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@retrocrash So... About these other self-host(er) communities you speak of... Where do we find them, who do we talk to? 🤔
@retrocrash So... About these other self-host(er) communities you speak of... Where do we find them, who do we talk to? 🤔
@prologic Obviously Yarn should be on Sandstorm, but as much as I knock other selfhosting platforms you could get on them very easily. Cloudron, Umbrel, etc. are basically just Docker hosts at the end of the day, but it'd put Yarn in front of everyone who uses those platforms for self-hosting.
@prologic @ocdtrekkie has a point about the self-hosted platforms. there's tons of them. and deploy your own systems like homelabos, yunh, etc. get your apps in there as a start just like you did with yarn on vultr marketplace. but that wasn't my point
my point was to mingle with the self-hosting crowds on other platforms like twitter, reddit, etc. this will require effort and consistency to steer them to whatever platform(s) you decide to cook up.
then you'll likely start seeing more people trickle in to see what's up. that's your gateway to your iaas/paas idea. and maybe could help make the world a better place.
as for me, i've given up on trying to make the world better. i'm just working on my own world.
@retrocrash my only problem with this is how I grapple with the moral / ethical dilemma of using the very platforms that I despise and always talk shit about because they're basically abusing people and ever against everything I believe in and then I and I'm trying to work towards? 🤔
@retrocrash my only problem with this is how I grapple with the moral / ethical dilemma of using the very platforms that I despise and always talk shit about because they're basically abusing people and ever against everything I believe in and then I and I'm trying to work towards? 🤔
@prologic
going to have to swallow a frog for a while. no one suggested you use the platforms like every other person begging for attention and hyper stimulation.
use them to boost your signal. most oss/foss projects use at least twitter for announcements.
how can anyone discover whatever it is you're building this week without you talking about it on popular platforms?
this is why many brilliant projects and ideas die. nobody knows about them.
without some sort of effort to spread the word by the time people find it, it's no longer relevant.
-- a guy who did the same shit and lost 3500 iphones.
Yeah I get your dilemma James. I have almost the same one. I hate how Intel and AMD chips have built in backdoors \n that Intel/AMD can take control of your machine without you knowing/agreeing. But it's impossible to find a laptop/machine that doesn't use Intel. There are a few ARM chromebooks, but they're really not good enough for a daily driver.
Apple managed to escape by using their own ARM mobile chips in the M1/M2 laptops. But the problem is Apple still create's a walled garden they can take over without your knowledge at any time. So we're back to square one.
I've had to suck it up, stick with this stupid Intel processor, but I'm on a system76 \n (an amazing linux laptop to be fair) which uses coreboot , which at least frees me from the UEFI \n firmware mess (which is Microsoft's control over what OS you can boot).
1. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme
2. https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
3. http://techrights.org/2012/07/17/rms-on-uefi/
Oh wow, maximum message length? Annoying.
Yeah I get your dilemma James. I have almost the same one. I hate how Intel and AMD chips have built in backdoors [1] that Intel/AMD can take control of your machine without you knowing/agreeing. But it's impossible to find a laptop/machine that doesn't use Intel. There are a few ARM chromebooks, but they're really not good enough for a daily driver.
Apple managed to escape by using their own ARM mobile chips in the M1/M2 laptops. But the problem is Apple still create's a walled garden they can take over without your knowledge at any time. So we're back to square one.
I've had to suck it up, stick with this stupid Intel processor, but I'm on a system76 [2] (an amazing linux laptop to be fair) which uses coreboot , which at least frees me from the UEFI [3] firmware mess (which is Microsoft's control over what OS you can boot).
1. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme
2. https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
3. http://techrights.org/2012/07/17/rms-on-uefi/
Oh wow, maximum message length? Annoying.
Okay to bring this back on topic. The reason I said all the above, is because I see the cloud hosting crap as a similar problem.
I think really we're stuck with them and their vendor locked, restricted, marketplace centric platforms. But we can minimize the lockin we use.
Make sure you only use VM's. Don't use any of their cloud databases, build, pipelines, kubernetes, containers, etc. Just use, simple, basic, abundant virtual machines that can be portable to other cloud companies.