+1 for the Oracle solution. I use one for my public IP, and port forward over WireGuard to my home. They claim something like 480Mbps, but it's nowhere near that, at least for external traffic. But in any event I've been using it for a few months with no real complaints.
And yes, I fully appreciate the irony of trying to self-host services to get away from big corporations, but relying on Oracle to do so.
Cool! I just got an Orange Pi 5 Plus, 16GB RAM**, but haven't set it up yet so can't give any recommendations. On paper though it looks great
significantly beefier than a RPi 4 (my current server), and supports M.2 NVME as well. Might be worth looking into for your use too, but the emphasis here is kinda on computing with a very low power budget, so I'm sure you could get more horsepower with e.g. an x64 NUC or similar.
Here's a review, and note that this is without extra heatsink so it was probably thermally throttling (as was the RPi?): https://www.phoronix.com/review/orange-pi-5
**I first ordered the 32GB version but it got seized for counterfeit postage, and then some shenanigans ensued. If buying from Amazon I would suggest only buying units in stock and shipped from Amazon. May only apply to US though...
[Billionaire Taylor] Swift, who has publicly aligned herself with the pro-choice movement and declared her opposition to former President Donald Trump, has become the ire of a vocal group of conservatives hell-bent on the bizarre notion that the singer is a political weapon aimed at the upcoming presidential election.
I mean, I'm no Swiftie, but that seems pretty reasonable to me...
How much do you care about power/energy usage?
Also, how important is having one do-it-all server vs. a few separate servers? Sounds like you're ok with at least two servers (Pi turns into HA OS, and you get a new one for everything else).
Yeah all the EEE/"Threads will kill us" talk reminds me of how Slack killed IRC by first offering an IRC gateway, and then killing off support. And after that IRC literally died.
/s
I saw a post here about how Threads' biggest enemy at this point is antitrust, and a federated approach is a clever way around that. I think that makes much more sense than the EEE narrative.
I think I saw this earlier on Lemmy, but without the red text spelling it out. I think I prefer that ever-so-slightly more subtle version.
I see. In this case the 30 years is irrelevant I think.
This is probably PITI cost
principal, interest, taxes, insurance. Principal and interest are zero here, but the other two continue for as long as you own the home (property tax is annual like income tax
it's not a one-time-deal like sales tax).
The home insurance covers the home, so it's useful for all interested parties (owner, possibly bank).
Even if the bank doesn't have any interest in the house (cash sale/no mortgage), I would absolutely want to insure the house!
Owning a house means you don't pay rent, but you do have to pay taxes and, unless you really want to gamble, insurance.
Online calculators almost always include, or have an option to include, these costs. In part it's because that's the number the bank will use to determine what you qualify for. Makes it much easier to say, "here's your monthly obligation" and compare that to you monthly income, instead of "here's your monthly obligation, and here's your twice-a-year tax obligation."
Curious where you are getting 25%?
At least this amount will, assuming it's just taxes and insurance, be due every month for as long as it's owned. Property taxes in California for example are around 1%/year (so a $377k home would be around $4k/year).
If you own the home outright you may not need insurance, but of course, that's a risk.
Taxes may be severely limited in how much they increase (see: California prop 13), so while they will likely increase it may not match e.g. rental increases.
Calm down, this isn't the banks screwing the little guy. This number includes tax and possibly insurance
"PITI" (principal, interest, taxes and insurance) is the standard quoted cost. It's just an estimate. You can often pick your own insurance which will change the cost, and if you're buying in cash, insurance may not even be required. (It will almost certainly be required if you have a loan, since the bank wants its assets protected.)
Oracle. Philosophical issues aside I've been happy, and can't beat the price. Bandwidth is pretty limited, but that's not a huge problem for me right now.