I think the best thing for the #Matrix network is for more people to #self-host. I’m not saying you or any specific person should do so, because even I don’t currently host #Synapse.
I got it running now! The problem with the missing drives was the SCSI driver. I switched to SATA drivers and now everything is found.
>You took a running Debian and just ran `guix system init` on it? This is how I did it now: 1. Installed a minimal Ubuntu image offered by the hoster 2. installed guix binary 3. ran guix pull 4. ran `guix system init config.scm /` and rebooted 5. ran `rm -rf /etc/` from a rescue disk, because guix tries to symlink stuff there on boot and failed because old ubuntu files already existed.
Every time a #GMail user is unable to receive my #email because #Google inexplicably ate it, and someone suggests I should give up on !selfhost'ing and just let Google manage *my* mail too, I can only think "are you insane!? Then *I* wouldn't be able to receive e-mail either! Why would I want that!?".
most interesting experience so far from running !gnusocial over !cjdns from at home, was: seeing more of the #php internals (1) !selfHost, (1) well, I thought I saw most of it over the VPS systems, but when you are on a restricted environment + have to compile or not compile a php extension, it gets interesting