Every time I spin one up. I spend weeks setting things and playing with it. And then never use it again until I get bored and rebuild it.
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A home server with digital services (from mail to cloud) as we got wired phones back in our timeline, most of the time up, possible terminal of our own and able to unplug at will
Dad said we're getting a sourcebox!
is tilvids overloaded right now? I can barely watch the video. also I don't see the peer traffic indicators, has p2p distribution been turned off?
Pffft, I don't trust meself with me own dater. Gon' lose it all in a jiffy, fr fr
Pretty understandable fear tbh I'm not quite sure I trust myself with mine yet
The key is to find another friend on another continent and you store a copy of their shit and they store a copy of your shit (automatic encrypted daily sync, of course)
Just needa get a friend first
How many subscribers are on this comm?
Nah bro. Louis Rossmann showed me a great product today so you don't need a friend! It's call AI Friend who would never steal my data right…?
Link to a video of a Louis Rossmann AI is NOT your friend
Cool video and cool shirt! Is it sewn if it is it's even cooler!?
Oh and im right now trying to figure out how to get access from anywhere to my Jellyfin and Navidrom (oh I learnd that docker.yml is soo friciking easy to set up. I donno why I didn't do it to Jellyfin anyway…) server (not only from home network) I even installed Tailscale but im not so technical. Still. Video is very cool and I will try this photo digital album for my family. My grandma will be amazed for sure! Again cool video you seem very interesting dude!
My cool Docker icon lolz
Everyone is a really, really big target