Recent models run surprisignly well on CPUs if you have sufficient regular RAM. You can also use a low VRAM GPU and offload parts to the CPU. If you are just starting out and want to play around I would try that first. 64gb system RAM is a good amount for that.

There have been such attempts, like Nextbox for example. But afaik they have been all commercial failures, IMHO because basically anyone that cares enough about this stuff can build their own for a much lower price, and those that don’t…

It’s worth a try asking your current members in a local sticky-post. Just make sure you do a realistic estimation on how often you might not be available so that they know how involved it might become.

Otherwise the people over at db0 are trialing an “armada” concept of sharing admin burdens between instances. So that is also something you might want to consider.

https://github.com/YoRyan/mailrise

Is something you might be interested in.

Finding a fully managed Lemmy server for a similar low price seems unlikely (and K&H have probably under-priced this).

I think it would be more worthwhile to find some additional admins to share the burden and move to some reasonably priced VPS.

With libvirt it is fairly easy yes. And you can also install a standalone web-gui like Cockpit or use the desktop app virt-manager over ssh to do it.

Proxmox adds a lot of complexity and a nice GUI. If you are fine with using the terminal, there is really not much benefit from Proxmox and the potential issues from the added complexity are IMHO not worth it. I am not a Proxmox expert though, so take this advise with a grain of salt 😅

The federation is mainly about issues / bug reports (the discussions and comments) and being able to make cross instance pull-requests and so on. So yes, it is mostly about communication.

Those work fine with Anubis.

Anubis is fairly stupid in reality. It only checks the request at all if it looks like a regular browser (and thus catches the scrapers that pretend to be regular browsers to hide in normal traffic). If you use an RSS reader for example that doesn’t hide the fact that it is a RSS reader, then Anubis will send it right through.

They just released a big new version.

We have been running it since a year or so, but lately there seem to be some scrapers that get around it, probably by using a 3rd party webfrontend and thus accessing the API endpoint. But still better than nothing I guess.

We are talking about price relative to performace, not performance in general.

But the cost of the hardware is anyways not so relevant when the price difference of the software easily makes up the difference.

You still easily can with second hand components.

That period repeats every 3-5 years approximatly towards the end of a generation but before the new generation is announced.

Usually companies accept that you remove storage mediums before sending it in, as those might contain private data. And if that is ok, then there is no way for them to know that you installed Linux on those.

Hmm, good question. I don’t have a setup for that either, but I don’t think there is a built in function for that.

Your best bet is probably to find some tool that notifies you if new files get created in a directory, as AFAIK new snapshots are only created if they were successfully transferred.

Nextcloud is overkill for what you want.

If all you need is a shared calendar and a simple way to upload images, then this is a good option: https://github.com/tchapi/davis

Wifi is often a module in older laptops, and you could unplug that.

Otherwise, 10W is quite good for older hardware, I doubt you will get much below that.

Nice work. But the phone should be able to host quite a bit more, as it is actually quite fast.

Debian is fine and you can follow many tutorials (Ubuntu tutorials also usually work as the difference isn’t big).

Not sure if that is still in their FAQ, but the Stoat devs previously said that they don’t want federation, and if that ever changes they would likely prefer XMPP over Matrix.