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I could’t find anything with a quick search, but maybe you could run the API server in an application container (e.g. Docker)? 🤔
For more simple use cases, some apps on Flathub might be enough, for example Comaps
(Also, I haven’t used JOSM in a while, but it might be worth checking that out as well to see if it can do want you want)
Not OP, but at least for me when I tried it:
There was no way to use or even just mount and migrate my existing storage (btrfs+LVM). LVM wasn’t even installed, and when I tried to install it, I got an error saying that apt was disabled on the system, which means I was basically locked out of doing anything more than what they allow you to do on your own hardware.
It seems like it’s technically open source, but having all the vendor lock-in features and lack of control of a proprietary solution
The only use case seems for it to be used as a black box appliance:
I knew it is supposed to be only an appliance, but with how much people recommended it, I didn’t thing it would be this closed of a system; I think I’ve read about people doing more things with even just their Synology hardware
Jolla and fairphone don’t ship to my country
When frame.work still wasn’t shipping to my country I just used a mail forwarder and it wasn’t very expensive (depends on the weight of the package)
Then you’re looking for mouse settings software;
The default system mouse settings might be enough, or else you could just change the sensitivity
What kind of mouse are you using?
Unfortunately I don’t have a source, but I remember reading that some Debian packagers prefer using Arch, because doing the packaging there was easier for some reason 😅
Oh sure, I used to use Tree Style Tab, but now I’ve migrated to sidebery!
The renewable energy stuff is expected, but these I find more… interesting:
- International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
- UN Democracy Fund
- International Law Commission
- Peacebuilding Commission
- Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children
- International Tropical Timber Organization
- UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;
“We explicitly state that we don’t care about peace, democracy, and violence against children”
- Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
“Also, f*ck African people in particular”
- UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
“… and women”
It doesn’t have to be FAANG for it to be a good service 😅 (you unfortunately probably just found an outlier 🥲) In fact, AWS is one of the most expensive, and when I looked into them (I think it was AWS) the server options were way too complicated 😅 And I couldn’t find advantages to most use cases compared to others to justify paying so much more
Hetzner I think is one of the largest providers in Europe, Scaleway is very good as well (although still a bit expensive but with more flexibility but you may not always need it), I remember some friends and our local hackerspace’s server used Leaseweb a while ago and didn’t have any complaints, and I’ve heard good words about Ionos as well.
For storage there’s Backblaze, Wasabi, DigitalOcean (and again Scaleway and Hetzner); also TIL https://www.s3compare.io/
There are so many good options out there 😅
pay for exactly what I use
You can still easily spin/scale up/down instances on most providers: Hetzner and Scaleway have APIs and CLI utilities, and they charge by the hour. But even more importantly, even if you use fewer resources, for me I found that e.g. having a VM off 50% of the time on AWS was still much more expensive than 100% on Hetzer 😅
$22
(I was researching providers last year, and even $22 is still kind of expensive compared to others 😅
storage
For data storage (not rootfs) I have their plan with €3.5/1TB/month; it’s a network drive that you can mount on the VPS with sshfs, webdav, samba etc, so you could check if your provider has something like that as well!
Oh for email I recommend mailu.io! It has a docker-compose generator, so the set up is pretty straightforward! I however have it on a separate VPS so it won’t be affected when I’m trying to deploy other services etc (e.g. the configuration of the reverse proxy and certificates), and with webmail and spam filtering etc it’s quite a few containers anyway 😅 so I’d like them to have dedicated resources and not be affected by the resources used by the other services
Oh it’s just Hetzner 😅
(referral link gives you a coupon! Sorry for the plug 😔 but you may need it if you’d like to try them out)
For self-hosting there is go-away and anubis
Also, at least on my server, the LLM bots have correct User-Agents set (they identify themselves) so you could block them from that as well
(If you are able to manage it yourself, self-hosting on a VPS instead of a web hosting provider would also have the benefit of costing around €80/year with ~20TB/month; phpBB should be easy to set up with containers (I don’t know about migrating your existing data though))
It has happened to me as well! It’s the “vote-only” part that triggers it, to filter out bots
Dessalines:
[…] We don’t usually allow vote-only accounts on lemmy.ml, those are mostly bots targeting specific users or communities. That’s our rule 4, spamming.
Since it was an .ml account I just stopped using it; I don’t know what you could do about voting on .ml communities though (aside from using your account to post more)
After building it, we realized we should have checked the dimensions on the website more carefully
Maybe not about your main employment, but I don’t understand why some people feel forced to do some other things:
I don’t know about this one specifically 😅 but people probably have the need for these debates anyway, so it’s just better to express them (on the Fediveree)! 😁
It’s like, how in some movies and shows people have “meaningless” discussions in a bar about random trivia etc; if people don’t behave in a toxic way, it’s just a way to connect and share ideas!
And in some (most?) cases, the discussion might be more important than the result of it, since you see in practice more about how people can approach this type of curiosity about a subject, which might apply to many other topics we think about every day 😁
More importantly though, where am I supposed to go to debate if water is wet, if not to the Fediverse? 😄
Immich is developed by FUTO
https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html