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Not OP but I use an Enterprise version that is fine, I guess a different release branch. My mother doesn’t have the enterprise version as she works for a small business and it broke.

Looking at last year’s survey, the number of self-hosted devices has 2-3 first. And Raspberry Pi is most popular.

I wonder about this, because I have Pi for Pi hole, and one for Home Assistant, each dedicated. Then almost everything I self host is on a different server. But this still represents Raspberry Pi twice as much as the main server. I think Pis may be most popular because there’s many single-purposes uses for them.

Clair Obscur: Exposition 33?

On the one hand I agree with you as for the curated experience, on the other hand echo chambers are unhealthy.

My suggestion is to block bad faith participants. There are lots of conversations I have with people who disagree with me and probably can’t be convinced otherwise, but they are still enjoyable conversations if they are had in good faith.

To be honest I don’t block that many users, I am able to spot bad faith participants and not reply to them, and if they reply to me I don’t reply back. But if people are having trouble with the argumentative minority of Lemmy, I think blocking them is important. There’s no point being here if you’re not enjoying it.

I think to survive on Lemmy (all social media tbh) you need two things.

One is the ability to disengage when it’s no longer fulfilling. I see reports from people saying they are being harassed by someone in a thread and I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t stop replying to the bad faith comment about 17 replies earlier.

The second is that you should block what you don’t want to see. Block communities where you know you’ll never be interested. Block users who reply in bad faith. Block instances where you see bad faith commenters a lot.

Do these two things, and comment a lot, and I think you end up with a much better experience.

There’s quite a learning curve if you’re not familiar with self-hosting. Doing it through a managed service sounds like a good idea.

Have you got experience self hosting other things?

I really think that it’s good to start with something small and personal (say, a wiki or Jellyfin) where you can build some skills around hosting, reverse proxies, security practices, backups, etc.

Hosting a service as part of a wider interconnected network of sites isn’t as difficult as it sounds but there is definitely potential to screw it up beyond repair.

I thought the implication was that you may only be able to buy from that registrar if you’re from/in that country?

So recording a conversation on your camera between two other parties still breaks the law in a one party consent state, because no party in the conversation has consented to the conversation being recorded.

I guess not directly relevant, but the point is still there. The article basically came down to the fact that the guy was recording his neighbors’ conversations without consent.

If I lived in the US I’d be checking laws before recording audio.

I don’t live in the US or the EU and still disable audio in my cameras because of this.

Mr Prosser: But, Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.

Arthur: Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anybody or anything.

Mr Prosser: But the plans were on display…

Arthur: On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.

Mr Prosser: That’s the display department.

Arthur: With a torch.

Mr Prosser: The lights had probably gone out.

Arthur: So had the stairs.

Mr Prosser: But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?

Arthur: Yes yes I did. It was on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard.

I find it great and virtually never have to revert to Google Maps. But I live somewhere where the government publishes data on all the addresses and buildings in the country, and I know that data has been loaded in to OSM via automated scripts. I can imagine not having available freely street address data would make mapping the country a whole lot harder so places without that help probably have worse maps.

I have a Reolink doorbell cam. I bought the POE version, have it connected to Frigate on my server for object detection purposes and triggering alerts, and the alerts are delivered via Home Assistant notifications.

So I guess it’s possible to do it reasonably privately, even if using the Reolink app isn’t.

If your aim was to power a PC then you wouldn’t use a normal keyboard. Why not have something much like a typewriter of old, with a long travel distance for the key? Instead of moving a stamp on a stick, use that kenetic energy to generate power instead. Surely you could get a lot more power out it it that way.