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Is there a minimum system requirements? I have bare metal nextcloud on a raspi 4, 4 GB ram, and it's pretty snappy.

I would consider migrating to the AIO version for more stability but IDK what toll the virtualization would take.

The only ones I've seen are kind of not that psyched to be on Mastodon always, like Technology Connections.

Isn't this called "begging the question" if your question contains an assumption that is not a given?

One correction to my previous reply: water and water are not homonyms like you said, it is one word with multiple ways to use it. On to your next question.

Outside of lab equipment, you could measure your water in many easy ways: for example in the Die Hard movie they had to measure water.

Just because it is harder to arrive at a number of atoms doesn't mean that water isn't countable. It's also difficult to count the grains of sand on a beach! Water is countable! And is was a big scientific breakthrough when this was discovered! That's why I'm trying to hard to correct your misconception.

The easiest way to get the number of water molecules without a lab would be with just one measurement: a simple measuring cup. From knowing the volume of water, you can get its mass from the density, which we can estimate as 1 g/mL . From grams, divide by the molar mass of water, which you can find online: 18.01528 g/mol. This gives you an approximation of how many water molecules are in your sample! And all you had to do was use a measuring cup, look up a reference value, and do a calculation. That's pretty cool, and before 1776 and Amedeo Avogadro, no one knew you could count water this way. It is a discreet quanta, but before this, no one knew. That is the point!

Did you know light is also countable in this way? There are some chemical reactions that use photons as reagents in the chemical equation. If you know the output of a standardized halogen bulb, and shine it for a known amount of time, you can know, within the limits of your uncertainties, how many photons you sent into your sample. That's also pretty amazing!

You say "when people are pouring water into glasses, they aren't thinking about moles", and I'll agree with that. But just like when you're walking on the beach, you're not thinking about the number of grains of sand, they're still countable. Or when you climb the stairs, you don't usually count how many you took. But you can! And water is just as countable as these, at a fundamental level. Even if the molecules are very small, they are distinct, discrete, quantized.

So even if language doesn't treat water as a countable thing, even if the word "water," in that specific usage, isn't used for counting, fundamentally, water is countable. Just like air. And light. And grains of sand, or trees in a forest.

I am really confused why you think you can't count how much water is in your glass? Can you explain that?

I think you're too rigid with your definitions. I just showed you an example of where water, usually not countable, is used in a plural form in real world usage.

Regardless of whether the noun is countable, the thing itself (water, air) absolutely is countable, i.e., comes in discrete measurable amounts, which is the more important issue here.

Language is a flexible thing. I heard this in a children's game of tag, "Octopi, Octopi, can I cross your waters?"

And you can count air too, either by volume or amount of molecules.

They are indeed... Where did the whole "if two bike lanes converge" question come from??

I was going to make the same joke.

"Fewer. I mean more. More bike lanes."

No, water is countable. Unfortunately you are incorrect.

EDIT: the word "water" isn't usually made plural, but water the substance can absolutely be measured and counted.

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There is a good Adam Savage video on yt about the engineering of the thunderbolt or whatever cables.

They still should be shipped in bulk to the store but it makes more sense why they wouldn't be given away free

You don't read them either though?