I don’t use Mastodon or Twitter either. I never understood following specific people and prefer following topics instead.

https://youtu.be/40SnEd1RWUU

On darknet markets they use an escrow account and admins act as mediators, so as long as you can show that you have a valid tracking number. The issue becomes when people try to scam you by selling you broken electronics or scam buyers pulling fraud returns. Weirdly this is common with VCRs on eBay. There’s large resellers who buy good VCRs and steal parts out of them and return them. Then they resell on Amazon. I guess it comes back to having a karma system.

The issue in the US with accepting payments on behalf of sellers is that you have to then collect sales tax which is different for every locality. Then you also have to issue tax forms to the sellers for sales over a certain amount. Which leaves us with sellers collecting payments on their own which means using something like PayPal or Bitcoin. You would just have to have people build trust through reviews and hope for the best. You could base the service in a random other country so that you wouldn’t have a bunch of regulations to deal with and leave all the tax stuff up to the buyers and sellers. You’d probably run into issues with accepting credit cards though.

eBay/marketplace/etsy alternative.

At first I had to remove some posts but then I revamped the rules and that really helped. the community has grown into its own thing over time. The most I had to remove was recently due to a spat people were having in the comments. I never have had to ban anyone.

iirc they posted one of the few posts I’ve had to remove from !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world nothing serious, it just wasn’t really appropriate for the com.

They use hundreds of smart phones with data plans.

Anybody can sue anyone for any reason. Doesn’t mean they’ll win. It depends on who is willing to spend the most money.

Walmart sells the onn android tv sticks for $15 you can customize them and change the font end so that it’s just a few apps that are easy to navigate to.

https://youtu.be/Zdg9BnJ--3Y

In the past the issue has been limited storage for newer versions and possibly ram. It should list those specs on the open wrt site.

I run dullsters.net which is sort of a single user instance. Nobody else can make accounts it’s strictly for one community.

I wouldn’t equate installing proxmox on an old pc to open heart surgery. It’s pretty basic stuff and you can follow guides on how to install services in a container or vm. People are interested in things like pihole, home assistant, arr stacks, nas, and better control over their network. It’s definitely not rocket surgery.

You could use a math trade software. Instead of putting in items just have everyone select each other’s names. Or you could just do a math trade where everyone enters an item and then everything gets randomly traded somewhat like a white elephant but anonymized.

github.com/chrisokasaki/TradeMaximizer

The service is tftpd-hpa on Ubuntu. I did get 10.10.10.3 to work by putting :69 at the end 0.0.0.0 accepts all ip addresses attempting to connect to the server, not secure, but fine for a one off like this. I still can’t get the thing to connect to the server, but I did something at least.

I was correct that it is a networking error
cannot bind to local IPv4 socket: Cannot assign requested address

current ifconfig says:

enp7s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 169.254.210.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 169.254.255.255 inet6 fe80::9a40:bbff:fe28:459b prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether 98:40:bb:28:45:9b txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 15 bytes 900 (900.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 1466 bytes 492951 (492.9 KB) TX errors 0 dropped 78 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

This is the guide I used, it’s pretty automatic with ansible.

I’m not too worried about it.

It costs me less than $10/mo to run mine and some of that is because I have to pay for an email forwarder until my hosting provider lets me start sending emails, part of that is factoring the cost of the domain name. The actual cloud server costs $5/mo right now.