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/

Everyone, Please welcome @xe2xeh !

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

Everyone, Please welcome @nitch !

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

This month mastodon.radio is 2 years old.

Thanks to all our users, and all the awesome people in the fediverse!

We're a fairly small instance but all of our costs (server and domain) are covered by donations, which is amazing!

We don't need any more funds (unless something unexpected happens…) for this year, so if you do make a donation this month I will be sending it to MacMillan cancer support.

https://liberapay.com/M0YNG

https://www.macmillan.org.uk/

Bought a 2nd hand NAS off eBay, but it behaves ... weird?

Not sure if this is impending hard drive failure (it came with drives, of unknown age) or something else going on.

For example, I can create a new share, and mount it with NFS.
It works fine.
I then dump data onto it, and then it stops working fine.
For example:
ls: reading directory 'nextcloud/': Input/output error

I can still mount it via SMB and read and write to it.

Some shares I get permission errors writing via SMB, but not AFS

well #owntracks is a massive dissapointment.

I'm a fairly technical person, and I'm giving up setting up my own server.

It might well be amazing, but it really needs to be tied together as a service rather than a jumble of technology.

I might, with more time, get a server to work and be secure.
But will I then be able to share my location easily with family and friends without having to set their device up for them? I suspect not (based on what I've seen so far)

😞

want to spin up a vps for an experiment, any suggestions for a (very) cheap uk vps?

Considering inceptionhosting.com who seem to start at €3

Everyone, Please welcome @F4IOH!

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

You're a bit far away from that coast I think @F1RUM!

What's the chance of a QSO with France if I stand on the beach on the south coast of the UK with a hand held radio?

Guess it's pretty far for 2m FM, especially without some gain on the aerial.

I have a netgear DGND3700v2 router that I thoguht would be useful if it ran dd-wrt.

Good news - it can!
Bad news - the factory firmware blocks uploading non-factory firmware
Good news - older factory firmware doesn't do this check
Bad news - said firmware doesn't appear to exist

I've tried various variations of firmware, most didn't work, one did, but still didn't let me put dd-wrt on it.

Then I went and checked the details, and I was following info on wndr3700v2 not dgnd3700v2

🤦

Identified why my network was being weird.
(Some clients very slow, some fine)

One of the wireless APs had lost power connection.
So, anything wired was ok, anything on the other AP was fine.

Most things trying to use the offline AP were just scraping a poor connection to the other.

Hence, it looked weird, stuff was all still working, just unevenly badly.

Thanks to the many people who have suggested various password management solutions.

Currently using https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

Seems good so far, but I have lots of other ideas to try if I want to!