One foot planted in “Yeehaw!” the other in “yuppie”.
Lucky! I wish I had symmetrical fiber with all the ports available.
I totally have a server capable of hosting a LOT of things but lack the upload to make use of it. I’m considering transferring to a rack mount and sending it to be colocated at a datacenter within driving distance.
You missed one:
ISP - Internet Service Provider
Eh, but then he won’t learn anything. I’ve never found that response acceptable. It just perpetuates the problem. To each their own though!
On a technical level, user count matters less than the user count and comment count of the instances you subscribe to. Too many subscriptions can overwhelm smaller instances and saturate a network from the perspective of Packets Per Second and your ISPs routing capacity - not to mention your router. Additionally, most ISPs block traffic traffic going to your house on Port 80 - so you’d likely need to put it behind a cloudflare tunnel for anything resembling reliability. Your ISP may be different and it’s always worth asking what restrictions they have on self-hosted services (non-business use-cases specifically). Otherwise going with your ISP’s business plan is likely a must. Outside of that, yes, you’ll need a beefy router or switch (or multiple) to handle the constant packets coming into your network.
Then there’s a security aspect. What happens if you’re site is breached in a way that an attacker gains remote execution? Did you make sure to isolate this network from the rest of your devices? If not, you’re in for a world of hurt.
These are all issues that are mitigated and easier to navigate on a VPS or cloud provider.
As for the non-technical issues:
There’s also the problem of moderation. What I mean by that is that, as a server owner you WILL end up needing to quarantine, report, and submit illegal images to the authorities. Even if you use a whitelist of only the most respectable instances. It might not happen soon, but it’s only a matter of time before your instance happens to be subscribed to a popular external community while it gets a nasty attack. Leaving you to deal with a stressful cleanup.
When you run this on a homelab on consumer hardware, it’s easier for certain government entities to claim that you were not performing your due diligence and may even be complicit in the content’s proliferation. Now, of course, proving such a thing is always the crux, but in my view I’d rather have my site running on things that look as official as possible. The closer it resembles what an actual business might do, the better I think I’d fare under a more targeted attack - from a legal/compliance standpoint.
And I apologize in return for the rather harsh way I came across. The common (and frutrating) nature of your comment didn’t deserve the terseness of my response.
See: every AAA big game releases lately. Even on Windows, having to nuke your graphics drivers and install a specific version from some random forum is generally accepted as fine like it’s just how PC gaming is.
Never had to do that since I was ROM hacking an old RX480 for Monero hashrates. In fact, on my Windows 11 partition (Used for HDR gaming which isn’t supported on Linux yet), I haven’t needed to perform a reinstall of the NVIDIA driver even when converting from a QEMU image to a full-fat install.
When I see those threads, it often comes across as a bunch of gamers just guessing at a potential solution and often become “right” for the “wrong” reasons. Especially when the result is some convoluted combination of installs and uninstalls with “wiping directories and registry keys”.
But, point taken, the lengths gamers will go to to get an extra 1-2 FPS even if it’s unproven, dangerous, and dumb is almost legendary.
They’re probably okay for most users, especially the gamer kind.
Eh, IDK - the amount of breakage I got simply trying to upgrade the system after a few days would probably be incredibly hostile to a less technical user/gamer.
Sure, if most things worked out-of-the-box and upgrades were seamless, I’d agree - but as it stands, it seems like you need to know Arch and Linux itself fairly well to get the most out of Garuda Linux.
I think Chakra has largely been abandoned these days, but when it was the newest kid on the block I actually appreciated the REALLY GOOD QT5 experience that was lacking on other distros at the time. That being said, not being able to install ANY GTK thing was definitely a deal-breaker. These days the project is very dead and the best “KDE” experience is on KDE Neon.
I really doubt that. Again - advanced user here - with numerous comparison points to other arch based distros. I also maintain large distributed DB clusters for Fortune 100 companies.
If it was something not on the latest version - it’s not due to my lack of effort or knowledge, but instead due to the terrible way Garuda is managed.
What, am I supposed to compile kernel modules from scratch myself? Never needed to do that with Endeavour, Manjaro, or just Arch.
