Nothing specifically, just nice improvements cumulating over the years.

Installing Linux on most hardware became really easy maybe 5 years ago.

Gnome works quite well on a larger touch-screen. Edit: ah, Ubuntu should have that by default.

Lead acid can boil over and fill a badly ventilated room with flammable hydrogen and other toxic gasses.

A well maintained LiFePO4 battery that some modern UPS use it probably less risky, but I think the risk for both is very low.

Well I guess !climate@slrpnk.net !energy@slrpnk.net and !technology@slrpnk.net are already quite well known.

!balconygardening@slrpnk.net and !inperson@slrpnk.net are kinda cool as well. In general have a look at our community list, we have some good ones that are at least reasonably active.

You could have also not have been a grammar Nazi. It was clearly you that started the debate, don’t expect people to adhere to higher standards than you yourself are willing to adhere to.

The title was perfectly understandable and they were the adult in the room by ultimately giving in and fixing what you complained about.

They deleted an entire comment chain of nothing but off-topic brickering started by you being a grammar Nazi after they decided to be the adult in the room and fix the title you objected to.

It’s all transparent in the mod logs, you can form your own opinion.

This is nonsense. They stepped down voluntarily because of unfounded accusations of such (and because they felt their time was better spend elsewhere than to deal with such community drama).

There is a special .iso archive for all past releases.

Yes, don’t expose Windows to the internet 😒

https://opnsense.org/ is a good system if you want an easy to install and open-source firewall.

Edit: no need to buy their official hardware. Any x86 system with two network ports will do.

There is also an open-source alternative to this: https://github.com/matanui159/ReplaySorcery

Although it seems to be no longer actively maintained.

If you can install a second gigabit NIC into the optiplex it can work very nicely with OPNSense as the main gateway. Then you can connect the LAN side to a simple un-managed switch and branch out to anything further from there.

Edit: OpenWRT is a bit of a pain to manage on x86, so I would try to avoid it for that.

They have been talking about how creators want to own their platform and I could imagine that they don’t mind allowing a few such people to migrate off Threads to facilitate that. In the end what matters to them is that the large audience stays on their platform where they can serve them personalized advertisements.

Yes, I could easily configure our Podman containers to auto-update, but given how there have been significant breaking bugs in Lemmy releases before, I think it’s better to not automate it.

Systemd is very useful for managing (rootless) Podman containers.

They are not included. You need to divide the 3.600€ by two main developers and then add up the irregular NLnet payments to that. So as a result it comes to approximately 3000€ for each of the two devs per month (6000€/month total). At least that is my understanding from what is written above.

Here it isn’t so heavy on CPU, but the database eats RAM like crazy. My guess would be that their server is constantly swapping out stuff from RAM due to insufficient surplus RAM and this as a result creates the high CPU load.

It’s not that bad actually. Uganda has a very progressive refugee policy (likely because the President once was a refugee himself). But yeah, anything that could be seen as a threat to his decades long presidency is clamped down hard on.