Hopfgeist

Most of the OnePlus series, including older models, is fully supported by LineageOS, and unlocking the bootloader is straightforward. That were the most important reasons for me to go OnePlus. For me and my family there was nothing else comparably easily supported by Lineage with a good price/performance ratio. We currently use 6T and 8T models, that we bought used. The only downside for me is the lack of a notification light.

I also have limited upstream connectivity (40 Mbps nominally, in practice up to 43 sometimes), but I still host a nextcloud instance (files, addresses, calendars) for family and friends.

Fibre will become available soon with up to 300 Mbps upstream, then I may consider installing Lemmy or even a small peertube instance.

Yes, we own a house, so I have a dedicated server room in the basement with a small rack with a few old, but still moderately powerful servers, and our ISP (Deutsche Telekom) offers unlimited traffic volume and has no restrictions on hosting, as far as I can tell. Maybe if I did it commercially that would be different, but I don't think so.

Thanks, it is nice that there will be multiple Android clients, too. Jerboa is ok, but having a choice is always good. Will you make it available via alternative stores, such as f-droid?

You are right, 2 GB is enough for almost all apps, but it makes switching between multiple apps painful, because it always has to reload the other app(s) when they had been removed from main memory, which happens frequently. I found 3 GB these days to be the minimum for comfortable work (with 2 GB being "just fine", as you said), which is what my tablet has, and I'm glad my phone has 6, which makes it a lot snappier, since I regularly and quickly switch between 5 or 6 different apps. Although most of these are not particular memory hogs (except fennec/firefox), having literally "more than just enough" RAM makes it a lot quicker.

Thanks. Then I don't have to search for it.

2 GB RAM will seriously hamper usability with modern (admittedly often bloated) apps, many of which may not even run on Android 8 or 9. No system will leave 1 GB free on average. Why should it? What good is RAM if it isn't used?

Such low specs should be easily available on the used market well under $100. As to "no bloatware", see if you can find one supported by lineageOS or another alternative system.

I don't think anyone will make any predictions about the next 8 years. Replaceable battery was fairly common at the time they made phones with the specs you are looking for.

A bigger problem will be "no front camera" (almost unheard of), and USB C on a phone with Android 8 or 9, only 2 GB RAM and 16 GB storage. Most of these will be so old that they come with Micro-USB.

I had already read it a few days ago. So far there seems to be no intention to support lemmy. I for one will probably not pay for a reddit app (of any flavour), but, for the few subreddits that have no viable counterpart here (yet), such as r/flying, I will probably occasionally use it in the desktop browser, if mobile browser really remains impossible.

I am still quite happy with my old Sun Fire X2270 M2 with Dual Xeon X5675. Not new, but its 12 physical cores, 88 GB RAM and 4 hotswap SATA drive bays in a 1U rack unit make it quite a decent machine for running a couple of VMs.

I also like my Dell T320 Rackable Tower server. It has room for 8 hotswap 3.5" SAS drives (or 16 2.5"), redundant power supply, and you should be able to get it for under $300. With a Xeon E5-1428L V2, mine is still quite capable and uses between 140 and 160 W (with 8 disks).

Wahrscheinlich nicht die ganz kleine mit 100 PS, die wir hatten. Die 180-PS-Variante (M.S. 893) war ein beliebter Schlepper.

Ich vermisse schon meine Nischen-subreddits, wie r/flying (wieder offen) und r/NetBSD. Meine anderen subscriptions waren eher Sachen, die ab und zu mal "mildly interesting" waren, aber Dinge, auf die ich gut verzichten kann. Zu r/flying sehe ich aber noch keine wirkliche Alternative hier. Es gibt !flying@lemmyfly.org, und ich habe !flying@feddit.de gegründet, aber beide sind noch weit weit von kritischer Masse entfernt.

Ein grundlegendes Problem ist, kleine communities auf anderen Instanzen überhaupt zu finden. Mein sprichwörtlicher Tropfen, der das Fass zum Überlaufen bringen würde, wäre, wenn das "Old Reddit"-Interface abgeschaltet wird, und/oder Infinity nicht mehr funktioniert.

I found nextcloud easier to set up than many other services, plus it comes with cloud file storage and other goodies as a bonus.

It is even easy on such obscure platforms as NetBSD in an nvmm-backed qemu virtual machine runnning on a NetBSD host.

(EDIT: well, it wasn't really trivial, the database (PostgreSQL in my case) setup and connection is not necessarily obvious to someone who hasn't done it before, but the fact that it works without real complications on very diverse platforms is a testament to its clean code.)