Why not start with an account? You do not need to run a server to be int the fediverse. It’s enough for now if they’ve got a or multiple accounts and actively use it. Share the latest papers via that account. Provide news. Link to articles etc. That’s good enough for the beginning.

Same behavior for me as OPs

Nextcloud Docker compose https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/

I don’t do much maintenance on my nextcloud image either. I spend a lot of time setting it up on bare metal because I didn’t know docker compose existed but it’s very popular nowadays. With docker compose you don’t have to setup a lot either. It didn’t break for me once in the past years.

What’s wrong with nextcloud’s S3 object storage?

Take pictures of the stuff and label the boxes with e.g. “kitchen 1”

Difference are preinstalled packages and DEs. In the end, it’s all fedora linux with rpm-ostree. They are all good

Appimages do. Flatpaks have runtimes. There may be multiple runtimes but space is cheap. You can even spare the amount of space on a phone.

I once thought I should compress my images because they had 10mb each. I was wrong. I just had to put them on my server with immich and I don’t care about the space anymore. One 4k video is so big, all space related problems with apps or images are a real waste of time.

That’s false

I use fedora atomic and I maintain nothing.

I use my computer once every week and I don’t have to care about anything. Fedora does everything.

If you take care of the systems of your kids or family, that’s up to you. You choose to do that.

What are you talking about? I run (atomic) fedora and I have a smooth experience.

You could easily sell your mac and buy a normal computer to have a smooth experience if the mac results in lots of problems

You change the text? That’s only on the user side, right?

An excel sheet? …

Wow! Kudos! That’s a milestone

And apple users had money.

Linux users still have money