I would suggest to go with home assistant. I have been running it for couple of years now and I am very happy.

I would also suggest to purchase a Home Assistant Green. While not needed, you can self install on a Pi or a standard pc, it’s a small price to support the project and the Green is a nice solid and super stable piece of hardware, I am very happy with it after using first an old laptop, and then a Pi. The green is a clear upgrade from both.

To be honest it’s mostly FUD. Self host email is perfectly doable provided that:

• you don’t use your home IP
• you do DNS records correctly
• you do DKIM & DMARC correctly
• you don’t send spam

What happened to me over the years was having the subnet my ip was is being associated to spammers, and that was a problem. It took several iterations with blacklists and my provider to get it sorted. That’s why I recommend using a reputable service provider that take care of spammers in a timely manner.

Yes, I migrated IP (from one provided to another) last year, and I recently added a new domain as well.

The new domain on the new ip just works, and the old domain on the same new ip just keep working.

Both the old and new ip are not residential IPs, I rent a small dedicated server for this purpose on the major hoster of my country. I pay about 15€/month for that, but it’s not only used for email, for all my services.

This is so cool… Didn’t know about it… And also european… Will try it for sure

Been running my own mailserve for last 20 years and never had big issues.

Do dkim dmark stuff and DNS records properly and you will be fine. Also don’t spam and beware of spam-related subnets, and you should not have issues.

I had to play with database types, because apparently out of the box setup works only on SSDs (??) And do a bunch of other stuff to improve performance.

End result was way worse than installing postfix+dovecot+dkim/dmark/etc stuff directly.

Quite unusable, but the hardware was limited

Beware it’s very heavyweight. My dedicated oldish server with 8gb ram and spinning hdes couldn’t even handle one single domani and a few users…

Was 6 months ago, tough.

Waiting for my new glintet Ethernet kvm to arrive and connect to my server…

No, but this does interest me a lot, so… Will be keep a tab on this.

More engaging posts also means higher quality.

A quality post don’t let me guess what Hollo even is, but use a few words to describe.

Just posting links kills engagement.

Really

Never ever heard of

Thanks for quality post

(Luckly immich is much better quality than this post)

You actually WANT to be with low free memory. Provided that most of it is used by cache.

Free memory is a waste, when you could cache stuff for faster access.

That’s how Linux memory management works, and it make sense if you relflect on it. Better cache that page or that file that is used often, since free memory is just wasted. Cache can be freed and memory reclaimed in a fraction of a millisecond when needed.

So don’t bother too much. Unless your SWAP usage is high, don’t bother.

Also consider that Linux kernel will use your swap a bit even if you have lots of cache, because the kernel knows better than you how to improve your performances. Swapping out never used stuff is better than killing cached items.

Again, don’t oberthink memory on Linux, the best alarm is when swap is constantly happening, then yes you need more ram (or to kill that broken process that keeps hogging due to a bug)

You don’t get it: I am and will remain the only user of my instance…

Do you even now how Lemmy works? Did I say I was going to let ICE people create users on my instance? I only said I don’t defederate any instance.

Wake up. Ice, being government, it’s already legitimized enough in real life.

What difference would it make in the social media. Better if they are out in the open in social media instead, at least they get responsible for what they post, officially.

I don’t ban anyone or any instance in my own instance, so no they cannot be “parammanned” from Lemmy. That’s not how it works and why i like Lemmy and its principles.

(Not American here)

While i agree fediverse is then solution and i don’t use bluesky, i don’t see the issue is recognizing ICE as verified.

After all ice is a government agency of the USA whether you like it or not, and should be verified if there is a procedure to do so.

No i don’t like ice and i do not condone what they do, but that doesn’t change the above statement.

Really? Wow… I assumes was USA LoL

Well, I think there are a few… Indeed I know at least two italian instances, plus my private instance…

But most of activity is currently on USA instances like world, so…

My recent experience regarding questions on documentation:

• dovecot: shitty useless responses, totally made up
• Gentoo linux: to be checked twice and mostly wrong or fake
• godot: accurate and correct almost always, maybe examples not always 100% correct
• C++ standard 17: correct, never had a wrong reply from llm, also the exact ples where on point and correct

I think that’s all what I have used it for in the last six months.

Note: I used only Google search AI llm, nothing else.

So it seems that depends on what you ask.

Maybe you should check 5hat again. I never used llm before 2025, but proved itself useful for a few tasks. Yes check and verification still needed, but indeed made my life easier and got taken done faster. Quality was still a good as what I could do myself. Maybe that doesn’t speak well of myself I don’t know.