Hi everyone, I’m creating this megathread to help regroup information about Pelosi’s recent visit and the follow-up (currently the PLA is conducting military drills very close to Taiwan)
You’re still totally allowed to make your own threads, this is more for things that do not warrant a thread by themselves.
I tend to like to overstock on RAM because in my experience it’s easier to deal with a system that has more RAM since it still works even if it’s running slowly. But def not worth it to overkill it if you have a CPU that isn’t strong enough or you know your services don’t need it or are more CPU heavy and there is no reason to pay for it.
cool do you have good enough internet to self host everything you need to broadcast? I proxy a minecraft server (mc.greenempower.org) and that’s it. Since residential upload is so nerfed I don’t bother with other stuff. That’s why I want to maybe colocate maybe instead of using hostens… best I found was free range cloud and they let you send your pi for $5/month and you get a 100mbps hookup. Oh nevermind they upped it to $10/m. that’s not worth it. You know I would look overseas in a non-failing state.
I’ll try to do that on whatever device has a couple 1gbps ports or see about using usb as a tether as a network interface… That site says “Price includes 25% tariffs for import into the US from China” very strange. Networking stuff has always spooked me a little.
I hope you can find some more money. I got my first job when I was 16 and worked for a few months and most of my money about is left over from that. But basically only got that job because my dad worked there and I had something to show for myself when I happened to stop by. No work since then it’s pretty tough but idk where you live. I live in the states.
Planning to try and get in repair business but I like that with computers you can do so much without having a lot of wealth. Being able to exist on here levels the playing field a little bit I think. And it’s good to be productive like working on code or art and contributing to the commons and other revolutionary efforts.
I get 200 Mbit down, 15 Mbit up. It’s enough for most of what I’m doing. Surprisingly, not much requires lots of bandwidth. I’ve even streamed music fine off of it. I’ve had 10 people on my Minecraft server at a time, even with some of them having to go through a Bedrock -> Java translation layer so that Bedrock players could play on the same server as Java players. None of them complained of lag. I also run a Matrix homeserver off of it, and that works well too.
Yeah, I noticed that. It wasn’t there before, which is likely why I could get it for $37.
It’s really not that bad. I learned about most of it when setting up the networking for my servers and when creating my router setup, which is two routers, running OpenWrt, meshed together in a B.A.T.M.A.N mesh.
Me too. California.
Yeah, computers have allowed me to do a lot. I have been passionate about them since I first laid my hands on one when I was 5 years old. I used my parents’ computer and realized that someone must’ve created the programs I was using, so I tried to find out how one would go about doing that, which started my entire journey with them. Now, I have 13 servers, 21 projects on my Gitea, some of which are relatively popular, like ITD, which is currently the most feature-complete Linux companion for the PineTime smartwatch, and is in the OpenSUSE repos. Computers are a lot of fun.