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Happy New Year! As a follow up on my Nextcloud setup experiences, which garnered a couple of email replies (!) from people interested in setting up their own home servers, I have some new information to share. I set up my home server in a virtual machine. But it might have been a lot simpler. It occurred to me afterward that there might be preconfigured virtual machines for such purposes (like a Nextcloud virtual machine), and of course, there are. I've found some free-as-in-beer, *mostly*-open-source options provided by a for-profit company, but after writing up a section on them, it felt too much like advertising, and I love gopher for it's lack of advertising. So I deleted that paragraph. Search for the software package you want (like Owncloud or Horde) to install plus "virtual machine" or "virtualbox" and you should find what you're looking for. If you can't find them, email me. Also, have a look at Nextcloudpi. They offer a virtual machine version[1] and other preconfigured options for installation on a raspberry pi (of course) or a regular Debian system.[2] I also found out something new on the circumlunar.space BBS this morning, which I had been wondering about. Apparently, the OpenVZ virtual machines in which zaibatsu.circumlunar.space and xmpp.circumlunar.space reside cannot be upgraded to the next version of Debian in place, because you cannot upgrade the kernel independently (the kernel is shared between all of the VM's on the server). For me, migrating the XMPP server shouldn't be a huge issue, since the Prosody installation was simple and painless, and I should be able to migrate the config files to a new installation, but we'll see when the time comes (Debian 8 LTS updates end in June 2020). I'd switch to a server at home, but when you consider the electricity and bandwidth provided by the hosting company, CAD $13/year is insanely inexpensive, so it's worth the hassle. I've been reading everyone's comments on books (in their phlogs) and gardening (BBS) and both intrigue me. I feel like gopherspace is full of people who simultaneously enjoy complexity and simplicity. You're a paradoxical lot! :D Anyways, that's got me thinking about this book I read when I was a kid. It was a rainy afternoon and I went to the local library and sat upstairs in the mezzanine of the children's section, found this book, and read the whole thing. I was there for hours. I don't remember the author or title of the book, but it was about this poor (as in impoverished) kid who gets contacted telepathically by a plant-like alien. I can't remember the details of the plot after that with any clarity (I have a plot in mind, but it may be one I made up over the intervening years), but I'd love to re-read that book again. I've been searching a bit online, but it's hard to find things when you can't remember the most salient details! [1] https://ownyourbits.com/2018/10/25/introducing-the-nextcloudpi-vm/ [2] https://ownyourbits.com/2017/02/13/nextcloud-ready-raspberry-pi-image/