RSS allows you agency over your web content consumption. Something modern social media feeds and algorithm driven news feeds don’t allow.

No. There’s nothing for people to connect to when it’s shutdown. And requests or submissions would just get bounced back by the server not existing.

So I’m curious, this presumably needs DRM free ebooks to begin with right? Chances are if you have those you have a line on audio books as well. Is this intended for the books that just aren’t available as audio books yet?

If you are visually impaired you can get free audio books from The Braille Institute.

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/about-us/news/how-to-get-free-audio-books-for-the-blind-and-visually-impaired/

Two Shield TVs because there’s not really anything else.

If you plan to do it on openwrt I would make sure before you buy. Especially if you’re trying to save on the mesh nodes and not buy a fully outfitted router for each node.

If you’re going to dive in to openwrt from google wifi you should probably start with ready made hardware.

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/best-newcomer-routers-2024/189050

Please keep in mind that to duplicate mesh functionality it’s going to take a significant effort and you need to make sure the hardware you buy is compatible with 802.11s. Open WRT forums have hardware compatibility rundowns of known working routers so it’s not too difficult to find them.

This is a much bigger uphill battle rolling your own hardware unless you just plan to buy a separate access point or two for hardware and skip the mesh functionality.

This just tells me you must be trying to build a container instead of just running a ready made one. That’s what I mean by the complete lack of understanding. And in response to your previous comment, I doubt you’re stupid. You’re just clearly misguided on this subject. Save yourself all the headache and learn how to launch a docker container. It’s even easier than what you’ve just tackled. I believe in you.

I think your failings with docker stem from a complete lack of understanding. It takes little to no effort and will replace nothing. You’re causing yourself a lot more work, not just now but also in the future, trying to do things the way you are. It shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to install docker, docker compose, and research the setting you need to add to a compose file before running it. At that point you’re done, no dependencies, no maintenance. Need to update? Pull the new image and relaunch the container. Takes seconds.

I can’t imagine trying to wrap my head around python dependencies and venv when docker seems a bridge too far.

You don’t need to build a docker container from scratch, you just need to run one. It’s infinitely less complicated.

https://youtu.be/DM65_JyGxCo

It would be easier for you to just learn docker. It’s not complicated. Just do it.

Woah, you have a Lemmy instance hosted on the server for your small business? That just doesn’t sit well with me. I hope the server going down would not halt your income.

Any hope for Pixelfed?

Yeah, it doesn’t have Mastodon support if it’s only one instance.