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This reminds me very much of Riddley Walker, have you read it?

Is physics true now? Is truth something with exactly defined borders?

It’s great to be able to run a server with functioning stuff on it when one doesn’t know anything about servers. Anything else around self-hosting would have been too much of an intimidating learning curve for me, but in the meantime I’ve picked up a lot of knowledge and terminology just by running the YH. It’s like training wheels, it’s great if you know a bit of tech stuff, but not enough.

I think it will last me a while before I outgrow it, don’t have enough time to really sit down and study server administration to the point where I feel safe to not fuck it up. I’ll let you know 😅

Are they anti-container or just anti-Docker, I wonder?

Just before your post about Karrot I finally (re-)installed Agora on Yunohost as a collaboration suite. First few users onboarded and praying it works. It’s a bit ugly but does the job. Karrot looks to be more map-focused than Agora from a very fleeting look, I don’t think I’ve seen it in the Yunohost catalogue.

Is this a self-hostable platform? I just see a signup option.

My grandfathers were probably still saying it while already marching eastwards in a Wehrmacht uniform.

Thanks a lot for sharing this. I’ll keep it bookmarked for later reference, looks very cool!

Interesting writeup, thanks for sharing! Friendica seems … friendly and reassuringly boring, I did a test install and will have a look at the details in the next days.

I would want to add: A lot of scientific studies are made to understand animals better - their well-being, their language, their relation with us. Another series of studies has begun to document human knowledge around plants and their traditional use.

Myself and many humans around me have started to seek contact and communication with our non-human neighbors. Even people who still say “It’s all lost, I don’t care” show clear signs of caring.

TLDR: Because AI is shite

‘Tech Billionaires give all wealth away to end world hunger.’ ‘Tech Billionaires lobby for wealth tax with national governments.’ ‘Tech Billionaires realize they are normal people like anyone else, not super smart world-saving geniuses, and finally shut the fuck up.’

Now these would be news.

That would be the exact opposite from what OP describes, where a person goes “Oh woe me, all the weight of the world is on my shoulders and I get zero acknowledgment!”

I guess somewhere between the extremes is a healthy range of “My life sucks, and so does everybody else’s.”

I’m autistic and animistic. I believe that there’s conscience in all, and that we should handle other beings like we handle other persons: with respect and some caution. I grew up catholic, tended towards buddhism for a while, was non-religious for the longest time, and then started taking to animals and plants and landscape - some might say I lost my mind, but it felt more like finding it. It’s a private practice of consciously having a stream of thought passing my mind as I meet other beings in my daily life, and trying to get to know them and notice them. A silent conversation with the non-human, I guess you could call it praying, only there’s no worship, as I’m also anarchist. I communicate with whoever is happy to meet me eye to eye.

I’d say the whole thing is more pragmatic than religious. There’s no church, no celebrations, I’m not part of a group, I’m just a private nutter talking to rocks because it suits me and works to maintain my wellbeing.

I’ve watched several videos on the topic and nobody has so far managed to explain to me why I want to use Docker. Okay, to keep them isolated, but why do I want this? I’m just a noob and the depths of server administration are beyond me. At this point from what I understand it just seems to install another layer of something on top of something?

I’m just beginning to understand the many exciting possibilities of ‘L2 hidden in a shelf but accessible’ aka self-hosting. Thanks people I’m really pleased! About a year and a half ago I was a (forced by work) (constantly swearing) Windows-only user. Then I managed to install a Linux-Windows double boot, but was still afraid of meddling with server things. Understanding how to use SSH wasn’t really as intimidating as I thought.

My even more luddite than me bf was horrified by the way. ‘It stays on all the time???’ ‘It’s like a small heater that heats the room’ didn’t really sell the idea to him. I’ll try next with ‘like a firewood shed, only for movies instead of firewood, but the door is broken so we have to use teleportation magic to watch the movies’

I mentioned the GPU because of Stable Diffusion - ah only now I understand what RDP means. (It shows that I live in the weird wastelands of ‘will try to do anything with a computer’ and ‘out of the loop peasant hippy’). I guess that might be neat to have.

Oh that’s a little disappointing because I was getting quite excited about AI art, but then also I don’t really want to run huge resources anymore just so I can play with stuff. Maybe for the best.

Is only SSH not enough? Does the VNC just add the GUI or anything else?

I did manage to get access to Home folder and even external disk on L2 after much fiddling with sshd_config. Was extra pleased, changed power settings and closed the lid, continued to work fine, was even more pleased. Pulled power plug to set computer up in shelf, plugged again, and it stopped working. Not sure what to try next.

Edit: got back in. Something dodgy happened to L2 and I restarted it

I’ve seen that some people apparently got SD to work running on CPU only? Will see … I’d rather keep the lid closed, environment is too filthy for tech here. I will only start removing parts if nothing else works, it’s too flimsy for that kind of stuff.