Nextcloud Notes has become my go-to (Oh look, SJ is advocating for Nextcloud again! How original!)
Nextcloud Notes has become my go-to (Oh look, SJ is advocating for Nextcloud again! How original!)
I’m cheap.
So far, Conduit is the only answer for me, since I don’t own any quantum supercomputers.
I think it depends a lot on the federated service.
For mastodon, you follow individual users, so if there’s a million users or ten million or a hundred million, their instances will only be contacting other intances they’re federating with so it’s quite scalable.
For Lemmy, you follow communities, so every server pulls all the posts and comments the common community. This means that for an instance like lemmy.world hosting lots of different big communities, every new server hammers the one central instance.
A strategy for improving the situation I think would be to spread the load. Instead of everyone piling into megacommunities, if people spread out into smaller more tight knit communities over many different instances. Of course, this isn’t really compatible with the purpose of having communities like that.
It does seem to suggest that ActivityPub isn’t necessarily the most appropriate protocol for this purpose, even though it’s what was used because it’s the de facto standard on the fediverse.
No, I’m saying it does work, but other clients might not.
Besides lacking spaces and some rooms not letting you join, (and the lack of admin tools) the only big issue I find is that you plan to run something other than Element as the interface, you’ll have to test it because many matrix clients expect synapse or dendrite and won’t start with anything else. I’ve run fluffychat, I think kchat(whatever the kde matrix client is), and nheko, they all worked well with conduit.
My experience has been that dendrite and synapse totally maxxed out the server I ran it on (100% cpu utilization for days on end), so I run conduit.
The one downside of conduit is it’s a bit behind, so it doesn’t support all the latest rooms, and it doesn’t support spaces yet, and it has minimal admin tools so you’ll want to create all the accounts you need then close logins because bad actors will try to create logins and get you banned from half of Matrix. That said, I can tell you that even on my piddly little server (an Intel Atom D2550), it runs Conduit, ejabberd, nostr, and lotide, and the server basically sits idle. I can’t speak of bridges, unfortunately, because I don’t really use them.
This is the guide I used, it worked well to set things up:
So there’s 2 things, I think.
Does your bios allow you to boot from SD card? If so, then you can boot from the SD card and so you can install software onto the SD card directly.
If you can’t boot off of the SD card, then perhaps you can install all the software on the SD card and then install a boot manager on the main drive. In this way, you boot off the main drive, then let the boot manager deal with loading the software.
You might be disappointed by the performance of software running off an SD card, mind you.
I think at first it didn’t. As much as history tells us everyone was watching, the reality is that he had some long hard runs through many areas where he wasn’t getting much recognition and wasn’t getting many donations either. Someone from British Columbia walking through Quebec faced some serious challenges in 1980. The big cities speak English, but a lot of the smaller communities along the highway are very French and don’t really speak English.
That thankless run across Quebec, where he was getting run off the road constantly by drivers, barely any attention, and few donations, it must’ve been a herculean task.
If I had to guess, I think it’s probably the Cancer Society that was sponsoring him was able to pull some strings and make his arrival in Ontario on Canada Day (July 1st) a really special event, he met with the prime minister of Canada, prominent sports teams, and virtually anyone he thought would help the cause of cancer research. He became something of a celebrity after that.
Need to get something that supports ActivityPub on the list, but other than that looks pretty cool.
I didn’t know about minimalgpt. How is it?
As with many things, nextcloud has a good app for it. Nextcloud mail is nice.
It might not sound like a common problem among all the people saying “It’s not a problem for me!”, but it’s one of the big reasons that people’s calorie counting fails is people are blind to the calories added by things other than the main dish itself.
It’s well-established that underreporting of calories is a major issue in trying to help people lose weight: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12170-020-00652-6
It’s actually a common problem that people go “Oh, I had some pasta, that’s 200 calories” but not paying attention to the 600 calories of sauce slathered all over it.
Same with salad. People go “Oh, I’ve got salad, 50 calories” but then the dressing is several hundred calories.
This would be bad, no doubt.
TeamViewer is really nice when you’re on the road a lot. That way if you need to hop in and change something, you can do it from pretty much anywhere.
I’ve been using invidious. There’s an automatic install script that’s perfect, except I’m using mint instead of straight ubuntu so I have to tweak the script a bit to use the ubuntu path.
I think there’s already apps for that.
I’m not a huge fan of PC fans if I can help it, since I know they’re one of the points of failure (and they’re also loud)
I like the idea of using old smart phones too, I figure if you used something like a nexus 5x maybe you could pull it off with a powered USB-C hub?
Look at Mr. Moneybags over here running Matrix Synapse on his Cray supercomputer! ;P
I don’t think its too bad, but it probably depends a lot on a lot of factors.
Since I first started my hardware got a lot stronger, and nextcloud, php, and mariadb have all improved and so my experience has gotten pretty decent.
Remember though, there’s a ton of biases here, so I could be wrong…