As you can see in this photograph a level of stability has been reached in the installation and configuration of this 64bit SBC.

The configuration that was chosen by the maintainers of the Pi distro is one, where Super User needs to be run at any time, for root commands, because access to the root account has been disabled by default.

Security wise the SBC is fair provided that you do not allow others to get close to it in a physical plane.

I already have two installations one is on a microSD card the other is on a USB stick

It is important to realize that when you boot from the USB stick your USB-C power supply needs to be able to produce 5,000 milliamps, at 5V DC otherwise there will not be enough current for that control to be smooth.

Note:
The second display that you see does not belong to the control of the Raspberry Pi.
I need to get myself a second longer microHDMI to HDMI cable to reach the other IPS LED panel

I immediately felt at Home when I was in Debian. It doesn't matter that the processor Is Arm, it doesn't matter that the memory is just 8gb. What Matters is that it's an SBC that Works fantastically with many many 100 of 1000 of Projects

The moment to connect a keyboard on the USB buss you get this splash screen

I can also run freeBSD on the Pi of course.

*BSD runs on almost anything that is a computer, even if its from 40 years ago, but you know that already
I just need to get better imaging software on the level of Ventoy for Arm architecture

https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi

The stick is divided in two partitions; rootfs and bootfs for the Debian Pi OS.

I shall boot it now

The SBC imager is verifying and has completed it as I write

As you can see here from my RT updates the 16GB stick is as slow as molasses, while it gets written with the 1GB Pi Image

However I just do other good things now.

Now I will need to be patient since the stick is not USB3 and slow.

SBC Pi we are so ready to play!

This is the Raspberri Pi SBC boot imager for debian, which is not as advanced as Ventoy x86 but will be used, because the USB stick was just backed up but most of all, because I want to see my gorgeous Raspberry Pie booted up in full glory!

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- #microscope stage
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- micro #drilling

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Please don’t mind me, I’m just testing if I broke the ActivityPub federation of this site (or not). If you’re reading this and didn’t get my previous post from today, it’s here:

My adventures in self-hosting: day 210 (viva FOSS!)

cheers!

https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-210-viva-foss/

There has never been a better time to join the world of Free Open Source Software or begin self-hosting essential digital services.

Some recent news that made me feel grateful for my forays into self-hosting:

1. The software Pocket, which made it easy to save, organize and read later articles in a really elegant interface shuts down this year. Another fantastic app/service to add to Mozilla‘s graveyard. Looking at YunoHost‘s app catalog, I noticed several superb alternatives to Pocket that are free, open source, and can be self-hosted, so I am thinking: never again will I give that power to an outside company. Cherry on top: the Pocket archive I requested the other day landed in my email… and the file contains an error, so I cannot download it (expired token even if it didn’t pass the 72 hour threshold they set). I look forward to self-hosting my next “save and read later” bookmark service.
2. The file sharing company WeTransfer was in the news this morning because they recently updated their terms of service, with alarming language, telling users: “You hereby grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable license to use your Content for the purposes of operating, developing, commercializing, and improving the Service or new technologies or services. Such license includes the right to reproduce, distribute, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, broadcast, communicate to the public, publicly display, and perform Content. You will not be entitled to compensation for any use of Content by us under these terms.” News about this spread like wildfire with people saying this language implies content shared via WeTransfer would be used to train AI models. Now, why is this a big deal you may wonder? In my filmmaking / film editing days I would use WeTransfer DAILY to share cuts of my projects. WeTransfer is THE file sharing app for most creatives and film professionals. I used it extensively in May and June to share versions of the Fediverse promo video with my interns. Well, even if WeTransfer backtracks following the backlash, I would never again consider using it. It’s a happy coincidence that last month I set up my own NextCloud instance and I plan on using it to share files from now on. Excellent timing.
3. Tangentially-related, but an article in Engadget today revealed that users of the microblogging platform Threads rarely click on external links. The numbers are pretty shocking: 28 million referral links in 30 days for a platform with allegedly 350 million monthly active users. This is precisely why I love the Fediverse: external links are never downranked because there are no algorithms. Writers and content creators have far higher engagement with their audience because of chronological feeds and more genuine relationships.

On my to do list for the fall: looking into taking full advantage of NextCloud‘s ecosystem because this software is incredibly sophisticated… the FOSS equivalent of a Swiss Army knife.

For those curious about it, here is their official website with documentation: https://nextcloud.com

Onwards and upwards!

Elena

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https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-204-experimenting-with-wordpress-edition/

Hello Fedi friends,

Yesterday I started posting #MySoCalledSudoLife messages on my WordPress site (aka here) so that it will be easier to find and organize them in the future. Having them live on my GoToSocial account started to feel counterproductive… as search in the Fediverse is still hard to do.

So far so good!

The script I mentioned in yesterday’s post did its job – so these “micro blogs” do not show up on my main blog feed, but are in a category of their own.

This is what “My So-Called Sudo Life” blog category looks like right now:

I just installed Alex Kirk‘s plugin Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress – which means that I was able to log onto my federated WordPress site… in the app Ivory for iOS!

It’s amazing to see all my blog posts in Ivory’s feed… and to think I can interact with readers there.

Now a little hiccup I’m experiencing in Ivory is that I’m not able to follow other Fediverse accounts for some reason; I keep getting a “server failure” error but I wonder if it’s a problem on my end with the security settings I have in place. Up next: logging onto my WP account in Phanpy.social and the app Mona for iOS for further testing. I will report back tomorrow about how it went.

It’s exciting to think I could turn my WordPress blog into a social hub. Thank you for this @alex !

If you’re seeing this post in your Fediverse feed, I have a favor to ask: can you please add a quick comment, so I can test if I can reply from Ivory / Phanpy or Mona? And follow you from there? Thank you!

Onwards and upwards!

Elena

P.S.: for all my social links, check out: elena.social

https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/

Hello Fedi friends!

I’m currently experimenting with the POSSE method of publishing (“Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”) on my federated WordPress site (this one) so that I can more easily organize posts and retrieve them in the future. This is the first of such posts.

I have created a “micro” post category and edited the functions.php file of my WordPress blog to exclude such posts from the main blog.

Here is the code I’m using:

function exclude_category( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-2132’ );
}
}
add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ );

Where -2132 is the number assigned to the category “micro”.

You can find the category number by hovering over it in the Categories menu.

I also plan to tweak my site’s navigation menu to make “micro” appear under the blog category.

At some point in the future that will replace the “blog”… otherwise it’s too confusing to follow how many blogs I actually have.

I am also debating whether to migrate my GoToSocial account to WordPress using the MOVE function. What’s holding me back for now? I will need to be able to implement Serdy’s blocklists here before I do that. I experienced some terrible trolling and abusive messages when I didn’t have blocklists in place on my GoToSocial account last month, so I learned my lesson.

And I’d like to see how “social” the Friends for WordPress plugin by Alex Kirk is, before I consolidate my two accounts.

Anyway, this is all really exciting, made possible by the magic of #ActivityPub and the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin by @pfefferle. Thank you Matthias!

Onwards and upwards!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

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