The point is that before you were born you existed in your mothers womb, but before that - specifically before you were conceived by your parents - you did not exist. Somehow this does not make you distressed that you did not exist, why? Once you die it will for you be the same as before you were conceived.

Another topic related to this is something you did not mention with afterlife: “eternity”

I myself have been afraid of this since I was 9 years old and heard about the concept of heaven and eternity in church. I wrote it down as a blog post a couple of years ago: https://jeena.net/apeirophobia

The concept is explained in a more humoristic way by this comic: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/213

You didn’t exist before you were conceived, and you’re not anxious about it. You will just return to that state.
For me it’s really the opposite, why would anyone want to live if there would be such a better place like heaven where everything is awesome for ever?

If there is nothing after life, only then it’s worth living, because this is it, everything you can experience, god and bad you can only experience here and now, so you better make it count. Give your own life meaning, don’t wait until someone else does.

In the end the universe will die a heat death and in the long run everything in meaningless. But in the short run, everything is full of meaning, it’s exciting, dangerous, beautiful, horrible and so on.

Carl Sagan famously said, “We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

This reflects his view that human beings, as conscious and curious creatures, are a product of the universe’s evolution and serve as a means for the cosmos to become self-aware. Through our capacity for science, art, and philosophy, we explore and understand the universe, essentially allowing it to observe and contemplate its own existence.

https://radicale.org/ is taking care of our address books, shared calendars for the family, todos and notes, all with one Backend but many different clients on different operating systems.

Severance and Love is Blind Germany, oh and Silo.

Someone should turn him into a vampire so he can be president indefinatelly! /s

You can hist both on the same VPS without problems.

But hosting things is kind of involved, especially installing and updating. You at least need Linux knowledge to be able to do it.

An alternative seems to be https://yunohost.org/ which takes over most of the work for you, but I have never tried it myself.

I think it’s time to fire half of the people! That will help.

Yeah the hetzner one.your biggest bottleneck will be the hard drive space.

But here I would propose to get a object storage and connect it to peertube, mastodon and Pixelfed, all of them let you store the media files in object storage, that is probably the cheapest way to host it.

Oh and as a future PeerTube admin, may I interest you in my channel? https://tube.jeena.net/c/peertube_admin_chronicles/videos

Every software has its own documentation, so you need to look there because they are made with different technologies so that the installation process is different.

You can start with the smallest VPS, mastadon, pixelfed and peertube should work well enough on it. Once you want Lemmy you will need to expand it, but that’s normally quite easy with VPS providers, without the need of reinstalling.

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Also, ich liebe und hasse Element/Matrix gleichzeitig. Ich habe einen selbst gehosteten Server für mich, meine Frau, meinen Vater und unsere Tochter. Es funktioniert größtenteils gut. Aber hin und wieder passiert so etwas:

Ich habe versucht, meinen Bruder etwa zwei Jahre lang zu überreden, Element zu installieren und ein Konto auf Matrix.org zu erstellen. Heute hat er es aus irgendeinem Grund endlich gemacht. Er hat mir seinen Benutzernamen über Signal geschickt, und ich habe einen neuen DM erstellt und ihn eingeladen, nur um Folgendes zu sehen:

Und es gibt keine Möglichkeit, das zu beheben. Das ist der erste Eindruck, den er davon hat – es ist schrecklich. Ich habe bereits versucht, mich im Client mit dem Wiederherstellungsschlüssel ab- und wieder anzumelden, aber nein. Es sieht in jedem Client, den ich habe, genauso aus, und ich habe Angst, meinen Bruder zu bitten, noch etwas zu schicken.

Das passiert manchmal auch bei meinem Vater und meiner Frau, häufiger bei meinem Vater. Aber sie sind beide sehr nachsichtig, also warten sie einfach ab, bis es wieder funktioniert.

What is the JG at the end?

This is a question I was asked all my life, so already in 2004 I wrote a blog post about it: https://paradies.jeena.net/weblog/2004/oct/jeena-paradies but it’s in German so I’m posting the translation here:

It was sometime in the year 2000 when I had already been DJing at small parties for a while, playing house, drum’n’bass, big beats, and electro. When people asked who the DJ was, everyone just said, “That’s Richard.” Naturally, that didn’t sound very cool for an alternative DJ. Then my cousin, who was also a DJ but played the more mainstream style of techno, chose the name DJ Alec-tron, which put some pressure on me. Since we often DJed together, and I didn’t want to go down in history as “DJ Richard,” I needed a proper DJ name.

So I started looking for a suitable artist name for myself as a disc jockey. One day, we took the train to the Love Parade in Berlin. We stocked up on canned beer the day before and opened the first can as early as 3:00 AM (in the middle of the night). The fun and drinking continued merrily. I occasionally glanced out the window, hoping to find inspiration from some distant land (aka eastern Germany).

And then it appeared—like the Holy Grail once revealed itself to King Arthur and his knights—from out of nowhere: the station sign “Jena Paradies.” I instantly knew that this would be my new artist name. It was as if the hand of God had guided me along the tracks to Jena Paradies station and bestowed this name upon me.

A month after the Love Parade, I had my first gig as DJ Jena Paradies. There’s even photographic evidence from that time:

But over time, I didn’t want to be named after a station in eastern Germany anymore, so I started thinking of a new, better version of the name. I realized that if I added an “e,” the name would be pronounced like Gina Wild’s first name. That sounded much cooler to me, so it became my stage name to this day.

I now use it almost everywhere related to me as an “artist”—very often online, with my band, and for photography, which I want to do more of in the future.

The accounts server is also part of the same repo, it’s called tokenserver https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/tree/master/tokenserver-auth but yeah good luck getting that up and running.

Yes I did for many many years. There are two parts of it, one is the accounts themselves like the identity and the other part is the part which syncs the objects. I don’t host the account myself, I just use mozillas account server, because I don’t see much benefit for me and it’s quite complicated to do.

Bach then I wrote a long article about how to do it with the old python version: https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15 but that version is obsolete because it was written in Python 2.x which had it’s end of life a coupple of years ago.

Now there is the rust version. The problem is that the rust version is even more complicated to set up. Therefor I created a docker-compose so people could do it in a easy way, and it collected quite many github-stars: https://github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker/

This is the one which I am still using, but it’s also a older version from last year. It uses the docker images Mozilla releases. There is a problem https://github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker/issues/3 with the newer version and configuring it to run with your own MariaDB instance instead of google-spanner which Mozilla uses.

To fix this a guy took inspiration from my git-repo and did a lot of work building his own docker images with the configuration changed so it uses MariaDB instead of spanner: https://github.com/porelli/firefox-sync

Sadly I didn’t have time yet to check out his version, but it looks very promising.

I know I would kill for a cubilcal like that, we have just a open space where everyone can be heard and can see your screen all the time.

Some people don’t like how you behave. That could have two reasons:

1. You behave badly
2. The people in those communities don’t like your behavior

And anything in between.

I got banned from r/Korea back in the day because I linked to my own peertube instance, they didn’t like it.

On Lemmy I’m trying to get the !korea@lemmy.funami.tech going but as you can see it’s only posts made by me :D but sometimes, very seldom there is a comment and some likes or to a lesser extend dislikes. I think most of them are people who browse /all and by chance see those posts there.

But if I don’t post then there is no content about Korea at all ^^

Anyway, remember that you can’t change other peoples behavior, only yours.

So he found the virus on his own mind?

Just a “Lol” no more explanation?