I should probably give in and get the Puli, I dislike non-replaceable batteries but I'm sure if it dies before I upgrade to 5G and give the device away I could figure out how to replace it.
The Spitz AX looks awesome for e.g. an RV base station etc, but too many antennas for travel use. I used old Spitz on Amtrak with some success. I wish they had a similar 5G unit with 2x external 5G antennas, and internal antennas only for wifi.
Maybe I will get my wish someday, GLi do like producing a variety of devices on a theme..
The problem lies with Gargron doing what Gargron does, implementing whatever the f he wants for "the Mastodon network" and not giving a crap how it affects the health of the overall fediverse.
Hell, this isn't even the first time there's been drama over Mastodon's advisory post scopes, not by a long shot. I kinda wish I'd saved receipts from the last couple times, some highly experienced devs have chimed in in the past.
Mastodon implemented a new feature in a way that would break (in a really jarring privacy-violating-to-some-extent way) until everyone else copied their implementation exactly.
You ever notice how Gargron refers to the fediverse as "the Mastodon network?"
He's been doing things this way since 2017 at least. At this point, any longtime observer really has no other choice but to consider the behavior deliberate.
Then when I see people asking questions of his code or how to do things he usually jumps down their throats - or completely ignores them.
And honestly the biggest thing that irked me was that I didn't feel he gave credit to the hundreds - thousands of other people who work to make the fediverse work.
Anyone who's ever touched the Mastodon dev process knows that Gargron is much the same, FWIW, minus getting angry in public. These days I just have to shake my head at all the bright-eyed bushy-tailed noobs updating issues on the Mastodon repo, because those of us who've been around since the start know exactly how far that's gonna go in nearly all cases - and in the cases it does go anywhere, it'll be because Gargron implemented something similar with zero discussion and no credit where credit is due.
But yeah, follow Dansup long enough and you are guaranteed to see some regrettable behavior on main.
Source: I subscribed to a ton of Lemmy communities to quit Reddit, and the selfhosting ones are so active they routinely push other communities down below the fold unless I sort by new.
btw if you haven't got into Proxmox yet, have a look at it.
I've run a couple single-user Pleroma and Akkoma instances for 1 to 3 years each, one of them with a lot of follows in both directions and plenty of multimedia, and it worked fine on hardware 6 generations old on a crappy Comcast plan proxied thru a $4/mo VPS.
Other platform software (Mastodon especially) consumes vastly more compute resources than the Pleroma family. I haven't tried self-hosting Lemmy yet. YMMV.
Mastodon is also an ultra-heavyweight in terms of compute resources it consumes per daily active user served. This is one reason (among multiple) that I would never run Mastodon as an ActivityPub microblogging instance.
If for some reason you don't like the look of NUT, and you get an APC UPS (and maybe some others?), there is always apcupsd. It will run shell scripts upon certain events, etc. Old, simple, works.
I've lived in areas where Comcast stayed up during long outages and areas where it didn't. Not sure about FTTN, but I don't think consumer broadband services are required to stay up during an outage like copper phone service is.
I should probably give in and get the Puli, I dislike non-replaceable batteries but I'm sure if it dies before I upgrade to 5G and give the device away I could figure out how to replace it.
The Spitz AX looks awesome for e.g. an RV base station etc, but too many antennas for travel use. I used old Spitz on Amtrak with some success. I wish they had a similar 5G unit with 2x external 5G antennas, and internal antennas only for wifi.
Maybe I will get my wish someday, GLi do like producing a variety of devices on a theme..