Most people…

https://video.hardlimit.com/c/opensource_gaming/videos

Wouldn’t they especially want a working communication channel in case there is an extended power outage?

As a start it might be better to rent a VPS or so with a service that does backups etc for you. It will be hard to convince people to use it, and issues like dataloss or longer downtimes will kill it for sure.

Also, a large rack server is total overkill for what you want with a few hundred members at most.

It’s a tax issue. They can’t hire remote workers without German tax residency. Some companies try to work around it, but it isn’t easy.

Cloudflare tunnel error 🤦

Not sure what I find worse though… the song is also just two old songs mixed together which at best has some nostalgia value.

With Podman and Quadlets you can use the same command to check on containers as well. The Systemd integration of Podman is pretty neat.

No, Luanti is a platform for Minecraft like games, like a place to find lots of user generated games and such, I guess Roblox is a bit similar to that (I never tried Roblox, so I am guessing). It is also fairly easy to make your own games with it.

There are however games for Luanti that are very similar to Minecraft such as Voxelibre and Minecloina.

Even if they sell like hot cakes relative to their intended audience of Steam users, it will not make much of a difference in overall market share. Steam might be relatively big with PC gamers, but overall they are rather tiny.

While it isn’t easy for Matrix, running an quivalent XMPP server on Tor, I2P or similar is fairly well documented, and there are multiple such servers accessible both on the clearnet and Tor.

Many XMPP clients also have built in Tor proxy settings.

I don’t get why people continue to recommend Minecraft when there is the much better open-source Luanti project: https://www.luanti.org/

Saudi Arabia isn’t great on human rights either…

Most developing countries don’t have a brain drain problem but a capital problem. Remittances from people that moved abroad are a strong factor helping with that and are bigger than the official development assistance for example.

Very few in Africa are under any sort of illusions about Russia. They just play both sides for their own benefit.

And it is anyways China that has a much bigger influence these days in many African countries.

Due to the colonial history most of Africa isn’t particularly fond of Europe. And modern France being insensitive on the issue certainly didn’t help this lately.

Hetzner probably has some spare modules…

Because there exists only one place in the world and that is called US of A? 🙄

Saudi Arabia is still the biggest oil exporter in the world (as of 2024). If you drive an internal combustion car anywhere, chances are high that you paid the Sheiks at least some money for doing so.

Not really, as traveling by bus is quite popular in Europe as well. I just personally try to avoid it when there are better options.

Yeah, those have been pretty common with similar comfort in Latin America since decades. I always wondered why they never made the jump accross the pond.

But traveling by bus kinda sucks. I rather take a sleeper train or a high speed one than a bumpy slow bus (or car).