Yeah, both with Mastodon, PeerTube and Lemmy I started on my own instances. Actually not quite, I had an Mastadon account for a day somewhere before I decided that I want to use it for real and installed my own instance.

Probably any of the ThinkPads I had. They were sturdy and just ran everything I put on them. Second place would be the Dell XPS 13, I like it because it is very small and light, but in the one I have now they already had to replace the motherboard after a month and when holding it with one hand it bends and sometimes does a click on the trackpad, but I don’t want to send it in a second time because I normally don’t use it like that.

It’s like 8 years ago or so, I had the InfinityBook with a skylake processor.

Bluetooth stopped working, send it in then it worked and stopped again, then send it in and it worked and stopped again.

The microphone had broken noises, tested it even under windows to be sure it’s a hardware problem.

Discoloration where the hands are left and right of the trackpad.

Plastic bezel around the screen fell off, the tape was bad quality.

Ah I wrote it down last year here:

https://tube.jeena.net/w/wJGQBMj2wDCJRwBH4bYPiz;threadId=14965

The thing is that they only need to release the source code to a user of their installer. Also, perhaps they got a special exception from the original author like dynamically linked Linux drivers.

I really wonder if they got any better, I had such a bad time with my tuxodo computer, had to send it for repair twice and replaced it with a used ThinkPad after less than a year.

Yeah something like the CX22 https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/ which is € 4.51 / month is enough for lemmy.

What I do instead is I host a series of services on my VPS and I pay about 20 EUR/month

• Lemmy
• Mastodon
• PeerTube
• my ruby on rails website + blog
• my old PHP website + blog
• another old PHP blog
• my sisters PHP website
• my sisters static website
• Firefox Sync server
• my bands static website
• a matrix server with some bridges
• a syncthing instance
• a TTRSS instance
• another static website

and I probably forgot some things.

I’m paying for the hosting of my single user instance.

I also really wonder, they say face recognition and ML categorization happen on the edge. I guess this would drain the battery quite a lot doing it for the 800 GB and it will take forever.

I have around 800 GB of photos from me, my dad and my fiance. That would be $ 20 a month. Ok, still not bad, I don’t think I could get it much cheaper on a VPS.

For now what I’m doing is running https://immich.app on my laptop at home with a connected external USB drive. It’s not e2e encrypted, just with ssl on https. But other than that it seems to have similar functionality.

We started to visit the other parts like Hokaido or Kumamoto and it’s wonderful there, I can only recommend instead over full Kyoto, Tokyo and Osaka.

Pro tip: delete the app on your phone. Needing to put in the website into the browser breaks the misscle memory and you can then easier replace it with something else.

Ah I was searching wrong, now that you mention it I found a very simila.r one !stick@sh.itjust.works

Then I guess it’s better to delete it to nog fragment it in unecessarily.

Where?

15 month old likes rhythmical music, especially metal. Today we stopped and watched while road workers were fixing the road with big machines. Oneachine tried to shake off some dirt which was stuck and was banging against it in a 4 to the floor beat so my little one started headbanging to it.

Surprised Pikatchu face

Once the US and Russia march in in South Africa, that annoying voice talking about the annoying human rights will be quiet very fast.

Did South Africa forget what they together accomplished against Germany? /s

Oh but I agree to your sentiment of subscriptions. the only subscription I have is a Server at Hetzner. I hosted my stuff from home before but with all the constant moving it’s very complicated. So it’s worth to me to pay the 20 EUR a month for hosting a VPS. Another subscription is access to the internet and rent. But other than that I don’t have anything.

For me it’s mostly the opposite. I really like my things digital, not physical. I already live in the 4th country in my life. I can’t move any physical things with me, but if it’s digital it needs almost no space. I printed photos as photo books because I thought it’s much easier to access. Now all of them are still in Sweden and my friend who has my stuff in her attic is asking me to get my stuff because she is moving and doesn’t want to deal with my stuff. But because I’m in South Korea, I can’t get them. It’s way to expensive to move it. But I don’t want to throw them away, but probably will need to.

I have all those pictures in digital form and do access them far more often than I’d think. I wrote scripts which show random old pictures on the TV and post a “today X years ago” picture to different family chats.

He actually reminds me of Gmork from The Never Ending Story.

I remember I had to close my eyes in the cinema several times during the movie, it was just too scary for a 8 years old me.

For me it’s similar, but I don’t have D.