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Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by chillfox »

nl wrote: post #134
chillfox wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The vast majority of the things I buy don't need receipts to be kept and reported for tax. It's personal stuff like a streaming subscription, a book or a game. And the times I have tried to claim expenses as work related (in Australia) that I bought online I have run into the problem that the receipt provided by the company is ambiguous (not sufficient by itself) because amounts were just specified with a $ symbol in…

> have run into the problem that the receipt provided by the company is ambiguous (not sufficient by itself) because amounts were just specified with a $ symbol instead of USD/AUD Claiming expenses is different to tax requirements. With tax you need the receipt as a record, but the general ledger actually records the amount in whatever currency you use. For expense claims every company does it differently.

I mean, the few times I have handed a receipt to an accountant to do my tax they have asked me what currency it's in and I have had to go to the bank records to answer that.

Anyway, it's besides the point. The point is that online stores should ask, a tick box would do, as the majority of the time I don't want the receipt and don't need it for anything at all.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by doublerabbit »

bruce343434 wrote: post #25
kefirlife wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One option to consider if you really want to host something is to get some space at your local transit provider collocation space. You have access to considerably larger amounts of bandwidth without all the complications of getting the path to your home to be sufficiently high bandwidth, and with sufficient capacity for your purposes. If you want something relatively highly available then power redundancy is importan…

Not to mention the expense!

Colocation is dirt cheap compared to how expensive "the cloud" can become.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by LelouBil »

I currently self host my password manager and a CalDav and cardDav server.

When I disabled contacts and calendar synchronization on my phone I couldn't feel happier !

The rest (photos, cloud storage) will hopefully follow when I have the time.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by stonewall »

xyzzy123 wrote: post #148
stonewall wrote: post #68

I self-host literally everything (email, calendar/contacts, VOIP, XMPP, you name it) from by basement with used 1U servers from eBay and a cable internet connection. It was probably more hassle than most people would want to bother with to get it set up. But, with everything up and running, there's very little maintenance. I probably spend a few hours a month tinkering still, just because I enjoy it. I use a stack of…

I had fun doing this until I had kids. I have a rack with 10gbe, ups, kubernetes a zfs storage server, multiple vlans, 4 unifi APs & locally hosted controller and all sorts of self-hosted stuff. My heart breaks slightly as I watch things slowly degrade and break down due to bit-rot and version creep, I now wish I had a synology, flat network and cloud everything possible. There are days when the kids can't watch a pa…

Your perspective resonates with me! I have 3 kids under 6 years old, and I can definitely see this easily creeping up in my future.

My family situation is partly why I just went with plain old VMs and a Linux Distro with a 10 year support cycle. Its easy to keep all the moving parts in my head, and I figure I can mostly coast for 10 years and then reevaluate.

Thanks for reminding me, I also need to replace my UPS battery...

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by tharkun__ »

xyzzy123 wrote: post #148
stonewall wrote: post #68

I self-host literally everything (email, calendar/contacts, VOIP, XMPP, you name it) from by basement with used 1U servers from eBay and a cable internet connection. It was probably more hassle than most people would want to bother with to get it set up. But, with everything up and running, there's very little maintenance. I probably spend a few hours a month tinkering still, just because I enjoy it. I use a stack of…

I had fun doing this until I had kids. I have a rack with 10gbe, ups, kubernetes a zfs storage server, multiple vlans, 4 unifi APs & locally hosted controller and all sorts of self-hosted stuff. My heart breaks slightly as I watch things slowly degrade and break down due to bit-rot and version creep, I now wish I had a synology, flat network and cloud everything possible. There are days when the kids can't watch a pa…

Sounds like a bit of overkill too if you ask me. You can self-host most things that make sense to keep private without going all in on the fun stuff.

As in, k8s is cool to play with and understand and all but why would I bring that complexity to a simple home setup that can run on a single machine in a corner somewhere?

You don't have to go to a synology box and give up everything but there are simpler options without going "Cloud everything". Of course you will be giving up some features as well, the more you strip things down, but that can beneficial in and of itself if you ask me.

