Boring | 2025-01-02
Technology seems boring as time passes. To some peoples surprise, this is not my first website ever. I was already tinkering with web stuff a few years ago. It was so interesting and entertaining! I had my own server at home (bought a chinesium board with an old Xeon CPU). I would spend hours setting up services and learning how to use features and whatnot. I remember hosting Minecraft servers with plugins, setting up a Jellyfin server for my family, hosting websites on different networks (hidden networks) and trying (but failing miserably) to setup an IRC service. It was awesome, but some things changed.
As I got my current job, I had less time to dedicate to these projects, which require maintenance (especially where I live due to constant power outages). I noticed that it all just became boring. I had already setup most of the stuff I wanted to and there really wasn't much more I could do. Sure, there were a few complicated things that I could try, but all required better hardware and lots of free time.
As some of the server hardware began failing, one critical component just gave up: the UPS. Since it was expensive to get replacement parts for the gear I have, plus I had no time, I just gave up. But recently I've been thinking about getting back to home server shenanigans, but this time with a laptop (and actually learning how to properly do things). Actually, a laptop might be the perfect home server. It has its own internal UPS (a battery), a display and a keyboard for physical access, WiFi in case the wired network fails, plus it can be taken anywhere
There still is an issue, which is that things will become boring again. It may take longer, but that moment will certainly come. One way to remedy this problem would be to build a community that's engaged in whatever stuff I host and wants services to be online all the time, but how? We're not stuck at home anymore, it's not like there are NEETs who will dwell in some obscure IRC chat or game server I try hosting. Let's say I try doing something other than hosting, something that can be carried on to other platforms, like blogs. Blogs don't even need to be hosted as websites somewhere. Blogs can be posted to social media. The problem would be that I'm not that interesting, so there is little motivation for me to tinker will technology that's worth writing about. Or maybe it is worth it!? It could actually turn out well.
We'll see.
