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Not sure if that’s true. I’ve ran a Synapse Matrix server on a SBC before and it worked. Just for a few users though. I don’t know if it breaks if you have like 300 people using that…

You could use conduit.rs as a server. That runs on a few tens of megabytes of RAM. Not a whopping gigabyte. At least that’s what I’m using now. It’s still missing a few features, though.

Ohmanomann. Hat sie das geschrieben? (zugehöriger Lemmy post)

Hier werden mal wieder alle unzusammenhängenden Zahlen vermischt. Und am Ende ist natürlich allein das Internet schuld und die fehlende Totalüberwachung dort.

Can’t you find something like a guide or walktrough? I can’t believe you’re the first person using a RasPi as an access point…

I mean I would love to help. But it’s a bit difficult without seeing the situation. And “I can’t connect to anything” isn’t exactly detailed enough to lead me to any conclusions. There are a lot of moving parts in a router, the wifi itself, DHCP, routing, firewall, …

Send them a feature request. Honestly. I don’t think those annoyances will become less, unless enough people complain.

Honestly, I’ve shifted my attention towards PieFed during the last few days. I’m not waiting for the Lemmy devs to do it. Piefed the same Fediverse, just a different server software. Sadly not yet feature-complete or an equal competitor to Lemmy… And it has a long way to go… But the developer is much more progressive, open to new features… And it’s written in Python so I could do it myself. And I will most likely do it. (And since this sounds like an advertisement: There are still some (lots of) rough edges in that project. Quite some things are missing and for example a phone app isn’t even on the roadmap as of today.)

That’s perfectly fine with me. And already part of Lemmy etc. If you set that tick correctly to indicate it’s a bot account, it won’t bother me since I’ve set “hide_bots”. And we already have lemmit.online and maybe other instances dedicated to bots. It makes it really easy if it’s a whole instance. I won’t complain, just refrain from subscribing and be happy that this platform makes it easy to co-exist with people with different preferences.

Hmmh. I think I sometimes forget that ‘link aggregator’ is also in the title. Maybe I’m just not the type for a link aggregator. But nonetheless I use (and like) this platform. It may very well be the case that I’m using it wrong. And a “social” link/news aggregator is yet another thing than one without the “social”. So maybe I’m right because it isn’t social without the engagement.

I mean we’re not Hacker News or Reddit either. And in the end I like diversity. I think it’s more a “me”-problem. And the correct solution is: I get a tool to hide or mark empty posts. That’d allow people to do it and me not being bothered by it if I don’t like.

I guess we all have a vision for Lemmy anyways. I think two things I’d like to see more often are body text underneath posts (as I said, this isn’t Mastodon) and unconditional upvoting of replies if you get one. That shows the other side that you’ve read it and appreciate they typed something for you. At some point I think I’m going to write a post about nice behaviour here. I have to think about it some more… And this is a diverse place anyways, other people might like different things.

Yeah, and fostering engagement is difficult. Always has been. I don’t think artificial linkdumping helps… It could as well kill engagement if it’s not honest and genuine. But having inactive communities also doesn’t get us anywhere. It’s difficult to do it right.

My thoughts: Please don’t make Lemmy a linkdump. Only post that in the news communities or if you’re genuinely interested in a discussion. And then add some text of your own, what you’d like to discuss about that, what you find interesting about it or a short summary for people to decide whether they want to click on the link.

I see a lot of news just dumped to Lemmy with 0 interaction or engagement. And it’s often duplicated because I already have a feedreader. I think that’s more a use-case for Mastodon.

Correct. What it appears to be and what it is, are often two very different things. And people often underestimate situations like desaster recovery… Everything is fine and dandy on the day you configure the backup job. But once you need it, that day is a desaster and everything has gone wrong. Now you need your plan to work flawlessly. And there are a lot of things that can go wrong, I’ve only highlighted a few of them. And lots of people have been burned by that before. There is only one way to make sure it works, and that is to test the whole procedure. And ideally not just once right after you configured it because things can go wrong later on, too.

