You have some options that aren't in the installer e.g. full disk encryption

I think I've read about something like that a few years ago but I don't remember exactly. Was originally made for traffic accidents where you want to collect evidence against the other driver threatening you or similar, but should be exactly that.

On Android or postmarketOS? Very cool regardless!

Thanks. Admittedly my whole stack is in ipv4 anyways, my ISP also only supports ipv4 for some reason and then I never bothered to get into v6 for my local stuff.

Wasn't aware importing your posts is a thing, even if it's with its own tool - pretty cool!

If I wouldn't run mastodon with a hand full of other people already, I'd probably set up GTS and migrate. Though I'd have to see what's there on web interfaces currently, got pretty used to the mastodon multiple columns "advanced" interface.

Anyone having experience ipfire compared to PF/opnsense?

I'm using opnsense but it's based on BSD and the hardware support for my PCengine APU2C4 NICs isn't so great, I've read Linux based Firewalls might have better support (=performance=throughput). Only getting around 60MBs with plain firewalling, no IPS etc.

Opnsense seems to be much more feature complete though and all my searches for switching between them find only posts of people going from ipfire to opnsense.

Are you selfhosting on your Desktop? What exactly is the use case? I'd recommend different distros for a server or a desktop.

Hehe thanks! Not 100% decided yet but since it's running on my homeserver and not some VPS I guess I won't open except for friends maybe.

I've been using Mastodon for eight years and got involved with hosting a small instance for some years now. Also running a Bookwyrm instance and, since a few days, this Lemmy instance which will remain single user most likely.

I have several more Mastodon accounts I'm switching between and inactive Pixelfed, GoToSocial and Friendica accounts.

Hardware hosts usually get a mix of hardware description and main use, e.g. en old Esprimo with Proxmox is esprimox. Virtual hosts are garden themed - auth server is mycel, monitoring will be called canopy once I move it, VM with lots of docker stuff is garden etc.

Sure! It's a Lenovo m910q tiny. Mine has an i7-6700 and 32GB RAM but Lemmy runs in a VM with 4 cores and 8 GB RAM which should be plenty, it's not even using half that RAM. Disk Space seems to be the limiting factor after a while since it keeps copies of all remote threads and comments but that can be cleaned up too.

Found some threads online on resource usage beforehand like this: https://lemmy.ml/post/440678

Hell yeah, you just sent the first notification to my instance :)