Yeah, they're gatekeepers. We know. Even EU regulators have noticed and are finally making baby steps on cracking down on them.
Though just as with Twitter and Reddit, we need a resilient decentral OSS alternative for this to work. That's in the works as we speak but it's not here yet. It's like trying to give up Reddit 3 years a go; there was no viable alternative.
Because the projects I want to contribute to are on Github, not some other forge. Also, I don't want to create accounts on dozens of forges; each with their own settings and whatever; I also don't want to have to put contributors to my projects through that, so if I want external contributors, Github is pretty much my only choice.
I don't like it but until federation between forges is a thing, Github it is.
Federated Git has been a thing ever since git was conceived:
git send-emailGithub is unfortunately the premier platform for collaborating with others to build FOSS. Until alternative forges support federation, any other forge is usually a dead end.
A modem is a sort of "adapter" between physical mediums and protocols and sometimes also a router. It speaks DSL, fibre, cable etc. on one end and Ethernet on the other.
A wireless access point is similar in that is also is an "adapter" between mediums but it's an adapter between physical and wireless. It effectively connects wireless devices to your physical Ethernet network (allowing communication in both directions) and never does any routing.
What you are typically provided by an ISP is an all-in one box that contains modem, router, switch, firewall, wireless access point, DHCP server, DNS resolver and more things in one device. For a home network, I wouldn't want most of these to be separate devices either but at least wireless should be separate because the point of connection for the modem is likely not the location where you need the WiFi signal the most.
There may also be purple protective cases.
You're looking for a wireless access point then, not a modem.
Nothing I host is internet-accessible. Everything is accessible to me via Tailscale though.
My setup already goes quite a bit beyond basic file hosting.
There is no self hosted service I could imagine to need that I'd expect not to be able to host due to CPU constraints. I think I'll run into RAM constraints first; it's already at 3GiB after boot.
That’s impressive.
Yeah, you really don't need a lot of CPU power for selfhosting.
It's a J4105, forgot to mention that.
What do you use the system for? And services like PiHole or media server?
Oh, sorry, forgot to add that bit.
It's mainly a NAS housing my git-annex repos that I access via SSH.
I also host a few HTTP services on it:
The services I use most here are Paperless and Piped.
Mealie will be added to that list as soon as the upstream PR lands which might be later this evening.
My Immich module is almost ready to go but the Immich app has a major bug preventing me from using it properly, so that's on hold for now.
I do want to set up Jellyfin in the not too distant future. The machine should handle that just fine with its iGPU as Intel's Quicksync is quite good and I probably won't even need transcoding for most cases either.
I probably won't be able to get around setting up Nextcloud for much longer. I haven't looked into it much but I already know it's a beast. What I primarily want from it is calendar and contact synchronisation but I'd also like to have the ability to share files or documents with mere mortals such as my SO or family.
The NixOS module hopefully abstracts away most of the complexity here but still...
I for one am still waiting for paperless-ngnxn2-next-3.0_hypr.
That's not what I discussed in this comment. On TOR browser, you don't need some other service to tell you your public IP address as you can see the address of the exit node in your browser.