I believe they meant that worker cooperatives are a small, almost insignificant part of the overall economy in every country that has them. Often co-ops end up serving a small niche market because they really can’t compete with the anti-competitive nature of capitalist big business.
How do I eat this sandwich I’m holding?
There certainly are videos out there for you but you should determine some goals that you’re trying to accomplish. What kind of server? A website? An e-mail server? A local network file server? I think a good place to start as a beginner is to try to make a web server with a personal web site, but there can be a few hurdles with that. The main one is that your ISP may not offer a static IP address, meaning the IP address of your home network might change frequently. There are ways around that but it adds complexity. The fundamentals of what you’ll need to host a website from home are:
This video appears to do a good job of setting up a WAMP (windows) server: WAMP Video
But I recommend using LAMP (Linux). Although Linux may be less familiar to you, if you continue down the rabbit hole of server administration Linux will be so much more helpful to you in the long run.
A lot of full time content creators support themselves using this format too. Some type of freemium model could work too.
I think it’s okay to get some news from social media, but mostly it isn’t good. No one should be getting all of their news from social media. So often the news shared is sourced from complete dogshit propaganda and view farming rags. If you’re in the US at least, you should be getting most of your news from the associated press. If you really need to watch the news, rather than read it then your only halfway decent options are nightly news broadcasts. If you need to listen to news, NPR is the only halfway decent source that comes to mind.
Specifically in Minneapolis we’ve tried really hard but the current system is just so entrenched and FUD about proposed alternatives can easily be sewn in the communities that aren’t impacted by the MPDs awful practices. A critical first step was removing the MPDs guaranteed protections that are baked into the city charter. That can only be done through a ballot initiative which has to be approved by an unelected panel of people appointed by local judges. That panel refused to put the initiative that city council passed on the ballot, so what do we do? Pressure the panel, pressure the judges, wait for new elections to put in new judges, but most of them run unopposed, who’s going to become a full time judge just to appoint a panel member that their constituents want? This was just the first of many battles that are still ongoing, and as the wounds of the Minneapolis uprising heal (at least in the eyes communities unaffected by the MPD) the movement is losing stream. People just want to get back to their lives and are tired of all the politics and are not too concerned about police malpractice when it comes down to it. They don’t even care about the millions we spend in police settlements every year so long as they don’t have to get political.
I don’t know what features you’re looking for but I use nextcloud notes. It’s really great for my uses, I keep categorized shopping lists, to do lists, email drafts, etc all in one app. I can access it trough the Android app on my phone and through the web frontend on my nextcloud instance from anywhere.
No one in my afk spaces wants to hear about it. So I’m very enthusiastic when the subject comes up online or otherwise!
I have an old netbook as a web facing server that runs: Apache, php, and MariaDB for my personal website. I also run a gopher hole using pygopherd. I also use my web facing server for a nextcloud instance.
I have a dell optiplex thin client running plex and Samba. And I have a raspberry pi zero w running pivpn.
Yeah, if it was a gaming PC it would have no problem doing Nas and steam. I wouldn’t bother with kubernetes or docker though. Just use Linux, no need for containers.