You can do it. I use a powered USB hub and a raspberry pi, and 5 hard drives.
It is a mess of cables but was simple enough.
I also sprang for a UPS because most filesystem’s I tried like zfs and btrfs didn’t appreciate random brownouts from running 4 drives off the pi itself.
Right now they’re xfs and used for a minio install and torrent storage
people get grumpy about containers vs nix vs flatpak and I just wanna say… I’m glad you’re using Linux. yes, you.
The lemmy devs would probably take something sensible like that and flat out shoot it down because they think they know better.
There can be nice people who are bad at tech, just like there’s racist technologists
Just because a group of nice well meaning Lemmy users is willing to suffer the pain of a poorly built app doesn’t mean they should /have/ to suffer through it
It’s sometimes nice to make nice things. Don’t be too much of an HOA, they’re new, it’s not the end of the world.
Just because I’m not afraid of biking with cars, doesn’t mean I don’t recognize that American biking infrastructure is hostile. We could do more to make biking safer and easier. They’ll struggle but they’ll get the hang of it.
So too, with making nice apps to free the lay people from their digital walled gardens.
Came here to say this. Let them toggle the logs or the QR code.
I’m going to keep this in mind, I’m working on a similar tagging API
I mean, delta.chat exists…
The other way would be a dht of hashed email addresses or hashed keys, but then you could look up live email addresses to send spam to.
The magic of tor v3 is that the plain address record is needed for some time based calculations about the dht record, e.g. they publish the descriptor’s of the site using the public key as a reverse lookup
But that wouldn’t work to obscure the email or use the email as a lookup because the dht wouldn’t have a way to prove the record was true to that email, unless it was sending emails from it
I guess that leaves DNS records or some kind of activity pub system with webfinger
Dirt cheap.
Cost = maintenance + servers
Engineers always underestimate the cost of their time.