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Hi Everypony, I'm Stoulram! | |||
This isn't really a wiki but more like a blog site for documenting my own personal life, various tips/tricks, and just sharing cool stuff :3[[File:Stoulram qrcode.png|thumb|QR code that redirects to main page]] | This isn't really a wiki but more like a blog site for documenting my own personal life, various tips/tricks, and just sharing cool stuff :3[[File:Stoulram qrcode.png|thumb|QR code that redirects to main page|164x164px]] | ||
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<div class="social-card">[[File:YouTube.svg|64x64px|link=https://www.youtube.com/@stoulram]]<br />[https://www.youtube.com/@stoulram YouTube]</div> | |||
<div class="social-card">[[File:Twitter.svg|64x64px|link=https://x.com/stoulram]]<br />[https://x.com/stoulram Twitter]</div> | |||
<div class="social-card">[[File:Bluesky.svg|64x64px|link=https://bsky.app/profile/stoulram.bsky.social]]<br />[https://bsky.app/profile/stoulram.bsky.social Bluesky]</div> | |||
<div class="social-card">[[File:TikTok.svg|64x64px|link=https://www.tiktok.com/@stoulram]]<br />[https://www.tiktok.com/@stoulram TikTok]</div> | |||
<div class="social-card">[[File:Instagram.svg|64x64px|link=https://www.instagram.com/stou.lram/]]<br />[https://www.instagram.com/stou.lram/ Instagram]</div> | |||
<div class="social-card">[[File:GitHub.svg|64x64px|link=https://github.com/stoulram]]<br />[https://github.com/stoulram GitHub]</div> | |||
<div class="social-card">[[File:Furaffinity.svg|64x64px|link=https://www.furaffinity.net/user/stoulram]]<br />[https://www.furaffinity.net/user/stoulram FurAffinity]</div> | |||
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== Latest Wikis == | == Latest Wikis == | ||
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* [[My First Discovery Flight]] | * [[My First Discovery Flight]] | ||
* [[Working in Aviation/Airline Industry|Working in Aviation & Airline Industry]] | * [[Working in Aviation/Airline Industry|Working in Aviation & Airline Industry]] | ||
* Oshkosh | * [[EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2026]] | ||
* [[Atlanta Air Dot Show 2026: Blue Angels]] | |||
Involvement in Brony/Furry Fandom 🐱 | |||
Conventions | * [[The Start: COVID-19 and the pandemic]] | ||
* [[Watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (MLP)]] | |||
* [[SLARPG]] | |||
* [[Society of Furries at Tech (SOFT)]] | |||
* [[Collecting 3DS streetpass at cons|Collecting 3DS Streetpass]] | |||
* [[Being Indian in the Brony & Furry Fandom]] | |||
Travel + Conventions 🧳 | |||
* Traveling to furcons on non-rev standby | * Traveling to furcons on non-rev standby | ||
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* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta (FWA)]] | |||
* Momocon | |||
* Dragoncon | |||
* Southern Fried Gaming Expo (SFGE) | |||
* Midwest Furfest (MFF) | |||
* Texas Furry Fiesta (TFF) | |||
* Anthro Weekend Utah (AWU) | |||
* Further Confusion (FC) | |||
* Tails and Tornado Furcon (TTFC) | |||
* Moderskeppet | |||
Finance 📈 | Finance 📈 | ||
*[[How To Become Financially Independent]] | *[[How To Become Financially Independent]] | ||
* [[How to Start Investing in a Brokerage]] | * [[How to Start Investing in a Brokerage]] | ||
Gaming 🕹️ | Gaming/Movies/Entertainment 🕹️ | ||
* Retro games | * Retro games | ||
* Chiptune | * Chiptune | ||
* [[Ranking my Top Favorite Games]] | |||
Music | |||
* [[Top Favorite Artists]] | |||
Life + Personal Opinions 📝 | Life + Personal Opinions 📝 | ||
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* [[Antinatalism]] | * [[Antinatalism]] | ||
* [[Digital Minimalism]] | * [[Digital Minimalism]] | ||
= Am I Crazy For Wanting to Host my Own Wikipedia = | = Am I Crazy For Wanting to Host my Own Wikipedia = | ||
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== Why I'm Doing This == | == Why I'm Doing This == | ||
=== I don't like Big Tech === | === I don't like Big Tech === | ||
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Since all of this is self-hosted, I have freedom to post whatever I want on here. I am free from all the Big Tech censorship or Google Cloud or AWS decided to take it down because of accidentally going over their free service limits and refusing to pay a couple hundred for it. | Since all of this is self-hosted, I have freedom to post whatever I want on here. I am free from all the Big Tech censorship or Google Cloud or AWS decided to take it down because of accidentally going over their free service limits and refusing to pay a couple hundred for it. | ||
I'm using LAMP stack for this and it's all self-hosted on my personal laptop at home. I have setup cloudflare tunnel to hide my real IP + namecheap domain to make it easy for people to find. It's also way cheaper since the only thing I'm paying for is the hardware (which I bought this laptop back in 2022) and ongoing electricity costs ( | I'm using LAMP stack for this and it's all self-hosted on my personal laptop at home. I have setup cloudflare tunnel to hide my real IP + namecheap domain (free from github student pack) to make it easy for people to find. It's also way cheaper since the only thing I'm paying for is the hardware (which I bought this laptop back in 2022) and ongoing electricity costs (so using parent's electricity lol). So I'm essentially able to run this server for free (though ofc like anything there's no such thing as free lunch). | ||
As for my laptop specs, here's the hyfetch UwU: | As for my laptop specs, here's the hyfetch UwU: | ||
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|[[File:Tiktok Login to View Content.png|none|thumb|439x439px|TikTok - Can’t even search without logging in]] | |[[File:Tiktok Login to View Content.png|none|thumb|439x439px|TikTok - Can’t even search without logging in]] | ||
