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It’s very specific, isn’t it. Have you considered he may have just thrown three darts at a wall-sized map of the world?

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And everyone blames spotify for this and uses metrics about how much per listen they pay and forgetting we used to listen to songs thousands of times on CDs we paid $10 for.

Artists make close to nothing on spotify, but they also made jack all before spotify. Most of the money you pay goes to labels.

Going to a show is a lot closer to putting money in an artist’s pocket, that’s how they make most of their money.

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You’re using a free account. If you’re worried, splash out for another free account just for Spotube.

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50? 50! I can’t imagine that large boulder the size of a small boulder is the same size as 50 of these?

spoilera group of capybaras sitting by some water

This fast food order kiosk accepts cash (mander.xyz)

All the McD*nalds in my area have been upgraded with order kiosks. Regardless of all the controversy around self-checkout, and minimum wage, and automation taking our jobs, I personally love them. I can take my sweet time composing my order, I can see the full selection (such as it is), I can see pictures and prices clearly...

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Welcome to pretty much every public surface.

Now let me tell you how many of the guys at your business meeting today washed their hands between their last toilet use and shaking your hand.

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My instance has 800 users, is 4 months old, and the database only is over 30GB. It is an insane amount of data.

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I’m a bad example. I haven’t properly tuned the settings, currently RAM will grow to whatever is available.

I’m very lucky, the instance is running in a proxmox container alongside some other fediverse servers (run by others), on dedicated hardware in a datacentre. The sysadmin has basically thrown me plenty of spare resources since the other containers aren’t using them and RAM not used is wasted, so I’ve got 32GB allocated currently. I still need to restart once a week or that RAM gets used up and the database container crashes.

It’s been on my list of things to do for a while, try some different postgres configs, but I just haven’t got around to it.

I know a couple of months back lemmy.world were restarting every 30 mins so they didn’t use up all the RAM and crash. I presume some time and some lemmy updates later that’s no longer the case.

I know some smaller servers get away with 2gb of RAM, and we should be able to use a lot less than 32GB if I actually try to tune the postgres config.

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After the second-to-last update the database shrunk and I was under the impression there was some automatic removal happening. Was this not the case?

It’s helpful info for others but personally I’m not that worried about the database size. The size of the pictrs cache is much more of a concern, and as I understand it there isn’t an easy way to identify and remove cache images without accidentally taking out user image uploads.

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Yes there is automatic removal so if you have enough disk space, no need to worry about it.

What triggers this? My DB was about 30GB, then the update shrunk it down to 5GB, then it grew back to 30GB.

The pictrs storage only consists of uploads from local users, and thumbnails for both local and remote posts. Thumbnails for remote posts could theoretically be wiped and loaded from the other instance, but they shouldnt take much space anyway.

I’d be pretty confident that the 140GB of pictrs cache I have is mostly cache. There are occasionaly users uploading images, but we don’t have that many active users, I’d be surprised if there was more than a few GB of image uploads in total out of that 140GB. We just aren’t that big of a server.

The pictrs volume also grows consistently at a little under 1GB per day. I just went and had a look, in the files directory there are 6 directories from today (the day only has a couple of hours left), and these sum to almost 700MB of images and almost 6000 files, or a little over 100KB each.

The instance has had just 27 active users today (though of course users not posting will still generate thumbnails).

While the cached images may be small, it adds up really quick.

As far as I can tell there is no cache pruning, as the cache goes up pretty consistently each day.

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Thanks for the info! Ior performance reasons it would be nice to have a way to configure how long the cache is kept rather than disable it completely, but I understand you probably have other priorities.

Would disabling the cache remove images cached up to that point?

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That sounds great, thanks for letting me know.

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ChatGPT powers Bing Chat, which can access the internet and find answers for you, no purchase necessary (if you’re not on edge, you might need to install a browser extension to access it as they are trying to push edge still).

My elderly parents' car broke down a couple hundred miles away. How can I get them and their car home (or fixed) with a minimum of cost and hassle?

My parents were driving to the beach for vacation. Their car broke down in a small city just under 100 miles from their destination and about 250 miles from home. It’s under warranty, but the nearest dealership is 50 miles away (in a completely different direction than either home or the beach), and of course neither a...

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You can send messages to other lemmy users. Go to their user page, click Send Message. It only works between lemmy instances (e.g. you can’t message someone on Kbin).

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If you follow their link, you’ll see the original had the issue they describe. The one posted here seems to have been (further) photoshopped to solve the issue of the original.

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Oh I played the original in VR and I though it was the perfect format for it. Looks like there’s no VR version of this one?

