I host a private Matrix-Synapse service for my nerd herd (we still haven’t gotten the call feature working on them) if you want to talk shop about setting it up for yourself and friends (yah, Homelab). I feel that Shildichat is better on Android, Element is better of fruit phones and desktop.

No one ever truely grows up, some people are just better at hiding it.

Yah, thats why you slap GraphenOS on it before it leaves the lot. All phones spy on you of you dont gut the OS, because there is nothing left that hasent been enshitified.

Right now, GraphenOS requires a pixle due to hardware limitations. Some time next year they are planning on testing Snapdragon support which will greatly expand the number of phones that can use it.

A bit of internet history, account age was a measure of clout on Slashdot.org. Your account ID was posted as part of your replies, so the lower the number, the longer you have been on the site.

Mine personally is in the 1.3M range, and I still read the site and I still see users posting on accounts as low as 500k ID, those have been around since the late 90s.

The site is just a news agrigator at this point with a comment section full of boomers and greybeards (sys admins that probably should consider retiring), but its been my home page for ~20 years and I have no intention of changing that.

I look out at Lemmy and see all these wonderful and creative instances, then go back to eating my glue.

.world has a reputation, but I dont care, sorta just waiting for an account migration feature and then ill go spool up my own instance, but until then. \shrug.

Fairphone or a Google Pixle (optional GraphenOS, ive had non-tech people install it with no issues)

The thing is that with W10 going EOL, everyone is going to be forced to learn a new OS, regardless if they want to or not (W11has been out for years, if you havent jumped, there is likely a reason). Lemmy users being the socially concious crusaders that they are, are encouraging people to make a better choice than defaulting to Windows again (given all its very real issues of useability and data harvesting).

Not having access to preditory games due to self-imposed tech limitations isnt high on the list of reasons to choose linux, but its good shitpost material.

Gross…

Hey Canonical, hows that linux phone OS coming along?

Shhh, we do not speak of such places. We do not wish for people to know their names and seek such dark recesses.

Welcome to Port Royal, Mr. Smith.

The way I read it is a “task failed successfully” situation. He did suceeded in making a work place with good PTO policies and people do actually use them (meaning staffing levels are confortable for the workload). However, his mindset is stuck in linked-in poster / grind mode and can not fathom that his employees dont want to be at work as much as he does.

Eh, dont let it get to you. This horse will serve you well and it affords you room to grow. You will hear it a lot on lemmy, but get a second SSD and give linux a go. I game on Pop_OS and its the closest thing to “It just works” ive seen out of the community (debian for most everything else… because home lab).

Plus, you put the effort into researching the model and its parts. In 6-7 years time, look into building the next one, further your learning and figure out what each component does and why a the manufacturer picked what they did.

If you need help with things/troubleshooting, the Lemmy community is here to help. Welcome to the club!

Dell has always had good warranties on parts. Its half the reason Alienware was held in such high regard for so long after they were aquired in the early 2ks. Even though enthusiests will scoff at the prebuild, if you dont intend the PC itself to be the project, you did good.

I dont see nuttin in no rule book that a dog cant fly and airplane.

I had to check the acurssed interwebs to find out that you are refering to 2026-05-15 or 2026-05-16

But of our party had a druid (Or an annual publication written by and for druids), then they would have just been able to tell us.

Clearly they have never seen the movie Junior (1994), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Ha [Internet high five], there is a thing about EvE online players and being opinionated nerds about VOIP solutions.

Sounds perfect, my TS3 instance was running on a 10+ year old Dell Optiplex until a while ago when I moved it to a VM.

You seem to have everything covered, VOIP services are not that heavy, and its great having a residence on the internet where your nerds can drop in and out of. The main issue is getting people off Discord or understanding that old programs are just as if not more functional. (Plus, the whole “If TeH PrOdUcT is Fr33, UR da PrOduCt” thing, but im preaching to the choir here)

Some expirence on some self-hosted VOIP solutions from my EvE online days and I self-host a Teamspeak instance (my nerds like it, get off my lawn).

Mumble in terms of its UI and user expirence, the worst of the major VOIP projects (looks very 2008), however it is by far the best in terms of server stability, plugin compatibility and security. To quote my old EvE admin “Mumble will take the team two weeks to set up correctly, and drive them mad, but once thats done they will not need to touch the config again”. Plus it not requiring a license allows large orgs to use it freely. Ever have a need 2.5k+ VOIP users all trying to talk over eachother? Mumble is the only free application that will handle that without issue.

Teamspeak3 is what I run, and for small communities its perfect. TS5 exists, and the devs keep trying to make “We have Discord at home” and its just a UI fork, they all run the same server backend. As for features, TS3 has the best of ease of set up and granular permissions with API tools to allow for remote or automated managment. For user counts, anything beyond that of a small guild in any game will require a license, they are cheap (I just renewed my 30$ a year license and didnt have to reboot). Its drawbacks are that it struggles after several hundred users (its heavier on server hardware than mumble is) and user accounts with permissions can break the server. Fortunatly settings are managed by a local database so backups of server state and files are easy.

I remember Ventrilo existing, thats about it.

Hardware wise, a new pi should be fine, older models might have issues based on expected user load. Network load is not significant for normal hobbiest user counts, security is not any different than normal homelab internet services.

Let me know if there is anything I can help with.

Do you want to be around other New Hampshireans?

Manchester is the state putting up a “normal” face, everything north of there gets fiercly independent and rural pretty quick. This was the state that tried to create a libertarian utopia that failed due to a bear problem.

Love New Hampshireans, love the state, but yall are scary.