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If it's just to move troops around, why dig trenches and have a huge no-man's-land along the road? It's kinda like they're building Berlin wall v2. We'll see if they'll allow 1.5 million displaced Gaza populations to return to the northern part of Gaza later.

So the rumor that Israel wants to take over the northern part of Gaza has finally come true?

Ah so it's for a business website. Since this is selfhosted I assumed it's for a personal website.

If you decided to use wordpress, you can install w3tc plugin and enable the objects caching and page caching options. Combined with cloudflare, it'll virtually turn your website into a static site when accessed by anonymous visitors, while still allowing dynamic contents for logged in users. It should be more than enough for a typical website.

But as mentioned in the OP, I have to worry about the site going down if it gets a traffic surge,

Why are you worried about your site going down during traffic surge? Unless you're running a critical service, there is no need to worry about this too much if it's just your personal sites. With proper caching, your personal site can even tank traffics from reddit frontpage on a $5/mo vps. If you're really worry about getting your site down when having a traffic surge and don't mind paying big bucks to handle those surges, consider hosting it on platforms with autoscaling support such as netlify.

Nothing wrong with using wordpress as long as you follow good security practices and not installing dozen of plugins. Security breaches on wordpress sites are typically caused by weak password (bots love to scan wordpress sites and hit its wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php endpoints) and outdated / unmaintained plugins with security issues. It's almost never coming from a bug in wordpress core itself because wordpress will install critical security updates automatically unless you configured it not to.

Also, avoid installing pirated themes/plugins because those are often loaded with malwares. Review your installed plugins every once in a while and if a plugin has been abandoned by its author, replace it with another plugin.

If you have programming chop, you can use a static site generator framework to code your website yourself. If you're worry about the look/design, just buy it from a theme marketplace. For example, nextjs is gaining popularity and many commercial theme marketplaces sell nextjs template designs.

As for the server, I recommend to start with the cheapest hosting available (e.g. $5/month vps) and move on to a bigger server if it proves to be too small to handle your site's traffic.

One of the the main reasons why docker and kubernetes take off is they standardized the deployment process. Say, you have 20 services running on your servers. It's much easier to maintain those 20 services as a set of yaml files that follow certain standard than 20 config files each with different format. If you only have a couple of services, the advantage is probably not apparent. But as you add more and more services, you'll start to appreciate it.

Lemmy-ui uses markdown-it-sup, so I think superscript should work on a single word like this: ^superscript . It won't work if there is a space in the superscript text: ^{this wont work} . Each word must be enclosed with superscript tags: ^{this should work}

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I always torrent Linux ISO when I'm trying new distros. Can confirm it's blazing fast to download with torrent. Distro ISO torrents are usually setup with webseed, so they'll both download from the distros' mirror servers AND the torrent swarm at the same time, so they'll always be faster than the standalone http downloads.

Another article point out that the base Galaxy S24, which also has 8gb RAM, is able to run Gemini Nano.

That said, I will point out that the base Galaxy S24 model comes with 8GB of RAM. Only the Plus and Ultra feature 12GB of memory. Google didn’t exclude the regular Galaxy S24 model from the list of Gemini Nano devices. Then again, the Galaxy S24 series features a much better chipset than the Pixel 8 phones. Maybe that’s what allows a device with 8GB of RAM to run on-device AI via Gemini Nano.

Are you sure the Linux community is the one that hostile? Because in these threads, your comments come up as overly combative and dismissive, like inviting people to pick a fight with you. Even your comment above has an air of entitlement, like the guy you replied to owe you something.

Arch wiki is a useful resource, even for users of other distros. But seriously, do not use Arch Linux unless you're an experienced Linux user. I have no idea why so many Arch users recommend their distro to new Linux users. Even the Arch wiki tells you it's not a distro for beginners:

It is targeted at the proficient GNU/Linux user, or anyone with a do-it-yourself attitude who is willing to read the documentation, and solve their own problems.

I think you should try it yourself, see if you like it. Who knows, perhaps it's not actually as troublesome as you think. You can always reinstall windows again anytime you want.

