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- Comment on Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos 23 hours ago:
Really
Never ever heard of
Thanks for quality post
(Luckly immich is much better quality than this post)
- Comment on Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy 1 day ago:
You actually WANT to be with low free memory. Provided that most of it is used by cache.
Free memory is a waste, when you could cache stuff for faster access.
That’s how Linux memory management works, and it make sense if you relflect on it. Better cache that page or that file that is used often, since free memory is just wasted. Cache can be freed and memory reclaimed in a fraction of a millisecond when needed.
So don’t bother too much. Unless your SWAP usage is high, don’t bother.
Also consider that Linux kernel will use your swap a bit even if you have lots of cache, because the kernel knows better than you how to improve your performances. Swapping out never used stuff is better than killing cached items.
Again, don’t oberthink memory on Linux, the best alarm is when swap is constantly happening, then yes you need more ram (or to kill that broken process that keeps hogging due to a bug)
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 2 days ago:
You don’t get it: I am and will remain the only user of my instance…
Do you even now how Lemmy works? Did I say I was going to let ICE people create users on my instance? I only said I don’t defederate any instance.
- Comment on On Greed 2 days ago:
Display name? I see inimzi as posting user and its pretty clear to me this user is related to the posted website. Advertising means revenue, where is it? This seems self promoting to me.
I am guilty if the same sin I guess with my self hosting wiki.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 2 days ago:
Wake up. Ice, being government, it’s already legitimized enough in real life.
What difference would it make in the social media. Better if they are out in the open in social media instead, at least they get responsible for what they post, officially.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 2 days ago:
I don’t ban anyone or any instance in my own instance, so no they cannot be “parammanned” from Lemmy. That’s not how it works and why i like Lemmy and its principles.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 3 days ago:
(Not American here)
While i agree fediverse is then solution and i don’t use bluesky, i don’t see the issue is recognizing ICE as verified.
After all ice is a government agency of the USA whether you like it or not, and should be verified if there is a procedure to do so.
No i don’t like ice and i do not condone what they do, but that doesn’t change the above statement.
- Comment on On Greed 3 days ago:
And so what? To be honest, what’s wrong with self promotion?
But is the article interesting? Maybe this is the important thing to consider and comment about.
At least if they self promote they do it in the open and not hiding hypocritically
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Really? Wow… I assumes was USA LoL
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Well, I think there are a few… Indeed I know at least two italian instances, plus my private instance…
But most of activity is currently on USA instances like world, so…
- Comment on Selfhosted coding assistant? 3 days ago:
My recent experience regarding questions on documentation:
- dovecot: shitty useless responses, totally made up
- Gentoo linux: to be checked twice and mostly wrong or fake
- godot: accurate and correct almost always, maybe examples not always 100% correct
- C++ standard 17: correct, never had a wrong reply from llm, also the exact ples where on point and correct
I think that’s all what I have used it for in the last six months.
Note: I used only Google search AI llm, nothing else.
So it seems that depends on what you ask.
- Comment on Selfhosted coding assistant? 4 days ago:
Maybe you should check 5hat again. I never used llm before 2025, but proved itself useful for a few tasks. Yes check and verification still needed, but indeed made my life easier and got taken done faster. Quality was still a good as what I could do myself. Maybe that doesn’t speak well of myself I don’t know.
- Comment on Selfhosted coding assistant? 4 days ago:
While you are correct, as all tools AI is not bad per se.
If you use ai to replace more lengthy documentation searches and write your own code that works out pretty well and speed up your work without degrading your coding. Granted, I got plainly incorrect answers as well, but at least I managed to be much more efficient.
Treat LLMs/ai as a glorified documentation aggregator and that’s how you correctly use that tool.
Like, use a knife to cut and cook meat, not to cut another person body, and that’s how you correctly use that tool too.
- Comment on Upgrading storage to usb drives 6 days ago:
I run a setup very similar for many years. Upgraded progressively from 2x120GB to 4x4Tb, from mechanicals to sdds.
I can say don’t cheap out on the usb enclosures, the more you pay the better it is. I purchased a 4 bay JBOD usb3 box with a fan (150€+ nowadays) and that is the only enclosure that really worked out and still works (but retired) today. All single disk enclosures will fail sooner or later depending on how cheap they are, just take that onto consideration.
The setup itself is pretty good and stable, I would suggest standard Linux MDRaid 1, and on top of that something simple like ext4. I wouldn’t put anything that adds to the disk workloads like zfs, but maybe I am wrong.
Speed wise, I was able to stream movies without any hiccups, and that’s plenty I think.
