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[–] bdonvr 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but it's way easier and less tinkery than what's described in the OP

 

It's been a while, how have you been?

The Lemmy Club has been chugging along just fine, but with one issue - our database is beginning to push the limits of our storage drive. We're pushing 60gb on the DB. That's not photos, just text, vote records, etc. We have a larger drive with plenty of space but I only use it for backups because it's a slow drive and putting the database there would cause the site to crawl.

The last time this happened I just upgraded to the next tier of server up, which gave us a bit more storage and a decent bump in RAM/CPU. I could do the same again but the current server provider only offers an upgrade to a tier with 25gb more storage. We'd also get a bump in CPU/RAM but we're already overpowered in that regard. I like our current server provider however the numbers just don't make sense for us.

Instead, I've secured a server with a different provider. We'll get way more fast storage, more (albeit less powerful) CPU cores, and more RAM. For $7 less per month.

So what's changing?

  • Server location moving from NYC to Washington, DC.
  • Going from 6 x86 cores to 14 ARM cores
  • Going from 24GB to 32GB of RAM (way more than we need tbh lol)
  • Going from 100GB SSD storage to 1TB
  • New company is European (server physically in US)
  • Going from $27/mo ($22 main server + $5 for 1tb extra storage) to $20/mo

I've got the server up I'll just need a few hours to shut down the current one, back everything up completely, transfer, and restore it all. After that you shouldn't notice any change.

You can follow the upgrade process at https://status.thelemmy.club/maintenance

As always, thanks for being a member of The Lemmy Club.


If you’d like to help contribute to our ongoing costs, or would like to show some appreciation, you can at OpenCollective: https://opencollective.com/thelemmyclub

This instance is mostly self funded with no return whatsoever. The costs aren’t too high (~$440/yr) but community donations are always very appreciated. At the moment, we’re about 27% community funded. Either way, The Lemmy Club isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Also that number has went up quite a bit since I last looked. The photo storage (served by a seperate network storage solution) has started to balloon recently. I may have to look into a cheaper provider.

[–] bdonvr 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The goth vampire of my dreams does not have this body shape

[–] bdonvr 5 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

The girl maybe. The boy is probably at least 30 tho

[–] bdonvr 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ehhhhhh Communism is a stateless, moneyless society. Really a form of anarchism however states which aspire to move to this eventually often use central planning as a transitional step.

[–] bdonvr 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, maybe it's not out of the question that the dog could still be around. Most dogs get neutered young too. 16-18 years old is definitely an old dog but not unheard of for a small breed. Jack Russells are no slouch for longevity.

But yeah almost certainly they are gone

This however is completely ignoring the fact that the dog was photoshopped in and could be from really any time

[–] bdonvr 30 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Potentially? They're in their 30s probably

[–] bdonvr 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean - can you really say that without knowing where it's planted?

[–] bdonvr 14 points 1 day ago

Lets see when markets open in an hour. But yeah shits not rational

[–] bdonvr 6 points 1 day ago

Your keys won't scratch it, your screen is too hard. I can take a knife to my screen (and I've tested this) and it won't scratch it.

What gets most phones scratched is sand or materials with sand in it like some concrete. It has particles of minerals hard enough to scratch your screen.

[–] bdonvr 1 points 1 day ago

I tried. But the slightest imperfection and it gets ripped off.

I'm just living that caseless, protector-less life now.

[–] bdonvr 14 points 1 day ago

The envelope reads: "Before you vote, read this - Because putting Canada First starts with you.

[–] bdonvr 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whatever it may have been in WW2 you really think the US has been a global force against Fascism in the past 30 years? Lol.

 
 

I don't like making new rules, however due to recent events I have unfortunately been forced to create this one.

For further context, please refer to this thread.

If you have any comments or concerns, I would love to hear them.

 

This release mostly includes some minor fixes in the background, however a major release is imminent in the next few months.

You can see the full changelog here.

As always, thanks for being a member of The Lemmy Club.

If you’d like to help contribute to our ongoing costs, or would like to show some appreciation, you can at OpenCollective: https://opencollective.com/thelemmyclub

This instance is funded primarily out of my own pocket with no return whatsoever. The costs aren’t too high (~$250/yr) but community donations are always very appreciated. At the moment, we’re about 50% community funded. Either way, The Lemmy Club isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

 

Turns out dryers are pretty simple and mostly all decent. It's the washers that are more complex and you should choose wisely.

I spent like 4 days looking at videos about dryers anyway. It's like, the most exciting thing to happen this month.

At least my clothes come out dry in one cycle now.

 

Article textAfter years railing against immigrants coming to America, Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to prioritize the U.S. resettlement of white South African “refugees” suffering from what he called “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.”

Trump also shut down all funding for the country, much of which is used to battle AIDS.

Afrikaners, architects of the historically brutal discriminatory system of apartheid in South Africa, would be resettled in America through the U.S. refugee program, which Trump had suspended by executive order on his first day in office, according to the president.

