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Vouching for Cerave too, got a liter of their moisturizer here, does no leave my skin oily and feels great.

I also use La Roche-Posay exfoliant and anti-sebum cream to combat my forever acne (actually seems like one of the only things that work for me).

There is also FX which can do this too, additionally you can browse/download/upload files to/from the phone locally from PC through browser (the app opens up a web server).

But overall you don’t seem to disagree with me that hosting you lemmy is not for the non-technical. Which is what nutomic took issue with.

I read it as them taking isssue with you having different infra then recommend/expected, more then (not) being non-tech friendly. (I am going to sleep right now, I will check in tommorrow, well today later).

I didn't want to devalue your communication, I think I have worded my previous comment very badly in that sake, I am sorry about that. (I also really need to go to sleep so I will be blunt here.)

There is a nuance to the internet communication when it comes to asking OSS community for support, at least speaking from my own experience as someone working in tech.
Getting one or two people actively bouncing ideas of off is a already big success - quality of OSS support is often very spotty across projects and it's understandable because people do it in their free time which is limited (also if the project is complex, there is often less people experienced with it, less total sum of free time for support, I think this currently applies to Lemmy a lot).
With that in mind, when I come asking for support I am mostly prepared to not get any, I am prepared to have to dive into the codebase, debug, deconstruct, debug, swear, swear some more. Maybe this is just me and I had really bad luck mostly, but I don't know.
Should the devs/owners of any OSS project be ready to provide (some) support for their product if they want it to survive, probably yes, and how much is good depends on the project, you, anyone.

So

What kind of effect to do you think this might have to other potential lemmy hosters?

My opinion is that currently, lemmy is simply not ready for non-tech people. (And I can't really imagine it will ever be, unless there is a lot of people active in the development and are willing to help others. At least currently there is just too much moving parts that require at least some amount of technical experience. Also lemmy is not something like... GUI application - some application to be used by non-tech people, in the sense that if you want to deploy your own lemmy instance you the admin is the target user of that software, not talking about UX/UI)

Also as someone else has commented here, hosting something for myself is easy, hosting for friends is just a slightly bit harder, but hosting something for the public, getting hundreds-thousands of people makes it by a magnitude a lot more difficult (now you need active monitoring, durable backups, ...).

Edit: this comment is not written well, and is not describing the issue I wanted to actually comment on, I am tired and sorry

I will hop on to this to also point out that there actually were people willing to actively help (me included, see the original post on this community) but if I say it bluntly we were not "invited in on the show", let me expand that.

The problem is, as @nutomic@lemmy.ml points out here, we don't have the slightest idea how exactly your infrastructure looks, without that there is only the most general stuff we can help with.

From my point of view, joining the matrix chat later in the process, I watched you do/post stuff that I have no idea where it comes from, I don't have the full context of what has been already tried and crossed out and what's the current plan.
You @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com would have to stop chopping and start networking with the people - that is definitely not easy to do effectively, especially if more people join later (and too have to be updated with the sate) but we could have fast tracked the docker/compilation stuff ruling lemmy out sooner.

In retrospect, if we had full picture of how the infrastructure looks the chance someone would go "oh you have split backend and database servers, check the latency" would definitely be a lot higher, but we didn't know (hell I actually assumed your deployment is same or close to the lemmy ansible one). I am aware this is easy to say after the solution has been found but hopefully you get the networking/communication idea.

Love tis, one of my first "programming" experiences.

Viva la Zachtronics

I can help with docker and some linux stuff mainly, just PM me. I could also offer my instance (of 2 active users) for testing if needed.

I think your idea is not necessarily wrong but it would be hard to get right, especially without making the entry into fediverse too painful for new (non-tech) people, I think that is still the number one pain point.

