My personal take on anything that interests (or irritates) me
So, you’ve decided to host Mastodon yourself. If you are reading this post, you obviously know what Mastodon is, so I will not waste your time in explaining the things you already know. What I would like to point out, is something that I wish I knew myself before starting on this self-hosted route.
If you are working in the energy sector in the US, you probably already know that Palisades Nuclear Plant, a nuclear power plant that was decommissioned in 2022, is in line to come online as early as next year. And, it’s not the only shuttered plant that can come online this decade; the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is slated to come online as early as 2028. Even if you are not intimately familiar with the energy sector, you probably have heard rumors that Amazon is going nuclear to power its ginormous datacenters; and that even Microsoft has promised to look into nuclear power to power its next generation of AIs. With all these rumors and excitements in the nuclear power sector, I thought it was time to revisit nuclear power plants, why it might be making a come-back, and where it might be falling short.
When I went from being an occasional Linux user to an exclusive Linux user about five years ago, I knew there would be times I’d miss the simplicity of having a one-click solution to a lot of things that came with Windows (albeit, at a steep price of being spied on by your own machine). Over the years, I have tinkered with a few Linux machines, and have been missing those solutions less and less, but in these five years, I have not had to deal with creating a hotspot on my laptop.