|[[File:Medium Login to view article.png|none|thumb|391x391px|Medium - Can’t view full article without logging in]] | |[[File:Medium Login to view article.png|none|thumb|391x391px|Medium - Can’t view full article without logging in]] | ||
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|[[File:Reddit mobile app download prompt.png|thumb|Reddit prompting me to download app from Google search and when mobile UI works perfectly fine]]g | |||
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Why is this the case? All I want to see is the article or video from a Google search. Why do I have to give these companies my data just to see info that I found online? | Why is this the case? All I want to see is the article or video from a Google search. Why do I have to give these companies my data just to see info that I found online? | ||
=== I spend way too much time on Reddit and online forums === | |||
Reddit is a website filled with best the best and worst of the internet. I've learned so much by joining subreddits and reading about people's experiences. However, there are so many times where I've spent way too much time writing posts just for it to get removed and downvoted for no reason. Also I hate how mods have so much power to the point where they can lock posts, remove posts for not following the rules, etc. And for so many of the top-voted posts like the ones you see on r/popular and r/all, they just seem so fake or reposts. I often wondered how redditors on r/askreddit get so many upvotes for posts/comments which are obvious trolls or low effort. | |||
=== Inspiration from Childhood Friend === | === Inspiration from Childhood Friend === | ||
When I was in grade school, one of my classmates created his own website where he would write entire tutorials and content for stuff that we learned in school. For lessons that we learned that day, he would go home, write entire recaps, and sometimes even record a youtube video of himself and embed it in the website. Many students liked his stuff, others found it super cringy cause he would literally go on the teacher's whiteboard and promote his website on it. But looking back, he did something that most students wouldn't take the time to do: going beyond the classroom environment to share knowledge with other folks. | When I was in grade school, one of my classmates created his own website where he would write entire tutorials and content for stuff that we learned in school. For lessons that we learned that day, he would go home, write entire recaps, and sometimes even record a youtube video of himself and embed it in the website. Many students liked his stuff, others found it super cringy cause he would literally go on the teacher's whiteboard and promote his website on it. But looking back, he did something that most students wouldn't take the time to do: going beyond the classroom environment to share knowledge with other folks. | ||
[[File:Jaxon Files home page.png|thumb|620x620px|The home page of my friend's site before it was taken down|center]] | [[File:Jaxon Files home page.png|thumb|620x620px|The home page of my friend's site before it was taken down. Hosting is expensive!|center]] | ||
=== Interest in ActivityPub, Fediverse === | === Interest in ActivityPub, Fediverse === | ||
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* '''Edmodo''' - Back in grade school, I remember all my classes used this site. It was like the Facebook but for school. We would have class discussions, assignments submissions, etc. Then one day, they suffered a huge data breach and within a couple months from that date, they closed everyone's accounts. All those memories are now gone. | * '''Edmodo''' - Back in grade school, I remember all my classes used this site. It was like the Facebook but for school. We would have class discussions, assignments submissions, etc. Then one day, they suffered a huge data breach and within a couple months from that date, they closed everyone's accounts. All those memories are now gone. | ||
[[File:Edmodo Logo.png|thumb|150x150px|center]] | [[File:Edmodo Logo.png|thumb|150x150px|center]] | ||
* '''Groupme, Discord''' hard to archive - Call me old school but I prefer seeing things on websites. I hate how information and entire communities are hosted off in walled off gardens in which you have to create an account to view the info. Additionally, these sites make backup and archive nearly impossible. Good luck backing up years of messages on Discord. One day these companies might deactivate your account, you might banned for any reason, and all that data is just gone. At least when communication takes place on desktop-first websites like Gmail and Reddit, there's tons of tools and extensions available that will allow you to archive it such as [ | * '''Groupme, Discord''' hard to archive - Call me old school but I prefer seeing things on websites. I hate how information and entire communities are hosted off in walled off gardens in which you have to create an account to view the info. Additionally, these sites make backup and archive nearly impossible. Good luck backing up years of messages on Discord. One day these companies might deactivate your account, you might banned for any reason, and all that data is just gone. At least when communication takes place on desktop-first websites like Gmail and Reddit, there's tons of tools and extensions available that will allow you to archive it such as [https://archive.org archive.org], extensions, and these sites also have their own means of exporting data like [https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1 Google Takeout]. | ||
And did I mention this whole wiki is easily archiveable? Well, in fact here you go: [[Special:AllPages]] | And did I mention this whole wiki is easily archiveable? Well, in fact here you go: [[Special:AllPages]] | ||