Others are debating the point about the doc itself, so I won’t go there, but just because you enjoyed doing it, doesn’t mean others do, or have the time.

I happen to write really detailed documentation, because I like to, I like the formality of it. However, as I stated in my other comment my complaint is about the assumptions made in the blog post. Specifically:

I just felt like if we rewrote the blog post as a “What a writer who’s never learned to program’s code looks like to a developer” it would make no sense, so why should we accept it in it’s current form?

Agreed, maybe this writer could step in and volunteer their time instead of writing satire complaining about it.

Oh man, this I do hate. If you have terminology in your app, that is not a standard, please, please define it.

I think you’re spot on, and this is the reason I put “controversial” in front of it. I just felt like if we rewrote the blog post as a “What a writer who’s never learned to program’s code looks like to a developer” it would make no sense, so why should we accept it in it’s current form?

The article is by what appears to be a career writer who implies that developers should be doing their job, too. Not to mention this is mostly in unpaid FOSS. The author’s method is tone deaf.

As for your response, while factually true, to your example: Lemmy users don’t care that you use Linux. Lemmy users care that you’re the type of person who will educate yourself enough to learn Linux.

Growth through learning, and part of that learning is figuring out the holes and filling them in. Heck, once Lemmy gets past that stage, we (and all those who took the plunge) will probably all move on to somewhere else.

Controversial, but: Skill issue.

I do a lot of FOSS work. I dont write docs for everyone most of the timr. I write docs for those already educated on most of the items. This still applies, and is accessible to anyone:

If you don’t know the word, look it up in the dictionary.

I don’t want to downplay frustrations, I know those are real, but most people writing these things aren’t paid.

Note: If a Dev complains their idea isn’t adopted and the docs suck, that’s another story.

Edit: And the article seems to be by a career writer, so it makes sense from their perspective, but some more expansive thinking on their part about how a developer isn’t staffed to do their job, too, would be helpful.

Isn’t the same endpoint used to list all of a user’s comments in their profile?

Yea, this would be super slow.

Linode has good, cheap VMs, and are a better deal than the AWSs of the world.

Also, when you set up Nextcloud, also set up something like samba-domain with LDAP for users. That way you have central user management as you add new services.

I made an 8 outlet box with relays connected to each outlet (might post a how to). That’s connected to a Pi via GPIO.

The Pi runs PiKVM, but also has a service that:

• Checks if the router can be pinged
• Checks if the internet can be pinged
• Checks if the router webUI is up

If any of those fail, it toggles the plugs for modem and router.

I run OpnSense on a 5V miniPC. I have a second one and will be setting up CARP, too.

Note: Cellular backup is more involved, but a separate Cellular inbound might not be. I’ve considered putting one on the Pi above.

Not that I think you need it for this, but a DynDNS implementation would give you a hostname you can dynamically change to your VPN ip, thus solving the SSL host issue.

Red green blue when setting a BG color to remember a layer, but that’s it.

It you want to try something new that gives you more freedom than the print bed, consider 2020 alluminum extrusion. I’ll be doing a custom enclosed rack with it soon, using the printer to make shelves/containers between beams.

My one change: I do SSHFS over LAN, because of guest machines and sniffing potential.

I do NFS on direct wire or on a confidently set up VLAN (maybe).

Yea I dont think people are catching the sarcasm of not having capital E Engineers in all countries.

Nope, it means you’re a Computer Engineer.

Samba-Domain is extremely lightweight, surfaces LDAP and AD, and can manage Linux and mac laptops, not just Windows. I wouldnt call it overkill.

Also, restoring single files from a snapshot is simple, I don’t get this? Lastly, of your whole data drive is one dataset in ZFS, you are ZFSing wrong.

Before you get too far, consider setting up users with a domain like Samba-Domain. This way you get centralized user management for anything you decide to host alongside it.

Also, ZFS is great for backups.

Are you using/going to use LibreOffice or OnlyOffice? Libre is more popular, but Only was built for web and has better MS compatibility.

I bet this could be used to load balance regional servers with a bit of tweaking. (I made Plex-sync a long time ago for a similar purpose)

Calibre is a fantastic peice of software. Buuut…

I’m surprised people still use it so much. With server software that does mostly the same thing for general use cases (even Calibre-web, but more Kavita and the like), I can’t imagine so many people using a desktop tool. Is it habit?