Where is the tipping point though? If I have a server at my parents house, they live in Germany and I in Korea, does my dad host it then because he is paying for the electricity and the access to the internet and makes sure those things work?
I did that first but that always required much more resources than doing it yourself because every docker starts it's own database and it's own nginx/apache server in addition to the software itself.
Now I have just one Postgresql database instance running with many users and databases on it. Also just one Nginx which does all the virtual host stuff in one central place. And both the things which I install with apt and manually are set up similarly.
I use one docker setup for firefox-sync but only because doing it manually is not documented and even the docker way I had to research for quite some time.
I wanted to ask where the border of selfhosting is. Do I need to have the storage and computing at home?
Is a cheap VPS on hetzner where I installed python, PieFed and it's Postgres database but also nginx and letsencrpt manually by mydelf and pointed my domain to it, selfhosting?
Oh that is an interesting one indeed. Especially here in Korea the summers are not so extreamly hot but extreamly humid, which is much worse for people like me who regulate their temperature maily with sweating :D
I did my first ESPHome just a couple of weeks ago too. I always wanted to measure the CO2 in the bedroom, because my wife always closes the door when we go to sleep (she wants to prevent the cat to go in and sleep on the bed because she is a bit allergic to it). And I sometimes wake up in the night and feel it's such bad air that I have a hard time to fall asleep. I suspected that it's the CO2.
Now that I can see the numbers it was much easier to explain my reasoning to my wife:
We still don't have a solution for it, but at least now in the summer we can crack open the window. But at least we understand the problem a bit better :D
I have friend in Germany who took that deal and went back to the Donbas in Ukraine in 2019. She got a job there, bought furniture for herself and rented an apartment.
That all is gone, bombarded to the ground and she is back in Germany.
If you go there and look at the map you will realize a two state solution has been a dream of those who didn't look at that map for decades.
Pulling those people out of there would be political suicide for the Israeli government, they can't do it. Settlements sound like a house here and there, but it's whole communities with universities, hospitals, fire departments, malls, etc. It's all so extremely interwoven for decades, and yes, it's getting worse.
They did exactly that in Gaza in 2005 and removed the 8,000 Settlers from 21 settlements. But in the Westbank we're talking about a number 100 times that. And also, did it bring peace to Gaza?
I'm not saying that I have a solution, but just saying they should have 2-states is wishful thinking in my opinion.
In Europe, only Ireland, Poland, Serbia, Spain, and the UK fluoridate their water. However, most developed countries, including Japan and 97% of the European population, do not consume fluoridated water. In Europe, only four countries have optional salt fluoridation (Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria), while the majority have neither fluoridated water nor fluoridated salt.
I was studying computer science and at my University in Gothenburg all the lab computers were Linux. We had one course which required Windows because there was one software which never got ported to Linux which we had to use and it was a pain because only one lab room had windows computers and they were constantly booked.
I use exactly those you mention and the lack of journals on desktop is weird. Because of that I started implementing a notes app myself but never finished it.
So the goal is to replace YouTube with non-video content not just replacing it with a different ui or provider. That sounds more doable. Good to hear that it improved.
Where is the tipping point though? If I have a server at my parents house, they live in Germany and I in Korea, does my dad host it then because he is paying for the electricity and the access to the internet and makes sure those things work?