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New comment by bedstefar in "I am building a cloud"

bedstefar — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:56:51 +0000

That's a good tip, thanks. What I meant to say was that there's probably at least a handful of self-hosted services you could run to offset that $20/mo.

Another one could be Bitwarden, although I don't host my own password manager personally. Or netbird. You get the point

New comment by bedstefar in "I am building a cloud"

bedstefar — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:56:24 +0000

This looks like an excellent platform for running a "homelab" in the cloud (no, the irony is not lost on me) for lighter stuff like Readeck, Calibre-web, Immich. Maybe even Home Assistant too if we can find a way (Tailscale?) to get the mDNS/multicast traffic tunnelled.

New comment by bedstefar in "Codex Hacked a Samsung TV"

bedstefar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:28:02 +0000

... in exactly one of this planet's countries

New comment by bedstefar in "What has Docker become?"

bedstefar — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:34:18 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_Un...

New comment by bedstefar in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

bedstefar — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:55:45 +0000

Not trying to account for the parent's claim, but generally check diskprices.com for the latest deals on Amazon (.com, .co.uk, .de, .es, .it etc)

New comment by bedstefar in "25L Portable NV-linked Dual 3090 LLM Rig"

bedstefar — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:47:57 +0000

I worked in the Arctic for the better part of a decade. There's Starlink now, but I've been TRULY OFFLINE for weeks (with plenty diesel generated power) as recently as 2018. Technically we could use Iridium at like $10 per MB, but my full Wikipedia mirror (+ Debian/Ubuntu packages, PyPI etc) did come in handy more than once.

I know some Antarctic research stations (like McMurdo for example) still have connectivity restrictions depending on time-of-day, and I wouldn't be surprised if they also had mirrors of these sort of things, and/or dual-3090 rigs for llama.cpp in the off hours.