Hi, I’m Alex! I like to talk about all sorts of things, like self-hosting stuff, programming shenanigans, random memes, games and probably some other stuff too!
I’ve noticed the same thing. Every Intel N100-based machine costs ~200€ on Amazon.
but the SD cards don’t last long
This is what scares me the most. Ideally, I want a whole SSD to store data. I really don’t want to lose any important data. I plan on hosting public services (like the services I’ve mentioned above) under my domain, so having a reliable drive would be really helpful.
I’ve never heard of Intel N100 before, what’s that? Just so you know, a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 Gigabytes of RAM costs ~90€ in my country (Germany). I wouldn’t really count that as overpriced. Could you show me some machine examples with Intel N100?
Njalla doesn’t seem to be a good option according to this comment on a privacy-focused forum.
What kind of TLD did you buy? Did you choose a TLD that’s supported by the WHOIS privacy? I wanted to see if alexpewmaster.de
was available, and it told me this:
⚠️ PRIVACY WARNING ⚠️
This TLD does not allow WHOIS privacy but generally redacts your personal information. This means that your personal contact information will be sent to the registry but it should not be made public.
I want my private information to be hidden in Whois requests. Also, I don’t want to buy a domain from a registrar that seems very sketchy.
Sounds awesome! I’ve taken a look at Portainer and got confused on the whole Business Edition and Community Edition. What are you running?
What is Portainer? You’ve said that it’s a web UI, but what exactly does it provide you with?
This docker compose up -d
thing is something I don’t understand at all. What exactly does it do? A lot of README.md files from git repos include this command for Docker deployment. And another question: How can you automatically start the Docker container? Do you need a systemd service to run docker compose up -d
?
It’s great for my needs. If you think about picking one up today, I wouldn’t really recommend it. It just offers too little resources to be actually viable in the regular day. I use mine because I had it laying in the dust for a couple of years. Well, it’s enough for my Mumble server and the bots I use for Discord and Matrix.
Fabulously Optimized is AWESOME. Whenever my friends ask me how to get better performance or how to get shaders, I’ll tell them to go install the Prism Launcher, log into their Minecraft account, install Fabulously Optimized directly from the launcher itself and additionally ask them what kind of shaders they want so that they could get the right one. Always got positive feedback!
Nice work! Are you going to use it though?
I love how it says “Restaurants” but then displays an image with ice cream, makes a lot of sense 👍
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Is a Pentium powerful enough? I recently found a YouTube channel called “Wolfgang’s Channel” and he also has a home server with a Pentium. He says it is plenty enough for these kind of tasks.