[bicepjai]

Slightly off-topic, but my personal take: instead of analogies for students, I wish we were teaching public servants that the same money poured into centralized data centers could fund good networking infrastructure nationwide, turning every home into a node in the country’s cloud. Decentralized by default, instead of renting capacity back from a handful of providers.

[animeshz916]

I run my own mini-server kind of thing, by putting TrueNAS into a 2nd hand bought thinkpad. Works pretty well, just gotta put tailscale to make it accessible from anywhere even under a NAT. Add pihole(as dns) and nginx(reverse-proxy) for allowing free local domain names by masking original ones using your own personal dns.