Find two more selfhosters and they will criticize both of us!

Absolutely. However I’d argue that some BSD variant is at the other end, not Gentoo, so there’s at least some critics to you ;).

I’m running proxmox and (mostly) Debian on top of that, and I’m sure that there’s someone thinking I’m doing things the wrong way.

With Windows Servers I think the bigger problem is that there’s way less people running things on top of it, so there’s less knowledge about problems and solving them. However, many of us are on corporate IT jobs too and thus have to work with Windows, so that might somewhat cancel out the difference in popularity.

Nintendo has been doing this for the last 30 years (at least, likely way longer), I doubt they’re stopping now.

You need a suitable welder for that with pulse feed so that it kinda-sorta acts like square wave AC. With your average hobbyist garage welder it’s going to be a real pain in the ass.

https://openprinting.org/printers/manufacturer/Brother

Unfortunately your model doesn’t seem to be on that list. Brother provides linux drivers for some of their models, but they tend to be a bit of a pain to get installed (I’ve got HL-3040CN). Once you get the brother drivers ready the thing just works, and I guess part of the issues I’ve had is that my model is pretty old and drivers haven’t been updated in a decade or so.

If you already have the printer just plug it in to a mint computer and you’ll soon find out.

welding aluminum requires TIG. It’s harder and more specialized.

You can weld aluminium with MIG just fine. It is indeed way more difficult than normal steel and not every car shop has skills nor equipment for it.

In here practically all banks use their own app for MFA. They have options to work without one, but that would be way more inconvenient than allowing google on my phone. Also, moving mortage from one bank to another is pretty expensive task. Also the loan terms would be worse now than what I got when we bought the house.

Digital euro should/could/might be in wide use by 2029. But as with anything involving European burecraucy, who knows.

Also there’s like 7 places you can actually use that. I’d get rid of my cards too immediately if there was an actual, viable, european alternative. I pretty much have to use Google on my phone anyways so that my current banking apps and other stuff work reliably, so at least for me it’s smaller and better known evil than Visa.

We deal with other engineers, the customer’s in house IT team calls us for support with our specific product, but we don’t deal with the end users or the stakeholders, only engineer to engineer.

Which doesn’t really quarantee much. I’m a sysadmin in a corporate with offices in multiple countries and even continents. Part of the job is to build services for other offices and help their local IT guys with their stuff. I’ve seen multiple times when “IT guy” plugs in wrong cables multiple times even via monitored video call, creates loops to the network, pulls both power cables from a running ESX servers (production critical, of course) and so on.

Gladly there’s also competent guys and then it’s a breeze. They have their strenghts and knowledge on their local setup, I know my shit and we speak the same language so I get competent requests and detailed descriptions on support tickets while knowing that they don’t do anything stupid after I finish my part of the task.

In the grand scheme of things the only thing on my server stack that’s really worth anything is immich. The rest will have very little value to anyone once I’m gone. Plan is to create printed books from the photos and those should stay accessible for the future generations, our archive just needs a ton of work on creating those photos and possibly adding descriptions on who’s on the pictures and when they’re taken.

I don’t really plan for ww3 nor solar flare frying half of the planet, but one thing that’s a real problem is that if something happens to myself. My wife or kids don’t know how to manage/access a majority of the stuff there is even if their everyday digital life is using network and services in it I’ve built. They’ll be just fine without pihole or jellyfin, but data in immich/nextcloud is valuable and bus factor for the digital environment is pretty low.

I should at least verify that all server passwords are on my bitwarden vault and set up dead mans switch on that. Then they can at least get someone to pull the data out of the systems or even hire someone to maintain them. Best option would be if one of the kids would learn the ropes, but so far it doesn’t seem like they’re interested on anything like that.

Oh, no. They didn’t scrap the code. It’s there, waiting to be deployed again with an obscured name once the dust settles a bit.

Obviously there’s a ton in successful email hosting since it’s not just configuring few services. Proper DNS-records and privilege controls are mandatory, you need to occasionally clear up your domain/IP from spamlists (specially at the start) and single mistake can ruin your DNS reputation quite quickly which then takes time to build back.

But it’s still perfectly doable and, when you have proper knowledge on how the whole circus actually runs, not too difficult either. Only problem is that there’s no longer money on just email hosting since cloud hosting offers much more than just emails for the price a small gamer can’t just compete with. At least around here.

