Comment on Stupid question, but are there free VPS/VM instances for a jobless girl who wants to run her own instance?

• atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I might

  1) Get new equipment and always run my old computer

  2) Get a Raspberry Pi

  3) Keep running my new computer forever

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pi is a good option because of it’s low power draw.

    However I find used mini pc’s and Small Form Factor desktops to be a better value and their idle power is similar to the latest Pi (while costing about the same as a new Pi).

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  • IceFoxX@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not the point. For example, I use Raspberries as an ad blocker, file server, Nextcloud, private (!!!) web server, and VPN.

    I wouldn’t run ANYTHING on them that’s publicly accessible…

    Imagine if two users used it to share child pornography, for example… Then your life is completely screwed as the middleman…

    Or malware gets distributed through it… Or your entire network gets hacked…

    Quickly dismiss the idea of setting up something like Lemmy or whatever on your own network. The world is a shitty place… which means it’s not a question of if something will happen, but WHEN

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    • atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ahhhhh, I get it now. Thanks :) In the meantime, I will just run communities on other instances, like my Scandinavian Left-Wing politics community on the PieFed instance I use!

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Skip the pie as it is really terrible for the money you are spending

    Instead, find a old workstation and setup Linux.

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