Refurbished Dell 7390? ~$250 has an 13" display with relatively small bezels. I think if you want it even smaller, you'd need some mini laptop or a tablet or steam deck. But that has other downsides. And having a device with an full-size keyboard is nice if you want to type / code.
Glad I could contribute something.
If you want more tips: Choose the channel that suites you best. If you like arch, you probably like rolling distros. You could skip the stable channel and go for testing or unstable and that'd provide you with an experience alike a rolling release model. That isn't officially supported... Debian focuses on getting security patches into stable, not necessarily the other channels. That's why only stable is recommended. However, the other ones work great and Debian usually do a good job with keeping them well-maintained, too. I run testing on my laptop and I like it.
(Edit: And Debian should have a good amount of customizability... You can (re-)configure the package manager not to install recommended or suggested packages, and you can also skip the manpages and documentation if all you want is a small system.)
I'm sorry, I really don't get all the innuendo here. Are we talking about a Macbook or another laptop here that gets support for 10 years? I like to pay about 1200€ for a laptop and it usually lasts me like 6-8 years. But 1 TB SSD is a bit short of what I'm comfortable with. If I configure a M3 Macbook with 24GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD it comes down to 3149€. That is about $3.400 after taxes. Another laptop I really like is the frame.work laptop. The AMD Ryzen 7 should be plenty fast. The price including 32GB of memory and 2 TB of storage is 1918€ or about $2.070 after taxes. And in the years to come you can fix it and upgrade it however you like. So your $1900 sounds about right if it's blazing fast and lasts you 10 years. I just wonder which laptop you're talking about.
Kein Plan... Ich hab irgendwie weniger Probleme hier Leute zu finden die auf eine (halbwegs) gesunde Art bekloppt sind und mit denen es Spass macht sich zu unterhalten. Aber vielleicht habe ich es auch zu rosig (an)gemalt. Beileibe ist hier nicht alles gut. Ich bin auf einige Arschlöcher getroffen, blöde Menschen mit denen ich mich nicht abgeben muss... Und irgendwie schwankt es in meinem Empfinden hier auch sehr. Als eine Horde von zehntausenden Menschen ankam war es eine ganze Weile super, Aufbruchsstimmung, nette Gespräche. Dann wurde es normaler, dann habe ich ganz oft gesehen dass Leute nur mit negativen Sachen antworten... an Positivem vorbeiwischen und nur schreiben wenn es etwas Anzumäkeln oder zu Widersprechen gibt. Dann wurde es wieder besser. Zwischendurch hat mich die Kacke mit Israel und Palästina ganz an dem Konzept menschliche Unterhaltung zweifeln lassen, und die Zeit in der die Föderation kaputt war, war auch eine ziemliche Durststrecke. Nichtsdestoweniger bin ich mir nicht ganz so sicher wo die Reise hingeht... Ganz so enthusiastisch wie letzten Sommer bin ich aber auch nicht mehr. Naja. Die Tankies ignoriere ich gekonnt, auch wenn sie es einem manchmal schwer machen. Trolle füttere ich selten, die gibt es ja überall im Netz. Und die Nazis filtert irgendwer anders für mich heraus, wahrscheinlich die Einstellungen der Instanzen die ich nutze. (Oder der Fakt, dass ich mir nur Kram anschaue, den ich auch abonniert habe.)
Aber wieauchimmer. Es gibt auch interessante Menschen, eine Handvoll sehr gut funktionierender Ecken. Ich wünschte mir nur hier wären auch ein paar mehr Nerds die irgendwelche Mikrocontroller zusammenlöten oder über ihre anderen wahnwitzigen Freizeitbeschäftigungen berichten würden. (Und weniger Zeitungsartikel und Politik.)
Where did you get your certificates from and what's the exact error message? Maybe you're using self-signed certificates. Those don't get accepted by anyone else. Your path doesn't look like the default letsencrypt/acme path...
and RMS. And we need a third person to get to the holy trinity. Greg Kroah-Hartman? Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie? Bjarne Stroustrup? We could choose Lennart Poettering, that'd certainly annoy a few people. Maybe we need some more apostles and additional people since all of that is based on the work of so many different people.
