But also because users apparently never use the power button on a Mac

Because people who can afford a Mac can also afford the energy bill for having a computer running or standbying 24/7?

*scnr*

Why does it matter?

I want my data with me (i.e. available in the accoutn I mainly use) and not on some other account I don’t use anymore.

losing all your comments and posts history

They are not lost, they are still there

Yes, they’re there, in the old account on the old instance, and not here, where the new account on the new instance is.

Lemmy shouldn’t be used for messaging

That is entirely not the point. (Also: messaging on Lemy and instant messaging have nothing in common and should not be confused.)

you can then start using your new account as if it was the old one.

Except the things I mentioned.

Migrating or moving an account is not part of ActivityPub. Mastodon extended the protocol to have a move activity.

Unless Lemmy devs come up with something similar and extend the protocol, there is no way to properly move/migrate the account to another instance. The current solution is to create a new account on your desired instance and then export the data on your old instance and import it on your new instance and leave a note in your bio for old instance/account^[1]

Start here for details on this. According to the devs this would be nice to have but is of very low priority.

Yeah. While I can dockerize those applications, all I checked out lack modern features and concepts/designs. It all feels heavily outdated technology-wise.

federated blog

I wonder what federated blog (or publishing platform) isn’t stuck in pre-Docker era, though.

You can run those as single-user instances or with approval of users so you can use those instances for your family and/or friends only.

The usual suspects: Mastodon (or mastodon-compatible servers like GoToSocial), PeerTube, Pixelfed, etc.

I am disappointed …

Loss of control of this data would be catastrophic, so I took its security very seriously.

Ask yourself: “If my current system is unavailable: How screwed am I?”

If the answer is anything less than “Not screwed at all!”, then it is time for a backup - regardless of what system you’re using or plan to use.

You US people should not normalize “sick days”. They’re unethical.

Absolutely. They’re advertised for being used in datecenters, so I assume noise optimization wasn’t a concern for Seagate when creating those drives.

Okay, so … then maybe really look into the Seagate Exos drives. 20 TB should be pretty much fine for most selfhosting adventures.

I’m looking for something from 4TB upwards.

If you say “harddrive” … do you mean actual harddrives or are you using it synonymous with “storage”? If you really talk about actual harddrives, it’s hard to even find datacenter/server harddrives below 4 TB. Usually server HDDs start with 8 or 12 TB. You can even find HDDs with 20 TB - Seagate Exos series for example, starting at around 360 Euros (ca. 400 USD).

If you’re in for a general storage, preferably SSD, that’s another issue. There is the Samsung 870 QVO (8 TB) SSD that is often advertised as “datacenter SSD” (so I assume it would run well in a server that is active 24/7), but it is currently available with a maximum of 8 TB. The 870 QVO is at ca. 70 Euros per terabyte (ca. 77 USD) which, in my experience, is the current price range for SSDs. So it has a high price seen from the outside but it’s actually fine. It’s also a one-time investment.

For selfhosting I’d go with an SSD-only setup.

do any have particularly good or bad reputation?

From personal experience I’d say, stick with the “larger” brands like Samsung or Seagate.

Awesome! Every bus should be equipped with this and the yellow button should be used all the time for everything!

Use XMPP. Thanks to Let’s Encrypt being implemented in basically every reverse proxy, setting it up is a matter of seconds.

Make sure that, whatever switch you want to get, the switch supports simulating output (edit simulation/storing) and USB devices. Otherwise every switching action would cause disconnect and connect actions on the hosts.

You host it locally and use a web browser to access it.

I remember ZoneMinder.

A full-featured, open source, state-of-the-art video surveillance software system.

https://zoneminder.com/

Is this still a thing nowadays?