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  • drkt@feddit.dkOPtopics@lemmy.world[OC] Freezing harbor
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    11 months ago

    Because now I have to compile rust and cross-compiling from Windows to Linux is a mess I don’t wanna deal with. I don’t want to spin up a whole container just to compile for Linux.

    At any rate, the problem is solved and I’m just optimizing it for speed now, which is entirely disk IO so I’m converting it to using an in-memory DB and then it’ll be fast enough to handle a thousand times more traffic than I’ve ever gotten.

    I’m not a programmer, I’m just a photographer who doesn’t wanna deal with chunky gallery systems.



  • drkt@feddit.dkOPtopics@lemmy.world[OC] Freezing harbor
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    PHP is a very clunky language, however it slots right into Apache with no fuzz and that’s very important. My Apache container needs to be as squeaky clean as possible. Rust and Python are not clean and JS doesn’t have the functionality I need without installing more stuff anyway.

    This is the only real issue I’ve ever had with PHP and it seems to have come down to me using a .txt file for a database and praying the underlying filesystem would just deal with it. It’s been swapped for SQLite and none of the counters were reset overnight. Presumably that was the issue, and is thus not the fault of PHP.













  • I’ll gloss over that you either missed my point or ignored it; I don’t use YouTube because it’s too shit, actually.

    I don’t pay for any Google services, not that I’m using any with any consistency anymore, for the same reason that I don’t use them anymore. Google cannot be trusted to provide a good service, paying costumer or not. If you punish me for using the free product, why would I ever trust you? Steam doesn’t slap me across the face at every chance it gets when I don’t spend money on their store for a long period of time, yet I have no issue paying for the games I do want to play despite piracy being completely risk-free by comparison.


  • The reason I don’t bring them revenue is because they continue to make the experience worse. Paying isn’t going to make that stop, it’s just going to temporarily shift the bar a little; the bar is however still moving towards a shittier experience for all.

    Why would I look at this and go “Yes, I’ll pay!” There are a lot of services I would genuinely pay for if I didn’t have an impending dread that the service is just about to get worse again regardless of if I pay or not. It’s not like paying is a magic bullet, either, it comes with a ton of different issues like privacy. They still sell your soul to advertisers if you pay them.