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I was hoping they would build it in to the sequel, and now I worry the VR version didn’t do as well as hoped and they may not plan to do it for the sequel.

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I have seen critical enterprise applications run in VBA in excel. Removing VBA would cause global economic ruin. I’m pretty sure that’s the unspoken backstory for the Fallout series.

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They didn’t start out building an enterprise critical application, they normally started as some little script someone built to make their work faster. Then they shared it with the team, built more features, and 20 years later hundreds of staff are using it and if it dissappeared they would be screwed.

Plus the data in them is often the only record of critical data (in their defense, the spreadsheets are typically stored somewhere where the backup process will back them up).

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Your story is pretty typical in my experience. No one hires a dev team to build a VBA tool (except the occasional MS Access tool). It’s normally someone doing the work who works out how to do a basic macro to make it quicker, and it grows from there.

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Personally I can only find the option for posts, not for comments as OP requested.

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You don’t get people taking the carts back to claim the money?

In NZ I’ve never seen it. And I’m glad. My kids love taking all the stray trolleys back, it takes so long to get them back into the car. I can’t imagine how bad it would be if my kids were being paid to take longer to get in the car.

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How do you get your DNS to point to the live one?

In my experience, the router’s primary DNS server is not used first, then the secondary. Rather your device just sends half of the requests to each. If you run two and one is down, every second request fails. Unless you can run a load balancer, but then you’re back to a single point of failure.

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Hmm I’ve definitely see clients just say no when the first fails. How do they tell the router to try the other one? Does the router send both DNS servers to the client or does the client request a lookup from the router? Maybe my router sucks.

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My router is configured with both primary and secondary DNS pointing to my pihole, but in the past I’ve had one valid and one invalid one and the DNS lookup would fail approx half the time. It was a few years ago (but not that many). I wonder what was up with that.

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Nah that’s terrible. Gotta bump up those weekend numbers, think you can do 20 a day?

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Hey, don’t you group me in with people who have had a small amount of real training!

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This is me buying a week’s supply of bananas for my 3 year old.

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I have a first gen framework and I really like it. Having the ports behave differently on this AMD does seem a little annoying but I guess you’d get used to it.

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I also don’t move them often, it’s interesting they weren’t able to get all 4 the same though. I haven’t read anything that actually explains it. I guess the CPU can only handle that configuration.

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Thanks. I’ve read a few articles about these AMD frameworks but have never seen the reason for the limitation mentioned.

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As someone who clicked the link, I can confirm it says it supports Proton Drive.

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As others have said, keep using it.

But I what I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that you could buy your replacement now. I had an SSD die suddenly (no SMART error) and the most annoying thing was the server being down until a new hard drive could arrive.

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Make use of it then! Or even better, ZFS mirror or RAID 1 so that if one dies the other holds a perfect copy and can continue running unaffected.

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It’s the first I’ve heard of this game. Is it fun?

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Thanks! I’ll put it on my wishlist and give it a go sometime.

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Demo? I can’t find a demo

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I’m sitting here in the southern hemisphere wondering at what point we’ll no longer be be able to go outside unprotected.

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I was hoping when the world got too hot then Antarctica would become livable, but I might need to rethink my retirement plans.

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Check out Wikipedia’s List of Common Misconceptions.

A self-hosted wiki that can integrate with a fediverse instance (wiki.dbzer0.com)

Two days ago, I deployed the official wiki for lemmy.dbzer0.com. It’s using django-wiki as a software, which other than being markdown-based and therefore helping lemmings easily migrate documentation over, provides python hooks for doing some really cool stuff....

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Is there a reason you went with this approach of claiming accounts (as opposed to say the system for Fediseer, where it messages you on Lemmy to claim it, or the lemmy Oauth system)?

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Miss, you can’t do that

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I have never heard “chuddy” before and I’ve lived in NZ my whole life. Is it a regional or generational thing?

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There are definitely sites claiming it’s NZ slang, but I haven’t heard it before. I’m not a professional gum chewer though.

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I remember it being awesome. Does it still hold up or is it showing it’s age?

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I’m on the last level of Dishonored 2 (low chaos playthrough). It’s taken me a year to get here because I don’t have much free time and I get bored playinr the same game every time I get free time.

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xkcd.com/1145/

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This is a really interesting thought experiment.

Definitely I sometimes feel like my consciousness is not controlling my body (think of how you might act sometimes with a really strong emotion), but I think you’re meaning on an even higher level.

A couple of things come to mind.

  1. this is not unlike the idea that we are all living in a simulation
  2. this is not unlike the premise of earth in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Perhaps, but I think it’s better described as running on autopilot. Reading through the wikipedia page on derealisation didn’t really make me think this is what I was thinking of.

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