Do not cheap out on the enclosures. Cheap ones will last 1 month, I don’t kid you.
And keep them cool… Fan… Air circulation… USB controllers will be killed faster than mechanical disks by heat. And 24/7 will generate heat… Those enclosures are not built for that…
Again, it’s pretty doable and I did it for almost 2 decades. DONT BE CHEAP ON ENCLOSURES (did I say so already?) And you should be fine.
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 1 week ago:
If you don’t want to use postgresql for some obscure reason use MariaDB real open source MySQL drop in replacement.
- Comment on How are people discovering random subdomains on my server? 1 week ago:
This.
That’s why temping obscurity for security is not a good idea. Doesn’t take much to be “safe”, at least reasonably safe. But that not much its good practice to be done :)
- Comment on The more I understand mass shooters, the more I don't what they do. 1 week ago:
Well, I understand you.
Neither do I.
Last time I was in a church for a religious function was literally years ago…
So why would I care for somebody who shoot during a mass?
- Comment on Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill 1 week ago:
My server has 48gb ram and in top Lemmy doesn’t appear even in the 0.1% memory usage.
- Comment on Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill 2 weeks ago:
Disk space 10gb, CPU/ram not noticeable on my server (lots of other services using more than Lemmy).
I think it’s been up about one year. One user but I subscribe to all communities I find remotely interesting.
- Comment on Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill 2 weeks ago:
Running “my” own single user instance here.
Great! Love it! The whole idea.
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 3 weeks ago:
Agree on the handpicking yes. Nothing bad in reposting content, but mass posting just drowns communities and doesn’t generate engagement.
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 3 weeks ago:
No thank you. Just leeching content from reddit will never get Lemmy anywhere.
I blocked all content reposted from Lemmy (there was an instance dedicated to that iirc).
First of all, posts without comments are pointless. Interaction and comments is what grows Lemmy. Second, bot posts are not well received by most here I think.
I can see it useful only as a “reddit backup” of kind, in case the platform goes offline for good and all that is lost.
I would worry for the level of moderation required to filter shitty / ai / bots etc.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
Well, that’s true of most internet. Luckly, internet Is not (yet) real life.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
I am not american and frankly find American style polemics quite hard to understand. Mind me I have quite a few american good friends, and I lived in the USA for a few years too, nothing against USA itself.
But yes Tolerance is at the base of civil life and that’s true even with intolerant people.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
How does the Lemmy creators actually personally benefit from the fact I run my own Lemmy instance?
I do not donate to them, but how is the technology created be them evil if it fits my concept of decentralized web?
Do they get money because I run my instance o use another one not under their control? O doubt it
I am actually using their tech against themselves, so what?
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe the fact I am not a native speaker affect how my words are understood.
Actually yes fascist and communist are two ends of the spectrum, I have no idea what tankies means, it seems to be some slang or jargon.
But no, why would using lemmy means people from Lemmy.ml controlling what we read? That’s totally bonkers.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
And you seems to be from a non US instance, it might be related to the fact you seems to be the only agreeing with me.
But yes, at the end the concept it the technology should not be judged by the political views of the creator.
I also agree with not supporting it finacially if that money goes where you don’t like.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
I really don’t like this dangerous trend of condemning actions of people based on wether we agree with them or disagree with them.
Because this behavior is at the base for intolerance and strong polarization.
First of all, I want to judge your actions for what they are, not for what your political views are. So Lemmy is good and I like that full stop. There will be better alternatives (maybe already are) and I will judge them without agreeing with their creators political views.
Second, I prefer to discuss and interact with people who have different views and political ideas than me, because that’s where I grow my ideas and enforce or dispute them. Enough of the echo chamber where the “algorithm” already places us in every social fucking media.
Kids, it’s by enforcing and supporting even the ideas contrary to yours that you grow up. Yes this is annoying and can cause serious brain engagement, but yeah, that’s how we progress.
Even fascists or communist ideas. Zionist or pro-Palestine, pro gender or anti woke, if we start judging peoples actions only for their ideas we become fascists.
I was also tought that what you do is more significant than what you say. Judge by actions, not words.
So I don’t dislike technology because the guy behind it is a fascist or a communist.
Said so, if anybody thinks that can do a better Lemmy by forking it, go ahead and let me judged by the actions.
- Comment on Strava Fediverse alternative 4 weeks ago:
I use endurain but mostly to backup my Garmin activities.
It’s nice, lots of development and efforts and very polished.
- Comment on PhotoStructure vs. PhotoPrism 1 month ago:
Tried photoprism, then tried immich. Never went back.
Easier installation, easier management, more polished, just better overall