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Haha yeah. Well I'm an arch user for at least a decade, and i saw manjaro come.. It was very popular in the beginning. Then they started making strange decisions, but I think many people are still happy with it. Otherwise I think endevourOS is doing good. :)
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I haven't seen Linux users fights over distros... Ever. We just have lots of choices, and most of them are awesome.
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It's a sign of the times that this is upvoted so much. When I was growing up, this was called normal behavior and was boring and nobody talked about it.
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Such a chad move. Respect!
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I don't use Google anymore except for Google maps in my car. :) I guess they can spy on where I'm driving. But no search history.
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I mean yeah, all these big tech companies are trying to make their products feel faster, because that's the only space they can compete. When it comes to privacy, they all lose.
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Well, Google has been caught trying to make their sites slower / malfunctioning on Firefox. Usually they get away with it by saying it's a mistake.
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Still the best browser, even though the majority left it for the speed they think chrome has.
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Yes. Many people are not trans.
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Apple likes to control the entire ecosystem, and wanted to make their own processors to make them more efficient and produce less heat. They succeeded too, the M2 and M3 chips are incredible.
So I think they would have ditched anyone, but Intel probably also made it easier by being so bad. :)
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The point is to see the value of the stock go up, so when you sell, you make a profit. Some people buy and sell daily, some do it yearly or only when they need the money.
Money needs to be working for you somewhere to make up for inflation, at the very least.
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How can they know if an email is disposable or aliased? I use those all the time with fastmail. Works fine with github.
But fastmail is not exactly private since it's hosted in Australia, part of the five eyes pact. Maybe that's why they are ok with it.
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But why would you even think that people on the left are different from people on the right? This is why I'm not into politics myself. Because it all builds on some fake idea that one side is right about everything, even good people, while the other is wrong about everything, and probably are bad people as well.
In reality, both sides are very similar and have much more incommon with eachother than they have with the politicians they are trying to support.
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I don't know about Linux being a pain in the ass. My kid was using first Linux on a laptop and then mac, and he wanted to go back to Linux where things make sense. He felt the mac was really confusing in where the files were. He also loved the integrated Software app where he can point and click install everything.
Now he is learning the terminal... :)
I think there is plenty of people who think macs are a pain in the ass too. Depends on what you are used to.
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Well I prefer it being warm in the end times than cold. :)
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I need a list of which ones don't allow assholes to enter. :)
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I'm not sure about that. What if advertising were used to cover server costs, just like donations right now? Then the community may be fine with it.
But I think it's very dangerous to go down that route. Because it's going to become about higher profits, not just covering costs, in the long run.
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What you can do is install wireguard server at home and then set your phone to use that wireguard connection always. That's what I do and then my pihole at home filters all my mobile traffic as well.
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You can rent an instance for like 10 dollars per month and grow from there. Then expand if you get users and things get slow. Lemmy runs ok on 4 GB of memory but it's better with 8 GB. Postgres use the most.
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It's what we all loved about the internet I think, before the web become... "that" (looking at the pile of shit the web has become).
But actually it's not the web, not really. It's the big tech platforms that most people seem to think is the internet now. It's sad to watch how people log on to "Facebook" and not the general web anymore. And then Google in front of everything, like a big cancer growth.
Lemmy is not the new internet either I believe. But it's here to show people that something else can exist. As soon as we let advertising in here though, it's over.
