The minimum spec is whatever e-waste you can find that still powers on.

My home server has an i3-4160, 10 gigabytes of mis-matched RAM, a ten-year-old 240 GB SSD with 36000 hours on it, and three 1 TB hard drives in a RAID5 array each with ~25000 power-on hours. It runs Proxmox on the metal with a virtualized OPNsense, Nextcloud, and Jellyfin server (plus smaller services). Jank levels are high, but not fatal, and it was mostly free.

You mean this isn’t a satirical mockery of the current state of US politics?

CEO: “Why do we even employ 60 testers when our software have always been mostly bug-free on release and patched within a week?”

The QA who spent the last three weeks pressing the same button 4000 times in different situations:

We’re adding new, different symbols to the confusing mess of old symbols and keeping both? Neat!

The original creator of Wordpress and the owner of a Wordpress hosting site. He’s been having a meltdown for months because Wordpress is being used by WP Engine, a for-profit competitor hosting company, in compliance with the license. Since then, he has:

• Changed the trademark license and retroactively sued WP Engine,
• Disparaged WP Engine every time he had the chance,
• Added a potentially legally binding checkbox to wordpress.com where the user must declare their disassociation with WP Engine (which also locked out actual employees),
• Forcibly taken control of several community-made plugins,
• Acted like an absolute fucking buffoon the innocent little lamb who’s been set upon by the wolves.

Please don’t, this is the best entertainment I’ve had in months!

I currently run Nextcloud inside a Debian 11 LXC container on Proxmox, together with Apache, Mariadb, and PHP. I followed this guide. Once Apache and PHP were running, the rest of the process was straightforward.

He showed all of the signs of being an impostor that Caldwell didn’t. He kept taunting Weir instead of answering her questions and misleading the investigation when Atlantis was about to blow up because he had a bruised ego. He had it coming.

Yes, it has both a compressor and a limiter. I don’t know how to set them up though.

Switch from Pulse? No reason not to. Use Wireplumber instead of pipewire-session-manager, and consider installing pipewire-pulse if any of your scripts rely on pactl (or rewrite them to use wpctl, which does much the same as pactl).

As for Easyeffects, use the flatpak package to avoid dependency issues.

1. It was doing new things.
2. It was easier to learn.
3. The other init systems were (are) stagnant.

Imagine trying to get new, young developers to adopt C or Pascal when the likes of Rust and Python exist. You can make arguments for a thing’s superiority based on moral standards (which are always subjective), but morality is a poor metric. If everything was done based on that, the Linux ecosystem would be in the same state as the GNU Hurd kernel.

My entire house is 3000K

Your heating expenses must be absurd.

A while ago I watched a live stream of CSPAN (I think?) where the House failed to form a government for several consecutive days. The way the entire process started with a prayer, and the many references to religion throughout, is just as disturbing as the personality cult around Stalin. That whole gang is fucked in the head.

Pedestrians should be thankful that the windows gave out so easily, otherwise the body panels might’ve turned into giant shrapnel.

98 children yearned too much for the mines

Fun fact: the 13th Amendment permits slavery as punishment for a crime. Yay, America!

20-disk RAID5 it is then.

Team building events back when I was working in a factory. One day every year we had the option* to go to a crowded bar and have overpriced drinks with the same people we met every day. I didn’t even like half of them (I was just polite and professional) and one shitty event wasn’t going to change my attitude. I would’ve preferred a regular shift on an assembly line.

* the other option was taking out a paid vacation day (non-American labour laws FTW)

You mean a service that translates between ActivityPub and another API? I’m pretty sure that’s just a bridge.

As for the challenges:

• It would have to be maintained constantly.
• It would have to be updated to reflect changes to an API in a timely manner.
• It would need to handle different versions of APIs (goodness knows even Lemmy instance operators have trouble with that).
• It would need to handle features that don’t translate one-to-one between instances.
• It would have to be transparent enough to allow a non-technical user to use it, but opaque enough that a non-technical user doesn’t blame issues with the bridge on the connected services (see for example: the Bottles packaging kerfuffle).
• …and so on. Lots of challenges.

aplay: “Hey kid… wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?”