I flagree that hosting email servers on residential IPs is a recipe for being filtered and blocked

Unless your ISP gives you a static address and agrees to change PTR record to your server address. Then it’s no different than any other server on the internet. Obviously odds are that you’re not getting one or if it’s an option they’ll likely charge more than VPS is going to cost you, but it’s not unheard of.

But for the actual topic, I don’t get the myth either. I’ve got a good old postfix+dovecot setup running and the only problem I have is that spam filtering isn’t quite as good as with commercial providers, but the handful of trash coming trough is easy enough to take care of manually.

1. You likely don’t need any of those with linux

2. Generally not in a way that windows has. Windows installers tend to have libraries and everything they need to run and that’s why they can work over generations of operating systems. Some linux packages and executables are self-contained, but vast majority is not. Some applications work with newer versions of shared libaries, some do not. It really depends on application and hoarding them isn’t really something you generally need to do as package manager on your distribution will have up-to-date versions available anyways.

3. I’m not quite sure what you mean, but I’m going to say no.

4. Wine and proton work just fine without steam

5. Yes and yes

6. Yes

7. Yes, normal applications don’t rely on internet access. With hoarding, look for 2nd answer.

8. Yes

Sounds reasonable approach to me. Also I’d include VPS and other cloud services too. “Is this VPS enough to run NextCloud” is a perfectly reasonable question for this community just like “is my old thinkpad good for…”. I don’t think there should (nor can) be a hard rule about what hardware to use. Questions obviously outside of self hosting (e.g. “what GPU I should by to play minecraft”) should go elsewhere but otherwise I don’t think there’s even a real need to limit activity.

And also there’s a half a dozen of posts here daily (unless mods remove posts really efficiently). My opinion is that even if the post could go to some other community but leans to self-hosting side of things it can stay. Maybe if there was tens or hundreds of posts daily it would make more sense to limit what goes, but as things are now I don’t think any kind of (in a lack of a better word) gatekeeping is beneficial to this community nor anyone else.

At least for me it is. Cheapest even remotely sensible (not immediate batter replacement coming up or anything like that) is around 8-9k€. I could pretty easily get 3-phase charger at home and around our normal commutes there’s decent enough infrastructure already in place and specially the 2nd car of the house rarely sees more than 100km per day. So that would be pretty much a perfect use case for EV.

However current Tiida we have for 2nd car was 2k. I can repair it myself and it’s relatively easy/cheap to keep running too. With EVs there’s potentially expensive faults, high voltage means that home repairs are either very difficult or straight impossible at least without pretty expensive tools. Also in here we have annual inspections and there’s news almost weekly how a small dent on battery shielding or something other seemingly minor fault can mean that the whole car is pretty much scrap as replacements are expensive.

And I’m not saying anyone should be careless of HV battery damages or other potentially very dangerous problems. They just are way more expensive to repair than with ICE cars.

So, used EV should last at least two times longer than cheap ICE cars I’ve used to get in order to make sense financially. Likely more than two, since old conventional cars are pretty simple to keep running. And I’m not quite yet convinced that they can actually keep on going 10 years.

Quick search and napkin math mixed with some LLM says that at least 100m should be fine. Launch would be a bit uncomfortable at around 3g, but nothing a normal body couldn’t manage. Not that long of a flight, but a flight anyways.

Editing original post and including steps which helped would be great. I don’t expect anyone to reply to each an every comment separately, but a summary on what caused the problem and what fixed it would be nice. Specially when someone later finds the post with similar issue.

Absolutely. Even things you have to do, like laundry or cooking, are hobbies if you decide so. I’d say I repair cars for a hobby. Often they’re our daily drivers which often need to be back on wheels pretty quickly, so it can be stressful and annoying at times, but it’s still my hobby, even if I don’t enjoy doing it all the time.

I would go with separate devices. You can add a button with two set of terminals to trigger both the traditional chime and IOT thingy on the same time. Personally I don’t see the appeal on video/audio with a doorbell, but I’d guess there’s some raspberry pi project around to achieve what you want. SIP just for a single house doorbell at a first glance sounds like a massive overkill, camera with a two-way audio, possibly integrated to home assistant, works equally well without the overhead of running a whole IP telephone system with it.