betternotbigger

joined 1 year ago
[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did it for 3 months. I really enjoyed my time doing it and learned a lot about my usage. It was a cheap $50 experiment. After I went back to my smartphone, I uninstalled ALL social media apps. Turned off ALL notifications but left calls and messages as an exception. My smartphone is now essentially a feature phone. It's not 100% the same since the big screen does lure you in to use it but my usage is still way down and because I don't have any social media there's no reason for me to be on my phone around other people. I wholeheartedly recommend trying it for those curious.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's done like that on purpose so that their Canes sauce does a lot of the heavy lifting.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There's this fast food fried chicken chain called Raising Canes, used to serve massive strips. Now the price is 50% more expensive and 50% less chicken. They're extremely tiny, never going back again... yet all the zombies who love that place are relentlessly spending their money there anyway.

Edit: grammar

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Can this work with the "off the shelf" mesh routers.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Akira x Barbie, very cool.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah but can it host PiHole?

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

We have so much computing power at home and the chances you have good reliable Internet at home are better than before. I revived 5 year old PCs and it's way too much computing power for my self host needs. I'd have to pay $200+ a month for the same compute power in the cloud. Even a Raspberry Pi with 8GB is capable of running quite a bit for fractions of a penny in electricity.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There's so many services where I'm like, wow what am I even paying for? Email is one where I know exactly what I'm paying for.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sync is $20 to remove ads no? Where is it $100?

Update: nevermind I see it here for sync ultra

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't realize how broken SearX was until I switched to SearXNG.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Does this game suffer from the alpha gamer?

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

cloudflare dash

You can secure your tunnels using the Access menu and then adding an application. It should be somewhat straight-forward but you're basically looking to create an access policy and then adding the rules you want. For example a simple one is to add an allow rule for certain emails. When you enter your email an access code will be sent to you before you can access the application resource. That's just one of many ways to secure it using their application config and access policies.

 

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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