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I came to get away from the main stream socials.

You still can. Just block threads.net instance in things like Mastodon and Lemmy.

I came to minimise my farmed data footprint.

Your data is public in fediverse. They can scrape even right as we speak.

I would need someone to confirm this, but I have heard that if you block, then it prevents their instance from scraping your data because they shouldn't receive your content if they are blocked, but it doesn't change the public data being available by other means anyways.

I came to find other like minded people.

Follow hashtags and communities that are your interest. Block users and/or instances you would rather not see or be part of. Also, you can find an instance that fits your values that is already blocking instances you disagree with.

I am mostly indifferent of Threads joining at this time, but those that are not in favor, there are options.

I don't have experience with the NUC for my own homelab and kubernetes, but the main things I will say with any kubernetes is the RAM. I have 4 servers on VMware (just to get experience there) and then have Rancher (like Openshift) across them (both a management server and then a 3 VM cluster). Every resource is important, but the RAM is what was eaten up before anything else for me. I have Lenovo Tiny m910q (x 4) with 64GB and that allows me a full on cluster and then some with other VMs too.

Sounds like you made a good choice going with a NUC and 64GB ram. You just may find you want to add another or two depending how much you go beyond just experimenting with k8s and using it to host most of your homelab services.

Thanks for that feedback. I also understand and have read that you are basically taking a bunch of tech that is it’s own tech in it’s own and then openstack glued it together (like you are stating).

I also see that there are many different projects in how you can deploy this too. Some say “don’t use ____ if you want multi node” and some are like “this _____ is the easiest to run”. Did you just use whatever Openstack suggested to install or did you use one of these other wrapper projects that helped too? I understand that some of this may have changed from 6 years ago though.

Don't "need" to, no. I can put it on top, so that is what I planned to do to POC, but if I like it, I would rather not have software/resources taken up on top of resources. But I am asking if anyone has already done this either direction and their experience.

Yeah, but also remember that if there is one thing history taught us, it is that a non popular voted president can win still. Many of us were in disbelief when it happened with this guy.

Also, don’t underestimate the fact that people may disagree with Trump, but they only have to disagree/hate Biden more in order to vote for this guy.

So yes, I do agree that his polls may be increasing or rather, I never underestimate that they could be.

This is great. Then all the people complaining that lemmy.world is "too big" can now be appeased with others leaving lemmy.world. Glad to see the community solve each other's problems organically! :)

Thank you for the update. Good work.

Two things:

Isn’t there always trust issues though? Also, could SSL passthrough help in that?

Instead of CDN for protection, couldn’t a local WAF help solve this too?

Hi folks, for those looking for the recipe... And I know.... I don't brown the meatballs first :). But hey, to each their own.

Meatball Appetizer

I usually make my own spaghetti sauce (for another recipe share; maybe my baked spaghetti) and simmer these.

Ingredients

• 2 pound ground beef
• 1 pound ground pork
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 eggs
• 1 ½ cup freshly grated Romano cheese (if you do buy store bought, you can blend the shreds in the blender)
• 2 tablespoons chopped Italian flat leaf parsley
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 2 ½ cups stale Italian bread, crumbled via blender ( 8 Italian white bread slices sitting out for 2 hours with crust removed)
• 1 ½ cups lukewarm water
• Existing spaghetti sauce simmering
• 3-4 oz of Mozzarella cheese, freshly shredded (for the topping)

Directions

1. Make sure your spaghetti sauce is simmering as a prep item in a large enough pan for however many 2" servings you plan to make of meatballs.
2. Combine beef, and pork in a large bowl. Add garlic, eggs, cheese, parsley, salt and pepper.
3. Hand blend bread crumbs into meat mixture. Slowly add the water 1/2 cup at a time. The mixture should be very moist but still hold its shape if rolled into meatballs. (I usually use about 1 1/4 cups of water). Shape into meatballs.
4. Drop balls into sauce and make sure the sauce is bubbling (in needed, bring to a bubble) and then turn down to simmer with cover.
5. This should cook for at least 4 hours on simmer.

Serve with spaghetti or however you would like to serve them.

Oven/Broiling

1. Preheat oven to 425.
2. Take a small/medium cast iron skillet and add sauce on the bottom. Add meatballs and pour more sauce over each ball.
3. Add Mozzarella over dish as desired
4. Bake for about 10-15 min or until cheese is to desired browning