Unfortunately, the US is taking advantage of this axiom. Their unfettered drive of “influential” content amounts to, essentially, an undeclared cultural invasion.
Sadly, just one lemmy instance doing this won’t change much. The US has been invested in destroying my country since the 1970’s.
I can’t say that Russia or China are any better, before anyone asks.
Oh, no, sorry. I mean that I can’t appear to get any posts from mastodonapp.uk, whether by relay or federation
fedibuzz alleges that you can follow a single specific instance with their relay, and I see nothing to suggest that I can’t use it better federate with mastodonapp.
I did note, though, that both my instance and mastodonapp are connected to relay.intahnet.co.uk - and whilst it has a few issues in the logs, it has none since i reset the instance again after attempting limited federation mode.
But ruby is so hard :(
I come from c# land and my skills are soft and squishy
You don’t need something huge. Remove the DVD drive and the old mechanical drive from a USFF machine, stick a pair of 4TB drives in it, and put a basic debian image on it. Configure SMB with a shared folder or two, and voila: you now have a comfortable NAS for maybe £20 plus drives. Add in a sata pcie card if you can find a decent low-profile one, and that’s an extra four or even six drives. It won’t give you the cream of top performance, but it will be perfectly serviceable for a homelab.
I have an SFF PC currently running Mint, with Bello and steam as well as xemu and a few other goodies. The flexibility is great, if something is a bit borked I can usually just play it in VLC, and the compute allows me to run pretty much any emulator besides Xenia or that PS3 one. Once I plug a GPU into it, those should be fine too. Not bad for a cheap i5 system.
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