3. Technology breakthrough: Manufacturing more ram for less money.

Ideology wise I’d consider it as western but not what usually is associated with “The West™” in geographical means.

Cool, also like the style of the blog, however the “Loading…” animation is kind a strange. It lasts almost 2sec , while the page data is completely loaded after 500ms or so.

I absolutely feel your pain. However, there is also the side that all this complexity must be handled somehow. The other extreme is that you’d have to compile all the software and its dependencies from scratch, as well as read and understand the source code.

In the end, it boils down to the people who actually care (like you, who is probably one of them) to exercise caution—looking at the output of curl https://some.rando.url/install.sh before doing the | sudo bash -c and constantly insisting on the validity and absolute necessity of signature checks, transparency, and so on. Meanwhile, all the other folks get at least a foothold in self-sovereignty without being completely smashed by the details of compiler flags.

On top level it is refreshing that there are still democratic countries in the world where the politicians are kept responsible for there decisions. We could have good use for a portion of this attitude in the western hemisphere too…

All these speeds the providers advertise (especially the faster ones) are often cut down by bad peering. I often had an issue downloading bigger files from my storage when I was traveling. Only got some single digit MBit transfer speeds due to bad peering, while speed tests has shown decent results. When it comes down to Selfhosting the upload/download figures alone not always tell the truth. In my point of view 20Mbps is actually even sufficient for most of private stuff, even streaming HD content to one ore two peers simultaneously.

I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need,

… till the start torrenting

Unless you’ve been arrested and are in pretrial detention without access to any devices that would allow you to do that. But in that case, the Arr stack on your server is probably the least of your problems.