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Is a global distribution grid even possible? Isn't distance a huge problem when transporting energy?

Well, there is drama, like in any human community, it's just that this community has half a million computer nerds.

It's a bunch of people that have been leading the technological revolution of the past decades, all experimenting with something called the Fediverse.

While everything is new and there are a lot of changes, some things are more common than others.

1. Privacy matters.
2. Freedom of speech matters.
3. The internet should be built by the people, and for the people, not big corps.

PS Not everyone here is a computer nerd, though that's something to take pride in IMO, but most of us kinda area.

I bet there are services you can use to host a wiki, after that you can add a link to the description of the community. Seems a reasonable workaround, it will be quite confusing for a bit until enough people do it that a straightforward approach is adopted by most servers.

I am starting it as a hobby, so I am trying to minimize cost.

I have a VM I use to host personal projects, DigitalOcean has an example docker compose yaml I tweaked a bit, and connected it to the nginx reverse proxy on the VM.

I have a proton subscription, so I am planning to use that for emails.

But, orange and 1984 seem like legit choices, thanks for sharing.

Patiently waiting for this to fill up... I am trying to set up a blog these days, and I would love some good recommendations.

Link not working?

I really need someone to tell me how to feel about this.

An army of 15 year olds with a mission to save lives is something pulled out of a novel, not real life.

Edit: After a few replies I feel even more confused and afraid.

I agree, I would say a reasonable limit for me would be:

1. An hour for any maintenance (replace any component, start to finish)
2. About 5-10eur for single use materials.

I think anymore would be enough to deter me from doing it the 1 or 2 times a year I really need it.

Well, this month I am already broke...

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Today, I had an wild experience with a stranger.

Me and a colleague were working from a cafe when a lady in her 50s asked to interrupt us. She was having trouble accessing the tickets her husband sent her and wanted to see if we could help out. We decided to help out.

We did not foresee how technological illiterate that lady was.

1. We had to reset her apple store password, which she spelled out loud while she was typing.
2. Then, she had to sign-up on the tickets app which required a bunch of personal info (name, dob, ID number, etc), and of course she asked us to type them out because it's hard for her.

In a few minutes' time, the lady was happy to see her tickets on her phone, and we had our coffees for free and an awkward amount of a stranger's personal info.

Of course, when I got home I phoned my mom to remind her not to share personal information with strangers.