Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what’s this or that sticker. I’m impressed when they can pick one out on their own.

FOSS source is here.

  • dan@upvote.au
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    93
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 month ago

    It must be a lot of work to self-host DigitalOcean.

    • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      I’m proud that I got enough users to justify moving that server out of my closet. You think I should replace it with ceph?

  • bonn2@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    35
    ·
    1 month ago

    Out of interest by “selfhosting” steam are you running a steam cache or just using it? Or is there something else I’m missing lol

  • zeezee@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 month ago

    you self host your own claude llm? damn and here i thought a 14B deepseek ollama instance was good shit - how did you get access to their proprietary weights?

    • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 month ago

      No, but I refuse to pay my VPS for GPU time so I self host Gemma3:27B with RAG on Ollama over tailnet to make a choose your own adventure medical protocol simulator. I’m sure Claude could give me some context breathing room but not at those token prices. I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server and that would maybe justify the self hosted butthole.

      • 3abas@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 month ago

        I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server

        But you don’t currently? So it doesn’t.

        • lemonySplit@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 month ago

          Exactly, so… why the Claude sticker? Seemed like a cool concept to me tbh; till I read the comments and realized multiple things up there aren’t actually being selfhosted 🤷‍♂️

          Edit: and this is clearly self-promotion (AD) sharing their own etsy links. Shameful. Just be honest and you would have gotten a better reaction

  • k0e3@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    1 month ago

    I don’t get how you “self-host” some of these things like Linux, Ubuntu, Android, and Raspberry Pi. Are you saying you installed them on your computer or am I missing something?

    • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 month ago

      I only have one laptop, so not every sticker is a self hosted software. Others are things I use and enjoy.

  • Godnroc@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 month ago

    I like the idea of this. Perhaps not on a laptop, but small hexagon badges that show some sort is relation to something. Favorite media, projects, software you’re good with, coding languages you a comfortable with, etc. A simple snapshot into someone that can be identified easily, what a great conversation starter.

    • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      1 month ago

      I got them from Etsy. They all came with borders so I had to 3D print a jig to get the cuts right with a razor knife. They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.

      • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        I got them from Etsy

        Ugh… just say you made them if is your shop… this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, even if the product looks nice…

          • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            14
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 month ago

            It reeks of “manufactured organic content” if that makes sense. This may not have been OPs intention, but it kinda checks those marks:

            • post content, praise it, don’t mention you make and sell it
            • another user finds out you make and sell it, posts store link
            • post disguised as advert, manufactured organic conversation around the product creates an effective advertisment

            It leaves a bad taste in my mouth because this is what modern advertising is and I prefer to have full transparency. A disclosure in the post would have been nice. Again, I’m not saying this was OP’s intention, it just hits the same points.

            • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOP
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              12
              ·
              1 month ago

              You’re not wrong that modern advertising works like that. In my case I haven’t shown these anywhere and just got my first batch in yesterday and was so happy with them I wanted people who would actually appreciate the comment to see. No links. No cart. Just “I’m proud of this”. If someone went and bought some hex stickers from RedBubble after seeing this, good. If they found mine, good on them for tracking them down. On the FOSS chain of thought, I think, at least for the FOSS stickers, these should be on GitHub or a self hosted web server as whatever creative commons means don’t sell my files/prints. That would take a day to spin up and might let people print them themselves if they’re so inclined.

        • lemonySplit@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 month ago

          Ya, mods! This is clearly thinly veiled self-promotion. Can we atleast remove the store links? I bet they posted them using a dummy account too

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.

        This is what drunk dads say about their 1 year old son who’s just learning to walk.

  • mholiv@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzB
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    Plex Brand of media server package
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

    [Thread #50 for this comm, first seen 1st Feb 2026, 09:50] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

    • 3abas@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      Setting up self hosted live sync was super easy. Fixing it every time it brakes is a huge pain in the ass.

      • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        I am so thanlful for that japanese person that made it, but it is so fiddly! At least for me with the cors, the couchdb administration and all. Did you use some other backend?

  • K-Money@lemmy.kmoneyserver.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    I’d love if there was a Gravatar-style thing you could choose hexes like these to display as a digital badge. Even better if it was self-hosted.

    • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 month ago

      Per your suggestion I put the high res files up, self hosted, for anything that is FOSS. I guess someone can pull one of those for their Gravatar that way. I thought of a way to use this art style for conference badges but the detail is already small at a 2" hex that it wouldn’t be practical.