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Cake day: May 31st, 2023

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  • The networking aspect will likely be the trickiest, but if you’re already interested in administrating a VPS you can absolutely do it.

    1. Have an ISP that doesn’t block inbound connections. So far both Comcast and Verizon have been cool to me in that regard.
    2. Configure your router to always give your host machine the same internal-network IP address.
    3. Configure your router to forward any relevant ports (TCP/80 for insecure HTTP, e.g.) to the internal address you assigned to your host.
    4. Go to ifconfig.me or similar to ascertain your public Internet IP address.
    5. Buy a domain (Namecheap has been good to me for a decade) and change its A record to point to that address!

    Not hard, but not exactly uncomplicated either.






  • Who said anything about capitalism? I’m talking about centralization. Expecting countless individuals to be able to do something as well as specialists can do it just doesn’t make sense to me.

    “Personal responsibility” is a red herring used by those in power to try and shift the blame off of institutions with real power. We need institutional change first and foremost.

    Off-gridders are primarily dilettantes who have the money to pretend they’re disconnected from the system.


  • I see what you’re saying. I find it hard to believe vanlifers and offgridders are the vanguard of a more sustainable future though.

    I don’t see how all the world’s people individually handling waste can work better than centralized expert processing, especially in more dense areas.








  • ‘Toy’ feels strange to me here. It’s more of a just-works vs power-tool distinction. Sometimes people like tools that require you to RTFM because the deeper understanding has concrete benefits; it’s not just fun. User-friendliness is not all upside, it is still a tradeoff.

    You’re absolutely right about hurting new users by not making the destinction, whatever label is used.