Trump accused the South African government in his order of discriminating against the white Afrikaaners, descendants of the largely Dutch colonists who arrived in the country in the 1600s and imposed apartheid against the overwhelming majority of Blacks living there until the 1990s.

Trump raged in his order that South Africa’s government is seizing “ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation” and enacting “countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity” in employment, education and business.”

He wrote that the U.S. cannot support the government of South Africa’s “commission of rights violations in its country.”

Donald Trump speaks earlier this week before signing a previous executive order, this one barring transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports Donald Trump speaks earlier this week before signing a previous executive order, this one barring transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

South Africa's government has denied private land confiscations or racially motivated discrimination. Officials have said the government is looking at unused or publicly owned land to give citizens help who suffered generations of apartheid.

The Washington Post has reported that private land is confiscated only “rarely,” and is intended to address the disparities created by apartheid.

Afrikaners, who make up only 8 percent of the population, own three-fourths of the country’s farmland, while Blacks, who comprise 80 percent of the population, own just 4 percent of agricultural land, according to the country’s 2017 land audit, The Post noted.

In a post on X Monday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responded to Trump’s earlier attacks on the country, saying the land measure is “not a confiscation instrument, but a constitutionally mandated legal process.”

Later he vowed in his state of the nation address: “We will not be bullied”

Trump instructed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in his order to "prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination."

Trump’s right-wing “best buddy” Elon Musk grew up in apartheid South Africa, and overstayed his student visa after moving to the United States for school, his own bother Kimbal has recounted. Musk has long criticized his homeland for being “anti-white.”

The new order was a flip flop from one Trump signed his first day in office, in which he argued that refugees are a strain on the nations receiving them. Trump said he would only restart the refugee program if he concluded that doing so would serve the interests of the U.S.

Trump's earlier order did, however, allow officials to make case-by-case exemptions.

The United States provided nearly $440 million in aid to South Africa in 2023, with the majority of funds allocated to HIV/AIDS treatment through PEPFAR, a program that supports 17 percent of South Africa’s HIV/AIDS response and provides lifesaving medication to millions.

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Article TextWASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup, as elite technical units aligned with media oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at the national treasury, block outside access to federal personnel records, and take offline governmental communication networks.

With rapidity that has stunned even longtime political observers, forces loyal to Musk’s junta have established him as the all-but undisputed unelected head of government in just a matter of days, unwinding the longtime democracy’s constitutional system and its proud nearly 250-year-old tradition of the rule of law. Having secured themselves in key ministries and in a building adjacent to the presidential office complex, Musk’s forces have begun issuing directives to civil service workers and forcing the resignation of officials deemed insufficiently loyal, like the head of the country’s aviation authority.

The G-7 country’s newly installed president, a mid-level oligarch named Donald Trump, appeared amid Musk’s moves to be increasingly merely a figurehead head of state. Trump is a convicted felon with a long record of family corruption and returned in power in late January after a four-year interlude promising retribution and retaliation against foreign opponents and a domestic “Deep State.” He had been charged with attempting to overthrow the peaceful transition of power that had previously removed him from office in 2021, but loyalist elements in the judiciary successfully blocked his prosecution and incarceration, easing his return to power.

Over the last two weeks, loyalist presidential factions and Musk-backed teams have launched sweeping, illegal Stalin-esque purges of the national police forces and prosecutors, as well as offices known as inspectors-general, who are typically responsible for investigating government corruption. While official numbers of the unprecedented ousters were kept secret, rumors swirled in the capital that the scores of career officials affected by the initial purges could rise into the thousands as political commissars continued to assess the backgrounds of members of the police forces.

The mentally declining and aging head of state, who has long embraced conspiracist thinking, spent much of the week railing in bizarre public remarks against the country’s oppressed racial and ethnic minorities, whom he blamed without evidence for causing a deadly plane crash across the river from the presidential mansion. Unfounded racist attacks on those minorities have been a key foundation of Trump’s unpredicted rise to political power from a career as a real estate magnate and reality TV host and date back to his first announcement that he would seek the presidency in 2015, when he railed against “rapists” being sent into the country from its southern neighbor.

In one of his first moves upon returning to the presidency, he mobilized far-right paramilitary security forces to begin raids at churches, schools, and workplaces to identify and remove racial minorities, including those who had long lived in harmony with the country’s white Christian majority. He also immediately moved to release from prison some 1,500 supporters who had participated in his unsuccessful 2021 insurrection, including members of violent far-right militias who promptly upon release swore fealty to him in any future civil unrest. Elsewhere, even as he released violent criminals onto the streets, Trump by fiat pulled longstanding government security protection from former military and health officials he felt had betrayed him.

Underscoring his apparent disconnection from reality, reports surfaced that the president had ordered military forces to unleash an environmental catastrophe and flood regions of a separatist province known as California that is led by a high-profile political opponent. The order underscored how the military, which had resisted Trump’s unconstitutional power grabs in his first administration, was now led by a subservient defense minister, a favored TV personality with no experience in management who faced an embarrassing series of allegations about his drunken behavior in the workplace.

