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by lunias 238 days ago
"Barely programs." Pffft. Read his previous article: "Wild Cloud" where he fixes society with a local cloud implementation.

https://payne.io/posts/wild-cloud/

It's not abundantly clear what makes a "wild cloud" different than say, "some computers networked together," but I'm eagerly awaiting an update!
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payneio 238 days ago
Yes. Please read it. I'm looking for collaborators. The links in this article point to recent work on Wild Cloud so you can see where it's currently at.

Wild Cloud will is a network appliance that will let you set up a k8s cluster of Talos machines and deploy apps curated apps to it. It's meant to make self-hosting more accessible, which, yes, I think can help solve a lot of data sovereignty issues.

I'm not sure what you mean by "barely programs"

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lunias 238 days ago
> I'm not sure what you mean by "barely programs"

I felt like people were dumping on you in the comments for potentially "not coding a lot," but I checked and saw this is not true.

> help solve a lot of data sovereignty issues

I do agree with the need to solve data sovereignty issues, I'm not sure self-hosting is not already accessible; or that replicating the complication of cloud architecture makes it more accessible, but maybe I don't have a good grasp of the use case.

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payneio 236 days ago
Ah! Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

The use cases I'm thinking that require cloud architecture are scaling up with GPUs (for self-hosted intelligence workloads). Also, Wild Cloud is meant to meet community needs more than individual needs (thought it will do that, too) so I'm imagining needing to scale horizontally more than just vertically. I would still recommend putting things like home-assistant or a home media server on SBCs.

It still is way more complex than I want it to be for a person to set up a local cluster, but I'm still hopeful I can make it simpler.

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