I use this. They’re very effective.

Theyre called MoCA adapters

Nah, they’re leet

He’s literally at an IBM PC/XT or clone

Do you host anything on your network to tne internet that allows anyone ssh access to your computers? More simply do you have port 22 open on your router or firewall? If you don’t or said no, then don’t worry about it.

I always liked Mikrotik. Not the most open of router but the most documented and configurable I’ve seen with a web, gui, ssh, or telnet I’ve seen

What I really want to see is the ability to set a threshold for a server to reach before it will federate.

Example: you have a server, you don’t allow others to federate unless those servers force captcha or approval of user registration

Any particular reason why you have root so small and an dedicated /home partition?

This is a good idea, just be aware you’re going to pay a premium to power an old pc compared to an embedded system

Yes. I just feed it off the /60 my isp gives. Me and I just use my router to segregate the rest. Gotta love Mikrotik. It’s alot easier without dealing with NAT but the ip space calculations need a bit more though

Yes and usually sane developers allow you to specify external mysql instances.

Delving into the politics many view docker as a standalone system that shouldn’t need external items so they leave their db internal. Which goes against having configurations external.

But then you have external databases that you need to know enough to setup ahead of time to allow the docker to use and now I gave myself a headache

I have this issue only with instances from lemmy.ml

I think it has to do with it being underpowered

Speaking of, I wonder if there is a way to specify Ansible to use the latest RC

Same, I just wish for mod tools.

Expression of an opinion is starting a sentence with “I think that x…”

OP wasn’t expressing an opinion but stating items that I wanted to get examples of.

I’ll need to get some links on any of this. But I generally use VM’s or VPS my self.