Elena Rossini ⁂Mar 3

My experience of the #fediverse :

Year 1 (2023):
It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

Year 2 (2024):
I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

Year 3 (2025):
My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

Year 4 (2026):
I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

Show threadElena Rossini ⁂Apr 3

About to create my first cron job. Wish me luck! 😅

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

Show threadPMFL Apr 3
@_elena break a leg!
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂Apr 3

@PMFL seems to have worked... I just checked

crontab -l

anyway the real test will be to see if it works tonight... (I made last minute changes and I have it running every 12 hours. All fingers and toes crossed) 😅

Show threadTagomagoApr 3
@_elena @PMFL Have you tested it?
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂
@tagomago @PMFL "spray and pray" is my approach 😂 it will run every 12 hours so I'm eager to see what will happen tonight. I timed it so I can regain control of things... when my daughter is in school or when she's asleep 💁‍♀️
Apr 3 at 11:10amWeb
Show threadTagomago6d ago

@_elena @PMFL Sure, I just like it to see how it runs before I leave it chillin’ on its own 😁 Also, you’d save some time by not waiting 12 hours to see what happens.

It’s also nice to redirect its output to a file (command >> filename 2>&1) to log what it does while you’re testing it, cause jobs may go wrong for many reasons: permissions, environment...