Yes, this!

I’m really liking the new StandBy function. I went ahead and bought a stand to use next to my bed. I love having the clock and the weather together.

You probably would be, but that depends on the law where the server is hosted. This isn’t a good place for legal advice like that.

What kind of server do you want to host?

Since AP servers both accept incoming connections and make outgoing connections, both sides need valid certificates to do HTTPS.

Good luck getting the server connecting to you to trust it!

I can’t imagine it’d work without a domain, as your instance will need to talk HTTPS with other instances.

It’s something that Linux users have been saying for 20 years and it’s outdated. It makes sense when maybe your computer came with less than a GB of RAM, but these days I usually configure a server with a small amount of swap (like a couple of GB), and I set swappiness to something very low like 5.

I tend to prefer installing Debian on a server, but recently I did install Ubuntu’s recent LTS on a box because I was running into an issue with the latest version of Debian. I didn’t want to revert to an earlier version of Debian or spend a bunch of time figuring out the problem I was having with Python, so I opted to use Ubuntu, which worked.

Ubuntu is based on Debian, so it’s like using the same operating system, as far as I’m concerned.

Yup, I’ve read something similar. Hopefully they’re able to get things sorted out soon!

I’ve not personally noticed any federation issues with Beehaw on my instance. Glad to hear things are better tonight.

I do wish you could federate/sync specific communities to your instance to make searching/subscribing easier.

You mean something that populates your server with a history of posts and comments to communities before your subscribe to them?

It’s hard to say. I don’t know if the admins of Lemmy.ml have been public about their issues or not. I know that Lemmy.world hasn’t been having the same issues, at least from my perspective. Makes me think it’s less an architectural or design problem, but rather a lack of server resources like CPU, as you suggested.

For personal Linux servers, I tend to run Debian or Ubuntu, with a pretty simple “base” setup that I just run through manually in my head.

• Setup my personal account.
• Upload my SSH keys.
• Configure the hostname (usually after something in Star Trek 🖖).
• Configure the /etc/hotss file.
• Make sure it is fully patched.
• Setup ZeroTier.
• Setup Telegraf to ship some metrics.
• Reboot.

I don’t automate any of this because I don’t see a whole of point in doing it.

I’ve had lot of issues with lemmy.ml. I just unsubscribed from everything over there since zero comments were federating over to my instance.

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I’m using Linode, and their prices are publicly available.

https://www.linode.com/pricing/

For Mastodon, I’m using the Linode 4 GB while the Lemmy server runs on the Linode 2 GB option. Both are under the Shared CPU pricing – not dedicated.

Thanks, I believe you are correct.

Sendgrid has a free plan, I know, but I believe you’re limited on the number of emails you can send per day.

Same. I’ve never had it screw up before, but the only thing I can imagine is that something’s not right with the keys.

As an aside, I did recently create a new server, and somehow managed to completely ignore the errors in ssh-copy-id. Turns out I forgot to use -m (to create my home directory) in useradd when I went to create my personal account. Oops!

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