Please try to comment and post things now, and see if they federate again. Hopefully you see your activity instantly federated. I have tried making comments both to instances running Lemmy 0.19.1 and 0.18.5 and they all federate like they should. Hope you have the same experience! 🥳
As you may have read in other threads, this version of Lemmy (0.19.1) seems to have bugs in outgoing federation on some instances. As a temporary fix, we have added a scheduled restart of Lemmy every hour. It only takes a few seconds to restart, and the big advantage is that your comments and posts are only delayed up to 1 hour before they federate to other instances. You probably wont notice the restart even. This will be in effect until a bug fix arrives from Lemmy developers, probably after new years sometime. Thanks for reading and merry x-mas to everyone. :)
Users of lemmy.today are reporting that outgoing federation of posts and comments stopped to work after the update to 0.19.1 about 19 hours ago. A restart of lemmy software seems to have made it work again for now, but not sure for how long. In this version its also common with CPU spikes on a regular basis. I assume its the new federation queue that takes more cpu in exchange for being more reliable. But I see a lot of Postgres UPDATE queries that did not occur in previous version. Also sometimes i see ROLLBACK, which I assume should not be happening. Anyone else has similar issus with 0.19.1? Relevant thread: https://lemmy.today/post/4382768
Today we spent some time preparing for the big upgrade, by kicking the Lemmy version up to 0.18.5, merging in the latest changes from lemmy-ansible git repository and cleaning up some disk space on the instance. So tomorrow at 02.00 am Oregon time we will do the update to Lemmy 0.19. This is 11.00 am CET for people in Europe. Hopefully all goes well and we come out the other side with a nice new 0.19 version. Its supposed to take about 30 minutes of downtime if there are no issues to solve. Wish us luck :) ****** IMPORTANT: You probably need to log out and log in again to be able to post anything since they reworked authentication in this release. *******
Hi, We are planning to install Lemmy 0.19 soon, hopefully in the coming week or so. It's a huge release with many new features, and I personally really like that it allows you users to block other instances if you want to. You can read about all the new features in the link above. More info coming in a few days about planned downtime and so on. :)
We just had another unscheduled downtime due to a linux kernel bug. Yesterday we noticed some issues with the server - mainly that we couldnt stop some docker containers. As you know, we are running some extra user web interfaces for Lemmy and we noticed that they started acting weirdly and had one cpu running at 100% constantly. I wanted to restart those containers but I couldnt stop them. Found some posts online that this is a bug in the Ubuntu linux kernel: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/43094. Our stop attempts caused the docker platform to behave weirdly and it started to affect the main Lemmy software, so we did a reboot of the server and installed the latest updates. We are very sorry for this unscheduled downtime. :/ Did you guys notice weirdness with Lemmy in the last 8 hours or so?
Hi guys! This weekend we will move lemmy.today over to using object storage for images. We will be serving images from Amazon S3 in the Oregon region (western USA). The way lemmy software is designed right now, it caches every image federated from other instances. So even if we are small instance, we still have to store a lot of federated images locally on our disk. This leads to disk space running out quickly and we previously had to delete images because of this. When we delete images, it removes not only those cached images but also user profile icons and banners, as well as community icons and banners. This is why we have some missing images under Communities right now, and also why users have lost their profile pics. Its been very embarrassing to have to do this, and now we will move to object storage to prevent this from happening in the future. Its much cheaper compared to ordinary disk space and gives better performance for users, so its a win-win. We just need to do a one-time migration over to it. **Estimated downtime hours: ** **Oregon time**: Sunday 3 am - 6 am **CET**: Sunday 12 pm to 15 pm. If you have any questions, you know what to do. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDIT: Looks like it went well and images are now served from S3 instead of filling up our disks. :) The url to the images still looks like they are served by the instance, but thats by design appearently. In the background, they are fetched from S3. Please fill free to re-upload any banners, user avatars or community pictures you had in place before that may have been broken by the disk cleaning before. - When you do, you have to **create a new picture with a new name** for Lemmy to actually replace the image. Otherwise it wont work - ive tried myself. :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi everyone, As part of cleaning old cached images when the disk went full, it seems also images like your profile picture and banners (if you had those), got deleted. If you dont mind, would you upload those again? And when you do, you cant upload the same picture. I made attempts myself to upload the same picture, but it needs to be a new picture (not even a rename of the pic works). Next time I will make a DB query to figure out what pics are local and which are not, and delete only remote ones (cached images from other instances). There is a column in the DB for that, so just need to export a list of remote images and then delete only those. Despite these growing pains, I think lemmy is still pretty awesome, and there will be tools to make these sort of issues go away in the future. I hear they are working on something for next version already so we will see. Anyway, enjoy the weekend and once again, sorry for the mess around this issue.
