I'm looking forward to after all this mess is over, all of the felony charges that he's going to get hit with just for what he's been up to the past few weeks.

.us is often fun.

You don't have one yet. You should be the one asking the questions. ;)

Zigbee/Z-Wave/Thread are all meant for sensors. WiFi not so much. It's easier to host more sensors on the purpose-built network types. Special consideration for Z-Wave since it uses different frequency than WiFi, which the others do not.

WiFi and batteries don't really go together, which also puts a real limit on what you can do there.

I've been buying Apple stuff since they were paying Woz to solder. All of this boot licking they've been doing is really killing my life-long love of this company.

But Google doesn't offer a very compelling safe harbor to migrate to with Android, do they?

I guess I've just experienced too many times the pain of a sqlite database getting corrupted.

Let's also remember that "U.S. officials" now describes MAGA flunkies that replaced actually qualified professionals.

Yeah I was just thinking... this is not at all how the tools work.

As someone who actually approves $$ for tech vendors in an American company, I can tell you that no matter how cheaply China-based services become, they still aren't going to be seriously considered. Anthropic and OpenAI are based out of San Francisco. Legal jurisdiction to resolve contract disputes, breaches of confidentiality, etc. can be resolved in a fairly straightforward way between two American companies, especially when they are headquartered in the same court district.

Chinese companies exist inside of a legal safe harbor where they have less incentive to play by the rules, and a much lower risk of consequences for getting caught breaking them. The risk isn't worth the perceived savings.

It's going to impact American consumers a hell of a lot more.

Think of it more like a push notification server than a messaging platform. You would need a service that sends push notifications to Gotify topics. I get the sense that under the covers it works a lot like MQTT where you have apps publishing messages to topics, and you have consumers (in my case, iGotify app on iOS) that pull those messages off the topic and present them to the user as push notifications.

Though... I think I need a better iOS client than iGotify. It's not actually giving me any push notifications so it's missing the whole point for me.

It's got an open API so really there's a lot more than my own use case.

I'm using it right now for getting notifications from flows in ActivePieces (I don't want to get spammy with my site, which is the link in the original post, but there's a how-to on getting that up and running also... ActivePieces is like a self-hosted Zapier)

/googles "boot licker"

In Soviet Russia, TV watch YOU.

I'm very comfortable in Docker and honestly most of the software out there in the Fediverse is weird. Like they make containerized deployments much more convoluted than they are supposed to be.

GoToSocial is maybe the least bad that I've tried so far. Most of the more popular ones are, IMO, really really bad on this front.

I've had their Stans counter this but then they point me to the process that they followed and it's like something out of a Hogwart's spell book compared to what most self hosted containerized apps are like.

I really wish it were more straightforward to deploy. It would be great to see many more instances popping up.

I have a few things going on. I've been blogging some of my notes on how I'm getting some things going in Docker. But I only relatively recently started sharing my notes so there's not a ton yet. Hopefully there's something useful for someone here. https://magnus919.com/tags/selfhosting/

They will probably charge their customers a subscription for the patch.