darkfoe

@darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party

Long-term Linux operations guy who somehow became a Golang developer.

I also run the lemmy.serverfail.party instance

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darkfoe,

Been straight Linux since 2005ish. It’s definitely really improved just before COVID - things just work now without fiddling. In the past yeah, I had to fiddle quite a bit to make things work and write up some scripts for installs that would break next patch, but now I’m almost done a Witcher 3 play-through on Linux without even needing to adjust a thing.

darkfoe,

I've been happy with Bitwarden thus far. Used Lastpass back in the day, but migrated over when the renewal prices started creeping up.

darkfoe,

Fired up a FreshRSS instance for myself when the reddit API notifications came about. Reminds me of my Google Reader days - quite happy with it thus far. Any of the decent quality news sites seem to have an RSS option, at least in my experience so far.

darkfoe,

Pretty great on the web browser front-end to be honest - haven't had an issue when I have used it on my phone. Not sure about the app side of things since I've been trying to limit my doom scrolling to when I'm at a computer

darkfoe,

What do they plan to do with it? Just browse to gmail/facebook/etc? If so, really anything with a web browser that can stay up-to-date and they should be fine. LTS releases are good in that case.

If anything more than that, then might have to be a bit more selective with the distro.

darkfoe,
  1. O365 usually works fine for the online portion on most browsers, so that should be okay for their use. And won't require them to change habits in terms of how to use the software. (Bonus: cloud storage of their documents.) Only downside is they'll likely need an active internet connection to do anything
  2. This one is tricky. I've had mixed experience getting newer Adobe products running in Wine, but it's been awhile for me so I'd say try it yourself. There are probably a bunch of good FOSS/cloud options available nowadays too if annotating, commenting, etc that maybe others can elaborate more on
  3. Easy peasy, Brave does work well and should help them avoid malware on "those websites"

I'd say any LTS release you can get a working setup of Adobe in should be fine for them. 90% of what they're going to do is probably via a browser so it's OS-agnostic. I'm fond of Debian since it's very stable, but it comes with the drawback of older packages as time goes on, though you can pull in repos for more recent stuff for most important things.

New Season expectations

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fthumbs.gfycat.com%2FOldFrightenedAnophelesmosquito-max-1mb.gif&tbnid=b0gXLSFuD8ZXzM&vet=12ahUKEwjmsd2UvsD_AhVphIkEHVK3D7gQMygLegUIARCXAg..i&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgfycat.com%2Fgifs%2Ftag%2Fhustle&docid=aMT4j9JRJ0BkWM&w=480&h=360&q=futurama%20do%20the%20hustle&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&ved=2ahUKEwjmsd2UvsD_AhVphIkEHVK3D7gQMygLegUIARCXAghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2e9ad41c-7c8d-485a-a60b-ccb81b76ecb9.png...

darkfoe,

$. Plus, it's been awhile and the writers have loooots of material over the years to work with I'd think. Also sounds like the general cast/animators/writers have fun with making the show

darkfoe,

I’m guessing no one living in Edmonton has bothered to start one yet is all

update: Beehaw's update downtime was actually just now. oops.

we accidentally did the upgrade just now, which is what you just experienced. anyways we're at like double the power and processing, and three times the storage we were previously at so yeah hopefully that'll be good. anyways i guess i'll leave this post stickied until i go to sleep in like an hour

darkfoe,

I'm primarily watching from the sidelines and able to test things if needed for you guys, but I can definitely say this sudden influx is such a rare opportunity for us tech folks (SWEs and sysadmins) to get a real look at what breaks when you do a real load/soak test of a service.

Post-mortems are amazing for tech knowledge, so seeing it kind of "live" is even better.

Good job folks!

darkfoe,

Admin-level moderation is getting quite out of hand I see.

darkfoe,

Use a web archiver on old.reddit.com and store the stuff away for now, is my recommendation. There are concerns about ownership of the content on reddit from a legal perspective, so best to archive as a reference more than anything

darkfoe,

Git clone completed - seeing a lot of companies crack down on everything lately, so clone your favourite repos!

darkfoe,

"Who in wrote this darn test? It's not even testing the right thing!!"

checks commits

"OH. It was me. I did this to myself."

darkfoe,

I've barely got any posts on there, so I've kind of just left my account for now. I'll purge it later on once I feel like all of my niche communities I need are elsewhere.

I however, do not visit it more than once a day now though, and I expect that frequency to drop-off (primarily for local level news right now - too small to expect them to migrate elsewhere for now)

darkfoe,

I mean, it's a message board. It's just unknown actors running the servers, but everything is public anyway so post accordingly.

Reddit was just controlled by a corporation is the only real difference.

darkfoe,

The fact it's only so far a one season run makes me happy. Gives the writers time to actually have some fun with it - which is important since it has been so long.

darkfoe,

Are you in more of a suburban area or a farm area? Only things I've seen take care of them before is something that actively hunts them, or cleanup of the area they breed/hide in.

Ie, cats, raptors (hawks, eagles), coyotes

They're quite smart creatures is the annoying bit. So anything minor isn't going to stop them

darkfoe,

Did it for years - takes a bit to get used to the tower you are attached to swaying when you're 300' up.

Before my company I was with would send people for the expensive training, they'd have people try climbing up one of their towers 50' or so with experienced techs to see if they could manage it (proper safety gear and all of course). I'd say 2/3 would panic and come down at about the 30' mark

darkfoe,

This is also very true. Tech sector has been doing layoffs and admittingly these ones are pretty tiny in comparison to some other places, which is another factor why I think there will be more. And burning cash is quite true, which is part of why their investors are probably pushing hard for them to be ready for an IPO.

darkfoe,

Probably restrict them more before IPO would be my guess

darkfoe,

Yeah Reddit would make an excellent private company with the right owner and likely some re-structuring, but as a public company ooh boy.

Outside some niche subs I'm not on there more than once a day just to see if my lemmy subs missed something, and it's my last form of social media outside discord/matrix, so if lemmy does take off enough I'll probably only be there for the odd technical search, which I suspect lemmy will take care of in time.

darkfoe,

Nope - rust only for the backend. Node runs the frontend. Could definitely use a bot library in golang - it’s the language I program in daily so I’d definitely appreciate it

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