https://github.com/lldap/lldap is a good alternative that’s easy to setup.

https://github.com/thomiceli/opengist

Does what you want except the auto-delete I think.

With hardware like that the main issues are power inefficiency and (often) lack of UEFI support making it hard to install modern distros on them.

Otherwise there should be mitigations for the CPU issues, so unlikely that it will be a real issue from the security perspective.

They understand the mechanisms of abuse and have a stunning gift

… for abusing others, yes. Thanks, but no thanks.

As an Anarchist myself: this is the most absurd take on ACAB and moderation I have heard in a while.

And apparently you have been lucky to not have had to deal with bad-faith concern trolling that some narcissist like to do online.

There is also the deep asymmetry of effort. Nearly all moderators are volunteers that put in largely invisible effort every day, for no return. As all humans they sometimes make mistakes and can also have a bad day.

On the other hand there are people that put almost no effort in, but are deeply offended by any moderation action against them and will rise a huge stink about it.

These two factors together make people very reluctant to volunteer for moderation duties in popular communities, which is a major issue for the health of the Lemmyverse as a whole.

The one at the top could also be a connector for a serial port for debugging or so.

https://github.com/fatedier/frp seems to be designed for such cases, but I have not tried it myself.

The stick is better for movement, while the pads are better for aiming. And the buttons work fine where they are.

Arguably the left side pad is a bit useless for gaming itself, but its nice to have two pads for desktop navigation and using the on screen keyboard that is build into steam.

Yes, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Controller

Steam controller obviously (for everything other than retro gaming which often requires a dpad).

Lead acid can boil over and fill a badly ventilated room with flammable hydrogen and other toxic gasses.

A well maintained LiFePO4 battery that some modern UPS use it probably less risky, but I think the risk for both is very low.

Well I guess [email protected] [email protected] and [email protected] are already quite well known.

[email protected] and [email protected] are kinda cool as well. In general have a look at our community list, we have some good ones that are at least reasonably active.

Yes, don’t expose Windows to the internet 😒

https://opnsense.org/ is a good system if you want an easy to install and open-source firewall.

Edit: no need to buy their official hardware. Any x86 system with two network ports will do.

When you are actively charging the batteries off a solar panel for example, it will be even higher, up to 17V 14.5V or so I think. The automotive PicoPSUs only cost a little more and will smooth it out up to 24V I think… there are even some models that go up to 48V.

Edit: why the down-votes? Is this incorrect?

Some people want to be able to reach their server via SSH when they are not at home, but yes I agree in general that is not necessary when running a real home server.

Get a PicoPSU for automotive use (there are two varieties, one that needs stable 12v and another that can run directly off a battery with varying voltage).

Don’t leave SSH on port 22 open as there are a lot of crawlers for that, otherwise I really can’t say I share your experience, and I have been self-hosting for years.

If you can install a second gigabit NIC into the optiplex it can work very nicely with OPNSense as the main gateway. Then you can connect the LAN side to a simple un-managed switch and branch out to anything further from there.

Edit: OpenWRT is a bit of a pain to manage on x86, so I would try to avoid it for that.

This is nonsense. A small static website is not going to be hacked or DDOSd. You can run it off a cheap ARM single board computer on your desk, no problem at all.