This depends on the server you sign up on. lemmy.world is just one of many. No idea which one doesn’t require an email address. Since you’re already on lemmy.world I’d stay there for a while to get a feel for the other servers out there.

Switch and Click had a video about that recently: https://youtu.be/M9qJI2u_be0

Reminds me of the time I was working on something for Mercedes but they couldn’t supply me with the computer for testing. I had to go into the super cramped actual car that was parked in a super expensive secure garage.

Left the company and when I went there for a visit I saw that the new guy actually got to test and develope on a computer they had ripped out of a car.

I was and still am on HDD. The CPU was upgraded as well. I migrated to a new server.

The main culprit was the database. As far as I’m aware Lemmy is missing some indexes and due to the ORM they used didn’t always have optimised queries. Now with 64 GB RAM the whole database (almost 30 GB) fits in there fixing most of those issues.

The real fix will probably come with Lemmy 1.0. They radically changed the database layout and queries.

Image proxying wasn’t bad for performance. Just storage space. It was growing really really fast. Now that only I am using it to host the pictures I uploaded it is still much too large (24 GB). But its directory structure is so convoluted that I can’t really debug it. My stuff really shouldn’t be taking up more than a few hundred MBs.

I am the only one using this instance. I am subscribed to a hundred communities or so. I am always pretty up to date with my Lemmy versions.

RAM. Maybe 32 would have been enough but 64 cost as much as 32 so that decision was easy.

These feelings are not normal. Your neighbour can’t be responsible. Seek psychiatric help.

Same stuff you do on any other instance. Looking at stuff, upvoting, downvoting, posting and commenting.

Control. I’m not beholden to anyone. My server is federating exactly those communities that interest me.

I run an instance just for myself and it was a nightmare on HDD and 16 GB RAM. It was slow as molasses. Supposedly the database layout will be fixed with the 1.0 release that is just around the corner.

Since I upgraded to 64 GB it’s been pretty smooth. Still wild that that is necessary for a single user.

Also, disable image proxying. I have no idea what pict-rs does but it seems to be too much.

You should consider running Piefed instead. It’s not as resource hungry as Lemmy.

You will be unaffected.

It’s really hard to decide whether XSLT or JavaScript is worse. On the one hand XSLT wasn’t cobbled together in a weekend. On the other it requires you to write XML and its “arrays” start at 1.

That’s just for those few websites that use their RSS feed as their content source. If they want to keep doing that they can just get a JavaScript library that provides XSLT functionality. The feed itself is untouched.

Xslt has nothing to do with RSS being available or not.

They have this very complex system of presenting you with two links. One lets you access the tiddies, the other sends you to Club Penguin. Impossible to circumvent. But some hackers claim to manage to do it by “reading”.

There have been plenty of similar techniques (esync and fsync) in Proton for years. That’s basically why the work was started to get this into Wine in the first place.

The way I understand it this is proper support in the kernel and Wine. So you will still get some improvement. But it won’t be any way nearly as large as the article suggests.

I bet those patches are already in Proton-GE or at least GE is likely already working on adding them. For Valve’s Proton I suspect they will be added for version 11 or 12 at the latest.

Can’t you just make the Local feed your default?

Personally I just subscribe to everything I want to see and browse that.

I don’t quite get how religion plays into this but I assume you are a man and are afraid of what others might think of you if you wear a skirt instead of pants.

How about a kilt? They are somewhat accepted as male skirts.

Newest version is 6.6.something so maybe the bug is fixed by now.

Not the worst one, but the worst one I watched entirely. Wanted to watch Freddy vs Jason with a friend. I got a DVD screener intended for press that switched to black and white every few minutes.

At first we thought it was intentional because the whole movie plays around with weirdly tinted scenes. So why not black and white as well?

The kernels (and accompanying modules/drivers) are more or less freely interchangeable.

Bugs in the kernel are pretty rare in my experience. I think it’s more likely that the bug was somewhere in KDE Plasma. Kubuntu’s version should be older than the one on Cachy. On top of that Kubuntu has their own patches for KDE, so even if the version numbers are the same they are not the exact same programs. And on top of that the way they compiled KDE will be slightly different.