I have been thinking about moderation and spammers on fediverse lately too, these are some rough ideas I had:

• Ability to set stricter/different rate-limits for new accounts - users older less then X can do only A actions per N seconds [1] (with better explained rate-limit message on the frontend side)
• Some ability to not "fully" federate with too fresh instances (as a solution to note [1])
• Abuse reputation from modlog/modlog sharing/modlog distribution (not really federation) - this one is tricky, the theory is that if you get many moderation actions taken against you your "goodwill reputation" lowers (nothing to do with upvotes) and some instances could preemptively ban you/take mod action, either through automated means or (better) the mods of other instances would have some kind of (easy) access to this information so that they can employ it in their decision.
  This has mostly nothing to do with bot spammers but instead with recurring problem makers/bad faith users etc.
  Though this whole thing would require some kinds of trust chains between instances, not easy development-wise (this whole idea could range from built-in algorithms taking in information like instance age, user count, user age and so on, to some kind of manual instance trust grading by admins).

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All this together, I wouldn't be surprised if, in the future, there will eventually be some kinds of strata of instances, the free wild west with federate-to-any and the more closed in bubbles of instances (requiring some kind of entry process for other new instances).

[1] This does not solve the other problem with federation currently being block-list based instead of allow-list based (for good reasons).
One could write a few scripts/programs to simulate a federating instance and have tons of bots ready to go. While this exact scenario is probably not usual because most instances will defed. the domain the moment they detect bigger amount of spam, it could still be dangerous for the stability of servers - though I couldn't confirm if the lemmy federation api has any kind of limits, can't really imagine how that would be implemented if the federation traffic spikes a lot.

(Also in theory one could have a shit-ton of domains and subdomains prepared and just send tons spam from these ? Unless there are some limits already, afaik the only way to protect from this would be to switch to allow-list based federation.)

Lot of assumptions here so tell me if I am wrong!
Edit: Also sorry for kind of piggy-backing on your post OP, wanted to get this ideas out here finally

There is a simple trick, as a basic user, do not ever run your (gnome) file explorer as root and if a permission error (requiring "escalation") pops up you shoud double check what you are doing.

I think most graphical file mangers also keep most of the weird/important/system folders away from user and you have to directly navigate to them.

In this case, yes anything under /run should not be considered as normal files.

https://serverfault.com/questions/24523/meaning-of-directories-on-unix-and-unix-like-systems

• /bin - Binaries.
• /boot - Files required for booting.
• /dev - Device files.
• /etc - Et cetera. The name is inherited from the earliest Unixes, which is when it became the spot to put config-files.
• /home - Where home directories are kept.
• /lib - Where code libraries are kept.
• /media - A more modern directory, but where removable media gets mounted.
• /mnt - Where temporary file-systems are mounted.
• /opt - Where optional add-on software is installed. This is discrete from /usr/local/ for reasons I'll get to later.
• /run - Where runtime variable data is kept.
• /sbin - Where super-binaries are stored. These usually only work with root.
• /srv - Stands for "serve". This directory is intended for static files that are served out. /srv/http would be for static websites, /srv/ftp for an FTP server.
• /tmp - Where temporary files may be stored.
• /usr - Another directory inherited from the Unixes of old, it stands for "UNIX System Resources". It does not stand for "user" (see the Debian Wiki). This directory should be sharable between hosts, and can be NFS mounted to multiple hosts safely. It can be mounted read-only safely.
• /var - Another directory inherited from the Unixes of old, it stands for "variable". This is where system data that varies may be stored. Such things as spool and cache directories may be located here. If a program needs to write to the local file-system and isn't serving that data to someone directly, it'll go here.

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Minecraft

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Atheisteer?
The atheisterest?

Yep, currently happening to me too. Firefox with uBlock and user-agent switcher (chrome), windows (havent tried on nix yet)

Edit: Disabling Quick Fixes in uBlock Origin (under Filter Lists) does resolve it for me, no ads too.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/20586#issuecomment-1965468652

Edit2: the comment describing the fix has been deleted by the org....

Edit3: Update your uBlock lists, it should be fixed

Dungeon Crawler Carl and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Sanderson

I have recently bought the P14s Gen 4 and except for some WiFi issues it has been pretty smooth sailing (definitely a loot better then the last notebook I had with nvidia dgpu).

I have been on the hunt for Awesome WM wayland alternative and this actually looks pretty close to my current setup.

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