Dirk
@Dirk@lemmy.ml
🏠 Hamburg, Germany
🚃 Daily Commuter
🐧 Linux User
🎮 Part-time Gamer
💻 Hobbyist Coder
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- Comment on How can I migrate my current Lemmy profile to another lemmy instance? 3 weeks ago:
losing all your comments and posts history
They are not lost, they are still there
Yes, they’re there, in the old account on the old instance, and not here, where the new account on the new instance is.
Lemmy shouldn’t be used for messaging
That is entirely not the point. (Also: messaging on Lemy and instant messaging have nothing in common and should not be confused.)
- Comment on How can I migrate my current Lemmy profile to another lemmy instance? 3 weeks ago:
Except the things I mentioned.
- Comment on How can I migrate my current Lemmy profile to another lemmy instance? 3 weeks ago:
Migrating or moving an account is not part of ActivityPub. Mastodon extended the protocol to have a
moveactivity.Unless Lemmy devs come up with something similar and extend the protocol, there is no way to properly move/migrate the account to another instance. The current solution is to create a new account on your desired instance and then export the data on your old instance and import it on your new instance and leave a note in your bio for old instance/account[^1]
Start here for details on this. According to the devs this would be nice to have but is of very low priority.
[^1]: ignoring the fact that you need to re-subscruibe to communities with manual approval and losing all your comments and posts history as well as all private messaging history and contacts.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. While I can dockerize those applications, all I checked out lack modern features and concepts/designs. It all feels heavily outdated technology-wise.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 4 weeks ago:
federated blog
I wonder what federated blog (or publishing platform) isn’t stuck in pre-Docker era, though.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 4 weeks ago:
You can run those as single-user instances or with approval of users so you can use those instances for your family and/or friends only.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 4 weeks ago:
The usual suspects: Mastodon (or mastodon-compatible servers like GoToSocial), PeerTube, Pixelfed, etc.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 4 weeks ago:
I am disappointed …
- Comment on What are good harddrives to use with serves 1 month ago:
Absolutely. They’re advertised for being used in datecenters, so I assume noise optimization wasn’t a concern for Seagate when creating those drives.
- Comment on What are good harddrives to use with serves 1 month ago:
Sorry, I can’t hear you under my enormous piles of money! 🙃
But yeah. You should do an SSD-only setup if this is within your budget. I assume that for most of us selfhosting is just some soft of hobby. If you’re willing to spend money on the latest and cooles tech: do it. If not, then it’s fine, too.
- Comment on What are good harddrives to use with serves 1 month ago:
Okay, so … then maybe really look into the Seagate Exos drives. 20 TB should be pretty much fine for most selfhosting adventures.
- Comment on What are good harddrives to use with serves 1 month ago:
I’m looking for something from 4TB upwards.
If you say “harddrive” … do you mean actual harddrives or are you using it synonymous with “storage”? If you really talk about actual harddrives, it’s hard to even find datacenter/server harddrives below 4 TB. Usually server HDDs start with 8 or 12 TB. You can even find HDDs with 20 TB - Seagate Exos series for example, starting at around 360 Euros (ca. 400 USD).
If you’re in for a general storage, preferably SSD, that’s another issue. There is the Samsung 870 QVO (8 TB) SSD that is often advertised as “datacenter SSD” (so I assume it would run well in a server that is active 24/7), but it is currently available with a maximum of 8 TB. The 870 QVO is at ca. 70 Euros per terabyte (ca. 77 USD) which, in my experience, is the current price range for SSDs. So it has a high price seen from the outside but it’s actually fine. It’s also a one-time investment.
For selfhosting I’d go with an SSD-only setup.
do any have particularly good or bad reputation?
From personal experience I’d say, stick with the “larger” brands like Samsung or Seagate.
- Comment on Selfhosted chat service 1 month ago:
Use XMPP. Thanks to Let’s Encrypt being implemented in basically every reverse proxy, setting it up is a matter of seconds.
- Comment on Recommend a KVM or Switch 2 months ago:
Make sure that, whatever switch you want to get, the switch supports simulating output (edit simulation/storing) and USB devices. Otherwise every switching action would cause disconnect and connect actions on the hosts.
- Comment on Haptic: A new local-first, privacy-focused and open-source home for your markdown notes 2 months ago:
You host it locally and use a web browser to access it.
- Comment on Infinite energy is easy. Point a flashlight at a solar charger that charges a flashlight pointed at a solar charger that charges the first flashlight. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Full open source and private camera monitoring system 2 months ago:
I remember ZoneMinder.
A full-featured, open source, state-of-the-art video surveillance software system.
Is this still a thing nowadays?
- Comment on Is there is any modern Reddit alternative on the fediverse? 2 months ago:
But “oTHer ThaN LemMy” …
- Comment on Maybe Deja vu is when someone reloaded a save 2 months ago:
Nah, it’s just an async function call catching up.
- Comment on Cheap but reliable external SSD for RPis 2 months ago:
Samsung T7 totally worth every cent. You connect it via USB-C.
- Comment on How much salt water to kill a tree? 3 months ago:
The whole neighborhood!
I bet this person is “this person”.
- Comment on How much salt water to kill a tree? 3 months ago:
Or … you could accept that nature is part of our life as a species and stop being an asshole over your “pRopErTy LinE”.
- Comment on Migrating Mastodon to Pleroma 3 months ago:
GoToSocial is awesome. Some features are still missing, but the server is in active development.
As front-end I use Elk. It’s selfhostable as well as publicly usable at elk.zone. It’s labeled as alpha software but runs absolutely well.
- Comment on Google slashes Indian maps API prices – after rival's launch 3 months ago:
[Laughing in OSM]
- Comment on Is everyone so depressed now partially because modern science has probably proven there is no god / afterlife? 4 months ago:
A horned horse to me makes more sense than the concept that is usually called “god”.
- Comment on Is everyone so depressed now partially because modern science has probably proven there is no god / afterlife? 4 months ago:
A depression is an illness. “Feeling depressed” is a symptom, not the cause. The cause is a bodily malfunction that needs to be treated with appropriate medicine.
If believing in some “higher being” or “the afterlife” helps an individual to deal with the symptoms of a depression that’s great, but not believing such things does not cause a depression.
- Comment on Johannes Ernst: "There are no more open issues in the #ActivityPub issue tracker!…" - social.coop 4 months ago:
No more open issues, except the currently 85 open issues.
- Comment on Don't give them ideas 4 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson 5 months ago:
That’s actually pretty good!
- Comment on OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson 5 months ago:
ChatGPT has a voice?
