Fedi advice needed: If you were to HAVE to recommend a website building platform for budget conscious, non-technical small business owners (ie. farmers), what would you recommend?
(I know the CORRECT answer is to hire a developer, BUT pretend that's not an option.)
Edited: The audience is budget conscious and websites are somewhat low on their priority list. Currently, they use FB to reach their audience. I'll be teaching the importance of owned channels.
#fediadvice #webdev #webdesign
OK, so dear #Fediadvice
It seems Mozilla are turning horrible with the TOU of #Firefox. We have #Librewolf as an alternative, so I'm looking at that.
But this is the same Mozilla that does #Thunderbird Mail. Are they going to change the rules there too? Email is, arguably, a LOT more sensitive than stuff I do in a browser.
What alternative would be good (on Linux) for IMAP mail if they do that?
Annnnd.... GO!
Did a brief walkthru of how to pull in a domain name into an Infomaniak mail service. They allow you to either transfer the domain you want from your other (external) registrar for about 11,32 Euros.
Going through the prompts of just assigning that domain name to my Infomaniak account (leaving the domain at Namecheap registratr) and it seems that things are about 26,36 Euros for a year's worth of email.
Im not too concerned about pricing, but just wondering if Im better off transferring the domain I want to use over to Infomaniak. They have website hosting too so, if ladyleopardess.com ever got a comeback, having the domain already at the Infomaniak's registrar could be convenient.
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Havent committed on anything, so Im still overall open to suggestions for email services with decent privacy, and not hosted in the US, UK or any of the main countries.
Would love to hear some recommendations for a reliable #SSD for home Linux desktop (SATA III)? Need around 1 Tb for root and home partitions 🙏🏽
My Samsung 870 EVO seems to be dead and I'm not sure I want to buy another one of those (as I need one cause RMA will take time).
Hey Fedi,
I'm considering buying a pair of Demonia Swing boots (or some cheaper knock-off) in patent, but I would love to know if somebody has any experience in them, if the wedge is uncomfortable, durability...
I already own a pair of Trashvilles that have served well but after 6 years they're starting to rip and the patent is crumbling.
Can you or anybody you know give some advice? Thanks!
I want to create a new account, and would love to be able to bring along all the filters I have created. Is there a way of doing that?
I don't spend much time figuring out who to follow, so I don't care about that.
I have been putting off the decision to change my old (8 year old 🙈) #phone for as long as I could, but the moment has finally arrived. Thinking of a #fairphone5 as a replacement, happy to hear others' experiences, suggestions for equipment that will be *relatively* sustainable and ethical. #fediadvice
#fediadvice I need to get a new pair of over ear headphones so need some advice.
I currently have some Jane’s Elit 85h that are about 4 years old and I have been happy enough with them. They do have an issue connecting to more than one device though.
I was thinking perhaps the Apple ones would be good to try next. Any suggestions are welcome.
I want to add OpenGraph metadata with images to my blog so that when you link it, on social sites, you get a nice little preview panel. HOWEVER, I fear the “Mastodon effect” will either bring down my site or run up my bill. Are there specific things I can do with my site setup to minimize the “Mastodon effect”? I use Eleventy to generate a static site which is hosted on Netlify. I have a hunch Netlify can handle whatever I throw at it, but I fear getting a big surprise bill.
I need some career advice.
How does one deal with working at startup that isn’t going anywhere and/or is slowly sinking?
I’m coming up on my 5yr anniversary of my current job at a small startup which hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s been me doing everything tech and security related, the founder’s wife doing HR stuff, and the founder who considers himself a technical person but is at the level of a toddler.
Everything I’ve done in the past 5 yrs has the following caveats:
1) Business lost the one client, so the stuff I built was never used or scaled.
2) The founder never implemented my solutions because he was fine with the current systems, couldn’t figure them out even though I built example projects, or shoots the down becase we (me) can do security better then which has a team for that.
3) There are no budgets to do anything, so I’m stuck with 10 servers and few cloud VMs.
Thoughts on using IRC in 2024? I haven't been on since Freenode collapsed.... but I don't want to go back with weechat.
What would you use today? Self-hosted web client? bouncer?
I just connected via Konversation directly and it feels so wrong.
@casey #SoTrue #Bestie, overuse of #Hashtags #OnHere is a real #problem. #WhatCanBeDone about this issue is, really, #NotClear.
still, #Hashtags are #SoImportant in our #community, so there's much #ImportantWork yet to be done #OnThisFront
#fensterfreitag #realrecognizereal #fediadvice #itisamystery #hashtags
Hey floss folks,
I'm somewhat flustered by calendaring and associated functionality.
I need to set up some kind of appointment tool (ala Calendly). Nextcloud has one but getting Nextcloud and Sogo (Mailcow) to talk has been been too difficult.
I tried switching to 100% Nextcloud but getting its calendar to send invites didn't work (what am I doing wrong?).
I tried Cal.com but it didn't let me make an account!
What do you use/suggest, floss only please!
Any recommendations for a USB dock for MacBook Air? Need Display Port or HDMI & a few usb A ports for periphs. Something that looks aesthetically pleasing would be appreciated.
I need a good self-hosted Bookmark manager / app. I'm thinking Linkwarden or Slash. Any fedi reccos? (please don't make me go to reddit)
Hi everyone, I have some technical questions regarding federation. Answers backed by documentation would be perfect.
#Fediverse #FediQuestion #federation #blocking #network #instancesearch #fediadmins #fediadvice #fediadvocacy
#fediadvice #diy Hey folks, I got a question for you: The part of my shower that holds the shower head broke a while ago, it's an Ikea Alviken - which they don't sell anymore. The point of failure is broken plastic internally which now leads to it being pulled apart from the weight of the shower head.
I do not have a hot glue gun or anything like that, but I do have a hardware store in my proximity. What fixes could I attempt to clamp the shower head into the holder? Duct tape? :blobfoxlaugh:
No but seriously though, what kind of thing will do well in a hot and steamy environment without me needing to replace the entire rod?
Which @pixelfed instances have good moderators?
I'm considering trying out #PixelFed for my #NaturePhotography
Give me your nature nerd instances! I wanna see that moss and lichen and beetles and weirdo sea creatures.
How do you personally handle your backups? How often do you test them?
I personally use a combination of syncthing & restic. I cold store my backups in a safe deposit box (data in the GB). Data is not particularly sensitive, but useful to me.
I just find my process a little tedious and I'd like a better pruning / testing routine. I also wish I had a medium I trusted more, but LTO is expensive / space consuming.
Got my hands on an old server over the weekend and trying to decide how to arrange the drives. I have:
2x 6TB
4x 600GB
I'm going to be installing Proxmox and running some VMs but the bulk of the storage space is going to be used in phasing out my current RasPi NAS/Emby server. The server is a decade or so old, not sure about the drives -- I imagine the 6TB ones are somewhat newer but the 600GB drives might also be a decade or so old (woof, I know).
Given all this ... how should I arrange the drives? I think it wuld be best to arrange the four 600TB drives in a RAID10 config and using them as part of the ZFS pool, but what about the 6TB ones? Should I put them in a RAID1 for redundancy, use one of them as a ZFS hot backup, or add them individually for MAXIMUM POWER STORAGE?
#FediAdvice
