I’m not entirely sure. I spent more than a year in Latin America and came back to prices being about 2-3x what i remember. Groceries before I left were 2x compared to before COVID.

Shits fucking expensive in the US.

Oh God. I’ve already got enough baggage 😭

Oh that’s dope. How many hours are you running? Do you also use them for things like encoding or something like that?

Sweet!

What’s up is everything I’ve been running and down is what I haven’t.

not working

I haven’t been able to get friendica to connect to Maria DB, so I’ll eventually try just MySql. Grafana isn’t running bc I would need to change a lot of things to get an exporter into each container and the truenas apps don’t really allow that configuration - fine if you have docker compose though, which I’ve started doing more and more.

new

I just got up and running with Stirling pdf, a free (and paid) PDF editor. That looks pretty sweet.

But I’m now also using 15GB of the 32 on the system, which is still plenty for Arc cache for me

what I want

I want to rent a VPS to host various fediverse apps, probably Lemmy, pixelfed, and write freely to start, for the nomad/expect communities. I’ve been looking at netcup and they have some decent arm offerings.

I’d like to put Talos Linux on it so I can get some kubernetes experience. They have a good sized server for €10, so I could expand to add a DB server or one specifically for logging and metrics.

I was looking at Hetzner, but I’ve read that their block storage is super slow and causes timeouts on DB.

Of course, can I even run these apps on arm? I guess I gotta find that out.

One thing I’d like to do is make a web page that makes signups super easy and would create an account on all services, ideally. Not a huge deal of that isn’t reasonable, but it’d be nice to allow doing it once rather than multiple times. If I could get sso, that’d be good, but I don’t know how supported that is.

How does your skin do in the sun?

That’s TrueNas. It can run docker compose files so I’m abusing the crap out of what it’s supposed to do haha.

Yeah, just me and my family for now. I have gotten a lot of knowledge setting stuff up and hope to eventually get some VPSs set up for some public Lemmy, pixelfed, and maybe mastodon instances for digital nomads and expats.

Eh, it’s a document viewer. I figured they’re referring to Plex and jellyfin when they say media.

All these. I just added calibre web and may phase out Kavita.

Elena Rossini (@_elena@mastodon.social) is a journalist who’s gotten into the fediverse and self hosting with Yuno Host. She’s documented it on her blog. It’s worked out really well for her.

Mine aren’t totally great as they’re both kinda negative. My top comment is https://lemm.ee/comment/16106836, which is pointing out that new jokes are old.

My top post is https://lemm.ee/post/5345101. The image associated with it is gone, but it was a screenshot of an old friend reaching out and acting friendly in a text and trying to sell me on a crypto scheme. That actually really bummed me out when he did that.

I haven’t tried those, so not really, but with open web UI, you can download and run anything, just make sure it fits in your vram so it doesn’t run on the CPU. The deep seek one is decent. I find that i like chatgpt 4-o better, but it’s still good.

The coder model has only that one. The ones bigger than that are like 20GB+, and my GPU has 16GB. I’ve only tried two models, but it looked like the size balloons after that, so that may be the biggest models that I can run.

I got it working with my 6800XT. I’m running deep seek r1 14b (somewhere around there) and the deep seek coder V2. I have a link to a blog with those instructions

https://gotosocial.michaeldileo.org/@mdileo/statuses/01JQA4M4Q33PMCADH9M2AWQSS8

oh, I thought that was a mastodon thing or something. Thank you for the clarification :)

I have dynamic dns through cloudflare that provides a proxy ip address for me in addition to some protections.

After that I use a reverse proxy to route specific domain names to services. My router is set up to forward only ports 80 and 443 to that reverse proxy, so there’s a good layer of safety there. There could be a weakness on the router, but at this point traffic is pretty limited.

After that, at least for your service, if you can have some control or throttling of signings and be more selective about who you let in, then that could help.

I say do it. Sure there’s risk someone could put something on there you don’t want, but I wouldn’t say it’s big enough to not do it.

Did you ever find a solution? I’m having the same problem. I ensured that my user has wildcard permissions for the host, so it’s granted ALL on 'friendica'@'%'.

To add on, you can comment in a “binary search” method. Comment out one half of them, if it’s still there, half again, etc and keep going down until you find it.

I’m on mobile and can’t make out any of it, but good luck!

Writefreely is super light weight and minimalist in its design. It also federates with mastodon.

To add on, your budget here really matters. Ideally, you can have an external NAS or drive enclosure that is managed by the laptop. If you want easy backups, a cloud storage provider can help. I do nightly backups to idrive.