I don't repair my peers' Windows computers, but I feel a bit of responsibility in being the one who tries to explain shit like that in understandable terms.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

what's a server?

it's a computer in a building somewhere else.

why can't they click around and fix it?

because there are other servers that are talking in a group and they all need to get fixed.

why would they need more? can't they just run it all in one building?

it is in one building but the building is 20k sqft.

that's ridiculous! how many computers do they need to run this crap. they're just wasting taxpayers dollars. Fox news told me...

and that's why I just say, "the internet is broken."

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have to admit I presumed I'd be starting from a point where people know that web sites are not actually inside their devices.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Also not talking to a fox news nutjob

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

web sites are not actually inside their devices

Proceeds to:

install Termux onto Android phone
mirror simple websites with wget
serve them with NGINX
install kiwix-serve and serve the entire English wikipedia
install Navidrome music server
set up port forwarding or use cloudflared (or just stay on LAN)

Under proot I was also able to run Jellyfin server, and someone else also did Nextcloud and at some point a public BBS.

But oh well, soon Google will block unauthorized apps because I probably just purchased a license to use the phone, as opposed to actually buying the device.

As for why, it's just a battery-powered computer, so why not. And by the way, Navidrome in Termux is probably as easy as it gets anywhere, since it's in the repo. No docker or installing a .deb, just apt install navidrome.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the internet is broken

Well, true. IPv4 exhaustion yet not enough IPv6 support
de-peering

If this dispute escalates further and a complete de-peering happens in that case both networks will end up having a blackhole. Customers sitting on either side (and their single-homed downstreams) will not have any routes to each other.

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BGP hijacking

On April 8th, 2010 China Telecom hijacked 15% of the Internet traffic for 18 minutes, experts speculate it was a large-scale experiment for controlling the traffic flows. The incident also affected US government (‘‘.gov’’) and military (‘‘.mil’’) websites.

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