Perforated galvanized plumbers strapping. While most of my equipment is wall mountable, I used exactly this sort of thing for all the power supplies.

Likely similar to whatever you’re planning to use with the plastic strap, but more metal is more betterer

Tea, earl grey, hot. And throw in some THC cause I want to trip baaaaallllls!

Haha good point.

Listen up all my homeboy p’toq

Shout out your favorite rapper Mr. Spock

Rolling past your favorite dry dock

Full spread phasers and torpedos you be fucked.

Yeah,

Writing up a 600 page Surak biopic

Debating the finerer points of Vulcan logic

With all your human emotions you be so toxic

You want to roll with me you better block it

Alright

Yoyoyo rhymes this potent I just cured your girls pon farr like I finger banged her.

“no” followed by 28 null characters and a small code payload that’ll crash their server (ok won’t work but it’d be funny)

Lol his line had two parts and neither are true.

How dare you dishonor me so! I will kill you with my ba tleth!

Can you really say that you’ve lived if you haven’t?

Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great – it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it’ll compress everything.

I have a feeling you’d end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.

Warning you, I’ve had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn’t want to mix ssds and hdds.

Is it bad that I saw a new domain name and was like “ooh, a new instance to federate with!”?

I’ve bought a few dozen of these things, shame to see them go.

I’ve been self-hosting a wide variety of things including nextcloud (which is one open source project I advocate everyone look at, especially on a web domain so they can access it from anywhere)

Go linux for hosting your open source projects. Just do it. I’m not saying that because windows is inherently worse than linux, but because everything out there is documented as if you’re hosting off of linux. In fact, you should really consider using Ubuntu-server, because most things have documentation specifically for ubuntu.

Going with windows server as mostly just s hyper-v box with your linux installations inside, that might be worthwhile.

If your IP address appears static, then you can probably just directly configure dns through the web interface of your domain provider. There’s a great script out there for doing dynamic dns using different providers such as godaddy, that could be some insurance to make sure you don’t end up with a non-working social media network.

One thing you should consider is running one virtual host as your reverse proxy that redirects different subdomains to the different individual servers running your services. The reverse proxy server running something like nginx would then deal with all your subdomains, and if you work on say your nextcloud and need to reboot it won’t take all your services down at once because your reverse proxy continues to function for all your other services.

A self-hosted ebook solution would be nice. It’s surprising the holes in kindle even tbh

I believe it can be, but what I’ve found in general with respect to my fediverse journey is that pretty much everything is built for Linux. If you want to use windows, you’ll likely have to blaze a trail for yourself.

I had one windows PC in my server farm initially, but installed Linux after I realized most things I wanted to run really wanted me to be running Linux.

I found mxroute, it works very well for me. I can’t say much about specific features since I just wanted a simple email host.

I think I set that up successfully on a vm under windows.

It’s obviously a level worse than chatgpt but it worked surprisingly well otherwise. Poorer answers but still not bad.

https://fortune.com/2022/04/01/citi-metaverse-economy-13-trillion-2030/

XD

I own a rift. Like many, mine is sitting in a box in my garage. If any of these people calling from multi trillion dollar valuations of the metaverse had ever actually bothered clamping one of these VR headsets to their head, they would have immediately realized how stupid they sounded.

It isn’t even like this is reddit where you have to deal with whatever reddit gives you. Anyone can spin up their own instance and federate from whoever they want or defederate from whoever they want or keep whatever posts they want or delete whatever posts they want.

The thing is, imo it’s about control of others. You can own and operate your instance however you want, but what people really want is to dictate what others get to see and do.

It does. I can vouch for it’s behavior in practice. My servers basically sit with the swap file unused, which isn’t the case when I set swappiness to a non-zedo value