NixOS is the better source-based distro. Everything can compile from source, but you can also use the binary cache if you don’t want to.
(Justin)
Tech nerd from Sweden
NixOS is the better source-based distro. Everything can compile from source, but you can also use the binary cache if you don’t want to.
“don’t believe him” means don’t believe him when he claims he has the authority to do those things.
He has broken the law to fire all those government employees. He has broken the law to arrest and deport all those people. His tariffs will not be popular and won’t achieve the goals he’s claiming.
We need to call him out and challenge his bluff. Defeatism will just mean he gets to be king.
Completely misunderstanding the article.
Discussion resistance strategies is not “garbage ‘chin up’ bullshit”.
You are encouraging defeatism and claiming that Trump’s King rule is inevitable, and that’s just false and it plays into the hands of the oligarchs.
To be fair, the article is written by Ezra Klein, co-founder of Vox. But yes, fuck NYT.
Fun fact, the guy who made it is James from Garbage Time
I don’t know why the fuck you’re citing vaguely-worded “valley facts”
The central valley is a desert and does not grow the majority of crops in the US. Here’s a map of all the fruits and vegetables grown in the us:
The central valley grows a lot of high-value crops like almonds for almond milk, but it does not grow the majority of crops, or even the majority of luxury fruits and vegetables.
Also, if we’re talking calories for human consumption, the central valley hardly grows any grain or vegetable oils. There is no way 1/4 of all non-livestock calories comes from a tiny desert.
They grow a lot of cattle feed in California
https://apps1.cdfa.ca.gov/FertilizerResearch/docs/Alfalfa_Production_CA.pdf
fair argument that California is good for winter farming though. I live in Sweden, so most of our winter produce comes from Spain, which is also pretty arid.
The central valley is a desert, and most of the water in California goes to these cash crops, causing massive water shortages and killing the native fish. It does not grow the majority of fruits and vegetables in the US.
And here is the list of Trump’s wars from people who know how to count:
Just one more thing Obama is better at than Trump
First, blaming 67 deaths on any controller or pilot is dispicable, especially before the FAA has had a chance to begin their investigation. No one nor their families deserves to go through this abuse in the middle of their grieving.
Second, Trump’s own fucking pilots don’t even listen to ATC instructions at DCA. Trump should check his own hiring policies before he starts blaming deaths on others.
https://www.twz.com/air/j-d-vances-campaign-jet-inadvertently-buzzed-the-washington-monument
yeahhh that’s not a legal request for ICE to send them
Straight to court
This is a total shutdown of the federal government for everything besides personnel. All science research in the US has stopped. States are losing their funding. Completely unconstitutional.
Yes, the renters in my coop are required to pay rent to the coop, some of that rent goes to the ISP we have a contract with for internet and phone, as well as to the cable company we have a contract with for TV. It is not possible for renters to choose a different ISP or cable provider.
The renters don’t have voting rights in the coop, but they are represented by the renters’ union for determining rent and negotiating renovations (essentially rent control).
I will say that apartment coops in sweden have extremely cheap internet due to collective pricing for internet. I pay $10 a month for 1000/1000. Currently talking with our ISP about replacing the switches and wiring in the basement to fiber so that we can get 10gbit.
I can see why requiring an opt-out option would be good though, especially when you don’t have democratic representation in your choice of collective ISP.
You could have a lot of fun with email spoofing replies to that email.
The 4 kinds of news articles
Of the services OP is asking about, I’ve only run Lemmy, but I will say that running fediverse services are quite advanced, which is exactly what k8s is made for - Running advanced web applications.
I’m firmly on the “k8s at any scale” team. If you can figure out how to run the k3s install command and are willing to look at some yaml documentation, you will have a much easier time setting up database and networking, running backups, porting your infrastructure to other providers, and maintaining everything, than with legacy control panels or docker compose. The main reason why Docker Compose is so much more accessible for self-hosters is because of the quantity of noob-focused documentation for Docker Compose, But learning either system requires learning the same concepts of containers, IP adresses, storage, etc. Docker Compose also has some disk and networking shortcuts for single-server workloads, but they also have their downsides (what is a macvlan?).
The main reason why I think Kubernetes is critical for this specific workload is the number of production-critical databases that OP will need to run. OP will be running something like 4-8 postgres databases, with high uptime and 100% durability requirements. Trying to do that manually with Docker compose just isn’t feasible unless you’re willing to code. Kubernetes makes all of that automated with CNPG. See how easy it is to create a database and have automated backups to S3 with Kubernetes
The biggest challenge for kubernetes is probably that the smaller applications don’t come with example configs for Kubernetes. I only see mastodon having one officially. Still, I’ve provided my config for Lemmy, and there are docker containers available for Friendica and mbin (though docker isn’t officially supported for these two). I’m happy to help give yaml examples for the installation of the applications.
I would recommend installing k3s and cnpg on the VPS. These will make it easier to run the various containers and databases you will need to run lemmy, etc. This is the standard way that big companies run servers in 2025, and it’s 100% portable to any server/hosting company just through copying and pasting the yaml files (like docker compose).
https://docs.k3s.io/quick-start
https://cloudnative-pg.io/documentation/1.25/quickstart/
Make sure you save backups of your VPS, and use object storage to backup your databases.
I have example kubernetes configuration for lemmy on my Git. It doesn’t use any volumes/local-storage, all user data is saved into either the database or object storage, to make it cheap and easy to backup.
I’m a professional DevOps engineer, so I work with hosting every day. Let me know if you have any questions or want advice.
You should use synapse. Dendrite is not intended for self-hosted homeservers. You will have an easier time with calling/rtc with synapse as well.
Here is a good example of how to set up a home server, which was shown off by the devs at fosdem last weekend:
https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo