It really depends on what you’re trying to do. At the end of the day, the foundational components are pretty standard across the board. All machines have a CPU, motherboard, storage mechanism, etc. Oftentimes those actual servers have a form factor better suited for rack mounting. They often have more powerful components.

But at the end of the day, the difference isn’t as striking as most people not aware of this stuff think.

I’d say considering this is your first experience, you should start with converting an old PC due to the lower price point, and then expand as needed. You’ll learn a lot and get a lot of experience from starting there.

That’s attached to the instance? Do you have a screenshot maybe?

What is the error that you get?

Yes. It just will fill your feed with a bunch of things you might not care about. But admin vs non admin doesn’t matter in the context of what I said.

Your instance is the one that federates. However it starts with a user subscribing to that content. Your instance won’t federate normally without user interaction.

Normally the solution for the second part is relays. But that isn’t something Lemmy supports currently. This issue is very common with smaller instances. It isn’t as big of a deal with bigger instances since users are more likely to have subscribed to more communities that will automatically be federated to your instance. You could experiment with creating a user and subscribing to a bunch of communities so they get federated to your instance.

It’s not really any different than hosting any other service.

Yep just saw that too after I researched it a bit more. What is strange is I don’t remember Eve Energy having a firmware update since then. Makes me wonder if they had it ready to go in previous firmware versions based on internal specs they saw? Or maybe I just forgot about a firmware update I did.

but as the Matter standard doesn’t yet support energy monitoring, users are limited to basic features like on and off and scheduling

- from this link

Granted the article is almost a year old. But I just didn’t realize that Matter now supports energy monitoring. Somehow I just missed that news.

I know I’m not necessarily the target audience for this. But it feels too expensive. 6x the price of Cloudflare R2, almost 13x the price of Wasabi. Even iCloud storage is $0.99 for 50 GB with a 5 GB free tier. But again, I know I’m not necessarily the target audience as I have a lot of technical skills that maybe average users don’t have.

If you ever get around to building an API, and are interested in partnerships, let me know. Maybe there is a possibility for integration into !echo@eventfrontier.com 😉.

Submitted!

Just added to my todo list. Hopefully I’ll get around to this today! Thanks!!

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much! 🎉 Native is the only way to go imo 😝. I’ll make a PR this weekend.

Might also have some comments on the Lemmy API eventually, but I’ll save those for a later date haha.

Thanks for all you do for Lemmy.

Check back in 24 hours or so. If it still isn’t available, please let me know.

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your support. As mentioned, this is only the beginning. Lots more improvements coming 🎉. And if you ever have feedback, suggestions, ideas, problems, etc. be sure to let me know!

What is your region?

Thanks! Better image support (including GIF support) is on the roadmap. Will look into the clipping issue shortly. Stay tuned to !echo@eventfrontier.com for updates.

Just posted there. Thanks!