I'm just telling you that it's wrong to assume hardware support problem will be solved by unifying behind a single distro, while in reality device driver devs are already unified behind the linux kernel project (not distro projects) and there is not enough manpower because there are only a handful of devs have necessary skill and willing to donate their time to support random devices in the market (and they need to have the devices on their hands first for reverse engineering). As linux marketshare grows, device manufacturers may be willingly support linux on their own, so your future scanner might eventually work out of the box on linux.

Unless you have some plan to shame manufacturers into supporting linux, it WILL have to be a linux dev to do it.

With that many devs, it would be trivial to write FOSS drivers for everything, proven by the fact that this already happens for some peripherals

Again, I think you're mistaken here. The majority of linux devs are not working on reverse engineering device drivers here. They work on their own projects within the linux ecosystem. Working on reverse engineering a device is a hard work and volunteers won't do it except for a few very dedicated people like asahi linux devs. Rallying behind a single distro won't fix this unless the distro is made by a huge company willing to pay people to reverse engineers various drivers. Getting essential hardware works is important and that's where most volunteers device driver devs are working with, but I'm not convinced getting support for all devices in the market the best way forward simply because it takes too many manpower we don't actually have. Better spend that manpower on getting gnome and kde better, getting wayland better, or perhaps maintaining x11 again, etc.

Well fucking crack open the bottle of Chateau Le Fite’ 78 linux FINALLY has about the same marketshare as web connected leapfrog gamepads…

Linux desktop marketshare wasn't even 1% with no growth in sight until relatively recently, so yeah, off course people are celebrating now. It's now comparable to Mac marketshare (~4%) in early 2010.

All I want is an OS where I can do what I want to do without spending 3 weeks getting a fuckdamn scanner driver to work.

I think you're mistaken here. Getting a device hardware to work is not the distro job, it's the job of the hardware manufacturer. Even on windows, device manufacturers would submit their drivers to microsoft for certification. Some thing happen on linux, device manufacturers would submit their driver to kernel maintainer, but they must submit the source code instead of binaries so some companies that don't want to open up their source code due to misguided "trade secret" reason will never submit their driver to linux, even when the whole ecosystem unify behind a single distro. Some device manufacturers do release binary drivers for linux, but their licensing incompatible with the distros license so they can't be distributed by the distros.

Now you are just strawmanning

On the OTHER hand, if even only 20% linux dev worked on a single, comprehensive, user friendly and functional distro, can you imagine how quickly that would have killed windows?

Come one man, how is this strawmanning when you demand everyone to rally behind a single distro? Which distro maker got the most influence in linux development world right now? It's red hat with no close competitor in sight. Red hat's technical decisions already split linux communities. If they got even more influence, it's going to be bad for linux future. It'll going to be even more fragmented in a way that's worse than now.

Yet despite all the supposed problem you brought up, linux desktop marketshare is growing to 4% this year. Reaching 5% and beyond is not an impossibility in near future.

Not everyone need to run those adobe apps and multiplayer games. If you don't, you're in luck and should try linux right now. If you still want to run adobe apps and want to try linux anyway, you can install windows in a vm inside linux, even with graphic acceleration too if you have the right hardware. If what holding you back is game pass, then you're already balls deep into microsoft ecosystem and probably won't ever switch anyway.

The censorship only happen in lemmy.ml. If you look a the exact comment in another instance (e.g. https://lemmy.world/comment/8291179 ), it's not censored at all. Lemmy.ml is probably applying censorship directly in their local database.

Get your shit together, make a single LTS distro that doesn’t rely on repositories that arbitrarily depreciate core packages, and can install on 95% of retail hardware first try, INCLUDING laptops, then maybe we’ll revisit this.

Linux distros are not a monolith. It's not made by one single entity, but instead assembled from various projects runs by different people and companies. All the distros do are assembling them into a single system and add their own special sauces on top. How are you going to propose to unify all those diversities? Rallying everyone behind a single company like Red Hat? We all know what would happen when one company get to control the whole ecosystem.

In my opinion, having multiple distros competing on features is the best things that can happen to us. When one popular distro lost their way and start to alienate their users, there will be other distros those users can choose from. Imagine what would happen if there is only one distro and it starts to get shitty like what windows is doing right now.