Circa 20 years ago I was interested in running an UO shard, at the time I was testing RunUO, it seemed modern at the time because C# and .NET were only a few years old :)

I see they haven’t updated the text on the website in 20 years ;)

The only drawback was the inability to port the software over to other operating systems. However projects like MONO are working extremely hard to provide a very capable .NET framework for the alternative operating systems.

Somebody should tell them about the new multiplatform .NET. Seriously though, I’m surprised that website is still online.

I usually don’t remember about having an account there, but every time someone reminds me (like right now) I wonder whether I should delete it. The problem (?) is that I’m an IT professional and LinkedIn was supposed to be a job search venue (I never used it in 20 or so years, I only got spammed by recruiters whom I either declined or ignored them (you know, the reverse Tinder meme)). But I still have “connections” there and a few recommendations, and there’s that thought lingering in my head, that MAYBE SOMEDAY I may need one of those connections as a foothold or a bonus point when applying for a job. I don’t know. There are several other IT job boards which all seem like a better solution than LinkedIn.

my printer just works! Out of the box, no issues

Ha, I’m going to test my dad’s printer in Linux Mint this weekend, because I plan to migrate him from Windows 10. I remember printers on Linux used to be a PITA ~20 years ago, but I also read somewhere that (some?) printers now work driverless (no idea how that works), so we’ll see.

I have a similar setup. My PC has disks formatted in Btrfs, so I get copy on write snapshots of my system disk, then have a local Restic backup on a secondary disk and then have an off-site Restic backup in the cloud on the Storage Box.

Thanks for pointing me to Paperless, never heard of it, it seems like it could be useful. I wonder how it deals with languages other than English, if at all.

I don’t get it. It indexes pages which were already visited, right? So in order to find some website I need to first use another search engine. Afterwards, that website is in my browsing history and if I need it again, I don’t need to search for it. So what’s the use case for this project?

Not sure if this is helpful or still too technical, but take a look: https://selfhosting.sh/foundations/getting-started/

My only issue is with banking apps and our national ID app which is very useful. I know some work, but I haven’t seen all that I have listed, so I would have to be the guinea pig :) I actually have an older Pixel phone with a shattered screen, I was planning to have it repaired, so I guess that’s where I can test GrapheneOS safely.

Great idea! However, something bothers me. From F-Droid:

This app relies on catbox.moe to upload images and Google, Bing, Yandex, TinyEye, Perplexcity and ChatGPT for search.

I am not familiar with that service, so I went to the website and looked at FAQ:

How long does Catbox keep files for?
Forever. If you don’t want your file to stick around until the heat death of the universe, use Litterbox.

Are you (F)(L)OSS?
no.

Not sure what it is exactly but having my uploaded files stored in some obscure database until the heat death of the universe does not fill me with trust.

I have a Pixel phone and used the screen scanning tech (forgot how it’s called, but it’s the same feature, I believe) for OCR to copy the WiFi password from a photo of the sticker that’s on the router and of course it immediately sent that password to Google and run the search, ugh. I don’t want to send my WiFi password to some website I never even heard about, either.

Can you explain how it works?

People learn and change. Always better late than never.

I migrated from the US servers to the EU servers and while looking through my settings I noticed that my renewal was $19.80 instead of $12 last year. At first I thought that the EU servers are much more expensive and was upset that support didn’t tell me before migration, but it turns out that’s just the new price.

Thanks!

May I ask which Hetzner VPS did you choose? I wonder if the Cost-Optimized ones are sufficient. I would be using it with max 2 users, same as you.

If I go with the VPS option I’d like to host Immich instead. But it seems to be hungry for memory, especially with the ML features enabled.

I really don’t understand this “Nextcloud does too much” rhetoric, the standard bare metal installation is basically just Files, Photos, Calendar and Contacts

That’s just my impression based on their website, it looks like a business suite, but I’m probably looking at it wrong. Thank you, the part about the database is important.

A bonus question regarding the 3-2-1 backup strategy. If my VPS is in Germany, but I spin up a Storage Box in Finland, that falls within the boundaries of “off-site backup”, even if both are managed by Hetzner. What do you think? It’s just easiest to setup, I guess. Otherwise I need another cloud provider (perhaps some S3 object storage).

I was looking at this self-hosting guide and scratching my head in confusion. They say $80 nets you a 4TB HDD. Meanwhile, in my country that costs more like $220+. Yes, for an HDD, not SSD (that would be more like way over $500). I see the guide has been updated this year, so either the US lives in another world or nobody has updated the pricing.

If you’re that paranoid you can host it yourself.

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs?tab=readme-ov-file

https://mozilla-services.github.io/syncstorage-rs/

It’s open source.

Voyager is free.

I meant that I can buy one of those Radeons dedicated to AI work, like the ASRock Radeon AI PRO R9700 Creator 32GB GDDR6. If I need to.

Currently my Ryzen iGPU is all I need, because all I need is to see the graphical desktop environment on my screen ;) It does the job well.

I use Claude Code as well and I am slightly concerned with that ID verification news, even more so because of the technology partner that they chose.

Say I have a GPU with 32GB VRAM and I am on Linux, what local LLM would be good for coding?

Currently I just have an iGPU ;) but that’s always an option, albeit a very expensive one.