The web app could switch to lower res images (etc) if your connection is weak. Or if your battery is low it might switch out YouTube embeds for clickable images instead.

Love it, thanks!

Check out Big Blue Button - https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/

Their website talks all about using it for teaching students but it’s really just like Jitsi with more features.

The things I paid attention to was

USB3 - you need this otherwise connecting external drives will be a joke Motherboard needs to accept up to 32 GB of RAM. Mine currently has only 8 but knowing I can upgrade is nice.
Quiet - must be silent when idle.
CPUs of less than 8th? gen will suck at video transcoding due to lacking certain capabilities. Important if running jellyfin, etc.

The beauty of self hosting is it’s all about your individual circumstances so you priorities and acceptable tradeoffs will differ.

Much better to add features to your software that make it unusable in totalitarian situations.

For example

• if you’re building a reddit clone, make each subreddit elect their moderators every few months.
• Maybe ask How fat is Kim Jon Un during installation.
• Display the text “Taiwan is not a part of China” in the status bar, randomly

…and so on. The possibilities are endless.

Lol, rip

You’re going to have to prioritise.

Find changes that:

Save a decent amount of money Are low risk Don’t take too long to do Can be easily backed-out of

There are probably a variety of mindsets that will do it.

For me, I think it was just really wanting to get away from being under the boot. Get away from the walled gardens. Like that feeling after using LinkedIn, except for the OS. Hearing the call of freedom, authenticity and humanity.

Cool, but now SSH into a remote server and then try to open nano. It doesn’t.

After using it for 3 weeks I concluded that as Kitty breaks the fundamentals all the nice shiny isn’t worth it.

https://piefed.social is 99% functional with noscript, if you’re into that. I have JS disabled while posting this comment.

I think I’m in love. That’s the best text mode rendering I’ve seen and I’ve tried them all.

Try https://piefed.social on lynx, I tried pretty hard to make it usable in a text-mode browser.

offpunk is very different from all others I’ve tried. Very small.

https://offpunk.net/

MailCow is similar except uses docker. I expect that will mean easier maintenance as it is less tightly bound to the underlying OS.

Office 365 running on Linux using Wine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCfQzQI6HAw

I’ve never heard of Winapps so did a quick google. Their repository has not been updated in 5 years so it looks abandoned. Probably a bad idea to use it. https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps

You have the privilege of not giving a shit about racist attacks.

This ^ ^ ^ is what privilege looks like.

Not as a hosting service, no. But at wordpress.org you can download the software and install it on any web server. A lot of web hosting companies offer a 1-click process of setting up wordpress on their servers, too.

It grinds my gears that someone who can’t be fucked with capitalization has that much money and power. I get that using the shift key occasionally is an inconvenience but we do it to help the readers. A conversation is give and take.

There was a really good discussion recently which will give you some ideas - see https://piefed.social/post/436507?sort=top