Drywall is pretty much the same, so yes, you can, and the typical US McMasion is pretty menacing in its environmental impact (and looks shit as well).

Some good ideas, and most of it wouldn’t even be expensive. It’s a bit sad how education bureaucracy kills most of such initiatives in my experience.

Related: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you

https://www.twz.com/this-alien-looking-airship-design-used-a-propulsion-method-unlike-any-other

If I remember correctly, it needs KDE 6.x to offer the option to create a new fake screen as an output.

KDE doesn’t need hdmi/dp dummy plugs, you can just configure a fake output. Works fine with: https://deskreen.com

I think the update reluctance mostly comes from the false impression that a Postgres 16 upgrade is also necessary, which requires a more extensive downtime as the Lemmy DB is quite bloated.

With Lemmy 0.19.5 and Postgres 16.2 the previous annoying memory leak seems to be fixed though, so an upgrade is certainly recommended.

Huh, it was still working when I posted it one hour ago… unlucky I guess 🤷‍♂️

It is possible that people get access to your server while it is running via known or unkown software vulnerabilities, but that isn’t really the point… all I am saying is that if you host your server at home, it is unlikely that at-rest disk-encryption does you any good and it certainly doesn’t help to protect against illicit remote access.

What it does “help” is preventing you from remotely accessing your own server if it rebooted for some reason… and many other such footguns that you will experience sooner or later.

No the Nextcloud DB is not excrypted, but neither is your LUKS file system while the computer is running. Anyone getting access to the server while it is running, can access all the data unencrypted. For a server this is the much more likely scenario than for a laptop, which might get stolen while turned off.

At-rest disk encryption is useful for servers in co-location hosting, where a 3rd party might be able to pull a disk from the system, or if you are a large data-center that regularly discards old drives with customer data, and you want to ensure that no 3rd party can access that data from the discarded drives.

I would carefully think about what realistic threat scenario full disk encryptio protects you from.

On a server that runs 24/7 at-rest disk encryption usually helps very little, as it will be nearly always unencrypted. But it comes with significant footguns potentially locking you out of the system and even preventing you from accessing your data. IMHO in most cases and especially for beginners I would advise against it for a home based server.

Nextcloud runs fine via Podman. Stick with Fedora, cockpit and btrfs.

Btrbk is good for snapshots and automated backups.

If the 500gb is a NVMe drive then the database will benefit from the extra r/w speed.

Nginx is great for reverse-proxying. Dehydrated is the no-BS option to generate certs, but Certbot also works.

OVH gives you free dyndns and an email address with every domain you register, good option for self-hosting.

Eh? I thought their value proposition was in-house developed sodium-ion batteries?

If they just build standard lithium-ion with Chinese equippent, then I don’t see the point. We can just import that more cheaply from China directly.

The Greens are not doing too well in polls and Merz is clearly on an AfD appeasement course to make way for a possible right-wing coalition (or at least keep it as an option in coalition negotiations to minimize concessions to the SPD or the Greens).

Yes, please no 16 years of CDU again 😭

Neighbour had a garden with trees, guess where the tree fell during a storm? No more single houses… /s

You can litterally find examples for downsides like that of any kind of housing arragements.

For those complaining about noise in apartments: in my experience apartment dwellers are quite considerate and when living in an apartment I never had any major noise problems.

Now that I live in a single home let me tell you about the noise of neighbours mowing their lawns, constant noisy renovations etc. and in general a lot more car noise.

Quite honestly, it was more quiet in the apartments that I lived before.

Edit: and besides, I think people are confusing apartments with the real cause: housing areas with low socio-economic status tend to be more noisy. Correlation is not causation and all that…

Yes to both.

It can be programmed to do so, but I disabled it as I am not particularly concerned about it, and the solar thermal vacuum tubes also connected to the same tank will occasionally push it to near boiling temperatures.

I originally also thought it would be useful to dehumidify the air, but in reality the times when you need to heat water and the same time have a humidity problem rarely overlap in my case. Maybe if you have a perpetually humid cellar that you don’t use much otherwise (as the exhaust air is quite cold) it would be a good addition.

I think this is mostly interesting for repurposing existing fossile fuel powerplants.

Add a relatively small geothermal power-plant on site for baseload demand plus a well sized grid battery and you can continue using a lot of the existing infrastructure of these older powerplants.

Due to security requirements this will not work with nuclear, even when using (largely theoretical) small modular reactors.