I self host a lot of different things, some public (like my Nextcloud instance) and others are only on my home network (like paperless). Basically, if I know I’m going to allow non-techy folks to access the service I’ll consider making it public, otherwise it stays on my VPN.

Setting them up was mostly just downloading their docker-compose.yaml adjusting a few variables to suit my needs and then running docker compose up -d to bring them online.

For the most part, maintaining the service consists of making backups and just pulling the new containers when it’s time to update (docker compose pull && docker compose up -d).

As for hardware, mostly it’s just old desktops I’ve repurposed into servers. I don’t generally use VPSs unless it’s something I really don’t want to go down if my home internet goes out. Right now, nothing I have is running on a VPS, but the last service would have been my Matrix server. When I couldn’t get any of my friends and family onboard with it I shut it down and started using a public Matrix server instead.

And yet this shit is better than americas rails? How?

Where I live there are 3 mass transit options. The airports, inter-city busses, and Amtrack. We generally get around by car.

Amtrack costs as much as taking a plane but takes as long (or longer) than the busses and is really only a viable option in the North East US. The US does have an extensive rail network that covers a most of the US, but it’s mostly used for heavy freight. Most towns and cities don’t have a passenger rail terminal anymore. We only have this option only because we are between Atlanta and New Orleans. Most places in the US don’t have this option. Here’s a map of the US rail network. If you go to layers you can hide everything except Amtrak routes to see what I mean. Link doesn’t work in Firefox as a heads up.

The inter-city busses are usually only once a day (sometimes only once a week) and take forever to get anywhere and often have long layovers on the way. But they do go almost everywhere in the country. Company is called Greyhound if you want to look them up.

And finally, we have the local regional airport. Imagine what Berlin might have been like during the middle of the Cold War. It’s probably not too far off the situation at our airports. Show ID at the entrance, Strip, Walk through the scanner while your stuff is riffled through, dress, Show ID again at the gate, and pray you don’t get picked for a more thorough search or harassed by TSA which might cause you to miss your flight. Granted, I haven’t flown in over a decade, but my last plane trip made me decide to never fly again if I could at all help it.

For your laptop, might give Thunderbird a go. It’s old school but it still works well.

Spite. Spite and rage.

I’ve bounced between a bunch of different ones. Each time I switched and moved the directory over the formatting and linking tended to break. In the end, I settled on just a raw hierarchical directory structure using raw markdown (using a basic text editor) for typed notes and whatever other relevant media (pictures, pdfs, whatever), and GoodNotes for handwritten notebooks with PDF backups saved to directory on my Nextcloud.

I don’t know, maybe my needs are odd but I’ve just never found a single application that could handle all of my note-taking and documentation needs. Everything is close, but frustratingly annoying in one missing feature or another. And all of them seemed damned slow compared to just opening up a file browser or a terminaland doing what I needed.

As for file syncing, Logseq was pretty easy to handle syncing for. I just put the logseq notes directory on my Nextcloud and Bob’s you’re uncle. Access on my desktop, laptop and mobile devices. Don’t have to use Nextcloud though, just something that would allow you to sync the directory between devices. Syncthing would probably work. Just don’t bounce between devices too fast. Causes conflicts you have to correct manually.

Nowadays, Apple is only really big for digital music if you are (or were) already really deep in their ecosystem. Not sure I’ve heard of any devices that play nice with their DRM in a while and last I had looked (admittedly many years ago) they did not have a compatible app for Android.

Apple music was bigger back 15 or 20 years ago for digital downloads due in large part to the iPod, though I occasionally hear of some odd band or another that only releases their stuff on iTunes.

And since this is a linux community, as a heads up, iTunes is only marginally functional, last I heard, in linux. Apparently it can’t detect connected devices. You’ll probably need a Windows or Mac system to run iTunes if you want to go that route.

For CDs, Amazon, ebay, or discogs. Digital music I usually get from the artist’s webstore if possible, otherwise I’ll buy it from Amazon or BandCamp.

One heads up, Buying and downloading digital music from Amazon is a pain in the butt if you have an Amazon Music subscription. Easy and straightforward though without.

Apple music is also possible but you have to burn the tracks to CD using itunes to move it out of Apple’s ecosystem.

I also hear good things about Tidal but I’ve never used them.

Alabama here. Battery and mains powered ones are generally called weed eaters.

The gas powered ones are called a string of curses that would get me banned. Usually while trying to get them to crank. There’s a reason I went electric.

The only time the government is willing to spend money on space exploration ( or anything for that matter) is if they are trying to play a game of “Im better then you” with other nations.

We have a public space agency in the US and they have done jack all in maned space exploration since the end of the Apollo program. And what little they have done has been massively overpriced.

In my opinion , it’s best to have both public and commercial space flight programs. Greed in two different directions might actually accomplish something and I strongly believe that we need a STRONG space presence not just in our own solar system but in many systems throughout the galaxy for our own survival as a species.

If you have a favorite community you might take a look at the instance they’re hosted out of.

Beyond that, my general advice is to sort Lemmy instances by number of active users, then pick one that’s somewhere between the 10th and 20th largest.

According to ListenBrainz, a whole lot of Beatles.

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The screenshot in the readme suggests it does, but I couldn’t say for myself. I’m not that rich.

https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop

My last laptop was an HP Stream. Crappy laptop, but it had a touchscreen. It worked fine whenever I remembered that it had a touch screen. I didn’t have to set anything up, it was just automagicly setup for me on Ubuntu. Couldn’t tell you how responsive it was and that laptop would have been a poor benchmark anyways, but if I touched a button or scrolled the screen, it would do the thing.

Sorry, I’m old. Prefer a physical keyboard to a screen keyboard any day.

Generally, jeans and a t-shirt. Sometimes a button-up. A sweater if it’s cold. Not much different than what I wear at work.

nvtop will show you what processes are using your GPU.

A full tank of fuel. I can always charge the phone off the engine, but fuel is expensive.

About the only thing I’ve watched this week was “The Martian”. Great movie. Immediately went out to find the book. The book’s even better.

I think that is basically what this is. I was actually looking for a replacement power supply for a cat feeder when I found this. Considered it for a minute then discarded the idea as cool, but overly expensive in my case. If I had had a spare 30w USB-C power supply, might have gone another way, but the older wall wart style power supply only cost me $15.

First time I’ve heard of that DAW. The UI reminds me a bit of Aurdour or MixBus. Personally I prefer Reaper.

Aurdour is FOSS and under heavy development, so if you’ve tried it in the past you might want to take another look at it. Reaper and MixBus are both proprietary. Played with MixBus some but it wasn’t for me. UI kept flummoxing me. Reaper made more sense to me off the bat and so I stuck with it.

If your needs are really simple though you might see if Audacity might work. Also FOSS. It’s more an overgrown voice recorder than a DAW though.

There are a lot of options in that space and it’s strongly a personal preference thing.