Just get rid of this bot altogether. People can just copy paste the stuff that they don’t know into a search engine.

A random comment by a bot - that 80% of the viewers don’t even need and read - is neither good visible nor helpful.

Well it’s “free” but it quite a lot of caveats, restrictions and requires signing up.

Regarding Codeberg:

• Codeberg only services free and open source projects
• There are other limitatiosns:
  • They don’t provide a free, well designed and isolated CI like GitHub does
  • The space of Packages/Registry is limited
• As it’s quite niche there are a lot less people on that platform in general
• Although GitHub is under fire for their uptime: The uptime of Codeberg is quite comparable to GitHub, when having a look at the functionality that both platforms have in common.

Regarding self-hosting:

• Too expensive / time intensive for most devs that just want to code

https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy

Needs like 100MB RAM to run, so it can basically run on almost anything. If you like some extra security: Do another layer of authentication in the reverse proxy that faces the internet.

Stop complaining and send patches instead.

23 years after the first x64 CPU rolled off the assembly lines, Linux is still supporting it.

That’s still a 5W difference.

I have other devices like a TV that require 1-2W when they are in standby/shut off.

OP’s number is way to low. The power supplys conversion loss itself will already be a few watts.

Ok so I don’t quite understand why self hosting makes the situation better:

Turns out once you’ve played enough the database on the host just gets too big and chokes out the CPU threads since it can’t use more than 2 cores

Ok so you will have the same problem when hosting it on a dedicated server…

Wife is hosting and pulling 10 fps with a Nvidia 3070TI

I have an old HP SFF i5 16GB RAM with an SSD

Are you telling me that the old HP SFF has more performance than your wife’s PC?

I also don’t quite understand what using a dedicated server has to do with FPS because server calculations should usually not impact this expect when the game’s code is utter garbage and it performs server calculations on the rendering thread…

I used to run an old gaming computer as a home server and it felt like $30 a month in electricity.

Let’s assume that server somehow requires 1kWh per day (which is quite a lot). That would be around 30ct per day here in Europe which is like $10 a month. So not sure if your server was constantly running at 200W or your power plugs are coated with gold…

That’s what you see further to the back by the wall (50€ used, Fritz!Box 7510). Unfortunately, it only comes with one (1!!!) singular LAN port, so I had to buy a switch for 5 LAN ports in total (another 12€) which is sufficient for all the devices we use at home.

7510 is an extremely bad router, it doesn’t even have 5Ghz WiFi which is like standard for 10 years now. The router is your core access to the internet. Saving money in this place is definitely the wrong choice. You could have gotten a used 7520/7530 (has 4x LAN and proper 5 GhZ WiFi) for like 10€ more and wouldn’t require the 12€ switch…

You should maybe do more research before doing stuff in the future…

Ok not sure how such a post got so many upvotes…

She has not really much to do with open source or at least that’s not verifiable anywhere:

• no recent activity on GitHub
• A total of 5 commits on Codeberg… about designing an USB stick

Also she was active on Mastodon 3 days ago.

This person most likely is spontaneously disconnected from the net. Maybe the internet is down at her location because lightning fried the router, maybe she fell down the stairs and is in hospital, maybe she’s on vacation or - after having read through the about site - got some mental help, because not blocking and posting about people that send you creepy text messages to give them a wider platform is itself weird…

Who knows?

But starting a search on all social media will likely not bring them back either.

Maybe contact their family or other friends or visit them, I think that would be a lot more productive.

Laughs in JVM (but there’s like 1 game using it so…)

Voice chat works out of the box with Matrix.

It uses WebRTC and tries to do P2P connections. Note that this leaks your IP to the other caller and vice versa, but it’s also quite fast as you can establish a direct connection.

If P2P fails it will try to fallback to your configured TURN server and use that one for relaying.

However not every instance has one (as TURN servers are usually not that modern and straight forward…) and if this is the case it will fallback to Matrix’s global TURN servers.

If it’s just chatting with your use case: definetly yes

synapse and element/schildi-chat work quite well for me :)

On mobile the newer Element X clients usually lack some features (like calls) but you can use them quite well for chatting.

Matrix hoster here.

I would recommend Matrix as it has pretty much everything, including cross platform clients, threads, voice/video calls, screensharing, spaces (aka servers), federation and E2EE. Matrix also has bridges for Discord and pretty much every other service so this could ease transition…

But self hosting requires reading the docs and having some in depth knowledge and understanding as it can be quite complex.

I would recommend just creating a Matrix account on one of the common global servers and testing it.

If you want to self-host there are some pre-defined setups available (example) but I would still recommend to bring at least 5-10 hours.

Regarding operations: It’s really resilient and barely ever breaks and also doesn’t need a lot of resources. A 1-2vCPU server with under 1GB RAM server is enough for less than 10 people.

I will probably never understand why people buy extremely expensive, locked down hardware and then forcibly open it up after 2 years.

How about stop shoving them money up their asses and buy a laptop from another manufacturer where you don’t have to sell your soul to install Linux.

PCs/Laptops are not the console market where there are just like 2 options available.

As long as Apple makes money with this shit, this madness will NEVER stop.

There is so many problems with that concept: What do you do when there is a strong storm? What happens if lightning strikes? How do you do maintenance and how pricey is that? How do you get the power down properly? You also have to keep a ton of space clear from buildings/people if that thing somehow starts flying away/down…

Normal wind turbines can likely do a better more efficient job - at a fraction of the cost of this public relations stunt.

Not sure what this sentence means, but feel free to use pigeons instead.

When you’re getting notifications/newsletters from legitimate platforms like e.g. Amazon or GitHub it’s smarter to unsubscribe from these specific mails. Otherwise you will be screwed when some important mail somehow ends up in the spam folder.