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cole , 20 days ago

sometimes people don't want to live in the middle of nowhere forever. not many engineering jobs there. we all want economic mobility too

cole , 20 days ago

I don't think you understand - I can live poor and destitute without a job in my hometown, or leave to find work somewhere else. This is the reality of many Americans in rural America.

This isn't a quest for "wealth", it's a quest for life

cole , 19 days ago

A) to go and earn any money
B) I actually pollute less in the place that I moved to since I don't have to drive a car

cole , 1 month ago

holy shit their site has a lot of ads

cole , 1 month ago

oh god this is a flash to the last, I think I had that back in 2014,2015? It sucked

cole , 1 month ago

Your submission, "Is there any solution available for controlling the volume without pressing the physical volume buttons ?" was removed for Rule 2: post these in !askandroid.

cole Mod , 1 month ago

I actually run the infrastructure. Our pictrs is backed by S3 object storage so it should not be possible to run out of space. I'll have a look this evening

cole Mod , 1 month ago

Currently tracking this issue. I restarted the pictrs server for now which might fix the issue. Our pictrs is backed by S3 object storage which is effectively infinite. Additionally the pictrs database definitely has not run out of room, the root vol is only 822MB/3GB.

I'll look into this more this evening after work if it is still not resolved!

cole , 1 month ago

really rough to use honestly. I'd rather use non-FOSS (on shape) while I wait for this to hit the "blender inflection point" and actually get good.

cole , 1 month ago

man y'all keep duplicating each other's posts haha

cole , 1 month ago

Hey maybe I've ridden on your bus before! Honestly, we need more protected bus only lanes, like not share with HOV at all. This would be a big boon especially on the 520 bridge. I think that + traffic light priority would be a big step forward. fuck cars

cole , 1 month ago

hol up what kind of intern can afford to buy a Model 3?

cole , 1 month ago

wtf is that bullshit. interning is basically required experience in some fields (engineering especially). companies will usually pay for your housing and food even

cole , 1 month ago

I'd say PopOS, EndeavourOS (or just Arch), or just Fedora Linux 40 (might need to check a box to enable proprietary drivers on install for Nvidia to work right).

Nothing will run MS365 though, that's just not on Linux (and Wine doesn't work very well for modern versions). Best you can do is a Windows virtual machine if you need the actual applications and not the cloud version.

cole , 1 month ago

I've played 2077 and RDR2 on my PC (running arch Linux) with no problems. couple hundred hours between them. tbh I couldn't compare to windows, since I just haven't used windows in ~7 years

cole OP Mod , 2 months ago

Oh we aren't switching to it by default, I'm just providing options! We run a bunch of different front ends currently.

a.lemdro.id
l.lemdro.id
old.lemdro.id
next.lemdro.id
m.lemdro.id

...there might be more that I've missed

cole OP Mod , 2 months ago

Very very interesting. I haven't seen a trend in increased response times for that region. This is Europe, right? That looks like you had a 1+ second API call to the backend there. I'll look at my stats and see if I can find a culprit. Things should've gotten faster lately, not slower!

cole OP Mod , 30 days ago

Beehaw is an excellent instance, and the admins who run it are very nice and easy to work with.

It's true that the moderation tools on Lemmy are quite limited, and I frankly don't blame them for defederating with anything one bit

cole Mod , 4 months ago

Next couple of days!

cole Mod , 4 months ago

Update complete!

cole , 10 months ago

https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/182bd8fd-26c9-4014-adb1-2be2ad024037.png

cole Mod , 10 months ago

Hey, thanks for asking. I run all of the backend - including paying for the costs associated. Lemdro.id has a pretty unique architecture that has taken a lot of work to perfect. As a result, we can scale down and up extremely easily as ijeff mentioned.

I will be setting up an OpenCollective eventually to accept donations, but I wanted to get the architecture stable and lemdro.id fast before I allowed people to contribute towards it. Just for your information, current hosting costs are looking to be around ~$35/mo which I am quite alright with funding on my own until I get that setup. Financially backing lemdro.id, once launched, will allow me to take advantage of the scaling architecture I've built to deploy servers to different regions outside of the US to keep response times low globally, too.

The idea was to make a big "state of the lemdro.id" post soon-ish that details costs, architecture, and importantly transparency. Our admin and moderation teams are fully transparent to the public via our Matrix setup, and the server architecture is slowly being integrated with GitHub. The idea is to allow the community to make contributions to improving the architecture of the instance they use by submitting PRs which then get deployed to a staging environment once reviewed and eventually pulled into production as well.

TL;DR: Yes, we will accept donations via OpenCollective which will allow us to expand lemdro.id globally to offer lower access times in other continents. This will become available once some personal goals I have set to increase lemdro.id transparency and open-source-ness are met.

If you'd like, I can ping you once I've got it setup, but you can expect to see a post in the !lemdroid in the next couple of weeks regarding this anyways!

cole Mod , 10 months ago

Thanks! Yeah the costs are low because I've had the luxury to tune and architect lemdro.id properly before putting it out to the world for users. Our scaling methodology is really unique amongst lemmy, we are one of only two instances scaling horizontally (although we are doing so in dramatically different ways).

I figure the only way to guarantee long-time support and consistency is to keep hosting costs low so we aren't dependent on large amounts of financial goodwill from small amounts of people.

Glad you're liking lemdro.id, it has grown better than I even expected!

cole Mod , 6 months ago

we are not defederated, but the sorting is acting up. I'm on vacation right now but have been looking into it. We'll be upgrading to 0.19 once the .2 patch hits which I suspect will resolve this issue. For now, I've found that there are a few "stuck" posts and under those sorting is pulling in new stuff.

If you're browsing all, the workaround right now is to sort by "hot" instead of "active"