In time,

I hope to set up a tiny self hosted instance running on a Raspberry Pi. Containing my personal bubble of interests. In other words it will be my virtual cyber essence.

My cyber-sole/soul if you like, the best bits. Calling my Lemmy/Fediverse instance, Operation Horcrux.

IT is a dream. Expecto Patronum …

  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.ccEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I finally did this today. Well, my instance accepts applications, but right now it’s only me, and I want to keep it small. It wasn’t too hard to deploy, took maybe an hour if you have some Linux knowledge. As for costs, I launched it on a VM with Vultr.com, one of the cheapest ones at $8/month. So far it’s running very well and the CPU usage is below 30% all the time. The benefit of being tiny, I guess. Anyway, what I’m saying is… go for it! It’s relatively easy and cheap.

  • lobsterOP
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the feedback guys. ❣️🫵🙏 I am calling my soul server OPERATION HORCRUX. Really in honour of the presently unfashionable Black Hat Death Eaters …

    Obviously I hope in time to have several instances. Possibly on a quantum or organic neurone chip if available. Maybe in another dimension/dream world.🤩

    But for now before I am overtaken by my dank side:😇

    • Have a raspberry pi 3 available, could not find the right cable for the pi 4
    • Trying to use my existing hardware for my first piece/peace/instance
    • Am plugged into home ethernet and a relatively fast fibre optic cable service

    My next tasks: To prepare/format a micro SD card and find a one piece raspberry pi solution. Not sure if I want a Virtual Box/Machine solution. Probably a dedicated Pi Server would be best? I could then white list a savvy friend and MAYBE family … in which case would maybe start with a HTML page and passwords to be given out personally. Wot fun! (I iz such a computer nerd)🤗

    Sadly only Herpo the Foul and Tom Riddle know how to make HorCrux. Fortunately I am not daunted by fantasy … 🤓😁🦞

  • lobsterOP
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    1 year ago

    OK … How is it going?

    Well after reading this https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-mastodon/

    Was prompted to search again for RaspberryPi 4 to HDMI cable. No luck.

    More searching for info required. She who dares, wines … or in my case whines …

    Engage claws. Hold on tight …

    • TeaEarlGrayHot@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Simply enable SSH using the Raspberry Pi imager before you flash the SD card, and you’ll never need to plug it in to a monitor! Last time I plugged an rPi server into an external screen was 2013

  • lobsterOP
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    1 year ago

    I used a server host with a .com url for a few years. It gave me experience uploading using FTP software. Checking site from different browser and platform hardware. That is a paid route. Cloud computing.

    Minimalism was in my Cyber-DNA as I did most of my tinkering from Puppy Linux.

    What is a distributed intranet with servers added as every node holding the complete dataset? Arpanet? I believe this is back to basics.

    That would be the idea of starting with a single server/instance …

  • lobsterOP
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    1 year ago

    OK about to put in some more work/research.

    Not sure what yet … but I can edit my post. So feel confident some plan will emerge …

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I too hope to host one some day. Can’t right now, but that would very nice. My own personal island. Well, having an account is like your personal island too, but there’s something about hosting your own instance that feels nice. I hope to host my own DNS, reverse-proxy, web server (for the little websites, if I ever write some code), and other services too, someday.

    Cheers