@SafeguardingResearch

What I really did was dust off a bunch of random junk-drawer hard drives and tinker with LVM and docker settings for an evening.

If you think "I bet I can do this in half an hour", please go ahead and help the swarm.

If you haven't the foggiest idea what this is about but want a chance to do some good in the world, let me know and I'd be happy to help with setting up whatever you have available.

Maybe, together, we can keep the doom at bay for a little while.

@SafeguardingResearch Holy cow, this blew up. Thanks for your attention, lovely people of the fediverse.

If you want to reproduce what I did, here's a rough guide:

1) Grab an old PC / Laptop / Raspberry pi, whatever you have lying around. If it has a network connection and some storage, it's probably fine.

2) Install Linux on it. Ubuntu is fine most of the time. I used Ubuntu server following this guide: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-server#1-overview

@SafeguardingResearch (Ubuntu server is text-only and therefore requires some use of the command line. If you'd rather have a graphical interface, install regular ubuntu following this guide instead: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-desktop#1-overview )

3) Update the system by running this in the command line:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

4) Add storage to the system. This can be as simple as an external hard drive.

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