Hi all, The disk on the instance ran out of space today, due to the way Lemmy software caches images from all other instances. That cache had filled up about 60 GB's of disk, despite us being a small instance with very little local activity. I had to delete the last 10 days of cached images again, and I plan to delete quite a lot of older cached images as well. The mobile apps seems to not be affected by this (they have a local image cache I believe), but on the web site, this leads to missing thumbnail images. They are working on a fix for this in the Lemmy software so the disks dont fill up so enormously with cached thumbnails, and as soon as its out, we will install it here. Hope you guys didnt get too annoyed or sad by the instance being unavailable for a while.
Some bots posted lots of illegal pictures in the https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyshitpost community, and because of federation, those pictures have spread to all instances, including this one. The lemmy software doesnt have good moderation tools for abuse like this, and the quickest way to get rid of them was to delete all cached images for the last couple of days. You may see some thumbnail images missing in the web interface, but I personally dont see any missing images in my mobile app. I guess it has its own thumbnail cache.
These ones have been added: - [https://old.lemmy.today](https://old.lemmy.today) - [https://photon.lemmy.today](https://photon.lemmy.today) - [https://m.lemmy.today](https://m.lemmy.today) - [https://alexandrite.lemmy.today](https://alexandrite.lemmy.today) People like them on lemmy.world so didnt want them to missing here. :)
We need a health checker for this health checker, ok? Can someone rewrite this in Rust? :P
I noticed that the web interface sometimes didnt show all pictures when doing a full reload of the front page. This has been fixed now. It was related to some custom security settings I added last week, and I didnt notice the problem since i use mobile apps myself. But for everyone who uses the web interface a lot, this must have been annoying and has been fixed.
I added some themes for people who use the web interface. Some are pretty nice I think: **Modern Light:**  **Hanubeki Cold**  **Hanubeki Mint Alt Lt**  And others. # How to use - After you switch to a theme and save your settings, its really important to reload your browser cache, otherwise the theme will look wonky. - Do this by holding shift and clicking the **Reload current page** button in your browser. (or press Shift-Control-R if you are on firefox)
New version of Lemmy just got released by the devs. :) I plan to wait a few days before I upgrade the instance, just to make sure there isn't any weirdness being discovered. It's a small bug fix release so nothing major. Link to the announcement: https://lemmy.ml/post/3021118
How is the instance performance for everyone? Just wanted to ask so there is no weird things going on. If you notice images are loading slowish, it's because of how Lemmy software works. Images are stored on the instance where they were created, so if they were created on Lemmy.world and they are slow, you may see them loading slower here as well. But the text content should be really fast since it's local on the instance. There are people joining every day but we are still small, and if there is a need for more performance, I will upgrade the instance. Right now it looks like things are humming along fine.
There are a lot of mobile clients for Lemmy. The web interface is not that great in my opinion, so a mobile app is kind of needed. Some of the more popular ones: - [Boost for Lemmy](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy) (Android, beta version) - [Liftoff](https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff) (Android and IOS) - [Voyager](https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.today/all) (web application but has [IOS app in Testflight](https://testflight.apple.com/join/nWLw1MBM)) - [Jerboa](https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa) (Android) - [Connect](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect) (Android) - [Thunder](https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder) (Android and IOS) - [Mlem](https://github.com/mlemgroup/mormaer-mlem) (IOS) - [Memmy](https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy) (IOS)
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lemmy.todayLong time linux user and tinkerer. Currently working as a devops engineer. Very positive to the idea of decentralized internet platforms. :)