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"linux+nginx+postgres+favourite-lang" - I agree here. Yes, don't over-complicate things.

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I too have that same Dell Optiplex 3060 micro. I love it for experimenting also. Also use wireguard for remote access. I use incus for my Linux containers, preferring it to proxmox…

People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux. But they don't similarly complain about these ultra obscure, ugly commands. When Microsoft necessitates comman…

This is a flex!

Every narcissist will love this, and I'm not kidding. This is their catnip: attention itself.

MS Edit in the house! /s

DoH is the enemy of all self-hosters. When port 443 is used, you can't discriminate on it - to perhaps monitor it, work towards debugging it, block it, re-route it, etc. DNS should…

WebRTC is very, very hard to code for. But if FFmpeg abstracts that complexity away, then WebRTC becomes much easier to add to a software project wishing to benfit from that which …

Gajim, the XMPP client, has been awaiting this for a long time! Their Audio/Video calling features fell into deprecation, and they've been patiently waiting for FFmpeg to make it m…

"If I type the @ symbol in a group to mention a participant Meta AI is in the list." - I just tried it myself in a group chat, but I don't see it. Maybe it's just starting to be ad…

actually, push-to-talk voice memos do work Gajim. An underrated feature! Prosody allows voice and video calls - I have a TURN server all set up with it - but QOS rules (which are b…

I run Prosody XMPP server on a cheap VPS, and appreciate how it's a stock Debian package, greatly simplifying security updates. It's delightfully lightweight on the server. I use C…

I agree the slowness is a deal breaker. (Note: I tested it out a few years ago, but never went beyond that prototyping phase)

Discourse is written in ruby, and it's not as performant as I would like. Discourse isn't really suitable for running on, say, a Raspberry Pi 5. It's even somewhat sluggish-feeling…

I've been keeping my eye out for something more responsive (in an AJAX-like way) than phpBB, but less bloated than Discourse (as it's written in ruby). Something Open Source, decen…

It's interesting how no matter how much that we'd all like for technology to be this nice tidy domain of knowledge which doesn't intermingle in any messy way with philosophy or rel…

Strongly agree that this is a great answer. Anyone who neglects to see the interpersonal persective/psychology of entire demographics of users (considering their needs and wants), …

IRC is not mobile-friendly (and I have to regretfully admit we live in a push-notification-requiring sort of world now). Myself, I needed something IRC-like, which was open-source,…

I've been using Librewolf for about a week now, and I hope they strip out/disable this AI feature. A few librewolf "gotchas", BTW, should anyone else want to try it: https://c.im/@…

Once AI becomes covertly Narcissistic, or Machiavellian, then indeed very big trouble - psychologically - is in store for vast swathes of people. Here are a couple of brief videos …

Zoom alone takes 2.4GB of RAM, just after being launched and starting a meeting - and no-one's even joined the meeting yet.

Correct. 70's

When I use Raspberry Pi OS in a Raspberry Pi 4, 8GB of RAM - I feel I already have an excellent, refreshingly stable , late-90s-era experience. It scratches that strange nostalgia …

Can you give example code to stop that timer?