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  • Self hosting Stoat is a nightmare at the moment.

    Only the webUI works out of the box, if you want the phone app you need to compile it yourself.

    At least the desktop app now supports connecting to custom instances, but it’s by launch option, not the GUI.

    All that said, my understanding was that you give the code to your friends, and they have to enter it during signup.

    Enabling invite-only doesn’t remove the signup functionality, it adds authentification, so only people with the invite code can pass.

















  • But there are no hacks required to install it on old hardware.

    Yes there are.

    If you used rufus or ventoy, you’ve just applied them without knowing.

    Unmodified Windows 11 ISOs will refuse to install on any hardware with a CPU older than Ryzen 3000 or Intel 8000.

    In fact there are less hacks required to install / upgrade to windows 11 then there are to install any Linux distro.

    What?

    On the vast majority of systems, the vast majority of linux distros will install and run with zero “hacks” of any kind. Literally just boot the ISO as-is and have at it.

    genuine copy of windows will receive all and any updates

    No. On many machines, while windows will install just fine due to the modifications to the installer applied by rufus/ventoy, the yearly major version updates can fail catastrophically.

    A lot of hardware will update without issue, but there ABSOLUTELY is risk.

    Windows is just an os. As long as it is compiled for the correct CPU architecture, it is just as supported as any other hardware. The hardware is supported by individual drivers, normally provided by the hardware manufacturer, not Microsoft.

    You are confusing functional, and supported.

    Something can “technically still work” without being officially supported.

    Not being supported means Microsoft can make breaking changes in updates, because they made no promises your hardware would be accounted for in the future.

    Just because it works today, no longer means it will tomorrow.




  • I don’t think everyone should self-host. This person was certainly in over their head.

    Synology likes to pretend that it’s easy, but doing it right in the ways that make it actually superior to something like Google Drive, is not.

    It would be nice if everyone could know someone, who does run one.

    Why have a NAS per person, when you can have one per family, friend group, or workplace?

    Sadly that will lead to some people relying on hardware that WILL fail in ways that means lost data. Tons of small scale users does mean a lot of people who won’t quite know what they should know about how to do it.




  • That’s not quite right. Our sun has never gone nova, and is a fairly young main sequence star. It’s still in the first “main sequence” of fusion after accumulating from scattered matter. It’s heavy enough to do fusion, but not heavy enough to really “properly” go boom at the end (or to have done so in the past).

    While novas form heavy elements, the originating star either becomes a neutron star or black hole. Sol, our sun, is a a “normal” star (though above average brightness) which means it won’t properly go nova. It’ll just “burn out” and become a white dwarf.

    The matter ejected by a Nova flies out into the universe and falls in the gravity wells of other Solar systems. So our heavy elements likely hail from millions of other past stars.