What’s to stop an employer from hiring someone, paying them a few bucks an hour and calling them “volunteers”?
Because most likely would not find volunteers that are ok being paid approx. 170euro a month. Also I think this setting is only applicable to foundations and associations.
Second that. yunohost is perfect for all in one self hosting solution for small groups. As for hardware requirenments, for 10 peeps you could get away with any VPS (then based on the needs you can check if to upgrade). If you want to self-host on your own hardware most likely a minipc like Hp's prodesk with 16-32GB RAM would do.
Interesting. Is there a non-apple solution like this?
is the mac mini really that good? running 12-14b models on my radeon rx 7600xt is ok'ish but i do "feel it" while running 7-8b models sometimes just doesn't feel enough. I wonder where does mac mini land in here.
Wow! very cool rack you got there. I too started using mini pcs for local test servers or general home servers. But unlike yours mine are just dumped behind the screen on my desk (3 in total). For LLM stuff atm I use 16GB radeon but thats connected to my desktop. In the future I would love to build a proper rack like yours and perhaps move the GPU to a dedicated minipc.
As for the upgrades, like what others stated already, I would just go for more pc's rather then rpi.
I think they are OK. When switching to it couple of years ago ifeared there will be no-one but was please tly suprised. For sure you do t have situation where most of the participants in the room are ghost accounts because presence actually works. So might look smaller but you are sure it's real users.
Not to mention you can run a server on anything pretty much and for surprisingly big amount of users. Toaster or potatoes will do just fine.
I think there were two reasons for that. One was that without centralized server where element could flash nunbers in front of VC there would not be much funding just like other open source protocols like xmpp experience. It also attracted more people because you didn't have to think of servers or bother with the whole federation concept (just join the main server, as everyone is there already).
Additionally matrix is pretty good distributed database but imo horrible chat protocol. It's extremely heavy on resources making other small servers impossible to compete or run on the same terms as the big ones. Back in the days I was running one of the top 5 size matrix server but I realized that the ever growing database, load issues when users joining large rooms and ton of other problems all, I went back to xmpp. It made me realized how crazy expensive and unsustainable in long run was running essentially text chat app became, and that could be better spent elewhere. Matrix is basically not designed for the purpose it's pushed for. It might be great as a communication platform in a organization or corporation or government agency ( you can accurately track the room state from its inception so great to have an overview of who, when, what). For fedi-like chat servers XMPP which can run on a potatoe is much better choice. Both from financial perspective (as your small server joining a big room does not affect you cause you don't need to replicate the room state essentially killing your server), but also environmental (its light and scales depending on your community needs better).
Yeah. Pity indeed. Also think the stylus is coming soon (TM). Still I wouldn't mind one.
Yes and that's why volunteer fees are nowhere near minimum wage. It's basically a way to compensate all sort of volunteers helping out non-profits. IMO it's quite a good system and more of a symbolic then a real pay.