Perforated galvanized plumbers strapping. While most of my equipment is wall mountable, I used exactly this sort of thing for all the power supplies.

Likely similar to whatever you’re planning to use with the plastic strap, but more metal is more betterer

I have yet to unleash my true diabetes level!

Relevant meme

There’s a button in settings to not show bot accounts. I clicked it when I realized how many posts were just reddit mirror bots

I’ve been on a pretty big history kick lately. :)

Historically speaking we don’t even know that science and technology will progress.

You know the weird trope in a lot of RPGs where an ancient artifact is this strangely advanced thing? If you think about it, that’s happened before. After the fall of the Roman empire, Western Europe was in a dark age. People were living in the ruins of buildings they couldn’t figure out how to build, and often those ancient artifacts were better than anything that could be produced by current technology. Imagine something like some of the Greek clockwork showing up in some dark age village.

That’s not the first time that happened, either. The early classical Greeks were often living in the ruins of Mycenaean Greek castles, and after the bronze age collapse some of the societies in the region didn’t even maintain writing as a technology, so there were artefacts that were impossible for the people of the time to reproduce with current technology.

We also saw the collapse of the Indus valley civilization that had things as advanced as plumbing and sewage systems, where those technologies were lost to the indian subcontinent until much later.

There are ruins in Zimbabwe which are incredible of castles made of stone, completely inconsistent with what we imagine when we hear the word “Africa” as well. It seems that the high level of technology represented by Great Zimbabwe was not comparable to later civilizations until relatively recently.

The Terracotta army created after the death of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty in China was on such a level of magnitude and precision that the following periods of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period simply couldn’t have reproduced it.

The Moche civilization in ancient Peru was known for its elaborate irrigation systems, advanced ceramic arts, and complex social organization, but the civilization collapsed and with the end of that civilization much of their technologies were lost.

Many societies before us didn’t see history as a straight line, but a cycle. If it’s true that civilization existed for in some form for 100,000 years before recorded history began which is suggested by some things like the story of the 7 Pleiades sisters where one sister left to describe a 6 star constellation where 100,000 years ago there may have been 7 stars showing then it could be that such a worldview is mor consistent with reality than our modern one.

While our postmodern view of societies says that civilizations fail because things aren’t progressing enough, the dark age Christians believed that their predecessors collapsed because of a lack of moral virtue. The Bronze Age civilizations blamed “Sea People”. The Mesopotamians told stories about a great flood sent by the gods as punishment for hubris. Two American civilizations claim that our current world is either the 4th or 6th one to exist and the rest were destroyed in cataclysms.

Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great – it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it’ll compress everything.

I have a feeling you’d end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.

Warning you, I’ve had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn’t want to mix ssds and hdds.

Is it bad that I saw a new domain name and was like “ooh, a new instance to federate with!”?

I run all the different services because I generally agree with you, but there’s value in being able to choose how to interact with everything. some people really want to have new videos show up in their lemmy feed or their mastodon feed. If that’s how they want to do it, they’re right. Same with interacting with lemmy from mastodon – If that’s what you want to do, then you’re right and it’s a win for you if you can do it that way.

Wordpress has had an activitypub plugin for years, in part because it’s an open source project.

I can see why a company with so many separate products like Meta would want to look at federation, but I’m not so sure about Tumblr. Part of their value is in having a walled garden so you need to join them and see advertising from them.

I’ve bought a few dozen of these things, shame to see them go.

For small instances, strong captcha and applications and email verification are sort of important. I know my fbxl video was constantly growing until I realized they were all fake users. Just adding email verification meant that most user creation stopped immediately in its tracks

😂 that’s the spirit!

You sure?

Ok, you asked for it.

A quarter million users and that’s not even with all the different instances.

Very cool. Just remember folks, don’t forget to diversify and decentralize! These other instances have some interesting posts and conversations, and by spreading out we make sure no single instance or community can break the fediverse.

I’ve been self-hosting a wide variety of things including nextcloud (which is one open source project I advocate everyone look at, especially on a web domain so they can access it from anywhere)

Go linux for hosting your open source projects. Just do it. I’m not saying that because windows is inherently worse than linux, but because everything out there is documented as if you’re hosting off of linux. In fact, you should really consider using Ubuntu-server, because most things have documentation specifically for ubuntu.

Going with windows server as mostly just s hyper-v box with your linux installations inside, that might be worthwhile.

If your IP address appears static, then you can probably just directly configure dns through the web interface of your domain provider. There’s a great script out there for doing dynamic dns using different providers such as godaddy, that could be some insurance to make sure you don’t end up with a non-working social media network.

One thing you should consider is running one virtual host as your reverse proxy that redirects different subdomains to the different individual servers running your services. The reverse proxy server running something like nginx would then deal with all your subdomains, and if you work on say your nextcloud and need to reboot it won’t take all your services down at once because your reverse proxy continues to function for all your other services.

In practice, don’t be surprised if most of the fediverse doesn’t defederate from either.

I say it all the time: decentralization is strength.

America has a lot of problems right now leading to exceptionally low trust in government, even for them.