housepanther

That makes sense!

I like Alpine Linux very much and use it when I am going to containerize an application in docker. It's incredibly lightweight and has a very good security history.

I once worked in for a small publishing company years ago, circa 2005, where they used CentOS on the desktop and server environments. Deploying a new desktop was as simple as using kickstart. They had their infrastructure down to a science.

It is! I know that Mastodon and Lemmy support it. I cannot speak for any of the others though.

Good on you for pushing through! I am going to do my 1-2 hours of learning tonight. My clothes washer broke last night so I have to go to the laundromat. Hey man, if it's not one thing, it's another. I can't afford to fix the damn thing too. 😆

I really appreciate your sharing this as I have hopes that it will do the same for me. I am mired right now in desktop support and I hate every waking minute of it. I hate the sense of over entitlement of users. I am sick of being treated as the help despite being employed by the same agency they are. The "customer service model" of desktop support is flawed and encourages bad behavior on the part of the end user. Not even baristas, waiters and waitresses, or customer service of any field should be treated like "the help."

Unfortunately, it a truncate does not purge the media. The media is controlled by pict-rs and it has its own database. I cannot speak to fallout of my own users because my Lemmy instance is strictly my own. I don't want to get into a situation where I am hosting accounts and have to deal with moderation and abuse. There are a lot of legalities surrounding this and I don't need the headache.

What table is the culprit? I have a cron job to shut lemmy down at 3:00am every morning and I run a TRUNCATE activity via the psql utility. If I didn't do that, my database size would swell to 50GB or more.

You could use Jellyfin and Tailscale. Lots of self-hosters do this. Google for ideas on how to do this. I've never tried it myself.

I'd rather use forgejo than gitea anyway.

PeerTube and the fediverse at large do not lend themselves to earning a money. That is an appreciably difficult situation to be in. I suppose the most one could hope for is to gain some fame and having someone sponsor them through something like Patreon.

Police protect both monetary and political capital. They're dogs licking the boots of their masters. Caveat: I am ex-cop. I was fired because I refused to arrest someone for smoking pot peacefully and not bothering anybody. This was in the late 90s.