Tristan Harward

Setting up my own instance of Mastodon using the docker compose configuration was straightforward.

Started in Proxmox on my beefy server; I just got a 2nd Mac Mini (2012 Core i7) for much better power efficiency and we'll see how it runs there for a while, alongside Plex. Not quite ready to move over but soon!

For fun, here's the power usage of the rack, easy to see the 1U server. 😂 ⚡ Almost solar powered but not quite installed yet so watching efficiency. #homelab #selfhosting #server

Hugs for the Twitter team :( This is truly sad for them as a company and teams, sounds like they had a decent culture before this happened. Thanks @janhoglund@pleroma.microblog.se for the article. https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-braces-for-layoffs

If you have a domain already, would you subdomain “social” onto it for a private instance? I.e. social.trisweb.com

"Plastic recycling is a myth"—yep, this checks out. Study says only 5% of plastics you put into the blue bin make it to a recycled state. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/28/science/plastic-recycling-is-myth-study-says/