The rise of self-hosted option comes from the distrust of the Big Tech and the desire to avoid a single point of failure.
Sure, commercial solutions are better hardened, but they are also more likely to be attacked in the first place. And nothing is there to protect you from the prying eyes of those who host it for you, which is a valid threat as well.
Still, one thing better, privacy-wise, than having your own server is to not rely on any servers to begin with.
Aside from all controversy around snaps and stuff, which newbies don’t have to get into, there’s GNOME coming as default.
Desktop environments essentially define how the new user treats the system and Linux as a whole. And I believe GNOME is a terrible starting point, at least for those coming from Windows.
It follows entirely different logic, is very different visually, and overall, adds a lot of extra confusion.
IMO, for a smooth transition, you’d rather offer something based on KDE or at least Cinnamon. Kubuntu will do fine, but it has to be mentioned specifically. Mint will be nice. And then as they explore, they’ll find what fits them best.
Quite some people do, so it’s great such options exist.
My own gripe is with self-hosted apps that don’t need a server to begin with.
Why do I have to run a server to manage my bookmarks? Write down recipes? Control available stock? Manage finances?
All that can be done via local-first apps that may then have some backup functionality (or have files in one place so I could sync them). Adding a server layer only adds complexity and forces me to keep it on or toggle every time, affecting performance and battery life.
For what in partricular?
No idea, didn’t spot any.
do NOT follow the link
I repeat, do NOT follow the link
Fair enough. But then again, we went way too far from the meme :)
Plenty of people could make at least small amounts of electricity given respective resources, if they remember anything from school.
E=mc2 will require a bit more involvement. But it can be worked out.
Not if you’re a priest. This is the caveat plenty of people used to move science through the roughest of times.
Exactly. Then you’ll have all the resources and funding you would need.
Sure enough, that would help to make it much better and more reliable, but overall, this is really all you need. Centrifuge that thing, try not to die, and you’ll have a basic nuclear fuel.
Now, to make a good nuclear fuel in large quantity, let alone make weapon-grade uranium most folks are actually concerned about, you need a much better machinery, and this is what three-letter agencies are on the lookout for.
To put into perspective how easy it is to start a “just to make a point” nuclear fission if you have uranium available: there are signs that some natural uranium deposits effectively served as nuclear reactors, generating up to 100kW of heat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor
Fair, forgot a bit of context. Then you already have steam-powered machines all over the place, these will suffice!
Can use these, but they may be harder to come across, and don’t have too strong magnetic properties. You’ll need something better if you want to make a decent generator.
Will do for a compass, though.
I think showing just a few simple tricks that you can do yourself would advance you quite high in ancient academia, and then you’ll have some patient helping hands.
Gears + a lot of slaves = there you go.
Cruel, but you gotta use what you have to make it all work.
Sure would. But once you can have that, you can build better energy generators and more powerful machines.
True
But no one said it would be easy. We have all this machinery refined over the centuries for a reason, but doing rough models first would help jumpstart entire industries that would help recreate the rest much faster and without jumping through the hoops.
You can cast a basic draw plate with regular forms. It won’t be good, and the wires made with it will be terrible by any modern standards, they will also break more easily, but it will get the job done.
Then you heat up fine copper or silver (both can be obtained since ancient times), roll it to a thin wire-like structure, heat it up again and put it through the draw plate. Yay, you got a wire!
Got galvanic power source? Wrap the coil around a piece of iron/cobalt/nickel and blast power at that stuff. After a while, you’ll get a magnet.
Just about everyone will be successful at some things.
Everyone knows how to make:
Quite a few also know how to make:
You can also teach them the basics of proper hygienic procedures to keep their food safe, their hands free of pathogens, etc.
I know how it works, my problem is that server software is meant to run constantly in the background, and needs to be managed in a specific way, and I specifically don’t want this to happen.
I know I can put self-hosted server behind a VPN, but it’s an entirely different use case.