In the old days, university IT put essentially no access controls on their networks, so students’ dorm computers were completely exposed to the internet

Dorm ethernet works this way for me right now. It’s how I host some stuff. I only get 100 mb/s per port though. I’ve bonded two ports to get 200 total.

Because the extensions replaced wordpress’ sitebuilder/editor. If I were to get rid of the extensions I would basically have to recreate the site anyways so I might as well switch away from wordpress.

It powers lichess.org, who have made multiple blogposts about how happy they are with it.

Lichess is a FOSS chess server that somehow manages to compete with chess.com proprietary, distributed, milticloud kubernetes setup from a single VPS. According to them, scala helps.

Also check out: https://github.com/makeplane/plane

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux#User_centrality

Me too but tapping the same spot to get to the same app still works so I just keep using it.

Do you have a source or benchmarks for the last bullet point?

I am skeptical that optimizations like that wouldn’t already be implemented by postgres.

Edit: Btrfs has the worst performance for databases according to this benchmark.

https://www.dimoulis.net/posts/benchmark-of-postgresql-with-ext4-xfs-btrfs-zfs/

Although the usage of (x)wayland is novel, there have already beem projects which do something similar before.

Termux can run a linux container in a proot, which you can then connect to via an app like vnc to get graphics.

There exist several options to automate this setup, such as anlinux. There is also the proprietary andronix, which used to be open source but now it looks like tgere repos aren’t being updated.

It’s bad reporting to frame this as a novel app, when it’s not. The novel thing is the way this app does xwayland rendered by a native wayland compositor (instead of remote desktop softeare or other solutions), which is really cool though.

I have a sticker of the nix one on a laptop.

have you looked at solutions which emulate github actions locally?

https://github.com/nektos/act this is one of them but I think I’ve seen one more.

Github actions also has self hosted runners: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/runners/self-hosted-runners

What would you use if you had a choice?

There does exist a tool that does it. The creator posted about it on the fediverse. It only supported ubuntu at the time but looked extremely promising.

I cannot remember it’s name. :/

Maybe it’s linixify? But I remember seeing a post on lemmy with a youtube demo?

It is foss though?

https://github.com/chocolatey/choco

unless the SSD stopped working but then it is reasonable to expect it would no accept partitioning

This happened to me. It still showed up in kde’s partition manager (when I plugged the ssd into another computer), with the drive named as an error code.

My recommendation is meetup and a website for advertising purposes. Meetup is frustrating, yes, but at the same time it’s where I have found almost all the linux and tech groups near me.

This may sound kind of weird, but do you really need a communication platform for a LUG?

Our local LUG uses meetup and a website for advertising and telling people when we meet (once every two weeks at the same spot). (Okay I guess the one time our spot was closed and we had to track down people’s phone numbers to inform them of the new spot wasn’t that fun).

Anyway, we have a mailing list, an irc, and a matrix chat bridged to the irc, but they are effectively dead and no one uses them. The lack of activity on them makes me wonder if you really need to have a chatroom to run a LUG. We seem to get by just fine, for the most part.

Yes. My high school used to do this. UDP blocked except for DNS to some specific servers, and probably some other needed things.

Why not switch to 10 fps instead of the weird keyframe thing they did?

I was once watching a programming streamer on twitch who was working from a laptop in a hotel instead of their usual powerful home setup with fast internet. They decided to switch the stream to 10 fps and then it worked fine.

Gnome used to much worse when it comes to ram usage, so the inertia of those sentiments still carry.

Kde used to be much worse, using what gnome uses now, but now kde has similar ram usage to xfce last time I tested. CPU wise it’s still much worse though.

I’ve heard of thumbnails being used to deliver malware.

You’ve heard of critical vulnerabilities in media processing applications that mean that thumbnails can theoretically be used to be spread malware. That is not the same as “this issue was being actively exploited in the wild and used to spread malware before it was found and patched”.

These vulnerabilities, (again, cost money), and are fixed rapidly when found. Yes, disabling thumbnails is more secure. But I am of the belief that average users should not worry about any form of costly zero day in their threat model, because they don’t have sensitive information on their computers that makes them a target.