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Matthew Apr 20, 2025

AJ Sadauskas Apr 20, 2025

UPDATE: A massive thanks to everyone who helped out with this ☺️

As a result, my little single-user instance has made contact with 11,274 other instances across the Fedi 😲

So no further boosts needed, really appreciate everyone who helped out 😁

ORIGINAL POST: I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost.

How come?

I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

#Fediverse #FediHelp #gotosocial #mastohelp

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Matthew Apr 1, 2025

@theresmiling you're welcome.

one step at a time is the right approach in my opinion. start with something you can achieve, learn, enjoy. the latter is important too - it should feel good too! and i'm sure you will enjoy it. there's something great about taking control like this, even in a small way at first. it's liberating and empowering.

re: the dust. i did wonder about that from the Zima - it looks designed to go in an open-sided frame, on display, for people who enjoy seeing this - it looks pretty nice but does look harder to clean, however i can understand the motivation to actually see this stuff too. my Pi is in a 'sealed' case - fairly small, maybe 10x10x3 cm, just a few small air vents. very easy to keep clean, just run a duster over the top and it's done. minimal cabling - power, ethernet and a data cable that will run into a small ups if i ever get round to setting that up 😄 i'd totally recommend some sort of easy to clean case over something open, personally. the amount of dust that seems to get sucked towards hardware 😄

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Matthew Mar 31, 2025

@theresmiling for what it's worth, my experience. on a Raspberry Pi 4, but my understanding is the Zima and Pi 4 are roughly comparable (but Zima is x86 so some more flexibility) so it may give some indication what you can do with that board and if it may suit your needs.

running a small home server for about 18 months. mostly for fun just to learn. main things i'm running are Immich (photo storage), Grocy (pantry inventory) and Wallabag (article archive, like Pocket). i have a few other things but they're the main ones. my Pi 4 has 4GB or ram - i'm coming up on that now, so i am considering an upgrade to something with 8GB.

it all works just fine. Immich does a bunch of on-device machine learning stuff - face tagging, 'smart search' (eg search for rainbow and it'll show your photos of rainbows), that kind of thing. my first photo import of around 20k photos and a few hundred videos made the Pi unresponsive for a day or two, due to processing the ml on cpu. i had not adjusted the concurrency to one thread, so it took all threads and 100% - my own mistake really. besides that, it's pretty capable for a solo photo storage setup.

i'm running it all from a 250GB sata m.2 drive in a third party case (argon one). sata because Pi 4 does not have nvme or usb3 so no need for a faster drive. i haven't filled the drive yet with 25k photos and 1k videos. but i am planning to get an external non-nas caddy such as icybox or qnap (non-nas because i'll just attach it as storage and manage raid through the os).

for os itself i'm running Alma Linux - very solid and stable, enterprise-ready so very reliable. basically never goes down unless i restart it. i opted for non-gui os because i wanted to become comfortable / proficient using terminal and ssh so it was a learning experience. and same reason for enterprise-compatible os - wanted to learn that specifically.

my device is not accessible outside of my home. it's something i want to figure out, but it's more complex and right now i'm mostly at home anyway so low priority for me.

i dunno if this is the kind of reply you're after, apologies if not. any questions or whatever feel free. i've become a big fan of 'learning by doing' - think there's a lot to be said for just getting something, using it, if you need to upgrade later you can. if the Zima doesn't give you the power to do everything you want later, you can always repurpose it for some other tasks such as monitoring another device when you've learned more about what you enjoy most from this journey.

Matthew Mar 30, 2025

Michael Hanscom Sep 7, 2024

I saw this screenshot posted on a Star Trek Discord server today and really liked it. A little digging turned up the original post and reply on Tumblr: https://roach-works.tumblr.com/post/739090278705774592/it-used-to-bother-me-that-all-the-art-in-star-trek

#StarTrek #art #leisure #utopia

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it used to bother me that all the art in star trek was really mediocre. the paintings are banal and poorly executed. the music was bland. the games were all sort of slow and lame. but like. now it...

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Matthew Mar 21, 2025

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Mar 21, 2025

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 94 ✨

Self-hosted Ghost site unveiling - take 2 🎬

I'm finally ready to show you my self-hosted #Ghost site: installed on my own, with command lines, with a lot of patience and after many attempts (including 4 VPS wipes).

