The most important risk you face is if somehow mains voltage ends up contacting somewhere you get electrocuted and die.

There are 2 purposes of an earth ground: First it can be used as a reference for certain signals, such as microphones. Second, it can be used to protect against turning yourself into a sparker.

There is a clear separation between mains voltage and system voltages so it’s typically not going to be a problem, but if a little wire ends up contacting the power supply case it can become energized and things start to get really bad.

Most of the electrical code where I live focuses on grounding as “Bonding”, which is purely safety related for giving dangerous voltages a safe place to go.

I live by nextcloud news, but I don’t like the new interface.

The other nice thing is it syncs with apps on every platform.

Honestly, if you’re running public facing services, you should run the latest everything you can. There’s a risk that stuff breaks, but at least you’re not having to worry about patched exploits.

My ISP had the same problem, ultimately I was able to convince them to let me use my own router. In doing that, I was able to at first use a standard off the shelf router and later a pfsense firewall to handle NAT that exposed my servers to the outside world.

Before I was able to do that, I was pretty convinced I wasn’t going to be able to self host. There are other options, such as special VPNs for self-hosting, but that’s not really the point, is it?

It was early when I read the article, I got the impression that the 9W was for the furnace version of the thermopile electric generator.

Oh, it’s just a thermopile put out in the sun.

I can see why it never caught on then. You’d be relying on the difference in temperature between the hot side of a thing painted black put in the sun and the cool side in the shade. The amount of energy you’d get from such a setup would be infinitecimal. I’d expect you’d need to do an absurd amount of work and use an absurd amount of material just to power a single house.

The amount of energy it would take to build a “solar cell” thermopile that’d generate 1.5v with a quite high internal resistance would probably be in the megawatt-hours, likely from coal and oil.

I do believe that you’re right and that is the case.

The AT protocol and activitypub are completely different protocols. Bluesky the “distributed” Twitter replacement uses AT, but nobody else does.

The benefit of activitypub is that it is completely decentralized. You don’t need to ask anyone’s permission to start up an activitypub project or server other than maybe a domain registrar.

The benefit of AT is you can maintain a single unified identity across different servers, since there’s basically one source of login credentialing.

At least that’s as far as I understand it, I could be wrong.

I ended up giving up on kbin after almost a week of trying to simply get it to run and federate. Ended up running Lemmy (though I’m presently using lotide as my main threadiverse experience) and after days of not being able to federate with kbin.

Hoping kbin federates with lotide soon.

Really like the project in a lot of ways, but when I tried it, it just wasn’t ready yet.

SAP is also popular, and nobody is actually known on planet Earth to have anything positive to say about it.

I figure their marketing department hires some really good call girls. Only explanation I can fathom.

I like fanless PCs. Some have gpio headers for home automation purposes.

For just self-hosting, I’d probably like using refurbished laptops. Seems nuts, but low power, included input and screen, built in UPS, and sometimes you can get them for like 100 bucks. You can just use a USB or wifi device for home automation purposes if need be.

Tbf, most of the fediverse isn’t lemmy.

The only way to know for sure is to test. I found I could subscribe to peertube channels using lemmy, but that wasn’t intended and just a happy side effect of the common activitypub protocol.

I recall seeing new videos and being able to comment but not be able to create new posts that would federate since that wouldn’t make a lot of sense.

It is a little dangerous to do in case you experience a crash or a power failure, but you can get a lot more bang for the buck from your server hardware if you have a decent amount of memory by tuning your different system components to keep more data in memory and write to disk less often. This can be done with sysctl.conf and dirty writes, or with php or MySQL using more working memory and not writing to disk as often.

It was particularly required when I was still using a spinning drive, since random io was a show stopper. Even using a decent sata SSD it can be beneficial however, letting the system choose to write at more opportune moments instead of doing it in the middle of read ops.

I’m hoping lotide federates with kbin soon.

Most of the people left on Twitter are just pure addicts. I find it really funny that a lot of people who claim to just hate the website and Elon Musk left for about a week or two then came crawling back.

“I’ll suck your dick for a mean tweet!” – pure addicts.

I stopped using my lemmy instance for the most part and moved back to my lotide instance.

There was some sort of bad upgrade that killed my lemmy instance, and when I got back incoming federation was ok but outgoing wasn’t.

Discovered that I need to rate limit federation or it pwns both lemmy and lotide.

I unsubbed from a lot of communities that seemed like they couldn’t help from constantly bringing politics into stuff, leaving my feed a lot quieter. I’m sure you hate candidate X, but this is a knitting community…

Right? Lmfao

Always has been.

It’s one of the reasons why lemmy never really took off until the great reddit migration despite having a decent software product.

I can vouch for the power of a nuc, they’re basically laptop grade hardware.

Dominant failure modes are fan failure and ssd failure. The latter can be solved by using a quality ssd, the former by keeping your nuc out of dirty areas. You can clean it up if it gets dirty, but it’s a high risk operation, I’ve seen fan blades break.