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The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board...

Of course I can't comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can't figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You're right and it's so fucking annoying. I really want someone to jump into the niche and provide support for those of us who get to remember how to sysadmin again.

I don't want/need "plug and play" but I also don't really have time to relearn everything I knew "in a prior life."

Suggestions? At this point I'd love to have a backend for my email that isn't Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I run a small thinclient (HP Mini G400, but those small Lenovos thinkcentres and others also work) in my home. Cost me ~100€ plus a few Euro for a RAM update and a bigger hard drive and now I'm running Proxmox with the help of the Community Scripts:

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

It's quite awesome, to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I just did a similar setup with a custom built NUC and I even got PCI Passthrough working. I want to get as many years out of this as possible. Proxmox is great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Can I introduce you to your new best friend, Yunohost? It's a self-hosting platform based on Linux designed to run on a shitty old laptop, SBC, USFF PC or such plugged into your router. Browser-based, loads of extensions and tools, the hardest part it installing it - it's no more or less tricky that installing Ubuntu, but that's still involved for many people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Namecheep with free-tier DNS, and Zoho for email/office that respects privacy.

$46 Australian per year for a single person for Domain DNS Email Cloud storage Lots of sub+products for business use.

Not self-hosted servers ... But better than MS/Google mail hosting while still secure.