That, or they got pwned

Side note: the fedigram is a WILDLY better logo for the fediverse than the asterism.

There are a lot of extremely strong candidates, but I’m gonna go with Meta on this one.

Self hosting isn’t likely to ever get to the point of “plug and play”. It’s inherently incredibly flexible and different people will do different things with it. Some people just want NAS. Some people want to build a router. Some people want to have a modest compute farm that they physically own. Some people want a virtualization playground. Or pretty much anything else you can think of, or some combination thereof.

For instance, I custom built a 2-tier + optane cached NAS running proxmox, and I have a handful of old thin clients I can spin up for doing Beowulf things when I feel like it, and I also have another repurposed thin client with an old enterprise-grade SFP+ NIC running pfSense as my router that can support up to 10g (futureproofing).

I have an 03 1.8T 5mt Jetta that I’m keeping maintained mostly myself. It’s fun, old enough that I can consider it somewhat of a beater (I live in the city), and it’s comically easy to park due to the small size. Also, shitloads of aftermarket for it, if you’re into that sort of thing.

For instance: commenting on Reddit

Why does a mouse own a dog? And how come the mouse is also friends with another dog? What’s going on there?

The United States operates on the principle of three co-equal branches of government, which check and balance each others power.

But what’s the root cause of your laziness?

I’m not being snarky - it’s a serious question. For myself, I’ve found that digging down to figure out where some of my behavioral traits are rooted is an extremely valuable and informative exercise.

He was before, too. But he still is.