For anyone reaching for the downvote button:
Systemd-boot is completely independent from systemd init. You don’t have to be running systemd to use it. It’s a really really simple EFI bootloader. You just give it the location of your kernel and initrd and boot options and it does the rest.
Switch and Click had a video about that recently: https://youtu.be/M9qJI2u_be0
I was and still am on HDD. The CPU was upgraded as well. I migrated to a new server.
The main culprit was the database. As far as I’m aware Lemmy is missing some indexes and due to the ORM they used didn’t always have optimised queries. Now with 64 GB RAM the whole database (almost 30 GB) fits in there fixing most of those issues.
The real fix will probably come with Lemmy 1.0. They radically changed the database layout and queries.
Image proxying wasn’t bad for performance. Just storage space. It was growing really really fast. Now that only I am using it to host the pictures I uploaded it is still much too large (24 GB). But its directory structure is so convoluted that I can’t really debug it. My stuff really shouldn’t be taking up more than a few hundred MBs.
I am the only one using this instance. I am subscribed to a hundred communities or so. I am always pretty up to date with my Lemmy versions.
RAM. Maybe 32 would have been enough but 64 cost as much as 32 so that decision was easy.
Same stuff you do on any other instance. Looking at stuff, upvoting, downvoting, posting and commenting.
Control. I’m not beholden to anyone. My server is federating exactly those communities that interest me.
I run an instance just for myself and it was a nightmare on HDD and 16 GB RAM. It was slow as molasses. Supposedly the database layout will be fixed with the 1.0 release that is just around the corner.
Since I upgraded to 64 GB it’s been pretty smooth. Still wild that that is necessary for a single user.
Also, disable image proxying. I have no idea what pict-rs does but it seems to be too much.
You should consider running Piefed instead. It’s not as resource hungry as Lemmy.
I want those cars on the used market so that I can actually afford one.
Can’t you just make the Local feed your default?
Personally I just subscribe to everything I want to see and browse that.
More or less.
He addresses that later under the title “zram on Fedora”.
Basically because Fedora wants to eliminate disk swap entirely. They have systemd-oomd configured to mitigate the downsides.
That’s the way it goes with the scale from simple to “something that fits our needs”. Either something is too simple or it is so complex that you can’t let your more challenged users at it. So you end up rolling your own solution.
That’s how many companies end up with monstrous Excel or Access applications.
The upside of having your own app that uses common open source components is that integration with other tools is easier later down the line. Make it web based and it can run on basically every computer on the planet. Use PostgreSQL or MySQL in the backend and you can easily add other frontends if needed.
Isn’t Oracle still giving out free servers? They are known to pull the plug on those without warning, but it should be enough to play around with and set it up in a way that you can get it running again quickly if it goes down, which is very valuable knowledge.
The funny thing is that I usually don’t care for the hardware vendor’s software. Even on Windows it usually sucks ass compared to the OS’s own.
I still use swap for those rare moments i run out of RAM after all. Who knows maybe some heavy cronjobs will clash or whatever.
If you want fediverse support WordPress has that through plugins. Lemmy is pretty heavy on resources. Just don’t look at Wordpress’ code and you’ll be fine.
That announcement was about the first release. The merger was announced months ago. And even if it wasn’t released you could just easily use whatever fits your environment.
Seerr together with the rest of the *arr stack is pretty easy to use.
Anybody know how it compares to ALVR?
Good luck, when EFI has to live on FAT32.