Post AtNhSqcaMAgTTzh2OG by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
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(DIR) Post #AtLIyO7gxgbJC3GYKm by zoul@boskovice.social
2025-04-21T07:53:30Z
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We Europeans keep whipping ourselves that we don’t have any “big tech giants”, but is that really bad? Sure, we need better cloud services. But I think we’d be better off if we created a healthy market of smaller companies instead of the ungovernable US behemoths that end up distorting the market and politics. Protocols, not platforms — ecosystems, not outliers. Giant corporations are not something to be proud of, they are a public policy failure.
(DIR) Post #AtLNWfInznHK8W42u8 by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-04-22T08:40:27Z
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@zoul@boskovice.socialwe need better cloud services.Do we? 😉Europe already has accessible hosting companies, what we nee is self-hostable one-click solutions:I need someplace for my friends and family to chat? Oh — here it is! Do we want email too? Click — right there! Maybe my family and friends need a feature we'd like to spend a few euros on to have — why not?Insane, right? 😲 Not really — we are already living in an era when we can have it!US "big tech" companies have convinced the world that they can keep innovating only if they stay the way they are — but they are not! They haven't been innovating for quite some time, and they are absolute evil! It's time for this to stop.CC @ueeu@vivaldi.net
(DIR) Post #AtNgfdMoqaDoBZqrjM by nk@sns.neonka.info
2025-04-22T18:52:44Z
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@m0xEE So, what do you propose exactly?
(DIR) Post #AtNgfenRX572cRJdrs by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-04-23T11:16:37Z
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@nk@sns.neonka.infoNothing of this is exactly new and among the tech-literate crowd it's been possible for quite some time already. I suppose we need people to shift away from the app-centric approach and normalise self-hosting things.
(DIR) Post #AtNhSpNIzUrpcJXJw0 by zoul@boskovice.social
2025-04-22T08:45:48Z
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@m0xEE @ueeu We do have some kinds of cloud services like Object Storage or VPS, but miss others, especially the higher level services, as described here: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european-cloud-ladder/
(DIR) Post #AtNhSqcaMAgTTzh2OG by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-04-23T11:24:55Z
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@zoul@boskovice.social @ueeu@vivaldi.netI believe that for a lot of things you don't even need such scale.I mean yeah — yesterday the machine this instance runs on was probably struggling, but it's a 20 year old Mac Mini, most days it doesn't enjoy such attention so it's fine.
(DIR) Post #AtNpiZ721O4XRjwKWG by jae@darkdork.dev
2025-04-23T11:48:12.133392Z
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@m0xEE @zoul @ueeu its impressive you run an instance on the apple from the past. also zoul runs a lenovo m70q tiny it seems. i have one myself. good stuff. i work in the "cloud". its the most hyped up and complicated stuff ever. meanwhile my home server has better uptime this quarter than aws :giganiggahuffin1:
(DIR) Post #AtNpiaNjIn1VNolBBY by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-04-23T13:05:39Z
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@jae@darkdork.devI used to feel sorry for using these computers — my proxy/vpn box is an equally old ARM machine: Genesi Efika MX, its internal storage got damaged due to power outages, but in the SD card goes!Now that I'm on Fedi and I know retrocomputing is a thing… I can start telling my friends I'm a trendy person in very niche parts of the Internet 😅@zoul@boskovice.social @ueeu@vivaldi.net
(DIR) Post #AtNsTbLXjUOJtUHeLI by jae@darkdork.dev
2025-04-23T13:20:37.047953Z
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@m0xEE @zoul @ueeu at the end of the day, if it works it works, right? in my research i've found that most people buy hardware and really don't understand capacity planning. they'll spend a lot of money on some big system only to be serving something like a blog or fediverse. there's plenty of orphaned machines destined for death that can be saved, repurposed, and given a new home. and often for free-dollar
(DIR) Post #AtNsTcp0FRYCT94gts by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-04-23T13:34:06Z
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@jae@darkdork.devExactly! And when it comes to uptime, you see that these machines were built to run for ages. When I started hosting an XMPP server for friends, a friend of mine have given me a newer Intel Mac Mini and… I have failed switching to it. It turned out being picky even about its internal storage: I tried upgrading it with a hard drive from newer MacBook Pro, at night it runs fine, but on hot days it sometimes can't even start — either its PSU is lacking or the disk which is located above the RAM causes it to overheat. I've never had such issues with my old gear — I mean sure, it can lock up once in a few months, but most of the time it gets rebooted due to power outage! It's literally this: if it works, don't try fixing it 🤪@zoul@boskovice.social @ueeu@vivaldi.net
(DIR) Post #AtNvvUmg1aY9Vny4Dw by jae@darkdork.dev
2025-04-23T13:50:59.195093Z
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@m0xEE @zoul @ueeu these older machines are like driving a classic (older) car. you put oil, change brakes and tires, and drive it. the newer ones require telemetry so you can monitor it's health status and becomes stressful if you let it.i've always used lenovo since they can run and run no problems. this m70q i rescued for cheap post-release as a "second" (meaning scratch and dent). besides quarterly downtime for maintenance (i'm strict about repasting, dusting, cleaning) it just runs and runs many things. it's not the fastest thing in the world, but with all of the workloads i have on it, it's running at 80% capacity constantly as it should be. the only thing i might do for it is add an external drive for backups and what not. keeping it simple makes me happy. i also have a few lower-spec e-cycled lenovo boxes to work with kubernetes since it's part of my occupations. they also run and run and run.