im a firm believer in task appropriate stuff… 24/7 server apps should be on a dedicated server box… network storage should only perform storage tasks. i wouldnt use a primary workstation also as server cuz i want to do crazy shit on my workstation. i wouldnt ever want to interfere with my ‘production’ stuff on the server.

ive been quite happy running a headless server and various nas boxes for storage redundancy… my home related i.t. tasks are very minimal now that everything is solidly automated.

https://fedidb.com/ is good for picking an instance with a substantial user count and shows how long the instance has been running.

are you sure youre viewing the post on your home instance? are you utilizing a specific app for lemmy?

at this point, just make the chocolatier the next update to stardew

kinda smells like the same game

oh you sweet summer child

imagine your mom using an llm to write an app…

nope, i’ve not had any issues with ports, but im using deluge.

the container network management handles most of that nonsense, the vpn is treated as a native internet connection

I prefer containers…

theres one available called gluetun that can run proton vpn…

then I have a deluge (torrent client) running in another container that specifies gluetun as it’s network source.

this way if the VPN drops I don’t bleed my actual ip

these containers are pre-built and public so config is fairly minimal

uhg im not sure how. my ebay account is nearly 30 years old and i stopped trying ~10 years ago… so many hoops to jump through. so many fees. blech

ebay is basically a poor mans amazon nowadays. ok for purchasing (carefully), but selling just seems like a massive pain in the asshole

check ebay for recently sold, identical parts for their market value. no idea if it would be worth it

the coward in chief strikes again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban–rural_political_divide

the empathy is an inference from a documentary i saw where people have had some success in rural communities changing hearts and minds by befriending them. it turns out its easy to lack empathy for people youve never associated with and you have always been told are less than yourself.

i think there are different socioconomics in play in sweden. lots of real immigration management issues unlike the united states made up ones.

also, sweden is more than an order of magnitude different in size (< 5% actually) of the unites states. ‘rural’ sweden isnt the same thing as ‘rural’ US.

also, i doubt the swedish rednecks are thirsty to get back to their slaving roots.

the funny thing is… getting people to live closer together encourages empathy.

living in the middle of nowhere reduces empathy… this is why people living in bumfuck are empathy-lacking tools calling themselves ‘conservatives’

yep, theres definitely a scaling issue. the lemmy hug of death has taken down a few instances. i suspect there is capacity to double the users on the small instances without too much hassle, but if the numbers got ridiculous it could be… challenging.

i kinda hope the bridging over to blueksky gets a little more fluid so we can attract users from that market. im runnin mbin, which includes the twitter-like crap (microblog).

it took reddit 15 years to get pretty big… i like to hope the fediverse can keep growing.

that said, right now the fediverse seems to be contracting. servers are shutting down/moving. funding is likely drying up in some corners.

we need more coops like beehaw. we need more tooling to handle that kind of payment model. and

::: spoiler we need some marketing :::

shhh i didnt say that.

by design, mostly. most instances are feverishly anti-corporate. so no marketing, no bots allowed.

it got busy for a moment when reddit put the first bullet in its head, but the world has a short attention span if you dont have critical mass.

ha, right! one employee says one thing and thats the end for the entire company??

stupid. and the idea that the whole conversation is tainted because ‘conceit’ is also kinda hilarious

they wont consider anything you say thats ‘pro’ ai. they wont think.