14:54 <Whistle> I have recently purchased a Sandstrom DVD player/ It worked once I plugged it in. Now it is not working.The green light flashes and I can put in a DVD. but does not open the DVD

14:55 <Whistle> WHAT CAN i DO TO GET IT WORKING

14:55 <kentonv> O.o

15:00 <ocdtrekkie> That's like the help desk tickets I get at work

15:03 <kentonv> apparently there is indeed an external DVD player branded "Sandstrom" (r before o, not a typo)

15:44 <isd> How do we feel about sending a call thing out to the mailing list looking for hosting providers who would like to be listed on the website? I'd like to have a resource I can point people to who what to get paid hosting.

15:55 <ocdtrekkie> I would definitely like to have something like that to point at

15:57 <kentonv> is the idea to list hosts that specifically pre-install sandstorm? Or just any host that provides Linux boxes that might work?

15:57 <isd> Ok. I may prep a thing in the next couple days (PR with an empty list, and then send an email pointing people to it to suggest additions)

15:59 <kentonv> FWIW I don't think we should list just any old Linux provider. But I don't think the tooling exists for providers to effectively pre-install it?

16:00 <kentonv> or rather, if we're going to list regular Linux providers, we should decide who we want to recommend, rather than have people ask to be listed.

16:00 <isd> My thinking was more for managed solutions, not just "here's a VM, you can install sandstorm yourself on it"

16:00 <kentonv> are there any managed solutions, though?

16:01 <kentonv> back in 2016 we were working on a project to create tooling that would allow that -- basically a web UI to replace the prompts in the install script.

16:01 <ocdtrekkie> We've had a few small hosts say they do it if they get requests for it, I think

16:02 <isd> At some point I stumbled across a company that did hosting for various FOSS web apps, and they had a thing where you could get an account on their sandstorm box. And we've interacted with somebody on the bug tracker that was looking for ways to automate their own setup process for customers.

16:02 <isd> I got the sense they were doing some of it manually when a customer signed up

16:02 <isd> So there's stuff out there, but I only have seen hints of it.

16:03 <isd> https://fair.sandcats.io/ was the first one I think.

16:03 <kentonv> hmm, I'm not really sure how much I'd want to recommend hosting on shared Sandstorm instances, vs. hosting that gives you your own instance.

16:03 <ocdtrekkie> I think at minimum the bar for us listing a host should be "they will help you set up Sandstorm specifically if you need it", with "set it up for you" and "offers a managed server" as also acceptable criteria.

16:04 <isd> Maybe we should start a thread with an open ended "does anyone offer a thing? we're trying to get a sense of what's out there."

16:04 <kentonv> isd, that sounds reasonable

19:35 <ocdtrekkie> woo. got permission to fork my favorite TTRSS client.