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11 days agoLook for escape hatches. I run a self-hosted Cloudron server. The software I host on my home server is FOSS via Cloudron, but Cloudron itself is a service that keeps each of the FOSS apps up to date with security upgrades and data migrations when necessary. It’s a huge boon to running a self-hosted server.
But when it comes down to it, they could potentially close up somehow (new leadership, get bought out, shut down etc.) They’ve left an escape hatch though–you can bundle and build your own apps, with a CloudronManifest.json etc. This would allow me to continue to run and update software if I absolutely needed to, without their support.
I don’t think I have intrusive thoughts. I’m happy, generally pretty creative (hobbies, coding, etc.). Sometimes politics and world affairs get me down, but I don’t feel like they are “intrusive”, more like affecting my mood. I like how /u/0x01@lemmy.ml put it–I kind of let my mind do whatever it does, and I try to be an observer of what unfolds. I think meditation practice has helped with this practice (Vipassana or Insight meditation specifically).