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I have some questions: - what model did you buy for 50€ ? was it second hand? (i only see 150+€ pantum laser printers) - any links to buy the printer/cartridge ; i'm super interested!
> - what model did you buy for 50€ ? was it second hand?
> any estimate on how many regular text page can you print with your 20€ cartridge?
> any links to buy the printer/cartridge
Regarding the printer itself, I don't have a good recommendation. iBOOD (where I bought it) does not sell it anymore (iBOOD mostly sells a quantity-limited amount of surplus/overstock/special-purchase items, and it was in September 2023, so there for sure is no stock anymore). When looking at the price graph of a popular price aggregation site (https://geizhals.eu/pantum-p2500w-a1474488.html), I can see that the price started out at 55€ in July 2016, the lowest price a store was selling it for was 35€ in 2017 for a month. Then it was available for 50€ a couple of times for a few weeks - months per year, and otherwise out of stock; until it seems to now be sold at Amazon.de by a third-party seller from China (without going out of stock constantly) for reliable 90€-110€ (this very second for 109,90€).
A while ago I bought a bw laser printer from a brand I've never heard of: "Pantum". Specifically the Pantum P2500W, for 49,95€ (~ 53$). I have never seen them in a store in (western/central) Europe either.
It does not have a display, in general it's the simplest, minimalist printer I've ever owned I'd argue.
CUPS configuration exist in the Arch AUR (for usage with USB), and driverless printing with AirPrint (which also works with CUPS) is supported. This new driverless stuff works really nice in general, glad to use this instead of unreliable driver printers (which sometimes are not even available in low quality for Linux).
It does not require an internet connection and appears to not have any DRM on the cartridges: I use a 20€ (~ 21$) no-name toner cartridge from Amazon, and it works perfectly fine. In fact it doesn't have a display to complain about this (like my 10+ year old HP, which even back then showed me ads for their own cartridges, and HP paper).
Did you do this by hand / manually, or use a 'pre-canned' solution like:
Mailcow (from https://docs.mailcow.email/getstarted/prerequisite-system/#m...):
A single SOGo worker can acquire ~350 MiB RAM before it gets purged. The more ActiveSync connections you plan to use, the more RAM you will need. A default configuration spawns 20 workers.
*RAM usage examples*
A company with 15 phones (EAS enabled) and about 50 concurrent IMAP connections should plan 16 GiB RAM.
6 GiB RAM + 1 GiB swap are fine for most private installations while 8 GiB RAM are recommended for ~5 to 10 users.
I checked with htop, and my Mox process currently takes <100 MB.
1. Being plagued by spam,
2. Being considered spam by major mail services (where most of one’s recipients will usually reside)?
Do you face these problems? How do you manage? Are there any potential problems I don’t see?
> I’m honestly curious, what’s the point of a personal mail server nowadays?
With a catch-all domain, you can email <anything>@example.org, and I will get it. I don't have to first generate some addy.io or simplelogin.io or Firefox Relay alias; I can simply enter <company name>@example.org or <service>@example.org when registering on a website, hell I do that even on physical (paper) forms.
Later on, I can decide to add an alias with special configuration, e.g.: email arrives at <tax department>@example.org? → Route to "High importance" mailbox; I receive a Newsletter from a company I never heard of → <company name>@example.org sold my email address (and they can't strip the marker off, which they easily could with the +suffix).
> Isn’t it the case that today they have two huge disadvantages:
> 1. Being plagued by spam,
My spam folder currently contains 0 elements.
And I don't even have any advanced spam filtering or reputation blacklists or anything similar setup.
> 2. Being considered spam by major mail services (where most of one’s recipients will usually reside)?
I do not remember mails of mine not reaching their intended receiver very often - while this might happen once a year (that you send an email and one second after get a "your message could not be delivered" response), I actually hear about this more often from peers using the largest email provider in the DACH region (GMX), so apparently I rank better? It's usually a misconfiguration from the receiver setting up some scam DNS blocklist (e.g. UCEPROTECT). Wouldn't call this a problem of the mail server though, and as I said, even some rather large (commercial) providers have the same issue.
Generally speaking, if you do things right, email will go well for you - this "doing things right" has simply for a long time been quite hard (when postfix/dovecot was prevalent where you need n-number of different third-party software packages, e.g. OpenDMARC). Nowadays, with the modern mail servers available, like Mox (or Stalwart, or Maddy) doing "things right" is very simple: Choose an hoster/ISP with good IP reputation (e.g. check with https://multirbl.valli.org/ if they are on any blocklists), setup your (modern) mailserver, and you're golden.
And this will come with a nice number of advantages:
- you have your own domain, so you're portable
- you control and are able to customize your email infrastructure (how many mailboxes do I want for my use cases, how would I like different aliases to be mapped to them, catch-all/wildcard, applying scripts on these mailboxes, etc)
- privacy/security: Your email (which I consider deeply core to the modern internet infrastructure and ones digital identity (due to controlling the login to basically all websites)) lives on your infrastructure, and no-one but you can access them
- selfhosting is fun, and one gains lots of knowledge about inner workings of the internet with it
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, Next.js, React, React Native, Kotlin, C#, C++, Lua, k8s, PSQL, AWS, Cloudflare.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VJk9gs1-LN3e333ZDICwkG5pgTbYoa9P/view
Email: hn@b.dobell.email
Salary Expectation: $250k USD+
> Have you been CTO of an acquired company?
Yes. https://www.archistar.ai/blog/archistar-raises-11m-to-expand...
> Been Head of Engineering of company building safe social experiences for kids?
That's a lot more niche. But sure. https://joinender.com
> Ever reverse engineered a firmware flashing protocol for phones before?
Yeah. https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall
> Has your state Government ever ripped off your app and tried to buy your silence?
Yep. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/vline-offer-10k-t...
> Have you ever narrowly avoided a DMCA?
Just last month! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq4-mkBlu_4
> Ever flown 20 hours just to be stood up by some random company in the reverse logistics space?
I was 19. I was young and naive. I'm sorry!
> Ever written your own IDE?
You bet. https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis
> Ever reverse engineered Steam's P2P protocol?
Well, yeah. But only because I wanted to add dedicated server support for a game that typically only supported P2P. https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/steam-p2p-wireshark
> Been hired by a company after you reverse engineered their product?
Why, yes. I still consult for them! https://github.com/tts-community/moonsharp-tts-debug
> Do you, like, have a normal life?
Sure. I've a wife and 3 kids. The eldest is a type 1 diabetics, we live in a semi-rural location and spend 50 minutes driving to school, we have a dog that resembles a luck dragon and I think my wife is writing a smut novel. OK. Fine. No.
It's among the simplest (/least complicated) mail servers I've used, and I have to waste basically zero time on it. Running backup & update every couple months takes <5 min.
However, I noticed: when I showcase it to some people, some of them mistake the very simple minimalist web interface for being ‘outdated’ or similar - it appears that to be "modern", things are required to be extremely bloated, and even technical people look down on fast (seriously: try it) clutter-less design.
The design is ugly. It could easily be made much more beautiful while adding zero clutter.
Looking at this picture for example https://www.xmox.nl/files/admin-domain.png I could call the design many adjectives, but 'ugly' would not be among them.