I used jerboa for a while back in 2023, but ultimately I’ve settled on Connect. Its slightly different but still pretty similar to rif

RIP rif 😭 i hope one day the dev makes an apl for Lemmy (i know they pivoted to tildes)

I think anyone running a home server qualifies as an enthusiast, there are more uses for home servers than just plex lol

There are definitely valid reasons to use SSDs in a server/array. One of my proxmox servers runs 4x m.2s in raidz1 so all my vms are super snappy. Depending on what you’re running you can really see benefits, for example:

• Elastic Stack
• Network storage for photo editing
• Lemmy
• Immich

Pretty much anything with a lot of metadata or tons of files will see benefits from running on SSDs, this comes with the caveat that cheap ssds wear quickly and are a pain in the ass but if you need it, you need it

Things that have worked for me:

• your bed is probably not level, i installed self leveling on mine ($30 but well worth it)

• if its adhesion, try a glue stick. It looks like a PEI sheet but that alone was not enough for me. My routine is: wash with soap and water, spray 90+% IPA (before bed is heated) and wipe with microfiber (paper towel leaves flakes behind), then apply gluestick before printing

• maybe check your bed is warm enough/preheat for longer to allow the whole bed to get to temp, though i doubt this is the case but it doesn’t hurt to try

• for your first layer: slower speed, higher nozzle temp, higher bed temp

This is true, i didn’t read the part where he’s keeping everything except the motherboard/cpu. I’m used to switching out to random gpus LMAO

For your linux partition you’d probably just need to install new drivers. I’ve popped my boot drive into a bunch of different pcs with no issue.

Your windows partition might be weird, last i heard it assigns the activation to the motherboard serial number or something so you might have to redo the crack or provide your activation code again

Brutal, i worked in b4 consulting before. They had Macs but you basically had to know someone to fight for it on your behalf.

I feel your pain, i struggled with a dell craptop for years. I swear to god, those things are designed to be awful.

(Although, shortly before i left i saw the new ones they were handing out which had Ryzen CPUs and actually looked pretty decent, but idk how well they worked because i left obv)

Maybe this works for a small-medium business, but for large enterprises (i work for a massive tech company) it doesn’t work like that.

Corporate devices are bought through enterprise service agreements, which have to go through the lawyers as well as the procurement team. Although you could get a contract from Lenovo for the actual devices, a Linux distro would have no service agreement, so that would kill it right there (+ legal would probably flag the risk of malicious code being injected into the OS, i.e. xz). Ignoring thag, devices that are onboarded need to be able to fit into existing device management solutions (ABM/MDM, EDR, DLP, AD, etc etc).

And before any of that, there would be some survey that goes out to determine how many employees would realistically make the switch. For Linux, that number would likely be so low that the business teams would decide it isn’t worth a discussion because of low business impact & user desire (not to mention that now the IT teams also need to be skilled up to support it).

I couldn’t even get a FOSS browser extension approved to be installed on my device, much less spur a movement for adding a whole new set of devices to the corporate inventory.

(Editing to add, i did talk to the IT guy and he said he wished he could give me one because he wants one too lol)

Well Zorin is ubuntu based, so i feel like that’s a win for Ubuntu (and debian)

Honestly, between the MBP and a similarly priced Dell as a company laptop, i choose the MBP.

The battery is better, the screen is better, performance is better, etc

Dell doesn’t know how to make a laptop & windows sucks ass. Macos is so locked down by default that all the restrictions on a company laptop don’t change the user experience all that much.

In an ideal world, id love a debian thinkpad or framework. But we don’t live in an ideal world, so had to choose between the two worst possible options

Thankfully, this doesn’t seem to apply to code written outside of the Arduino ecosystem, so i ASSUME that if you’re writing code for a cloned board using PlatformIO that these new terms don’t apply to you

If that’s not the case, I’ll switch to micropython (probably easier anyway)

try this

But, make a backup of your db beforehand. I don’t know how it would work when upgrading an existing database

Understandable, I will say you definitely chose to dive straight into the deep end choosing Lemmy 🤣 I think most people cut their teeth using docker on stuff like Plex and the related *arrs, then jump to the more complex stuff.

But, it’s also the best way to learn so enjoy it :) stuff like this will become trivial eventually

This is the solution to your problem

Change your config to mount the data directory to /var/lib/postgresql instead of /var/lib/postgresql/data

My advice though, if your debugging skills are primarily comprised of asking AI for help, you’re in for a bit of a learning curve. The software is absolutely amazing (I’ve been running an instance since 2023), but weird things pop up and because this is so niche quick google searches are very limited and you gotta be willing to dive into github issues (this for example, I’ve also had to do it for pictrs to debug something a while ago).

Don’t feel discouraged though, this is probably the most rewarding thing I host (more than plex, immich, or any of the other “mainstream” things people talk about)

Editing to add, i know this is the fix because I had to reinstall lemmy from the ground up (long story) a few weeks ago and had the same issue :)

Third’d

Mint or any other ubuntu-derivative distro is 10000% the move. I’ve been running ubuntu as my os for a while now, and I’ve spent nearly the last decade on linux (makes me feel old saying that lol).

The other distros have a lot of strength, but at the end of the day i want to spend my time messing with things i want to mess with. I don’t want random weird issues that I have to constantly debug, and everyone can agree that stability is debian’s (and therefore ubuntu’s) undisputed strength

Unfortunately, doesn’t seem to be available for streaming. So, you’ll probably have to find alternative methods

I mean, the only alternative is physical media of course ;)

Thunar = 🐐

Although, the only reason I use it is because when i made the switch many moons ago, i was following this guy’s tutorial on setting up i3 and he recommended thunar. Never looked back (although, at this point i think its more about the ui than any functional difference)

Okay yes this makes sense. Although, honestly i think I’d prefer the AP method of doing it because BlueSky sends ALL content to all nodes, so it’s MUCH less cost effective to join with a private server.

I run my own lemmy instance, so i know the data volume since 2023 has been probably like a terabyte or so. But, with BlueSky I’d have to account for the data volume of all users on the platform as a whole, bringing the data volume way up to tens of terabytes (a guess based almost entirely on nothing).

So it really boils down to yes I agree that AP has problems with data accessibility, but I’d prefer that over unnecessary data redundancy

… but at least the rest of their system is actually substantially more decentralized architecturally than AP is.

In the blog post you linked, neither the author or myself came to your conclusion:

However, I stand by my assertions that Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and that it is certainly not federated according to any technical definition of federation we have had in a decentralized social network context previously. To claim that Bluesky is decentralized or federated in its current form moves the goalposts of both of those terms, which I find unacceptable.