Well the networks will try to tie people in for 36/48 months so... they kind of asked for it.
tony
joined 1 year ago
Being lemmy it's all docker, but the base OS is debian.
So.. more than threads then :p
(guessing a bit, but reports say it was 8 million at the end of july and still falling..)
Lemmy is actually quite light.. My lemmy VM is currently using only 317MB of the 1GB I've allocated it, and about half of a 16GB disk.
Obviously I'm not subscribing to every possible group there.. only a dozen or so.. but I could go a lot bigger without it becoming a problem.
TBH I'd use the celeron and get a bigger RAM stick in there (cheap), and you'll be fine for a 1 person instance.
You want your filesystems to be old and stable. It's new filesystems you want to view with suspicion.. not battle tested.
IRC is great, if a little underground these days. It's also trivial to run your own although federating requires cooperation from both ends so it's not quite as networked as lemmy or mastodon.
I installed gentoo from stage 1 or maybe 2 back in the day... it compiles to compiler to compile the rest of the build process and then compiles the kernel and base... quite fascinating but it took about 3 hours on the hardware I was using.
I think they were experimenting with showing lemmy posts as well.
You follow someone who is on mastodon.social, they see the follow, look at your profile and follow you back
Or you reply to a thread, someone on mastodon.social sees it, thinks you sound like someone they'd find interesting and follows you.
I suggest adding some relays otherwise the only posts reaching your server will be things you yourself have followed, which makes hashtags a bit useless.
My current active relay list is: https://bigrelay.social/inbox https://relay.toot.io/inbox https://relay.intahnet.co.uk/inbox
But those are just what works for me.. not any particular recommendation.
Then follow lots of interesting people. Look on other servers if you're stuck, eg. the live feeds on mastodon.social. The more you follow the more conversations you'll see and find more interesting people. People who boost a lot are a goldmine for discovery (some people make a hobby of boosting eg. https://mastodon.social/@lisamelton).
It really depends on your priorities. Single drive is good for a home system with nothing really important on it.. once you get to wanting to keep it and where recovery from backups is too much downtime, you want at least a drive mirror.. nothing wrong with exr4+mdraid for that, although you don't get the checksumming that zfs gives it will be pretty fast & if a drive fails you can run degraded on one drive until you get the new drive in.
I've been running zfs for 10 years and not lost a single byte of data even after doing stupid shit like tripping over the sata cables and disconnecting half the drives. It's survived multiple drive failures (as long as the failures are on different bits of the disk, it recover get a clean copy onto a third drive, but it's a brown trousers moment when stuff like that happens).
Downsides, it aint fast, and it does tend to like lots of memory. You want it on your fileserver, not your gaming system.
IMO there's no point in a single drive zfs.. it'll warn you faster that the drive is f*cked but what do you do then?
Our place agreed with the landlord that if they did the legwork to find a new tenant they could teminate the lease early.
Even the smaller place (barely a cupboard) they rented afterwards to give a business address/phone is going away quite soon.. there's just no need for our company to have physical presence at all.
The unspoken bit is the reason the productivity is up so much is there isn't a manager wandering into the office and saying 'I had a great idea!'. Now they send an email, and those of us with the seniority to get away with it tell him to GTFO so by the time most people read it it's history. But the advantage of working with peoples lives can't be understated.. You can schedule your work around your life, parents can pick their kids up from school, you can have an 'off' day without feeling you have to stare uselessly at a screen for 8 hours (and, a tad more controversially, you can work whilst ill, which we've caught a few people doing.. no risk of spreading disease any more but it's not healthy).