If I might ask: Who is leaving and what for? Mac? I've seen some developers buy the newer M2/M3 Macbooks. I think they're nice. But not nice enough to pay the price for one with a decent amount of RAM and storage myself.
Thank you very much for explaining, and the whole AMA.
Concerning the "providing the project for free"... I think that's too simplistic. I mean users have expectations anyways. And you must have some motivation to maintain an open source project. Otherwise you wouldn't put it out there, engage with your users, fix their issues and incorporate their requests. Or you'd make that clear in the first line of the Readme as some people do.
I think open source is giving and taking. It's not about legal obligations (we usually waive every responsibility in every open source license.) But perhaps ethically. I as a user feel obligated to honor and respect your work and the time you've put in. And I shouldn't expect anything except for everyone abides by the license. But the devs aren't the only one putting in time and effort. Downstream are admins who run the actual instances. There might be an ethical obligation to not waste their time either. And there are moderators and users who make the platform become alive. They also offer their time for free and are part of the ecosystem, like the developers are. And ethically it is correct to treat people nice who put in a few hours to prepare a proper pull request and work towards the same goal as core developers.
And there are a few unique circumstances. This is a social network/link aggregator. And as such it relies to some degree on the network effect. It won't work without a certain amount of users and them being happy here. Lemmy devs seem (to me) invested in the project and not just coding something for money. So you want it to be successful and catering for users is part of the equation. Additionally the users of a social network trust the platform with their private data. You can't take legal responsibility for that. But if you accept users doing that, it's at least an ethical obligation to make good choices.
And the situation is: Since you have a few full-time developers... It's not a hobby project anymore. So it's a bit more complicated. And money might come with expectations. I personally differentiate between donations that are meant as a bounty, this money comes with obligations. And donations for the great work you've done so far. These come without.
I think you're doing a good job. I especially like that Lemmy development doesn't seem to be focused on growth above all. You could implement things differently and completely focus on not showing user-facing issues, in order to assure fast growth. Or write a Reddit clone like some people would like, including gamification, awards and stuff. But you don't seem to be interested in that. And that aligns well with what I like. I want a nice place to engage with people. I don't need another platform that is commercial and does things in order to be successful at the market.
I'm grateful. There are still bugs and a few more complicated annoyances I'd like to see being addressed. But I really enjoy spending some of my time here.
I hope those wants and needs aren't mutually exclusive. I think most open source projects do a good job in catering for both. I'm not involved in Lemmy development so I don't really know what's going on here. But I've sent one-off contribution to various projects, sometimes contributed single features or helped to sort something out. It always felt appreciated.
Sure, a drive-by commit every now and then and no responsibility is a completely different level than maintaining a (large) project and putting in that effort and dedication. I think a healthy open source project has both. Maintenance and the responsibility/decisions by a core team. And the community contributions make up by adding diversity, being close to what the user needs and adding manpower by a larger group of people, meaning the individual contributions might be smaller, but by many more people. Good communication between the devs and the community usually helps to get quality contributions.
developers are notoriously bad at testing their own code, so I dont see what we can improve in this regard.
Sounds like software development... I mean automated tests help. But you're developing a distributed/federated platform. Unit tests won't do it. Maybe infrastructure that spins up a small fleet of instances and checks their ability to federate posts, delete comments and simulates interaction. That'd assure the most important aspects keep working. And I think there are tools for that available. But I get it. It's complicated, there are real-world instances with special (niche) setups, you're constrained, it has to be worth the effort and there are other important things to do.
Maybe just do your best not to break too many things and we (users) can complain and have another discussion only if it's a reoccurring problem. 😉
No. 0.19.1 was supposed to fix it, but it didn't. And people said it syncs at least every 24h hours, but that also wasn't the case.
The bugreport got re-opened, and I already saw some workarounds and tags for another upcoming bugfix release.
hendrik
joined 3 years ago
Not under normal circumstances. I had some issues recovering damaged harddisks that had lots of errors and retries and sometimes either the USB adapter or the mainboard SATA would crap out or handle it better. But for normal copying of HDDs, both should copy the exact same data.