over 1 year ago i started to move heads first into what i will now call low tech.
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this movement actually started back in 1981 in me, but regained a lot of strength in 2019, when i moved radically away from high tech. i sold my beloved chromebox, and never had anything like a desktop ever since.
i lived for 1 year in a small town by the ocean, with a beach front amazing rented apartment for just 300β¬ per month. the town had 450ish residents, and over 2000 living during summer...
and i moved to tamera. the most amazing ecovillage in the world, i hear and trust, with a bit more than 200 loving humans (not just residents) and, still, a lot of confusion.
i got to meet and know, for the short 3 months i stayed there, at least 16 of them personally, plus over 6 who live nearby... and many more like me who just stayed for some time. made too many friends to count!
back in the beach town, i made 6, perhaps 7 friends. very good result for a regular polis. interesting metrics to measure results of vilas... now i live for 2 years in ahoxus pedrinha, population of 3, with many visitors, and everyone (who still wasn't) quickly became friends, except for a few noisy anonymous neighbors.
anyway... back to the main story...
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almost exactly 1 year ago, i decided to free myself from all digital subscriptions, or as much as i could. and nameserver turned out the only one i could not find a way off. luckily, i found
gandi.net, an amazingly good and cheap host.
i had many domains, and i decided to reduce to only one.
ahoxus.orgbut ended up sticking with
cregox.net as well, since most of my content still stands there.
this movement evolved to assimilate
#agpl and
#fupl as necessities for good free as in freedom software. thanks to fsf, gnu, and above all rms, my distant digital friend
#stallman (sadly, i don't know if fsf or gnu can survive without him, still).
and now, time to renew my only subscription, i wanted to look around, see if i can find a better choice...
back then, i thought i had found one already.
positive-internet.comi talked over video with 2 members from their team, per her suggestion, as they said they could help me with my pursue of a partnership for handling my cloud "needs" [i only need the cloud as much as i need to keep in touch with my past and society, which doesn't constitute a real need for me (or anyone)].
after that meeting plus a lot of negotiation and talking over email, we came to a conclusion. 23 of june, she offered me a package. instead of Β£290 i would only need to pay Β£65 ex VAT per month!
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i can't even find, or bother to look further, for the reply that i know i gave them. but i can only guess i said something "thanks, but no. please let me know when and if you ever get to your senses".
i now have a better structure for less than 30eur on
gandi.net and the amazing hub for good on digital ocean, in which they gave ahoxus all we could ever need in cloud hosting (except for domain and email which i get in gandi) in "exchange" for the free discovery/non-commercial-advertising i will continue to do for them.
however, we still need more people to work together on building up on top of that whole structure. for now, we only have me and
@kcubeterm, and way more ideas than we can materialize. even the simpler ones such as
#abotz and
#achoz.
so i went ahead to look around, and recalled about ipfs and opennic, asking with lbry name resolution, all of which still don't use
#agpl or
#fupl like every software must, but great ideas nonetheless that i need to keep watching. they still haven't evolved nearly enough for me to make use of.
i also found about
afraid.org, which will be today my last attempt to reach out. but if i will switch from gandi to there, i will still need a new email provider! or, ideally, build something on digital ocean.
in all cases, my main work for the next month will be: dismantling
cregox.net into ahoxus; removing ahoxus from github into
sr.ht, and finally; making write as naked domain, if i can at least add images to it and keep edition history (forget versioning, although that means basically what i wanted when i say it in this context).
i will be very happy if i can do just the dismantling!
after all that, i can go back to the idea of building up the server structure for achoz. perhaps after summer.
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and, now that i wrote all this...
it will probably be a good idea to start building the ahoxus laundry at regia douro park.
even before building
freedns.ahoxus.org, which i wrongly-ish named above as "server structure for achoz"... because i probably will need more specialised and harder to find help with the freedns than with the laundry.
still thinking about it...
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cregox
