You won't win this one here. Lemmy is disappointingly facebook-like in terms of their seemingly endless desire to be told what to do every step of their lives.
I realise the numbers are sort of made up, but in general I fully agree. I do sometimes think that politicians regulate for the sake of it, as if justifying their existence.
Of all the things you could've said you chose one of the dumbest.
It's easy to shit on everything, so I'll try to avoid doing that.
I do genuinely not understand the blind "minimum wage should be this" angle. All raising the minimum wage does is raise expenses for everything. It's pretty much like fuel costs: price of fuel goes up - your bakery, pharmacy, grocer, etc all raise prices and in the end it is those on the lowest income that get impacted the most.
A bit of a mind dump:
- Most of us live in a capitalist system. You can dislike it all you want, but as someone who's seen what happens when
ownership is shared, everyone is equal, a cook should be able to run a country- fuck that. I'll take bad capitalism over that nonsense any day. - Everyone should strive to improve themselves. Every day. Doesn't have to be monetarily driven improvement - it's the mindset of constant improvement that I want. And when that happens - aiming for minimum wage becomes a thing of the past.
- Everyone is not equal. Everyone must be given equal opportunity. We're good at different things, we absolutely suck at different things. Doesn't mean we're bad/wrong/mistreated if we try those things. What is wrong, however, is someone claiming they deserve something (great salary) when they suck at doing whatever they're doing. Just go do something else; preferably something you're good at.
- Deep inside - we're apes. We need to keep ourselves busy as otherwise brain starts overcompensating for lack of activity and we end up being idiots on the internet. Given enough time that leads to us being idiots outside the internet as well.
- Mental health issues are real. They're abused waaaay too much as an excuse to rot in the basement. Been there, done that. Start small, increment daily. Small, iterative steps. Everything takes time. Your choice on what gets your spend.
I mean.. Normally men measure something other than beards. This is such a weird choice!
I do see a bit of a correlation of slow modlog and scheduled tasks being run at the same time, but even with that it loads in 20-30 seconds. Which - yes - is atrocious, but at least it fits into tcp timeouts. 5 minutes is straight up mental, can't say why that's happening, yet.
I have seen a similar problem reported on sh.itjust.works matrix chat - in their case what helped was toggling the sticky post. I'll ask there to do that for this community. You might also want to reach out to mods directly - they might get to do it sooner.
Supposedly this is a known federation bug, but I haven't seen a bug report mentioned.
Due to the recent @Soup's post I have decided to do some housekeeping. I've been getting frustrated at lemmy's performance at times as well and this simply was a wake up call, if you will.
I am sorry about no advance downtime annoucement - Sunday is the only day I can really put any meaningful amount of time into lemmy.
___ Things done today:
- Upgraded
databaseVM 1 core 2GB -> 2 cores 4GB. Double the compute, double the memory. - Adjusted database config to account for increased resources
- Adjusted
hugepagesconfig to account for increased database's requests - Updated both lemmy and database VMs
- Rebooted the lot
___
Thank you for your patience. I will also use this moment of focus to write up a financial report in a separate post.
Also, thank you, @Soup!
___ EDIT: I've also marked all instances known to lemmy.cafe as active. What this means is that lemmy.cafe will now keep retrying to federate to everything very aggressively. This is a compute-intensive process and will also impact performance for a few hours, until exponential backoff kicks in. I've done it to revive any falsely-marked-as-dead instances; there's no fix for it on lemmy itself.
Alright, a quick update - I have decided to throw a bit more money at lemmy. Database VM has been upgraded from a single core 2GB RAM to dual core 4GB RAM.
The inbound votes are also somewhat funny. Do people outside lemmy.cafe think that it's slow? Did they miss the sub and thought it was about their instance?
In general - lemmy software is very alpha. It's also possible I have done something wrong on the setup side, however unlikely. I don't want to send any users away, but if you do get fed up with lemmy.cafe - would please let me know at some point if the other instance is substantially better? I could reach out to the admins and ask about their setup.
I'm aware it's not the fastest, but there's only so much spare money I can throw at the problem. Lemmy is unreasonably resource intensive for baseline functionality.
We have a single cluster at work - it's possible I'm missing something, but the appeal is just not there.
Had it in my previous place. Worked well enough
I would also throw Xen into the mix - I really liked running it at home until the server physically died.
Price rises, uncertainty after Broadcom takeover forcing users to look elsewhere for virtualization needs
The company I'm at right now is on this boat as well
Ship an appimage or something, use basic fs abstraction to create an encrypted blob, do whatever you want within said blob.
Look at virtualbox or something for inspiration.
Look at xdg desktop portals for transfering files.
A bit of a PSA for LG owners running webOS:
I rooted my tv and now have adless youtube, but apparently root is not a prerequisite - there also installation using dev mode. Admitedly, haven't tried it and it's probably less convenient to get it set up, but then it should be a one time thing.
How do you control it? Any fancy integration or just good old mouse?
Final judgment handed down by Court of Justice of the European Union
At least on zsh it would pop both of those as suggestions you can cycle through.
I have finally found an quick and easy write up by somebody on Reddit that worked for me first time!
Dual display on Sway has become much more usable now!
> There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
What good is going fast if you can't get past the next rack?
> According to Mehta this kind of connectivity could support 512 GPUs in as few as eight racks, acting as a single scale-up system.
That's a biggin!
Despite early promises, moving between providers remains a complex and costly endeavor
> Despite early promises, moving between providers remains a complex and costly endeavor
Yea, it feels an awful lot like VC funded businesses - they lure you in with low pricing, bankrupt and buy out the competition and then hold you by the balls.
Cracked Labs examines how workplace surveillance turns workers into suspects
> Cracked Labs examines how workplace surveillance turns workers into suspects
TL;DR - world is going down the drain
An interesting read. I don't fully agree with the following statement: > And like the proverbial lunatic who tries the same thing over and over thinking he might get a different result, U.S. policymakers never seem to learn the right lessons, he argued.
The context here is all the attempts at regime change in the Middle East. I think there's a good chance the regime was just an excuse enabling the military industry to keep moving forward.
If nothing else - a morale boost is the least that's coming out of the Kursk operation
Moscow getting some of its own, well deserved, medicine
500 km transmission cable promises enough power for two million homes, or a heck of a lotta GPUs
Looks like a nice project, but placing clean energy and natural gas in the same sentence feels... disingenuous.
All those BIOS options that promise better performance? Enabling them might kill your processor
Intel just can't catch a break
We're now running on dual thread 4 gigs or ram. Hopefully that alleviates some recent instability.
Database is on a separate VM, seems to be holding up so far.
Chipzilla taking some punches but could it stay down?
While I am a fan of AMD, Intel has done incredible things in the past. They really need to get their shit together.
Open source TerraForm rival introduces a new file extension so users can 'keep older code around for compatibility'
Wasn't aware of OpenTofu - will have a look and try to sell the switch at work!
Ready to talk it up to investors today, Microsoft?
Ha 😀
Comment section is a gold mine!
All that Windows and Crowstrike bollocks.