Go to the connection settings and copy the “Port used for incoming connections”. Paste it into a service like: https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

If your port isn’t “open”, that’s your issue. You need to configure port-forwarding in your router or VPN client.

Nice.

Cameras definitely need some more bandwidth. And their presence has a bigger impact on your privacy than the lightswitch. So you might as well do it right… I agree.

Me and by brother-in-law also each bought one of the 4 packs of cheap smart plugs with power metering. He had 2 fail after some years. But I guess he was just a bit unlucky. In our experience they’re pretty reliable overall. And the 2 failed safe(ly). They just stopped switching and didn’t burn down. I’m not 100% convinced, I use a more expensive brand one to make my washing machine smart since it draws a lot of power. But I use the cheap ones for everything else.

I -myself- am a bit reluctant towards cameras and smart speakers that listen in to arbitrary things. But that’s just personal preference.

I’d say yes for home use that’s perfectly fine.

Lots of people here teach you the 3-2-1 rule. Which is how it’s supposed to be and stick to that if you’re a business or have valuable data… But that’s also not the whole picture.

I think more important than the actual number of backups is to make sure they work. I’ve seen computers where the backup or cloud sync failed and no one noticed. And after the harddisk got damaged they got aware of the fact that the last successful backup ran 9 months ago… Or people started to save things in a different directory and that drive wasn’t part of the backup. Or the backup was encrypted and the key got lost together with the original data.

I personally am a bit cheap on the third backup. I replace that with an old external drive and copy my vacation pictures there every half a year or so. Just don’t store that next to the computer so everything burns down together. I’d say that’s more than enough. And your cloud backup already does 99% of the job. It’s at a (physically) different location and does all the really important tasks (for home use.)

Finde ich auch. Mir hat die Zeit einiges gebracht. Und ich finde es höchst sinnvoll gerade in dem Alter mal einen Einblick in etwas Anderes / soziales / das “echte Leben” zu bekommen. Und nicht schnurstracks direkt weiter in die Uni / Berufsschule und danach geradlinig Sesselpupser werden, teilweise mit engem Tellerrand. Die Betriebe freuen sich bestimmt auch wenn jemand schonmal richtiges Arbeiten gelernt hat und nicht nur Schule und Vorlesungen kennt. (Lernt man aber auch weit nicht in allen Bufti-Jobs.)

In Verpflichtend finde ich das aber auch problematisch.

Und letztendlich, wenn der Staat Geld in die Hand nimmt um diese Stellen zum großen Teil zu finanzieren, könnte man auch das gleiche Geld an die Einrichtungen geben und dann können die sich aussuchen ob sie Freiwillige oder Fachkräfte damit bezahlen.

Das ist alles nicht so ganz optimal gelöst. Und auch alles nicht wirklich Grundlage des gesellschaftlichen Kernproblems.

Aber, wo ich darüber nachdenke. Eigentlich finde ich schon, dass der/die Einzelne der Gesellschaft gegenüber verpflichtet ist. Schließlich nimmt man auch die Errungenschaften in Anspruch. Oder wird mal krank oder alt. Oder beeinflusst das Leben anderer Menschen. Also ganz so einfach wie -es darf überhaupt keine Verpflichtungen geben- ist es auch nicht.

Soldaten mit Wehrpflicht ist sowieso meiner Meinung nach keine gute Idee. Wir sollten uns da an anderen Ländern orientieren. Und eine Berufsarmee kann eh mehr als jemand der/die (nur) ein paar Monate da rumhängt.

Und was uns eigentlich richtig krass fehlt sind Pflegekräfte, Leute die in Jugendeinrichtungen helfen etc. Also Ich bin für geschlechtsunabhängige Zivis, FSJler und BuFtis. Nicht Soldaten. (Um mich herum wurden schon mehrere Altersheime, Jugendhäuser dicht gemacht weil kein Personal. (Und teuer.) Ziemlich blöd für die Zukunft der Gesellschaft.)

