I saw the domain was available and had to go for it. Wasn’t sure what to do with it exactly, originally just gonna use it for email, but then the lemmy instance I was on went poof so I figured I could use it here too.
It’s been a while since I read Neuromancer so I didn’t recognise until now, maybe I should give it a reread. The instance before was Cyberpunk themed and we talked a little about books like Neuromancer and Hardwired (pretty good Cyberpunk book if you’ve not read), I’m not super knowledgeable about it, at least compared to others I was talking with, but I have a pretty big interest in Cyberpunk at least.
It was a fun experience trying to get to all work. I did originally try on my raspberrypi but I ended up just giving up on that due to the issues you mentioned. But it’s nice to have my own instance, and slowly populating the all feed with new subscriptions and well I owned the domain va11halla.bar I had to use it for my name.