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Isn’t Drew a conservative?

I can do better than that: here are a couple of videos from LearnLinuxTV's Proxmox Course.

• Episode 15: Clustering
• Episode 16: High Availability

You should be able to watch them and get the overview you're looking for. But really, this whole course is excellent from start to finish. I watched it before I ever touched Proxmox, and I'm glad I did. It was instrumental in helping me choose Proxmox as my hypervisor and gave me a great idea of what hardware I wanted to use and how I wanted to use it.

I run a lot of these services in my homelab. I didn't really feel like I had something with real potential until I started using Proxmox as my hypervisor. That's when things exploded. You can create VMs and containers on it with ease, and all the features I would normally have to rely on command line for were also available on the Proxmox web interface. That is so convenient! Need to do a snapshot because you think you might screw up your install on step 37? No problem, just take care of it in the GUI.

Proxmox also handles clustering really well, which will probably benefit you. You can add a Raspberry Pi or two, or a PC, and Proxmox will just manage them all. It will even move services from one device to another if one device gets turned off. It's really incredible!

The one thing I wouldn't build yourself is a NAS. I went with a Synology, and I'm glad I did. Building (and maintaining) one from scratch is just more work than I really have time for. With a NAS, you want things to go perfectly all the time, including updates and security updates, so I'm happy to leave most of the testing and configuration to Synology's team. I just have to remember to update things periodically, which I'm willing to do.

Could you expand a bit on step 4? Do you have to create just one shortcut, or do you create multiple shortcuts?

Excellent! This is good to know! I bet other users who aren't admins/mods can't see the post at all when it's removed. I'll avoid purging from now on.

However, I’m surprised to still see my posts there. I would have thought you deleting them on your instance would propagate out to my instance.

Well, I purged them from the database. Maybe if I had removed the post instead of purging, that would have propagated. Right now the posts don't exist in our database at all.

But I bet the more likely scenario is that once a post gets propagated, it persists forever on the instance it gets propagated to unless someone purges it there.

Assuming I am correct, this could end up being a bit of a problem. That means, users on my instance could go about spamming the fediverse, and I would never see reports of their activity unless they are spamming communities on my instance. The only way I have to know that they’re being bad users is if I notice we get defederated, if an admin of another instance specifically reaches out to me, if another user on my instance reports them, or if I manually monitor my users.

This is actually consistent with something that happened to us in the early days of lemmy.ninja. We had a few thousand bot accounts get created on our site. Some other sites defederated from us, but it took us weeks to notice that this happened. One of them happened to be a Mastodon instance, and that person indicated a ban reason that indicated that a user was an edgelord. Well, this was back in the beginning of our site, so we knew all of our users personally. If we had not been really on top of things and really plugged in to what was happening across a lot of the Lemmy instances, we would never have known that the bot users interacted with anyone. We still don't know how many posts or comments they made before we deleted them all.

I think you are right on all counts. I have just resolved both reports that we had on our side. That clears the report list, so I don't expect you to see any changes on your side, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

It's definitely there. I guess this proves that some propagation is slow. This is what we see on our reports list right now:

Resolving the report on your side seems to have had no effect on our side. In Lemmy UI, there is a very subtle color difference in the checkmark before and after it is clicked, so I took a screenshot of the report.

Before:

After:

I guess there's a chance that it may take time for the change in state to propagate to me, so I'll watch it over the next 20 minutes or so to see if it changes.

I am now reporting the second test post.

The report just arrived in our moderation queue. Please click the resolved checkmark on your side.

Next, please post a second post in the Tea Room and this time I will report it, get confirmation from you, and then I will resolve it.

Do you have some time to test it? You can post something to Ninja Tea Room and then report it. Let me know and I'll confirm that the report exists on our site. Then you can resolve the report and I can confirm one way or the other whether the status changes locally here, and whether the reason propagates. We will take care not to ban you. :-)

So is the right process to report the post? (I'm assuming reports go to the home instance's community moderator.)

And if that's the case, does that mean we need to avoid clicking the checkmark to "resolve" the report on our instance until the remote moderator has done something about the problem?

Today some spam bots posted about 20 or so posts, and they originated from thegarden.land, feddit.nu, lemmy.film, lemmus.org, feddit.nl, pricefield.org, lemmy.world, and geddit.social. I'm not sure I'm ready to defederate lemmy.world over a single account. There must be a better way.

Only thing to mention of note was that I disabled triggers while doing the cleanup.

Could you explain what that does and how you did it? I can add that to the post as a note.

I don't think you can interact with Mastodon from Lemmy, but you can do the reverse.

You can't do that, but you can set up an Apple Watch with your phone for her to use. See Set up an Apple Watch for a family member.

From the site:

How it works

With Family Setup, your family member who doesn't have their own iPhone can use their Apple Watch to do things like make phone calls, send messages, and share their location with you.

After you set up a watch for a family member, you can use your iPhone to manage some of the watch's capabilities.

Note that some Apple Watch features depend on having a companion iPhone, and aren't available on an Apple Watch that you pair using Family Setup.

Oh my god yes. Siri needs some serious help.

The first thing you should do is get a dedicated server for your plex server software. I recommend the NVidia Shield Pro as your first Plex server host because it has excellent hardware transcoding capabilities. If you don't want to buy the shield, you could get a larger server with a processor that has integrated graphics capabilities. Installing plex on that will actually give you a few more features and probably better transcoding capabilities, but it would be significantly more expensive.

After that, I'd get a Plex pass to unlock a lot of the good Plex features.

Almost the same thing happened on Reddit when everyone migrated from Digg. It's so similar, in fact, that I wonder if maybe this isn't a normal thing.