In the old days, university IT put essentially no access controls on their networks, so students’ dorm computers were completely exposed to the internet

Dorm ethernet works this way for me right now. It’s how I host some stuff. I only get 100 mb/s per port though. I’ve bonded two ports to get 200 total.

Because the extensions replaced wordpress’ sitebuilder/editor. If I were to get rid of the extensions I would basically have to recreate the site anyways so I might as well switch away from wordpress.

It powers lichess.org, who have made multiple blogposts about how happy they are with it.

Lichess is a FOSS chess server that somehow manages to compete with chess.com proprietary, distributed, milticloud kubernetes setup from a single VPS. According to them, scala helps.

Also check out: https://github.com/makeplane/plane

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux#User_centrality

mp3 is still the best in terms of compatibility. Basically anything can play it.

m4a is better than mp3 every eay and fills the same usecases. For the same size as an mp3, an m4a can offer you better quality. For a smaller size, m4a can offer you the same quality.

Me too but tapping the same spot to get to the same app still works so I just keep using it.

I have a sticker of the nix one on a laptop.

have you looked at solutions which emulate github actions locally?

https://github.com/nektos/act this is one of them but I think I’ve seen one more.

Github actions also has self hosted runners: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/runners/self-hosted-runners

What would you use if you had a choice?

For maintenance I would recommend a ticketing system instead of forgejo:

https://selfh.st/apps/?search=ticket

There are a few options and they probably all work better than a git issue tracker.

Another thing I would recommend is to have centralized accounts via an identity provider. People have one username and password they can use to log into all the services, and you can reset/signup them to all connected services by managing the identity provider app.

There are a few options for this as well but I’m on my phone some imma just list the three that I find most promising for your usecase: kanidm, voidauth, authentik.

This is the same technology that lets people play windows games on android with good performance. Because there is not direct access to the GPU, they have to use GPU virtualization in order to get it access to a Linux proot that runs wine inside.

I’m excited to see it being used and developed in other areas.

design around ease of self-hosting. A non technical user must be able to self host easily and at a very low cost.

This may be a controversial opinion, but I actually like the way that hosting a lemmy instance is somewhat difficult to spin up. I like the way that it is requires a time investment and spammers can’t simply spin up across different domain names. I like the way that problematic instances get defederated and spammers or other problematic individuals can’t simply move domain names due to the way activitypub is tied to those.

In theory, you could set up something like digitalocean’s droplets, where a user does one click to deploy an app like nextcloud or whatever. But I’m not really eager to see something like that.

Transferable user identity (between instances)

I dislike this for a similar reason, tbh. If someone gets banned, they should have to start over. Not get to instantly recreate and refederate all their content from a different instance.

Of course, ban evasion is always a thing. But what I like is that spammers or problematic individuals who had their content nuked are forced to start from scratch and spend time recreating it before they get banned again.

As for what I would really like to see, I would really love features that make lemmy work as a more powerful help forum. Like, on discourse if you make a post, it automatically searches for similar posts and shows them to you in order to avoid duplicate posts. Lemmy does something similar, but it appears to only be the title. It would also be cool to automatically show relevant wiki pages, or FAQ content, since one of the problems on reddit was that people wouldn’t read the wiki or FAQ of help forums.

I would also like the ability to mark a comment on a post as an “answer”, or something similar. I think stackoverflows model definitely had lots of issues with mods incorrectly marking things as duplicate, but I think it was a noble goal to try to ensure that questions were only asked once, and for them to accumulate into a repository of knowledge. For the all the complaints about it, stackoverflow is undeniably the one of the biggest and most useful repositories of knowledge.

There does exist a tool that does it. The creator posted about it on the fediverse. It only supported ubuntu at the time but looked extremely promising.

I cannot remember it’s name. :/

Maybe it’s linixify? But I remember seeing a post on lemmy with a youtube demo?

It is foss though?

https://github.com/chocolatey/choco

unless the SSD stopped working but then it is reasonable to expect it would no accept partitioning

This happened to me. It still showed up in kde’s partition manager (when I plugged the ssd into another computer), with the drive named as an error code.

The creator of this software streams on twitch, using the “linux” tag which I follow around. I think she uses debian stable or unstable last time I was on the stream. She also has an owncast, which is like an open source self hosted twitch.

https://expiredpopsicle.com/about.html

I really enjoy when people dogfood software.

What about the f droid version?

My recommendation is meetup and a website for advertising purposes. Meetup is frustrating, yes, but at the same time it’s where I have found almost all the linux and tech groups near me.

This may sound kind of weird, but do you really need a communication platform for a LUG?

Our local LUG uses meetup and a website for advertising and telling people when we meet (once every two weeks at the same spot). (Okay I guess the one time our spot was closed and we had to track down people’s phone numbers to inform them of the new spot wasn’t that fun).

Anyway, we have a mailing list, an irc, and a matrix chat bridged to the irc, but they are effectively dead and no one uses them. The lack of activity on them makes me wonder if you really need to have a chatroom to run a LUG. We seem to get by just fine, for the most part.