If Garuda’s install (and subsequent upgrade) doesn’t fetch the latest from the Arch repos, that’s on them.
EDIT: Also, these non-answers are tiresome, low effort, and provide zero guidance on any matter. I know every single kernel change since 5.0 that impacted my hardware. I have rss feeds for each of the hardware components I have, and if Linux or a distro ships an enhancement to my hardware - I’m usually aware well before it is released. If you were to point to any bit of my hardware I can tell you, for certain, what functionalities are supported, which has bugs, and common workarounds.
If you want this type of feedback to be valuable, then let me know if a new issue/regression has arisen given the list of hardware I’ve supplied.
Valuable: “Perhaps it was the latest kernel X which shipped some regressions for Nvidia drivers that causes compositor hitching on KWin”
Utterly Useless: “It’s very likely some drivers are not up to date or compatible with your system.”
This article is ancient. We have more recent elections to go off of.
And according to basically everything I can find, “Moms For Liberty” and related groups suffered major losses basically everywhere the last cycle.
I’m not at all suggesting to not worry, after all, it’s worry that got us to ensure they didn’t win. But I am suggesting that your information is very out of date and that you should do a better job of finding recent points to support your claim.
Also, I think this is off topic for this community and seems far more like political bait as some have pointed out.
As a man who grew up with one foot firmly planted in yeehaw and the other in yuppie, I think this is brilliant!
I don’t get it either. My brother-in-law is like this. And he refused to take his kids to see Buzz Lightyear because of its “political” nature. I was a dumbfounded when I heard that. To think that representation is just some nebulous political aim.
At this rate, we should just consider any media with a kiss in it “political media.”
And I even grew up with this dude in the early 2000s. He didn’t seem like this before.
I try to forget about the guy, but it’s kind of hard because he won’t let me see the nieces because I’m too “liberal”.
I agree. I think 1440p+HDR is probably the way to go for now. HDR is FAR more impactful than a 4K resolution and 1440p should provide a stable 45ish FPS on Cyberpunk 2077 completely maxed out on an RTX 3080Ti (DLSS Performance).
And in terms of CPU, the same applies. 16 cores are for the gentoo using, source compiling folks like me. 8 cores on a well binned CPU from the last 3 generations goes plenty fast for gaming. CPU bottlenecking only really show up at 144fps+ in most games anyways.
Agree, most mainstream distros have it all handled for the most part and it normally “just works”.
Now, myself on Gentoo testing on the other hand… Sometimes I shoot myself in the foot and forget to rebuild my kernel modules and wind up needing to chroot to fix things - all because I have an NVidia card.
I knew from the thumbnail that this is Virtue by Overwerk. Excellent track!
As somebody with autism. I find this take lacking nuance. You see for me these tools represent a huge leap and accessibility for me. I can turn a wall of stream of consciousness text into something digestible and represents myself.
I find myself constantly exhausted with the societal expectation that I review, edit, and adjust my own speech constantly. And these tools go a long way to helping me actually communicate.
I mean, after all nothing changes for me. People thought of me as a robot before. And I guess they can continue to think I’m still a robot. I’ve stopped giving a crap about neurotypical expectations.
I mean I take a less extreme take. But I definitely resonate. As somebody with autism, it’s really nice to have an impartial chat assistant to turn my stream of consciousness wall of text into something far more digestible. Trying to do so myself often takes hours to construct a message a couple paragraphs long. Where I checked and double check and triple check for anything that might offend somebody or come across strange or not flow well. Etc etc etc.
A lot of these articles don’t really investigate the accessibility aspect of these tools. And I really wish they did. I know if one of my friends used chatgpt to help with their messages, I would be completely fine with it.
Nope - full fat install on hardware - as I said in the post.
Again, just so you don’t miss the crucially important context - I’m an advanced user. I typically run vanilla arch or endeavor, both of which do not have these issues. Not to mention, I know that many of these are a result of adding so many repositories on top of the base Arch ones - at least as upgrades are concerned.
If this was in a VM I would go to great lengths to specify as such.