Foreign allies who had long aligned themselves with the United States on the international stage were unsettled by increasingly destabilizing nationalistic and imperialist rhetoric coming from the president’s social media accounts—largely posted to a network owned and run by Trump himself—and worried in private conversations in capital embassies that he would mobilize the compliant military to fulfill heretofore unimaginable territorial ambitions that included seizing the country’s northern neighbor, which shares the world’s longest undefended border, and potentially colonizing Panama and Greenland.

Both the country’s defense minister, who has previously said he does not believe women should be allowed to serve in combat roles, and Trump’s new interior minister, who appeared on national TV wearing the paramilitary uniform of the border security force central to Trump’s political rise, spent much of their first days echoing and amplifying the president’s hysteria about racial and ethnic minorities. They and other government officials also immediately canceled all official observances of religious and ethnic minority holidays and launched efforts to scrub official websites and prohibit educating workers or schoolchildren about those minorities’ long, proud history in the country. Overnight Friday, hours after journalists had gone home, the defense minister’s office announced it would bar establishment independent media outlets from working out of the country’s military headquarters and replace them with friendly right-wing media organs.

The administration’s propaganda minister also announced Friday, apparently with little preparation, that it would initiate an immediate, unexpected, and seemingly ill-considered trade war with the country’s two primary economic partners, a move that if implemented would upend the national economy, disrupt supply chains, and accelerate the return of an inflationary crisis that has roiled domestic politics over the last five years and had just seemed to be returning to normal. Ironically, it was that very inflationary crisis and Trump’s promises on the campaign trail to lower the price of eggs that paved the way for his unforeseen election victory in November.

The country’s other business oligarchs have watched Musk’s unexpected and rapid rise to power with trepidation, and leading media and technology companies who compete with Musk’s extensive business empire—like Meta, Amazon, Disney, Paramount, Apple, and OpenAI—have quickly lined up to negotiate and pay bribes to the president that would allow their companies to operate unimpeded; initial payment terms ranged from million-dollar gifts to the presidential inauguration to $15 million and $25 million payments, made by Disney and Meta, to fund the construction of a presidential shrine. The highest known payment was $40 million from Amazon, which was structured as a gift to the president’s wife in exchange for the media company having the opportunity to film a hagiographic biopic.

It was unclear, exactly, what deal terms any of those bribes and payments unlocked and when subsequent tribute payments would be expected, although on Saturday Trump moved to fire and neuter government watchdogs that had long bedeviled the country’s financial elite.

Throughout the week’s fast-moving seizure of power—one that seems increasingly irreversible by the hour—neither loyalist nor opposition parliamentary leaders raised meaningful objection to the new regime or the unraveling of the country’s constitutional system of checks and balances. A few members of the geriatric legislature body offered scattered social media posts condemning the move, but parliament — where both houses are controlled by so-called “MAGA” members handpicked for their loyalty to the president — went home early for the weekend even as Musk’s forces spread through the capital streets.

It was unclear what role, if any, Musk’s forces would allow parliament to have in the new governmental structure by the time it next returned to the national assembly known as Capitol Hill.

 

My Ender 3 S1 just does anything I ask of it now that I have Klipper and a glass/mirror plate and tuned it.

It's kinda boring tbh 😂 I WANNA TINKER

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Install F-Droid and Aurora store to get access to whatever Android apps you'd like. Pair a bluetooth keyboard and install your favorite apps.

I can use voyager (made by the excellent @[email protected]), with a browser window a YouTube window, and more open at once and floating in my real environment with passthrough. You can interact with apps by literally touching them (controllers are def better when you need to be precise or you have the app far away but hand tracking is more than good enough to do anything). You can get up and walk around and carry an app/window with you.

I'm writing this with this setup and thinking this could actually replace a tablet for some people. It's definitely better for multitasking.

I've also tested the new Windows 11 linking and it works really really well. The latency is super low, low enough to fool me into thinking it's wired. And the screens ACTUALLY rearranging according to how they are in VR so your mouse always moves across VR screens perfectly is an awesome touch that's often missing from other solutions.

 

https://www.economist.com/china/2025/01/16/an-initiative-so-feared-that-china-has-stopped-saying-its-name

agony-mescaline

Article text

An initiative so feared that China has stopped saying its name

The Economist

China | The Voldemort of economic plans

“Made in China 2025” has been a success, but at what cost?

LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT from Harry Potter, “Made in China 2025” is an initiative which induces so much fear and loathing abroad that Chinese officials dare not speak its name. The plan, introduced a decade ago, called for pouring money and resources into dozens of industries. The goal was to turn China into a green and innovative “manufacturing power”, one that relied less on labour and Western supply chains, and more on automation and new home-grown technologies. This was Xi Jinping’s vision for the Chinese economy.

[PAYWALL]

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