betternotbigger

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[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I don't even run it locally but API usage is dirt cheap for how powerful it is. I'm still on my original top up of $10 with heavy usage.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It looks like much to me. Amazing

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No one remembers the brief stint to leap frog Web3 with Web5? I'm so tired of these tech bros.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Gentle reminder that you should not use this as an excuse to buy things imo. I see too many people just replacing perfectly good items. It's much better if there's an anti consumption stance (use what you have, repair, buy used, buy, local, buy regionally) in that order.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I dunno, that poll reads very much in favor of Luigi. The fact that a poll needs to be run in the first place for an act like this. To me anything that's not strongly against this is showing some sort of support.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Maybe making a browser doesn't need to be so damn expensive. Let the web standards freeze so we aren't constantly chasing shiny things. The browser is in a really good spot today. What else does it need to be?

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

These can't be worth very much. For those doing it, thank you for your expensive vote.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 85 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is sooooo good. This is how you know it's working. This is how you vote with your dollar. Keep up the anti-consumption. Boycott the fuck out of these assholes. Life is more interesting not giving them a single cent.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago (5 children)

No but where are you going to go. The options are shrinking.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 434 points 4 months ago (41 children)

Even if this isn't entirely true, you know Google wouldn't pass up the opportunity to reduce Firefox market share to scare everyone back to Chrome.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Someone will post about victories in anti consumption and mods will remove it minutes or hours later. r/news is especially guilty of this.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 55 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

I regressed back to Reddit for a bit. I'm back for good after I found out they're also suppressing anti consumption movements.

Reddit can keep all the NPCs.

 

I've never had so much fun self-hosting. A decade or so ago I was hosting things on Linode and running all kinds of servers for myself but with the rise of cloud services, I favored just giving everything to Google. I noticed how popular this community was on Reddit/Lemmy and now it's my new addiction.

I'm a software engineer and have plenty of experience deploying to AWS/GCP so my head has been buried in the sand with these cloud providers. Now that I'm looking around there are things like NextCloud, Pihole, and Portainer all set up with Cloudflare Zero Trust... I feel like I'm living the dream of having the convenience to deploy my own services with proper authentication and it's so much fun.

Reviving old hardware to act as local infra is so badass it feels great turning on old machines that were collecting dust. I'm now trying to convince my brother to participate in doing hard-drive swaps on a monthly basis so I have some backup redundancy off-site without needing to back up to the cloud.

Sorry if this feels ranty but I just can't get over how awesome this is and I feel like a kid again. Cheers to this awesome community!

EDIT: Just also found Fission and OpenFaaS, selfhosted serverless functions, I'm jumping with joy right now!

 

I dusted off my RPI4 and started tinkering with self-hosting things and it's sparked a fire. Suddenly I have 7 docker containers running and I need more RAM, more space and I want something reliable with room to grow. I like small form factors but it doesn't need to be RPI small. Any recs for your favorite hardware under $500?

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