Christopher M0YNG @M0YNG@mastodon.radio

It was suggested I post, and pin, a toot with information about what it costs to run this instance.
I like this, I want to be transparent, and I think it's important that the community have trust and confidence in me, and the hosting.

Currently the costs looks like this:

* £112.50 a year for a VPS
* €25.00 a year for the domain name

All media (avatars, etc.) are sotred on the server, we use 20G of 40G so far.

More details (and optional donations) at
https://liberapay.com/M0YNG

#instanceAdmin

A helpful guide on getting started with Mastodon.
https://kevq.uk/getting-started-with-mastodon/

Is there a way to make my frame buffer or terminal emulator look like an amber monochrome CRT?

I know tmux can do themes but I'm drawing a blank on finding something premade.

I've been enjoying #stromae but struggled to find any CDs for sale in the UK for sensible prices, then I found Cheese for £5.26 on eBay.

It just arrived, with a price sticker from a charity shop on it saying £1.99

At least delivery was free...

Everyone, please welcome @dc7ia !

They are new to our instance, but you may know them as @DC7IA

Dug out this iPod when looking for something else, and it lives!
Put #RockBox on there and some @powderpaint and it is working great.
(It looks less gross and shiny IRL...)

Alex stickers are on their way to five generous contributors!

If you would like one, pop a donation to help cover our costs via PayPal to cq@m0yng.uk or https://liberapay.com/M0YNG and let me know your address.
(obviously it's a free sticker to say thanks, not a purchase.)

If you have donated before and would like a sticker, do let me know!

F*$%

One of my Raspberry Pis that has been running fine for ages wasn't letting me ssh in - it would connect then immediately disconnect.

So I tried a power cycle, and it didn't come back up.

So I took the SD card out and ran e2fsck on it

Now EVERYTHING is in LOST+FOUND, then entire root filesystem.

Everyone, Please welcome @m6wiq !

Please toot an #introductions so we can get to know you add some hashtags too so we know what interests you.

You can find more people in the instance in the directory
https://mastodon.radio/explore
(you can opt into this too once you have 10 "friends", and add tags to your profile) and the local timeline.

And this list of radio amateurs on mastodon, may be of interest: https://pad.dc7ia.eu/p/radio_amateurs_on_the_fediverse

And there are apps!
https://joinmastodon.org/apps

Hey, hey, mastodon.radio people!

Do you want to do #IRC ? on that #liberachat server for example?

They have an #hamradio channel / room thing.

Well, now you can via our #xmpp server!

It's slightly tricky, but try this and let me know how you get on.

Join this Multi User Room:
#hamradio%irc.libera.chat@biboumi.mastodon.radio

You need to register your nickname to talk so
/msg NickServ REGISTER <password> <email>
and follow the steps

Once you have identified you should be able to say "Hi!"