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Well thanks for at least explaining what it is, but isn’t Matrix already self hostable? Anyway what’s wrong with IRC?

I don’t get email notifications, but that number next to the icon changing is annoying. I have a few old responses that I’ve left “unread” on purpose, so I’m reminded to get around to dealing with them (look at some url or whatever). When the number changes, that means there are actual new responses, which after a day or two tend to be useless depending on the topic. So I’d rather shut them off.

It might be to stop the damn notifications you keep getting whenever anyone posts to a thread you started. Also it’s reasonable to think discussion forums are in some sense ephemeral. If you want a persistent store of knowledge, try Wikipedia. Lemmy could also host wikis if it’s worthwhile, like reddit does.

Scrounge an old laptop, maybe super cheap if the screen isn’t completely working. Plug in a monitor to deal with screen problems.

What is going on with you? Anyway, if you want to try self-hosting on a VPS, make an account on lowendspirit.com and hang out there for a while. There are lots of offers for free or ridiculously cheap VPS there. Like this starts at 25 cents per month ($3 per year):

lowendspirit.com/…/tierhive-256mb-ram-3gb-disk-3-…

Open a thread there saying what you’re trying to do, and ask for hosting and for technical help if you need that.

Just use a text editor. I use Emacs org files but that’s just me.

I guess I don’t understand the issues you think you’re facing with straightforward approaches. You probably don’t want it on an internet server, right? Maybe just scrounge an old laptop with no internet connection and set it up with an encrypted disk. Then use it as your journalling box. So you’re fairly safe from network attacks. You might have to worry about someone snagging the laptop itself and recovering the key somehow. Yes there are approaches you can take to mitigate that. I don’t know of any super simple ready made methods though.

This is some kind of weird propaganda. Too many words like “staggering”, and the punchline is a few paragraphs down. He calls for an article V convention and a “fiscal responsibility” amendment. He says that there are relatively few assets on the govt balance sheet but doesn’t explain how and whether future tax receipts are booked on it. I’m no accountant but booking prospective tax collection (not on income that has already been received, but on nebulus future earnings) as assets sounds pretty dubious. On the other hand, they say death and taxes are the only true certainties in existence. So it’s not like the taxes won’t happen. “Full faith and credit of the United States” basically promises that.

Maybe you could try a prepaid credit card from a store.

You’re asking a support question for a provider that most of us here have never heard of. I’d wait a day or two and then maybe open a ticket with the provider.

Maybe also look here: lowendspirit.com/…/free-vps-for-open-source-devel…

According to a DNA analysis of people across western South America, a population in the Argentinian Andes carries a gene variant that likely helps them metabolize arsenic more safely

Wow it’s not microbes etc. The water has arsenic and they can drink it.

That leaves you with 17 more of them though.

These are mini PCs right? So you want something with a room full of humans or some type of local online service. Anyway, not a purely computer project.

Library terminals and game room come to mind, but neither are for installing at home.