I feel like the richest person in the world: I still have a line of credit of 18.19 Euros on #Hetzner (I had pre-paid 20 Euros to set up my account 2 months ago).

Not sure how it's possible I spent less than 2 Euros with all the servers I started and stopped and apps I ran on them, but hey, I'm now on cloud nine.

There's so much I can still experiment with!!! 🤗

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting ​

Sometimes admitting defeat and moving on is the best way... (I'm someone who typically keeps persevering, no matter what).

I started setting up my #Sharkey account on https://calckey.world and I almost wanted to cry over how easy things are over there.

Search works, following accounts is seamless... It just... works as intended.

Thank you @ruud and the Dot World team! 💖​

No regrets over ditching my rickety self-hosted Sharkey. The difference in experience is like night and day!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Sometimes admitting defeat and moving on is the best way... (I'm someone who typically keeps persevering, no matter what).

I started setting up my #Sharkey account on https://calckey.world and I almost wanted to cry over how easy things are over there.

Search works, following accounts is seamless... It just... works as intended.

Thank you @ruud and the Dot World team! 💖​

No regrets over ditching my rickety self-hosted Sharkey. The difference in experience is like night and day!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 316 (realist edition) 👩‍🏭

a blog post in which I discuss how my #Sharkey misadventures provided some illuminating insights... including how grateful I am for self-hosted software that just works (hello @gotosocial). Also: I'm super grateful for the dot world group that allows me to have a Sharkey account that actually works as intended (thanks @ruud )!

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-316-realist-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 316 (realist edition) 👩‍🏭

a blog post in which I discuss how my #Sharkey misadventures provided some illuminating insights... including how grateful I am for self-hosted software that just works (hello @gotosocial). Also: I'm super grateful for the dot world group that allows me to have a Sharkey account that actually works as intended (thanks @ruud )!

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-316-realist-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

Good morning Fedi friends! 🌈✨

Made it back to France and now I’m at my in laws’.

I forgot a wired keyboard at my parents’ in Italy and I only have a wireless keyboard and mouse with me, which were never paired to my Raspi. Mother-in-law came to my rescue and gave me an old wired mouse… and with #Ubuntu’s accessibility setting and on screen keyboard I was able to log in and connect my gear. Ouf!

Happy #Linux / #Raspi week to me (till I get home to Paris) 🐧

Now I had some powerful epiphanies yesterday, with my rickety Sharkey instance.

Sad to say that because it locked me out, and recovery codes aren’t working either, its fate is now sealed. I lost all trust in it and won’t spend any more precious time on it.

But this ONLY relates to my self-hosted Sharkey, which has been cursed from the start, not the software itself, which is WONDERFUL.

I’ll stop putting my energy on it and carry on with my plan (a quiet corner of the Fediverse) on @ruud’s calckey.world — which worked perfectly for me last year, when I was test driving Sharkey. Time to resurrect the account and set up monthly recurring donations.

Anyway, wishing you all a fantastic day!

#MySoCalledSudoLife 🚀

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 315 (desert island edition) 🏝️

a blog post that chronicles my struggles self-hosting a #Sharkey instance.

Yes I have it up and running now but I encountered some unexpected new problems: search and limited federation! With a broken search function I feel stranded on a desert island...

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-315-desert-island-edition/

Update: I appear to be locked out of my Sharkey account... 2FA codes give an error message and so do recovery codes :FireDumpster:​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 315 (desert island edition) 🏝️

a blog post that chronicles my struggles self-hosting a #Sharkey instance.

Yes I have it up and running now but I encountered some unexpected new problems: search and limited federation! With a broken search function I feel stranded on a desert island...

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-315-desert-island-edition/

Update: I appear to be locked out of my Sharkey account... 2FA codes give an error message and so do recovery codes :FireDumpster:​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Giving #Sharkey one more try (the 9th for the record).

Yes I can be pretty persistent, LOL 😅​

Send me pictures of your cute pets in case it doesn't work... 🙃​

#SharkeyMonAmour #MySoCalledSudoLife

​ Attention #YunoHost users ​

I bring you my #SelfHosting facepalm moment of the day.

PSA for you, which may save you some time. Learn from my lesson!

I attempted to connect to my VPS (running YunoHost) in Terminal, with SSH. I couldn't get in... the password kept getting rejected.

Then I put the VPS in "rescue mode" and generated a new root password. That didn't work either.

Then I restored the VPS from yesterday's snapshot. Hetzner emailed me a new password. Which didn't work.

Then I remembered: YunoHost disables root access. The only username that works for SSH is YOUR YUNOHOST ADMIN username, gaaaah.

End of my PSA I hope this saves you some time 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #CertifiedNewbie

​ Attention #YunoHost users ​

I bring you my #SelfHosting facepalm moment of the day.

PSA for you, which may save you some time. Learn from my lesson!

I attempted to connect to my VPS (running YunoHost) in Terminal, with SSH. I couldn't get in... the password kept getting rejected.

Then I put the VPS in "rescue mode" and generated a new root password. That didn't work either.

Then I restored the VPS from yesterday's snapshot. Hetzner emailed me a new password. Which didn't work.

Then I remembered: YunoHost disables root access. The only username that works for SSH is YOUR YUNOHOST ADMIN username, gaaaah.

End of my PSA I hope this saves you some time 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #CertifiedNewbie

Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! 🌈​

File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.

So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.

I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.

How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.

The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.

Time went like this:

1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)

4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade

5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)

7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install

9m30s in: post installation complete

11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.

14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) 🥳​

Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam 🗻​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! 🌈​

File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.

So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.

I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.

How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.

The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.

Time went like this:

1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)

4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade

5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)

7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install

9m30s in: post installation complete

11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.

14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) 🥳​

Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam 🗻​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Good morning Fedi friends!

I know this is not the right place to ask for this but I'm in need of a Jiminy Cricket / voice of reason to talk me out of something I am sooo tempted to do:

1) buy a new domain name (to be fair it would be a good move to secure it, can't explain why till I do)

2) set up my own Sharkey instance with it (no need for this whatsoever except that I'm impossibly smitten with it)... to use this as a private little instance to interact with friends / contacts.

I can't get Sharkey out of my mind, help 😆​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Good morning Fedi friends!

Earlier today I installed #DeltaChat to give it a try... and I'm currently flashing the #YunoHost disk image on a card for my #RaspberryPi5 - so I can write about the process.

Super grateful for the world of #FOSS ❤️​

Have a great day everyone!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Good morning Fedi friends!

Earlier today I installed #DeltaChat to give it a try... and I'm currently flashing the #YunoHost disk image on a card for my #RaspberryPi5 - so I can write about the process.

Super grateful for the world of #FOSS ❤️​

Have a great day everyone!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 300 (new project edition) 💡

a blog post that discusses my next self-hosting project. a hint: it's not fediverse-related but is still very empowering.

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-300-new-project-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #Jellyfin