kristoff
A /48 is quite overkill for a home customer. Do you have 65536 LANs at home? Here in Belgium, we get a /56.
Australia looks like an interesting case. Iknow that in some countries, ISPs have to provide service to both urban and rural customers at the same price, which means that urban customers actually subsidize people living in rural areas. In some other cases, the gouvernements help pay for this.
Isn't there a project in Australia that the federal gouvernement is subsidizing the role-out of fibre?
just out of interest .. somebody here on satellite? I am interested to know the prices for sat services out there?
I dan't know if this is still valid but I used to be told to have different partitions for your system, logs and data (home directories) .. and have the swap-partition located in between them. This was to limit the distance the head has to move when reading from your system starts swapping.
But if you use a SSD drive, that is not valid anymore of course :-)
Kr.
Three months ago, we organised an infostand on amateurradio at a makerfaire .. and 'talking to people' was hardly ever mentioned.
Amateur radio is a technical / scientific hobby for everything about radio, radio communication, radio technology and radios propagation.
Actually, the first thing we showed was a small WSPR transmitter and showed that with just 'a little bit more transmission power then your wifi-router at home' we could be receiver 4000 km away. (and explained that by transmitting a radio-signal very slowly, you can reach very long distances, ... and about HF propagation, greyline propagation, and as wspr signal is so simple, you can build such a transmitter yourself)
please do not equate hamradio with 'talking on the radio'. That is probably the worse way to explain what our hobby is about. Ham-radio is 'a giant playground that allows you to play around with radio-technology and learn how radio really works'.
Kr. (ON1ARF)
Hi,
I have also been thinking about selfhoating a jisti-meet server. Just how easy / difficult is it to selfhost it? Do you run it in docker or natively? Linux or some other OS (FreeBSD)?
Kr.
APRS over LoRa is quite popular here in ON-country. Here is a map I created the beginning of June (based on some data-queries in APRS-IS ) It's the most active discussion-room on the matrix chat-server of the UBA (Belgian amateur-radio society)
Although you can of course use matrix for "general chit-chat", my impression is that people use matrix differently then (say) the fediverse. The rooms that I find that have a lot of activity are mainly "support" rooms for a very specific purpose. Some of the tooms I am in that have a lot of activity are FreeBSD, python, rust, nextcloud, or specialised amateur-radio rooms like GNURadio, yota. etc.
A nice example of this is that the support-channel for lemmy is on .. matrix.
As I see it, matrix is more a trouble-shooting tool like slack, discord, etc (threads, pasting screenshots, or pieces of source-code, a picture of your PCB, a video of what is on the oscilloscope, .. ).. while the fediverse systems are better for general chit-chat: short-messages on mastodon/..., longer threads on lemmy/kbin/... I do not think there is a contrast in this.
let's hope the growth stays within limits and becomes more 'organic' giving the instance-admins and developers time to grow too!
I added the hashtag to give the post more visibility on the fediverse. (and to give a little bit more visibility of Lemmy to the people on the mastodon side of the fediverse).
I didn't know anout the ability to add URLs inside the post.
but in general I avoid putting URLs inside the message post. Putting the URL at the end of a post allows people to first read the complete post and then follow the links. People tend to click on the link and get "stuck" there and not read the rest of the post. (especially on social-media platforms like youtube that is designed to lock people's attention as long as possible).