Und apropos Carearbeit: Wir wäre es mal mit verfügbaren KiTa Plätzen, Entbindungsstationen und Hebammen? Das wäre doch besser als es den Familien super schwer zu machen und als Ausgleich erlässt man es den Frauen Soldatinnen zu werden?!? Ich verstehe echt das Argument und diesen seltsamen Kompromiss nicht. Defacto ist ja hier vieles sehr(!) schlecht gelöst, bezüglich junger Mütter. DAS sollte man doch angehen anstatt einen faulen Kompromiss über 5 Ecken zu machen…

The axis don’t make sense.

Authentik, Authelia, Keycloak, KaniDM come to mind.

That’d be identity providers / authentication servers or SSO solutions. But with most (/all?) of them, you’d have to program the payment logic yourself.

I think there are webshops, platforms to sell online courses and ERP or eCommerce software that can do both payment and authentication. I’m not a expert on that.

I think most solutions are either custom solutions that have been programmed by the people themselves (at least to some degree) or some of the big, commercial (and proprietary) platforms to sell online courses and memberships.

But don’t search for “userbase […]” that’s a term I’ve never heard of. Search for “membership”, “identity management”, “single sign-on”, “eCommerce” and “Stripe” (because it’s one of the largest payment providers. And I’d have a look at the eCommerce world. Usually it’s difficult to find something good. Most of them want a share of your revenue and aren’t entirely open source. Maybe something to sell online courses with, is more likely to have the things you need.

That’s a bit more elaborate then ‘usual’. But not unheard of. I spoke to some people here on Lemmy who have put their cheap IoT devices on a separate Wifi. And guest networks are fairly common. IMHO those should be easier to set up on OpenWRT.

Regarding the cheap ‘chinesium’ smart devices: I hope you’re aware of projects like Tasmota, ESPHome and OpenBeken… I’m not that much into making everything smart, but I also have some smart sockets, LED strips and stuff. I had some luck with the first devices I bought and after that I payed attention to just buy things where I could replace the firmware. So for me they all communicate with my own MQTT broker and Home Assistant directly, and there isn’t any firmware on them any more that’d talk to the china cloud.

It’s not that easy though. Some require opening and flashing via an USB to serial adapter. And lots of devices aren’t supported by aftermarket firmwares at all. Especially the more elaborate ones.

Whatever floats your boat. If you don’t need it, you don’t need it. I have some services exposed to the outside on the standard port and I need a reverse proxy to make that possible. It also does the https with letsencrypt certificates. It’s a bit more comfortable managing them all in the reverse proxy. But I also have some webinterfaces of other less important software that is fine running on some IP on port 5102 and I don’t worry configuring something to change that. I don’t think there is a “should” unless you need to encrypt the traffic or expose that service to somewhere. And it’s also not wrong to do it.

To add a bit: With VLANs you can have several ‘virtual’ cables inside of a real (physical) cable. You probably don’t need it in a home setup, I’m not sure. It’s for use cases like you just have one ethernet port or one cable running through the wall, but you need two (or more) entirely separate networks on the other side. Like the telephone network or the seperate server network along with the normal network, all over one cable. It works by tagging all the network packets. In the end it’s just a number that gets attached to the packets and the other side knows how to handle the packets with those additional numbers attached to them. And it can send them out through different ports again.

At home, most people just have one network, so that kind of functionality isn’t needed. Some people put their TV set, NAS or the smart home devices or their home office and/or guests in different networks so the devices can’t mess with each other. A VLAN might be handy for those kind of things. And OpenWRT has VLANs, too, since there are two separate networks attached (as with every router). In this case the WAN side, going to your ISP, and your LAN. If you have a router with like 5 ports on the back, you can map those to either port if you change the VLAN settings. The labeling (WAN/LAN) from the manufacturer is just the default with OpenWRT.