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Introducing: "my so-called sudo life"
a new #blog series tracking my journey towards greater digital sovereignty.
"Instead of wallowing in this grief and anger, I have resolved to make this time – these 4 years – matter. It makes me feel better and more empowered to set some high goals, so that by January 2029 I could look back and think to myself: I have grown and helped others during these tumultuous 4 years. I made good use of that time."
https://elenarossini.com/2024/12/introducing-my-so-called-sudo-life/
follow the blog: @ele
It’s happening!!! I signed up for a #VPS and I’m about to install #YunoHost. Exciteeeeeeed (and slightly scared).
I’m so early in my #Linux journey but I was emboldened after watching a video walkthrough of YunoHost, with the narrator repeating time and time again « it’s so easy a child could do it ».
Let’s see if « it’s so easy a Linux newbie could do it».
Wish me luck! 
Update: yes, it was SO EASY a child (or a #Linux newbie) could do it.
I now have #YunoHost installed on my #VPS! 
I wish I had timed how long it took - it was less than 5 minutes! This update comes 2 hours later because I've been dealing with other work stuff in the meantime.
All this to say: a HUGE thank you to the @yunohost team for creating such a phenomenal resource. Donation-as-thank-you coming soon 
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Good morning Fedi Friends! It’s 6:53am in Paris and I am taking advantage of my child being asleep to continue my #YunoHost setup and tweak DNS records.
A bit risky since I’ve only had one coffee but here we go.
Wishing you all a lovely day!
To add an extra layer of difficulty to my #selfhosting journey, there is the issue of scarce free time.
Now I have 20 minutes before I need to cook for my child and then go pick her up from nursery school. Editing DNS records with the clock ticking is not for the faint of heart
If struggling with DNS is a #selfhost rite of passage, I am ready to jump over this hurdle and get to the next!
Jokes aside, I'm super grateful for #YunoHost's crystal clear instructions.
@_elena my advice as also self hoster and also parent is to cram as much house keeping in those 20m and use after-bedtime time for self hosting. That's assuming that your kids sleep way more than you do (mine sleep some 11h, I try to do 8h). Alternatively, doing it in the very early morning, but that's not for me. Good luck!
Guys, you cannot imagine how much I can relate!
DNS are quite fundamental to the Internet, @_elena@mastodon.social so unfortunately a proper configuration is a sort of rite of passage, just like learning that it might take a couple of days for any update to propagate, so getting them right in the first place is just as wise as tricky.
Fortunately you are not going to face the burden #Google's #GMail imposed to all of us by self-hosting your email server, that is way worse than a website or a fediverse node!
Consider self-hosting your email server like the last level big-boss in your favourite adventure game.
Anyway, if in the future you'll want to try a simpler (and likely cheeper) alternative Fediverse software, I just published a short tutorial on snac here: https://encrypted.tesio.it/2024/12/18/how-to-run-your-own-social-network.html
It also discuss some of the vulnerabilities of the #fediverse that you might not be aware yet (but that can all be mitigated by #selfhosting your instances, so you are on the good track anyway
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