My one and only reason is that I’m a turbo-nerd. No professional or even educational tech background at all.
My one and only reason is that I’m a turbo-nerd. No professional or even educational tech background at all.
I had a squatter get mylastname.com after my dad died. After a while I guess they noticed that I registered mylastname.net and orffered to sell me mylastname.com I didn’t respond and they let it expire. I should probably register it.
I’ve been daily driving the pre-alpha since January, it’s definitely got a bit of jank, but it’s in really good shape. The alpha should be pretty usable, and I think by the beta it should be pretty much good to go.
This is the way. I paired it with a totally necesary $110 Arista 7050S for 52 ports of 10G SFP+ that I use maybe 7 ports of.
If you can get a laptop with a few USB ports that can go a long way to helping with storage expansion. Try to avoid USB drives and SD cards, but attaching proper SSDs and HDDs with a USB caddy is a great option. Just don’t accidentally pass the boot drive USB controller to a vm like I did once.
For performance per dollar nothing beats used enterprise gear due to how little you can pick it up for on eBay. Now if you live somewhere where electricity isn’t stupid cheap or you don’t have a good way to mask the sound of a 1000 angry hornets, then enterprise might not be the way to go. Dell SFF PCs can make good servers. You can also go a long ways with just humble raspberry pis, get a whole bunch of them and you can use that to learn K8s too
Just to give some context, I have a one user instance running on a very lightweight Debian container containing only lemmy. After the 2 weeks I’ve had it up it’s at 6gb storage used. No clue how it would scale with more users federating with more communities but I could see it getting pretty big pretty fast.
Don’t know but it would be a good idea to ask your instance admin if you’re worried about it. They’re the ones that foot the bill for the server and it’s storage and the ones that would be doing the deleting whether using this tool or not.
Does that permanently delete posts? Why would you do that?
Reduce the footprint of the install. Text posts and comments are negligible but pictures chew through storage.
Well don’t buy old enterprise hardware then, that’s the noisy stuff. 1tb isn’t a lot by modern storage standards, however if you managed to fill it up with notes and books I would be impressed. Games are another matter though. You could fit thousands of emulated games from the 80s and 90s or like 7 from the last few years, it depends.
I’d say through throw Truenas Scale or Ubuntu server on it and try and come up for uses for it. If it doesn’t seem useful after a month or 2 then shut it down nothing lost. The only real danger is that it’s a gateway drug and before you know it your thinking about upgrading to a 48u rack to put your pile of networking equipment and servers and your basement sounds like a jet engine.
I’m well aware it’s me being dumb, I just forget that I ran sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y until Firefox gives me the boot
It’s not an auto update, it just demands to restart the second the update I asked for finishes installing. First world problems I know
Then Firefox decides that it’s absolutely necessary that updates get applied this second and refuses to do anything until you restart it.
This is 100% of the reason that I use the discord flatpak.