It took me a while to migrate all the posts, media and members, but here we go, finally:

✨ https://news.elenarossini.com ✨

Thanks to your wonderful advice and help (especially by @shollyethan) I got the courage to edit my nginx config and I'm waiting to see if the redirects from the old posts work. It's always DNS... and nginx 😂

And this is take 2 because I swear this self-hosted Ghost site is slightly cursed and the first time around as soon as I edited the URL of an old Mastodon toot, the site went offline. This happened twice today. Won't touch any URLs and will metaphorically sage the VPS to clear its energy 'cause it's a little cursed 🌿

#MySoCalledSudoLife

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Essays by Italian film director and photographer Elena Rossini - about creativity, digital literacy and harnessing the power of the internet for change

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Matthew Feb 27, 2025

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Matthew Feb 27, 2025

Paul van Dyk - Live @ Arena, Berlin 20.05.2000

Turn of the century PvD really was something else. Five hour set here from Arena, Berlin - five hours! Starts off a bit deeper and more proggy, warm up style, but pretty quickly kicks into high gear.

Just incredible. So many absolute classics in those days.

https://soundcloud.com/rave_on/paul-van-dyk-live-arena-berlin-20052000

#PaulVanDyk #Trance

Paul van Dyk - Live @ Arena, Berlin 20.05.2000

If you want to support me and this project (@rave_on), please tip - paypal.me/raveon Make sure that you have checked all my playlists - soundcloud.com/rave_on/sets Tracklist: 01. Frank De Wulf - Th

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Matthew Feb 26, 2025

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Matthew Feb 26, 2025

KI/KI pres. 5HRS OF ACID at Warehouse Elementenstraat

Sometimes you just need some acid.

Sadly only the first two hours of her set from Warehouse Elementenstraat in 2023. But wow. KI/KI is surely the queen of acid, incredible set. Just constant acid bangers. A real work of art. Such a shame it's not the full five hours!

https://soundcloud.com/ki_slash_ki/kiki-pres-5hrs-of-acid-at-warehouse-elementenstraat

#KIKI #Acid #Techno

KI/KI pres. 5HRS OF ACID at Warehouse Elementenstraat

Relive two hours of the surreal acid set KI/KI played back in March/April 2023 at the notorious Warehouse Elementenstraat in Amsterdam. So magical yet so powerful. KI/KI pres. 5HRS OF ACID A five-hou

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Matthew Feb 26, 2025

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Matthew Feb 25, 2025

Daria Kolosova @ The Lot Radio 02-09-2025

She is a techno DJ from Ukraine, near Luhansk but now based in Berlin I think.

First discovered her when she was featured on the Fabric international women's day playlist 2024, but she became one of my favourite current DJs. Fantastic track selection, deep knowledge, really knows how to put together a good mix. Would love to see her live, but alas.

https://soundcloud.com/thelotradio/daria-kolosova-the-lot-radio-02-09-2025

#DariaKolosova #Techno

Daria Kolosova @ The Lot Radio 02-09-2025

Selection of techno and hardgroove https://www.instagram.com/dar.key https://www.soundcloud.com/

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Matthew Feb 19, 2025

SPSFC Feb 19, 2025

The team Peripheral Prospectors has made Afterburn by D. Andrews an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist.

https://onereadingnurse.com/2025/01/13/spsfc4-quarterfinalist-announcement-peripheral-prospectors/#:~:text=afterburn%20by%20d.%20andrews

https://onereadingnurse.com/2024/11/10/spsfc4-full-read-afterburn-by-d-andrews/

One judge called this tale of psychological manipulation across space the "most compulsory read of the group."

SPSFC4: Quarterfinalist Announcement (Peripheral Prospectors)

Hi everyone! The team did a ton of hard work and has finally selected six quarterfinalists from our initial allocation of 31 books! Bear with me for a long post as we wanted to give these books the…

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Matthew Feb 19, 2025

SPSFC Feb 18, 2025

The Space Girls have selected On Impulse by Heather Texle as an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist.

https://www.lecari.co.uk/2025/02/spsfc4-quarter-finalist-announcement/#:~:text=on%20impulse

A cop shoots her ex-partner in self defense and asks her tech-genius BFF to investigate. Now he's dead and she's a fugitive. Judges loved the pace and the protagonist.

SPSFC4: Quarter-Finalist announcement

The Space Girls announce their six quarter-finalists picks for the Self-Published Sci-Fi Competition #4 - find out who they are here!

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