@Stopthatgirl7 if they paid attention to the opt out, they wouldn’t have asked me three times, when I said to opt out the first time.

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@aniki As I said, I did the comparisons fully expecting to get a NUC. The Mac was cheaper at the performance point.

As for US prices, not especially relevant to me. Import taxes are a thing.

@Skwiggs Few months. I was using an old laptop with Debian before but Friendica was cooking it, literally.

The M2 Mini doesn’t break a sweat. It just takes the load and gets on with it.

@ninjan friendica can get quite heavyweight.

@aniki because it was the cheapest machine available for the performance I wanted in a useful form factor.

@deleted I couldn’t find one with equivalent performance to the M2 for less money.

I am not purchasing in dollars.

@TCB13 I was surprised as well.

@BornDeranged I’m running everything in containers. Not got anything which cares which architecture the server is. Data is data.

@Skunk Nice. I’m happy with the M2 running MacOS and just spinning up Linux VMs in UTM as needed. It seems to handle them without breaking a sweat and, for self hosted stuff, having the VM bridged to a VLAN tagged interface gives me that extra reassurance without having to have the whole machine on that interface.

If the baddies compromise the Friendica server, I can just Remote Desktop into the Mac and nuke the VM. Bye bye.

@BornDeranged Honestly, moving stuff to the cloud is trivial. Everything is in containers and I can just setup the nginx reverse proxy that’s also running on the VLAN to redirect to the cloud. Job done.

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