• null@slrpnk.net
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    14 hours ago

    Because you think hosting Lemmy yourself is the same monetary cost as doing a Google search.

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      13 hours ago

      You’re funny. 😂 What I actually think is that your mind reading skills are terrible because I never said anything even remotely similar to that.

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        12 hours ago

        Don’t run it on a raspberry pi, run it on the same computer you use to access the Google search you are happy to call “free”.

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          11 hours ago

          I (rather obviously) am talking there about the Google search service, not a single query, as Google doesn’t disappear after a single query.

          I’m not sure what you’re pointing at though? Surely hosting Google search is more expensive than hosting Lemmy when you’re insinuating otherwise?

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            11 hours ago

            Surely hosting Google search is more expensive than hosting Lemmy when you’re insinuating otherwise?

            You’ve got it backwards.

            How do I host Lemmy on my iPhone? How do I host it on a Library computer?

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              4 hours ago

              You can host lemmy on an Android phone but not on an iPhone, which is pretty locked down - you’d have to convince Tim Cook to open the OS.

              You can install it fairly easily on a library computer as long as you get permission from the library. You can’t install things on computers you don’t have admin rights to; other examples of computers you can’t use to host Lemmy are an ATM on the street, a self checkout machine at the supermarket, or the cockpit computer of an Airbus A350.

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                1 hour ago

                So I’d have to spend money on additional equipment, is what you’re saying.

                Which is not true of using Google.

                Get it yet?