That is why I said it depends. There are many places where electricity cuts for a short duration are quite frequent. Often you don’t even notice it, but a 24/7 server would be effected.

In general, I think the risk of laptop batteries catching fire is overstated especially if you limit the charge to 80% or so. So weighting these two issues against each other you can come out either way, but I think for most places it will come down towards a UPS being nice to have.

Depends. Usually it is still good as a UPS for a few minutes, and some laptops have a bios option to limit full charge which lowers the risk even further.

Since Snikket is just an XMPP server, it can be used with desktop apps like Dino as well.

All the corporate gamification feature are probably quite annoying.

It really is an enterprise solution and I doubt your family will be happy with it.

Why not just set up a Snikket server and use that? You can easily create group-chats and share pictures and videos there and the interface is similar to WhatsApp.

Maybe https://picocms.org/

But Hugo is fine, no need to use all the advanced features.

maybe try: https://github.com/Fancy-Mumble/FancyMumbleV2

https://snikket.org/ is the easy to configure XMPP server, but it still needs SSL certificates. But that’s fairly easy to do with Snikket AFAIK.

Or you could simply ask the Snikket developers to host a server for you for a small fee. If you are US or Canada based https://jmp.chat/ is also a great service, and it includes a free Snikket server as an add-on.

I wondered about this before but apparently the Telegram client is terrible spaghetti code under the hood, making these kind of ideas not feasible.

You might like Monocles Chat though, which is an Android XMPP client with a somewhat nicer looking interface.

There is also the work in progress Moxxy client, which is a from ground up new XMPP client written in Flutter. It seems to take some interface inspiration from Telegram, but to be honest, it isn’t anywhere near to be fully usable and development has been slow in recent months.

In terms of raw CPU power, you will rarely have issues with anything newer than 10 years old. But some built in video conversion hardware can differ significantly and power consumption is usually also lower for newer CPUs.

Afaik it uses a very similar codebase and plugins can be easily ported or might even work out of the box.

Maybe this? https://theia-ide.org/

Only once during the initial setup, afterwards its all managed by Systemd. Once you know about it, it takes like one minute max.?

Its actually much easier to autostart containers with Podman, as it has full Systemd integration, so you can handle them like any other service. All you need to do is write a simple .container file for the Podman built-in Quadlet service, which closely follows the normal Systemd .service file syntax.

There are .pod files for Quadlet now, which do what you want. No Kubernetes involved.

My impression is really the opposite. Podman is constantly being improved and nice features get added all the time.

If you don’t like SELinux, just disable it. Nothing to do with Podman.

Podman-generate was replaced by Quadlet .container files, which works better.

And a Pod also has it’s own virtual network, why manually create one?

Currently at step 9. Waiting for the roving bands of thugs to arrive 😅

Gitlab’s main advantage is the tight integration with CI/CD and a web based IDE. But it has some annoying limitations in the non-enterprise version.

Forgejo is great, but it comes with only community support.

You can get commercial support from the Gitea project (from which Forgejo forked off), but if that is something important for you, Gitlab has probably also better commercial support structures in place.

That’s what everyone thinks for a while, and then they go back to Nginx.

Why would you start with such a complex and advanced tool when you are new to self-hosting?

Yeah, that was my first thought.

Probably driven by: then I can put that on my CV. But just playing around with that self-hosted is not going to give you any actionable skills.

Alternative explanation: Lemmy is big enough now for astroturfing 😑

This is a good guide: https://wiki.tnonline.net/w/Btrfs/Replacing_a_disk

Usually you want to replace drives before they fail (SMART monitoring will give you ample warning in most cases). The it is better to have an additional free SATA port to turn the failing raid temporarily into a three-way raid and use the btrfs built-in function to replace the disk in situ.