jon @ jon @lemmy.tf

Lead admin for [https://lemmy.tf](Lemmy.tf), tech enthusiast

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How exactly does this keyboard make the iPad "more like a laptop"? It's a keyboard, we've had iPad keyboard forever. Needs OS support to allow more laptop-y features.

Looks like I'm about to switch fully to YT-DL/Plex for the subscriptions I care about. Should be good until they start embedding ads into the video files anyway.

Yeah, after literally bankrupting Westinghouse and costing us Georgians billions of dollars. I'm all for more nuclear power but this project was a colossal shitshow.

Georgia also has some shiny new solar factories so I'm interested to see how deep into renewables we can get in the next decade.

They can, but Reddit can just as easily restore it, with a blank mod list. But based on their actions I wouldn't be surprised if they outright ban any mods that try this.

A few people have posted scripts in here and self hosted to automatically sub your instance to tons of remote communities. Text content from any indexed sub will be stored in your Postgres DB, but Pict-rs just caches remote images briefly.

If you're in the EU you can send a GDPR data takedown request, then if they fail to honor it you may be able to get a kickback from any fines they get slapped with

Apollo going away was the catalyst for me. I will never use Reddit's garbage website or first-party app.

Plus Lemmy gave me an excuse to host another neat service and still waste the same time I did on Reddit.

I'm just letting mine do whatever it wants, got plenty of local storage. If/when I have storage issues I'll add an s3 bucket, pretty easy to modify the entrypoint for pictrs to pass s3 connection info in the docker-compose deployment.

I spun up Firefly a few months ago and had about three weeks where I was actively categorizing transactions and reconciling everything and then my ADD kicked in. Really cool tool but I just need something low-maintenance for budget tracking.

From what I've seen and read, server to server traffic is less taxing on instances than client to server. So even if your instance is JUST you, it would be your instance talking to everything else so it would have some net benefit on the federation. But it would take a lot of users self-hosting solo instances for this to help in any noticeable way, I'd think.

There is certainly no downside to running a solo instance, if you're even slightly interested I would say go for it!

I'm one of the other Lemmy.tf admins and I'll share a bit. We're currently on the docker-compose deployment from the repo, running on a VM with 4c/8gb ram/256gb disk. It's on a baremetal VMware box at OVH with loads of resources to expand as needed.

I'm hoping we get enough users on here to force me into converting to a Helm chart and moving this to my Kubernetes cluster. Pod scaling would help address some of the issues larger instances are starting to run into, and it seems like a fun project.

As for Unraid, your best bet is to see if you can install docker-compose on it. This thread from 2020 suggests it should be possible, but the binary may not persist restarts. If you can't use compose you would probably have to strip it apart and deploy one container at a time, and potentially work around the need for the Docker networks.

I may be interested in helping with an Unraid deployment guide if there's heavy interest- I'm running it on my NAS at home and can tinker a bit. Feel free to DM me if you've got questions or need any assistance.

Edit: That Unraid forum post has a reply about using a bash alias to run docker-compose in Docker, this is the route I'd go rather than having to do jank stuff to make the binary persistent. Should be able to follow the normal docker-compose install from your root user once you have compose ready. Make sure to do your port forwarding or use Nginx Proxy Manager since SSL is mandatory to federate.

I'm interested, but I don't know Rust and haven't done frontend work in years. Might be able to do some work around scalability and contribute to a Kubernetes deployment guide (and/or Helm chart).

4vcpu (Ryzen), 8GB RAM, 256gb disk (which will be expanded when it gets to like 60% full). Not too worried about storage unless I get a bunch of image-happy users, text all comes in as json and goes straight to Postgres so it’s not a concern.

I run all my lab servers/services/etc in their own /16 on my home net. Nothing is publicly routed in over my WAN IP- if I want to expose a service, it goes through Nginx Proxy Manager to my local service via a ZeroTier tunnel.

I would strongly encourage you to not expose any of the *arr services (particularly your download node) to your WAN IP. PIA’s desktop app does a pretty good job of forcing a full tunnel with a VPN kill switch, so you never have to worry about your ISP catching onto what you’re doing.

Small instances don't seem to require anything major, I'm running mine on a VM with 4c/6gb ram/256gb disk with no issues- it's just a few Docker pods. Just make sure you use a dynamic DNS provider if you're hosting from home, as valid SSL is required to connect to the federation.