FairEmail is the Gold Standard right now imho. The learning curve can be quite steep though.

I always point people here: https://youtu.be/uPYjJYQEFSg

Hard to give you hints when we don’t know what your background is, so here is some basics:

For starting selfhosting I’d recommend getting comfortable with the linux command line at first (this may help: https://www.linuxcommand.org/). Set up a VM in Virt-manager / VirtualBox / VMWare / whatever hypervisor you want, install a Linux image (I’d recommend plain Debian without desktop environment). Now you have a sandbox where you can toy around. If you’re on windows you can use WSL2. If you’re already on a linux desktop, toy around there.

If you already got some hardware like a raspberry pi or old Laptop, get that up and running with a distro of your choice, plug it into your network and SSH into it, then you have got your playground there. Get the basic commands in like ls, pwd, cat, tail, touch, mkdir, rm, … And some things you can do with them. Check out their respective man-pages.

After that, install some packages, change configs (I’d recommend nano over vim for starters). From now on, there are no boundaries of what to do. Set up your first basic webserver with apache / nginx / caddy, install docker / podman and containerize / get some images, set up pihole, nextcloud, jellyfin, do whatever you like… Congratulations, you are now “self hosting”.

Maybe some day switch that Raspberry pi out for a thin client as seen in the picture from OP and install a hypervisor like Proxmox on it. If you got all that, which may take a while, you can consider networking and firewalls IMHO (you could get a cheap router that supports OpenWRT to learn about these things). Don’t open ports to the internet as long as you’re not 100% sure what you are doing. You can set up a VPN with DynDNS on most modems / routers connected to your ISP though, opening up your self hosted services only to you / anyone with access. Or use something like Tailscale / Twingate.

I could go on, but like I said, self hosting and home labbing is kind of use case / requirement specific.

Including the walled garden?

Doesn’t matter if the tool is good enough to analyze and influence peoples behaviour the way it does. Any autocrats wet dream.

Seems like you forgot the Bild Zeitung, the worst piece of media out there (comparable to the Sun I’ve heard):

It is the best-selling European newspaper and has the sixteenth-largest circulation worldwide. Bild has been described as “notorious for its mix of gossip, inflammatory language, and sensationalism” and as having a huge influence on German politicians.

They also bought a lot of other services, see this list, seems like it’s not maintained anymore but still.

Let’s also not forget the time that Mathias Döpfner stole the German election in 2021 so that the FDP could screw over the coalition, see here:

Zwei Tage vor der Bundestagswahl soll er Reichelt gedrängt haben: “Please Stärke die FDP. Wenn die sehr stark sind, können sie in Ampel so autoritär auftreten, dass die platzt und dann Jamaika funktioniert.”

Obviously the truth duh

Sorry for being nitpicky and thanks for naming them all. I just assume the term average is equivalent to mean average in peoples heads. For uneven distributions, like wealth or life expectancy are I assume, mean average in itself just wouldn’t be a useful measurement.

From Wikipedia:

Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.

What you described would be the median, not average. Those can be very far apart, a good example is the distribution of wealth. Put 10 homeless people in a room with Bill Gates and everyone’s a billionaire on average.

I like your style, but I guess both would get you into legal trouble.

Considering Bethesdas sloppy implementation approach, especially with object collision, things might even get more stable using the correct mods.

I remember using a mod on Fallout 4 that sets the fps in the loading screen to ~500 iirc bc they were somehow tied to the loading speed smh.

I actually plan on putting hardware related stuff on an extra pi since I only run a single proxmox node right now. Would be home assistant and nut tools for the ups but I might put pihole and unbound on that as well.

I am worried about the performance though because of home assistant. And it is pretty comfortable to have everything on one host that is far from being used to capacity anyway.

I sure hope he keeps his sanity and will have a worthy successor one day.

Completely defeats the purpose.

Classic wednesday stand-up

“news that will get you banished from society if you try to explain it to anyone who doesn’t live on the internet”

I was just trying to say that i hope that the creators of custom roms will still be able to do their work, which i don’t take for granted. Google doesn’t make their money with the phones themselves but with the data they get from the os thats running on them.

I wonder what this will mean for custom roms. Mediatek are among the only chipsets with available microcode and therefor e.g. supported by OpenWRT, which gives me hope.

To me this is a feels like a full blown release as I’ve been using the beta, alpha, the builds on a fork of one of the maintainers github fork, … All of them with very few issues.

That was honestly the only thing i needed from a launcher when i got my pixel 6a two years ago, but there is so much more to it as i later discovered. All the tweaking that is possible on top of the (very good) pixel launcher, which it was built upon but had this one flaw.

I used a raspberry pi 3 with RaspAP in this use case in my room at home for some time. Performance was not the best, but enough for my needs back then.