Personally I went from being the "Linux from scratch" guy to running Ubuntu LTS. Natural progression and the kids can watch any of their movies at any time they want. Keep the hard drives rotated, do an LTS to LTS upgrade every few years and that's about it. Heck I've been running the exact same Postfix, fetchmail and IMAP setup for probably 20 years now and I don't even remember what all the options I set do any longer. I also don't need to though. It's just rock solid. All the other fun stuff has passed me by and I don't care. Don't get me wrong, it's still fun to play with stuff and we do use k8s at work and it's great. But it's just complete overkill for home.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

xyzzy123 wrote: post #148
stonewall wrote: post #68

I self-host literally everything (email, calendar/contacts, VOIP, XMPP, you name it) from by basement with used 1U servers from eBay and a cable internet connection. It was probably more hassle than most people would want to bother with to get it set up. But, with everything up and running, there's very little maintenance. I probably spend a few hours a month tinkering still, just because I enjoy it. I use a stack of…

I had fun doing this until I had kids. I have a rack with 10gbe, ups, kubernetes a zfs storage server, multiple vlans, 4 unifi APs & locally hosted controller and all sorts of self-hosted stuff. My heart breaks slightly as I watch things slowly degrade and break down due to bit-rot and version creep, I now wish I had a synology, flat network and cloud everything possible. There are days when the kids can't watch a pa…

Also in Aus - I've got a not-quite-as-complex setup, but I do have it all in a purpose-built room in the shed which is fitted out with an old box air-conditioner[0] with a thermostat power controller to keep the room below a certain temperature, which should help to extend the working life of "all the shit in there". Damn it's nice visiting the "cool room" in summer, there isn't enough floor space to sleep in there though.

Also have kids, and they can be demanding when stuff ain't working.

Also second guess my life choices, but then again I also still love playing around with this stuff, knowing that I can maintain the full stack.

[0]: Replacing that old air-con with a (far) more modern small split system could possibly have paid for itself by now in power savings. I think I should look into that.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by dropofwill »

DangitBobby wrote: post #97
dijit wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is. It literally is. Whenever gmail, thunderbird or office365 outlook notices a working unsubscribe link in a message, it puts its own unsubscribe link at the top of the message, right next to the address of the sender's email. I’m sure you mean the content of the email, but we dont reach out to double opt-in users or transactional emails with an unsubscribe link, since you chose to be there. The unsubscribe link…

Funny, I know to hit the spam button at the top and the unsubscribe bottom buried in a link at the email footer. Am I blind? Have I somehow clicked "spam" and "unsubscribe" hundreds of times without seeing an obvious "unsubscribe" button at the top? Very dubious. Nope! Just checked Gmail WebView. There is a toolbar at the top with a very prominent"spam" button, and two kebab menus with "filter messages like this", "r…

It only shows up if the email has a List-Unsubscribe header set.

In Gmail it will appear as a banner underneath the row of buttons

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by Spivak »

the_af wrote: post #93
dijit wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The annoyance I felt that I was a “good” postmaster and I was punished as a part of being from a tribe of bad postmasters. Google et al. can’t tell the difference when you hit spam. We never bought or sold any email lists, we went out of our way to ensure you wanted to be on the list- we made it single link with no extra checkbox or button to unsubscribe, we emailed only occasionally and above all we did our absolute…

> but why the hell are people marking the receipts for things they bought as spam? I never thought people did that. That's definitely not spam. It is a one-time interaction confirming an operation you just did. Also not spam: when you buy something and the tracking sends you updates via mail.

I would consider both of these are spam unless the user explicitly asked for it. Not "you bought something" but hitting the "yes, I would live to receive my receipt via e-mail" button. You can always allow the user to retrieve their receipts later on your site by logging in or "accountless" by sending a code to their email. In-person interactions seem to have no issue with buttons for "no receipt, email receipt, print receipt, text receipt."

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

triyambakam wrote: post #70

> which honestly kind of upset me a lot I've seen this language more and more frequently: minimized (kind of) + maximized (a lot) qualifiers. No real insight, just interesting.

I think "kind of" is being used as a modal marker here, similar to how "like" is used. In particular, this could have been said as "which honestly like upset me", but because of some negative backlash against excessive use of "like" as a marker, people have switched to using other words.

This particular use of the word is trying to "soften the blow" of the discomfort that the listener (in this case, reader) would feel at the un-modified phrase. So if you just said "which honestly upset me a lot" that might seem like an extreme reaction for just a price increase of some service (it's not as if someone is dying), so the "kind of" is added to signal to the listener/reader that the speaker acknowledges that this is perhaps too-strong language for the situation.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

Jedd wrote: post #140
triyambakam wrote: post #70

> which honestly kind of upset me a lot I've seen this language more and more frequently: minimized (kind of) + maximized (a lot) qualifiers. No real insight, just interesting.

In terms of annoying-once-you-notice-it idioms, should readers assume dishonesty on all other statements made by people that prefix only some small subset of their claims with 'Honestly ...' and 'To be honest ...'?

It's typically used for statements that might otherwise be interpreted non-literally or hyperbolically. Of course the risk is that over time it becomes so commonplace that it starts to be used itself to connote hyperbole, much like how "literally" has come to mean "figuratively" in many uses. But c'est la vie.
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