Dell Optiplex 7040

Full size tower or micro?

If micro, then is the 4TB HDD an internal 2.5" form factor or something else?

explicitly treating the threadiverse as groups

What do you mean by groups? Are you talking about groups like how they’re described in this fedi.tips article?

Still need some time to make our network more reliable :) I still have 2 managed swiches to put into our network !

Would you care to expand on the network reliability part? I’m curious what kinds of problems you’re looking to address w/ the managed switches that you aren’t using yet. For example, will they help in the event of a power/ISP outage?

So w/ a three-node cluster, while all three are healthy does it use all three nodes like a load balancer type deal, or is there a primary node that does all the work while the other two nodes are basically chillin’ until the primary node fails?

Do you use any fancy tools like Ansible or just a series of bash scripts?

Welcome to Lemmy!

it stays on for 5+ hours on battery

Dang, that’s impressive! What’s your typical power draw and would you recommend any UPS units to look into (or stay away from)?

From their GH:

Hollo is a simple, single-user microblogging tool powered by Fedify. It lets you run your own little corner of the internet: think of it as your personal Mastodon instance, but stripped down to the essentials.

I love the idea of Pixelfed and briefly checked it out a couple years ago, bounced off it b/c hash tags weren’t federated, and other issues that I don’t remember the specifics of. For example, when I click on #cats in a photo caption, I want it to show me photos across all instances w/ that hash tag, like the “All” feed in Lemmy.

I don’t wanna poo poo on something that is essentially a free service for plebs like myself, but I remember things being just broken/ incomplete enough and it seemed like its original creator had already moved on to other projects that I filed it under “things w/ potential that aren’t quite there yet (and may never get there).”

How do you connect your disks to your host machine? Are they in an external cage w/ SATA-to-USB adaptors or mounted internally to SATA ports?

Yeah, I’ll definitely be rinsing off (in the cold shower of course) and changing my clothes before I go to bed. Thanks for weighing in!

Wexit? Windexit?

Being able to boot into previous snapshots from the boot menu sounds ideal, and I’ve seen a lot of mentions of CachyOS lately, so maybe I’ll check it out next time I do a fresh install. Thanks for the tip!

In your case, how do you roll back? Do you just reboot and select the previous image from the grub menu or do you do something manually and then reboot?

Regarding the specific btrfs subvolume setup and grub/systemd-boot integration, are you talking about how some distros show the btrfs snapshots on the boot menu? Or something else?

When you want to go back, do you just reboot and select the previous snapshot on the boot menu, or do you restore the snapshot manually and then reboot?

Thanks for the tip on storing the kernels on the btrfs partition. I found a video tutorial for installing Arch w/ btrfs snapshots in which the guy demonstrates this approach, except that he sets the mount point to just /efi instead of /boot/efi.

I’d heard of Framework, Tuxedo, and system76, but not the others. Thanks for the pointers!

I just meant like if Joplin ever stopped working or vanished overnight. I know it might seem like a contrived scenario, but I’ve always been a little skittish about apps that don’t store files in plain text in case I want/need to use a different editor. Sounds like that hasn’t been an issue for you, though, which is cool.

I see Logseq recommended a lot, but does it still try to force you to use bullet lists only?