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   pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-Oct-2022 13:32:58 JST pawlicker
   Part of the motivation for self-hosting this on a SPARC came from an experience circa 2014-5. I had a HP-UX workstation running Debian-ports HPPA. As a workstation it sucked, it had no sound hardware, the GPU was the barebones basic model, and Linux for it only supports a handful of framebuffers.
   
   What it did end up becoming was my very first Linux server. I was also impressed by how it was perhaps the fastest 500mhz computer I've ever used. A lot of the hate for HPPA came from the weirdness of the OS itself and HP's really poor business choices, but the hardware was literally rock solid.
   
   One of the things I was impressed it could do as well was host a Mumble server. Now Mumble was TeamSpeak clone 420 and the Linux nerd of the group chat I was in insisted on it every few months.
   
   The problem is, as many /g/ foss user posts from back in the day talked about, this never worked. Every single Skype user would make excuses, but they were merely excuses as they would happily take Microsoft fisting them with outages/bad updates.
   
   So there would be a cycle of this with chat groups. "Hey join our mumble server" and most people would join, but there was always this one person who couldn't figure out how to get voice working on his Wal-Mart trailer trash special laptop or Dell Optiplex (and in the Skype days these weren't too uncommon) and after a week we'd be back on Skype.
   
   Still, I was impressed by the fact a 500mhz CPU with a dead arch could host a group chat of a few friends easily.