You can always ask the student body. If they’re doing a good job, they’re networked and know people and procedures. Sometimes the IT helpdesk people are knowledgeable and know who makes those kinds of decisions.

And I think server hosting and paying for that might work differently than in normal life. A university has quite some IT infrastructure. Maybe they have a free VPS to spare for things like that. Maybe it has to be super secure, intergrated into the single sign-on… It’s more a political decision. Could be anywhere from free, to you need to pay half a person’s salary to moderate and maintain the instance to their (high) standards.

I believe they’re still messing with sliding sync and switching that over to a new version of the protocol. There are some open issues with Dendrite:

https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sliding

https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite/issues/3236

You should add some info: Which server software do you use? What version number? And maybe how you installed this, Docker?

For example “Synapse v1.119.0” That’d be the most recent one.

~~If I’m not mistaken Synapse needs an additional proxy server for sliding sync? https://github.com/matrix-org/sliding-sync/blob/main/docs/Landing.md ~~

17 is the correct age to try things and find your own place within the world. I’m glad young people have the ability to try things like this, or same sex relationships or whatever. I’d say it’s hard enough to express oneself and find out who you are.

And I bet this process is going to add you to some list of people to keep an eye on.

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Get a different hobby. Find some activity you’re interested in. Then focus on that and slowly let go. And keep in mind what matters to you.

Ja, Englisch und Deutsch sind auch beides germanische Sprachen, sind also durchaus enger verwandt. Wobei ich finde, Englisch ist auch sowieso eine der einfachsten Sprachen zu erlernen. Man muss kein der/die/das mitlernen, die unregelmäßigen Verben sind finde ich ein Witz gegen Deutsch und Französisch (was ich mal in der Schule hatte), wo es ja zu jeder Regel ohnehin zig Ausnahmen gibt … Ich hab mal etwas im Internet herumgeschaut, die Leute sagen man kann B2 Deutsch so in circa 1-2 Jahren nebenher erlernen.

Software: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Guide: https://github.com/mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide

As a beginner you might want to start out with one of the all-in-one turnkey operating systems like yunohost.org , dietPi.com or unRaid or a bunch of others (see the awesome-selfhosted list)

That’s a good question. I’d say be aware what you’re ignorant about. Most people are ignorant. They have strong opinions about one conflict in the Middle East while they simultaneously ignore ongoing genocides in Africa. And my question is, does it help anyone if we argue with relatives or on the internet? I’d say it’s alright to say I don’t take sides, it’s a shitty situation but not my field of expertise, so I don’t have an opinion.

It’s rarely a bad thing to be informed about things. And you always need information/education to make good decisions. Especially as a citizen in a democracy, it’s your duty to elect your leaders, so you better have some idea about who’s going to ruin the country and who’s going to make it better. But that doesn’t mean you have to know everything. And it also doesn’t mean you need to blast your opinion out there.

And it’s okay to be tired of US politics. Due to current circumstances. However, it shouldn’t be that way. We learn about history and politics (in school) for a good reason. We’re a part of the world and a part of what’s going on.

I wouldn’t know, I have a lot of adblockers etc. But it gets to me via word of mouth. And it’s been in the media a lot this year. Due to their business decisions, new approach, novelty… That’s something they did very well. Mastodon has also been in the news. But that was yesterday’s news and I suppose everyone forgets yesterday’s news.

Difficult descision. It’d be a different story if it were like 2 days. And you also take their money etc… Idk, maybe talk to your son? See if it’s just some random idea of if he’d be really unhappy if you didn’t? Maybe there’s more to the story. Maybe you can find some alternative and do something for one day in an amusement park with the whole group if he just wants some/any activity with everyone.

It’s shiny, they advertise, put in a lot of money to spread the word. And the onboarding process probably is way easier?!

Stimmt, da habe ich wohl ein großes ‘Aber’ ausgelassen. Habe das mal ergänzt, Danke. Angeblich ist Deutsch ja auch nicht so ganz so leicht zu erlernen. Viele der anderen Sprachen aber wahrscheinlich ebenso wenig.

If you’re a nurse or some other skilled professional in some specific fields… We have kind of a labor shortage with some jobs here in Germany. I live in the city, should be okay for outsiders. I guess.

I’d recommend to visit a place before considering to move. See how the people act. And you’d need to learn the language to be able to take part in regular every day life.

I think that’s always been the allure of IRC in modern internet times… Keeps the normal people away and makes it a place that’s more exclusive to nerds. It’s scary, you have to learn a few things, has it’s own etiquette and you can’t just use it from any phone.

Well if you want a proper upgrade, 40TB plus redundancy and space for a GPU, I’d say you don’t want a mimi PC but a full-blown one. I built my server myself from components. It’s hard to find good numbers on power consumption and that was one of my main concerns. I had a look at some PC magazines and what kind of mainboards they recommend for a home server. Figured I wanted 6 SATA ports and I started from that. Unfortunately said magazine doesn’t have a good article right now, so I don’t know what to recommend. Another way is to look for refurbished PCs. If they’re some brand like Lenovo or Dell, you’ll find the specs online. With a N100 mini pc, I’m not so sure if that’s a big step up from your current setup… I don’t think they have more internal harddrive ports or slots for GPUs than your current laptop.

Very good answer. I’ve also spent some time analyzing some red herrings when it was something else like a bad cable or connector. And by the way, you can use the same keys in journalctl as in the usual pager (less(?)) so hit / and search for ‘unmount’, ‘disconnect’, etc. And then scroll through the log and find out what led to the situation.

Barf. “I’m a mawg! Half man, half dog. I’m my own best friend.”

Well, there are a few communities automatically listing new communities and growing communities. Some people have an eye on them, or scroll through the All feed. They might notice on their own. Example: [email protected]

But you need some good content in your community for people to want to subscribe to you. If it looks empty or has maybe one post… It won’t attract people.

So foster your community and add some content. Do that regularly for some time.

What also helps is crossposting.

And you might want to engage in communities like [email protected]