I’m not saying that today everyone should push a button and start self hosting. I’m saying it would be great if more people learn to self host and that there are benefits to people learning more.
People don’t just absorb knowledge. It will require education programs.
Did you know how to do everything before you started?
More self hosting would improve the “average” person baseline.
Education of people is always(?) better, I’d say.
It’s good to exercise the mind, just like exercising the body.
What if 25% of car drivers could handle their own car maintenance? The one downside people will scream at first is that fewer mechanics will be needed.
But that is too short sided.
More home mechanics will need to buy more tools, so that’s more store jobs and more manufacturing jobs and more shipping/trucking jobs.
And more people who understand mechanics mean a better workforce who can invent new/better products or processes. And can do more research into manufacturing science, which would improve society.
This would also lead to safer cars because they are better roadworthy, and car manufacturers would have a harder time using low quality parts.
So all of those changes would apply to technology when more people know how to use technology.
That was a pretty solid reasoning path. Nice work! (Not sarcasm)
Nice. I would not have thought to clean the connectors.
Welcome back to the good side.
As long as you remember before you turn off the computer!
That’s a neat idea of using an extra phone as a file server. I’ve only thought of phones as consumers, not providers.
I vote for CasaOS based on the videos I’ve seen of it. I haven’t actually done any self hosting stuff myself, yet.
Laptops are cool servers because it has a builtin battery that usually lasts at least an hour, especially if the screen is off. You don’t have to worry about UPS batteries that give less than 10 minutes and have a horrible beeping sound.
I’m not saying this rudely. This sounds like a “read the manual” moment, since different vendors can have different settings.
Or at least links to the exact one you are looking at.
Actually, i don’t think enough people have honor for us to impress the Klingons. And they will likely find us too fat and weak to even keep around as labor.
“Today is a good day to die.”
Seriously, it’s that soon? Theoretically I could live until then. Assuming I survive the 2 or 3 world devastating wars that are in the timeline.
Interesting. I haven’t ever seen anything automatic. Closest I’ve seen was back in the day software to manually catalog your floppy disks.
It might exist, though. It’s a big internet.
The last video from “hardware haven” I saw (not the last released, just the last I saw) found:
Fuzzy memory on details: a 5th or 6th gen Intel idled at 7 watts vs an ultra efficient at 5 watts. He calculated out that it would take 2-4 years, depending on your electricity, to pay for the cost difference of a new ultra low power machine. CPUs and even graphic cards have gotten much better at idling very low.
If you don’t need the I/O pins, look into a mini PC. In the US, used can easily get you something under $100 US. New would probably be around $100-$150.
If you get a low CPU, they idle around what the PI would be doing.
A PC would give you faster, more durable storage, inside of a case. And maybe memory upgradability, if you need it eventually.
A PC would be bigger, but some are not much bigger, especially if you add any USB dongles or external storage to the PI.
The YouTube channel “Hardware Haven” has a bunch of random old “junk” computers he’s worked on.
The early US phone numbers were from a set of a few names, and the 5 digits, because they thought people couldn’t remember 7 digits.
And now people have to remember several sets of at least 8 random symbols, and change them every 60 days.
Had one of those. Very convincing. Showed my boss. My boss also thought I could be real. So I clicked it. The landing page was an internal “you’ve been caught” page. Then I got the phishing-email training assignment.
I am not talking about jank yolo prayer work. I’m talking about people learning how to do something properly. Duct tape a car is not the repair I’m talking about.
You are complaining about there not being enough skilled workers today. I’m talking about people learning the skills over time.
Look at how many types of food and products are starting to promote cleaner ingredients and more sustainable materials as people are starting to learn more about their health and the environment. People can learn and thing can get better.