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for a sec i thought this was an iPod Classic

This has been shared in slack at PlayStation

no fucking way

wtf marsh

notice how their playstation is running a bluesky pds and not any games /silly

oh hi marsh

omg hai oli i know you

so uh, how's the ps4 coping with all the services running on it

no way, i have a PS4 just sitting there, how do i do this

i have a (slightly outdated) blogpost on how i did it, but i'll probably be revisiting this soon marsh.zone/blog/2024/04...

most if not all of this was configured on my phone in a couple termux sessions because i should've been asleep 5 hours ago. whoops. goodnight!

oh hooray your pds is actually federating now

yop! did your scraper discover it before i'd actually got it talking to the web properly? i booted it up without any nginx configuration on the proxy VPS i use just to check that my hacky setup worked

lool so it seems: discovered 04:06:50 UTC your post 04:06:54 UTC my post 04:08:37 UTC

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this is so cool!!

believe me when i say it wouldn'tve been possible without your awesome tutorial :p

Can you share how you did it or give us a video tour?

i have this (slightly outdated) blogpost on how i did it marsh.zone/blog/2024/04... and the bsky bit i followed char.lt/blog/2024/10...

this is very cool. as it happens i have a ps4 collecting dust but as this has been done i'll need to find something sillier

i've done fedi and matrix on here as well... and a few game servers... you could do IRC? XMPP? who knows

ah no i mean that, since the ps4 has been done i need to find a sillier device to run a PDS from

i got a ps4 a couple months back for some emulation stuff and honestly my number one plan for it besides that is just to use it as a nice pizza box desktop. its such a nice form factor

ironically i would prefer to just run freebsd on it and not linux but orbis is probably worse at running stuff on the ps4 than ps4 linux is

i did want to port some software (such as snac2) to orbis for the hell of it but it wouldn't be exactly practical. maybe you could boot a fresh freebsd on it?

What's the benefit of running your own PDS?

honestly, depends on who you are. i ran mine because "haha funny PDS on PS4" but i know people who run them because they want greater control of their data. i suppose the fear is that if in a few years bluesky turns Bad, they won't have your info and posts... who knows.

Ok thanks. That makes complete sense. Is there a downside to doing this? Does it impact your post visibility at all in discover feeds and such?

Does it spin up the internal jet engine at peak times? 🤣

Where “PDS” (probably) means Bluesky Personal Data Server.

In Dutch “PDS” means irritable bowel syndrome 🙊

tempted by thise because i almost never use my ps4 as a console

it's a lot of fun but can be a pain if, say, the power goes out

So for the uninitiated... this is like... A private bluesky node or something? Where can I read and learn about it?

what is wrong with you 😭😭😭😭

quite a lot but i do really like the ps4