I think we have the same UPS

Naively I assumed that anything in the last decade or so with a battery already has some sort of battery management system that regulates this stuff to help prolong battery lifespan, but maybe I’m wrong.

I also have a 2015 MBP lying fallow in my closet. Do you have any suggestions for turning it into a server? Are you using MacOS still or have you installed something else?

If you’re curious what I’m running on here, it’s mostly containers plus one VM for Docker. (I’ve made my dislike for Docker as a distribution platform known elsewhere on here and this is why).

Most are various wikis that I’m testing, MediaWiki, DokuWiki, PmWiki, An Otter Wiki, DocMost.

It’s weird but “long U” is pronounced /ju/ so even though it’s a vowel letter it starts with a semivowel.

CF-53

I bought it used from Amazon about 5 years ago, so it hasn’t been in my possession the whole time. It was likely used enterprise/industrial stock. Judging by how one of the modifier keys is stuck it was well-used. The seller replaced the original hard drive with an SSD and the battery may have been replaced as well.

Prior to becoming my home lab it was my ham shack computer running win 10.

Why do you say that?

I’m just getting a clownflare server down error.

I’ve heard of Immich for other stuff, but I’d probably use it for my personal photos. This would be for, as you put it, silly memes to share online. I know most cloud services have a share link feature, but I’m thinking of something low friction, just plop the image and the link is autogenerated. Image resizing would be nice though. Like I said, what Imgur does.

I don’t have a use for this but I like the name :)

I’m not saying proprietary software doesn’t also have problems, just that FOSS has problems unique to it that are rarely acknowledged.

Everything I implement at work is open source because I don’t want to wait for a purchase approval. But I’m also practically the only one interacting with those systems, so I’m the only one who’s affected if something breaks.

IDK, said laptop is from 2010.

Discord is an evolutionary culdesac if we’re talking about its role as a forum killer. It’s terrible for long term information storage and retrieval compared to the more permanent, and search engine indexed, forums it replaced. It’s a never ending waterfall of chat messages that’s hard to search, so the same questions keep coming up again and again.

I tried asking a question on Blender Guru’s discord about his doughnut tutorial, on the channel specifically meant for questions about the doughnut tutorial, and it flew off the top of the screen like a barrel going over Niagara Falls, never to be seen again.

Even if the age verification wasn’t a thing, I think the enshittification would set in eventually. So it’s not going anywhere for now, but I’m pretty sure the investors will want their money back sooner or later.

Mumble isn’t requiring you to submit your ID.

I second this. My gaming group probably won’t leave discord for the foreseeable future but Mumble is probably where we’d go if we did. IMO all these Discord alternatives are trying to do everything Discord does, when even Discord can’t pull it off sustainably at their scale.

I don’t want federation. I don’t want it to scale to infinite concurrent users. What I want is something simple I can plonk on a crusty old laptop running Proxmox or a Raspberry pi for a few friends.

I wrote a post a while ago comparing various wiki and wiki-adjacent offerings. I’ve settled on DokuWiki as it’s easy to host. The UI is dated (though I don’t think it’s outright ugly). The vanilla experience is a bit bare-bones but there’s a built-in GUI for searching and installing plugins. The only pain point I can foresee is upgrading and long-term management thanks to juggling so many plugins. If the newest version of the base software doesn’t play nice with a particular plugin, or if a plugin stops being developed, etc.

And this is exactly what I want, something easy to deploy and host for a small group of friends. It doesn’t need to scale infinitely or federate.

XMPP doesn’t seem to be well supported in terms of Windows clients

Lemme tell ya somethin about Tiddlywiki. Actually a lot of knowledge base software has this problem (I’ve specifically encountered it in Trillium, Obsidian, and TW).

You have your body where you’re austencibly storing the meat of your information. But you also have configurable metadata fields. Obsidian has its YAML headers, and TW and Trillium have separate metadata forms. All three of these have scads of methods for sorting and querying and filtering the metadata but next to nothing for the actual note. But the note is already organized data. It has headings and subheadings and text under those headings. Why can’t that be queried? I got into this on the TW forums. Everyone was basically telling me to cram all of the actual data into the header, leaving the note itself virtually empty. Obsidian has its bases feature which does the same thing. Then why not just have a bunch of YAML files? A genuine question, I’d actually love a system for sorting and querying a bunch of organized YAML files almost like a noSQL database. But Obsidian doesn’t let you do that. It has to be markdown.

I got off track there, but there it is.