently afford better hardware.Sometimes clustering those Pi’s makes sense.

You can use whatever you have to hand.

My issue wasn’t quite that easy but it wasn’t as headache inducing as I had thought. Turns out, last time I had rejiggered my services I had failed to delete a now unused fstab entry. One pound sign, save file and a reboot later and everything was back up and running correctly. I lucked out! Now tiem to move my Nextcloud backups off that machine!

Nice!

Adapt or die. It’s not really that difficult a concept.

Not suprised. A lot of people in the US have ancestral links to slavery. I don’t judge a person for the sins of their parents. I judge them for their own sins.

I believe that votes are private in the sense that they are out of view unless you go digging for them. A bit like stepping behind a curtain to have a conversation in a room full of people.

As for saved posts, Looking at the documentation, I think that that is local to your home server only.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/05-federation.html

That’s a new reference for me. I had to look that up. :-)

I may have gotten to word wrong. I’m afraid speak only two languages. Horrible English and even worse Spanish.

I meant the box that old timey politicians used to stand on so they could be seen by a crowd while they spewed nonsense out of their mouths.

Only if your home server remains unfederated. Even then other users of the server will be able to see everything. And will be more likely to remember, like miss Busy Body.

As for this being experimental software. Yes? So? So is the internet. It has really only been under strain for 20 years. (It older then that, I know. I grew up using dialup to BBSs. Then USENET. Then AOL.) We are still making this shit up as we go along. But it’s best not to forget human nature.

As for your last statement, yea…… I’m going to just let that one be…

Quite. But she is usually sweet and was often the first to help pick you up when you fell. ‘Cause god knows she was probably there watching.

But now that I’ve actually had time to read your post, I stand by my original comment except to add this:

What in God’s name makes you think that you aren’t being tracked on the Fediverse! It’s an open damned platform! Everyone can see everything! Whether they care or not is another matter entirely.

Yes.

You must have either grown up post-internet or in one of the bigger cities. I assure you, in small towns like where I grew up, (particularly before the internet) old miss Busy Body down the street would never let ANYONE forget every embarrassing moment anyone ever had. The more scandalous or embarrassing the moment, the more likely it was to be retold. And retold. And retold. Till EVERYONE knew.

The only thing that has changed is the detail of the retelling. The tales still seem to get bigger and more scandalous with each retelling.

Saving this to read later, when I have time. So my apologies if this is not relevant.

When using any sort of social media you are effectively shouting, at the top of you lungs, in the middle of town square. What privacy are you expecting? If you want privacy, join me in “bed”. For “pillow talk.”

I do expect my account to be secure, in that no one should be able to pretend to be me. But privacy? Not in town square, while standing on the bullpup. Holding a megaphone.

Interesting relevant factoid.

I am a truck driver. I make $75,000 per year. Required a license that cost me 2 years of my life or $10,000 (my choice) for school (12 weeks) and roughly $1000 in admin fees to my State to aquire.

My wife is a mental health therapist. She makes roughly $55,000. To do her current job required a Master’s degree($80,000 +6 years), and 2 separate licenses with an unknown (to me) cost but required a total of 5 years on the job to acquire. Before she got that second license, she made more money working at McDonalds. And she still has continued education requirements costing upwards of $800 per course.

She loves her job (usually) and I love that she loves it, but if you’re looking for money, THE TRADES PAY! And usually a heck of a lot earlier and better than jobs that require a college degree.

Edit: Spolling is hard!

Not really. Most big corporations require a NDA to use their toilets. Slight exaggeration but not by much.

Wait and see.

I wonder if bots like that are possible in the fediverse?

I bet 3 upvotes and one Mastodon follow, it’s killed off in less then 5 years

Home Assistant has some functionality similar to what your asking for and I think there is something like that available in Nextcloud as well.

There is also a project called Traccar (I think that’s what it’s called) that you might look into.

I mostly use location data for triggering reminders and smart home events but I know more is possible, just haven’t looked into it more deeply.

So it’s not so much that Congress HAS to pass this, but more that this Freedom of the Press Foundation (first time I’ve heard of them) really wants it passed.

If it does what they say, it sounds like a good bill.

In both services you are basically shouting into a giant megaphone. What’s so private about it? If you don’t want say it in public, don’t say it there.

If you need privacy there are much better tools available such as pgp encrypted email or encrypted Matrix DMs (a nonfederated Matrix sever would be even more secure but rather overkill).

Edit: specified encrypting Matrix DMs. I forgot for a moment that you can send unencrypted DMs over Matrix.

Why am I not surprised.

I’ve a lot of images in my head on this topic. Some fine, others…… not so much. And far darker then my instance would permit to speak on.

I think what I have a problem with most is the actions by both sides in the US, to force one size fits all solutions onto cultures in the US that don’t always share similar values on the subject.

I don’t know. The actions and policies of both the Republicans and Democrats tends to leave sour tastes in my mouth. The cities are not the suburbs, are not the farm lands, are not the outback. Not to mention differences in faiths.

You’ve a point but In fairness to the folk with the first viewpoint, the Democrats and Republicans were not much different till 2012ish. Maybe a bit earlier. I seem to recall it was around that time I caught the first real scent of stupid from the Republicans. Before that it was just the occasional wiff, which happened just as frequently around Democrats. “I know what an Assult Rifle is, I’ve seen them on TV”.

As for the “frogs” I can’t decide if Darwin was wrong or if the Democrats keep saving their stubborn asses.

Hmmm. Thank you for that. And from a relatively reliable source as well.

Once upon a time, long before you were born, most food was grown by children on what were called “family farms” owned by the family. Youngsters as young as 4 even….

Ok, Ok, I’ll set the Staff of Sarcasm down now, but seriously, a lot of folks on both sides of this are suffering from significant cognitive dissonance.