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eeh fuck it

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Question: Is btrfs's compress-force=zstd compatible with x-systemd.automount?

I couldn't find any documentation about this anywhere, but it seems like they do NOT work together

``` % rg -i storage /etc/fstab UUID=7c16eaa0-a423-4e51-aa5c-116adf806511 /storage/disk1 btrfs noatime,lazytime,compress-force=zstd:9,x-systemd.automount 0 0 UUID=567c5fc4-3cc5-4572-9d45-01e55d30647c /storage/disk2 btrfs noatime,lazytime,compress-force=zstd:9,x-systemd.automount 0 0 UUID=d0e1ec15-2699-4afa-9393-60ae3d4370b7 /storage/disk3 btrfs noatime,lazytime,compress-force=zstd:9,x-systemd.automount 0 0

```

``` % mount | rg -i storage systemd-1 on /storage/disk1 type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=52,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=16608) systemd-1 on /storage/disk2 type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=53,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=16614) systemd-1 on /storage/disk3 type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=54,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=16620) /dev/sdc1 on /storage/disk2 type btrfs (rw,noatime,space_cache=v2,subvolid=5,subvol=/,x-systemd.automount) /dev/sdb1 on /storage/disk3 type btrfs (rw,noatime,ssd,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=5,subvol=/,x-systemd.automount) /dev/sda1 on /storage/disk1 type btrfs (rw,noatime,space_cache=v2,subvolid=5,subvol=/,x-systemd.automount)

```

running Arch (btw), if that makes any difference

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is it likely that embedded videos will ever be a part of the lemmy experience?
  • Storage space is one issue. Bandwidth (how many TB/mo goes out the server) is another. And for any "serious" use case transcoding would also be important (so you can keep the other two down for everyone except Apple users who are stubborn to adopt VP9/AV1, and to provide multiple quality options), which unlike the other two requires powerful hardware most instances do not have.

  • is it likely that embedded videos will ever be a part of the lemmy experience?
  • It uses WebTorrent for distribution between viewers watching at the same time which can temporarily help with the load on popular videos, but there still needs to be at least one source instance that's sharing the video "regularly" (for unpopular or old stuff), which ends up having the same bandwidth issues you'd get with any other video platform.

  • TIL: Dark mode causes eye strain
  • Light mode only "clicked" for me when I set my monitor's brightness all the way down. If you're getting "flashbanged" turn that brightness down. It helps (or maybe my monitor is just really fucking bright)

    Except Discord which somehow manages to have the worst light theme ever created by mankind. I have no idea how anyone can use light mode without going mad. Everything else's fine.

  • How do I subscribe to content outside of lemmy?
  • Well, the "how" is technically simple. You paste the URL to the search box and you hit subscribe. You can do that right now with:

    • Lemmy communities
    • Kbin communities
    • PeerTube channels
    • Mayyyyybe a.gup.pe / chirp.social groups???? idk how well those would work

    Lemmy itself only let you subscribe to ActivityPub Group actors though, so it's quite restrictive in that regard. kbin adds user follows and microblogging into the mix, but you can't do those through Lemmy yet (or perhaps ever).

    However, the real "problem" is presentation. While you can, say, follow a Lemmy group from Mastodon. Mastodon is not intended for groups so it kinda breaks and ends up spamming your home timeline with all the posts and comments. Other implementations such as Akkoma or Misskey or Calckey (pending rename) might end up interacting better (because Mastodon will try to convert everything it gets into Notes in a "lossy" fashion).

    While the protocol does allow you the freedom to interact between services, you will not get the best experience if you're not on a "similar enough" service. Although that does not stop you from following a PixelFed account from Misskey, or a Mastodon user accidentally finding their way into the Lemmy comments section. (You can tell because they'll be the only comments that end up tagging people when replying)

  • What obscure about:config settings would you recommend changing?
  • You have to actually toggle to see it but IMO it massively improves how scrolling feels.

    There are a few more scrolling-related options out there on the net if there's a particular "feel" you want to go for. https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/main/Smoothfox.js provides a couple you can try out, and most of these custom scrolling options use msdPhysics as a baseline.

  • I feel like I'm missing out on the hype using kbin.social
  • .ml unblocked the kbinBot UA a couple days ago so as new posts and comments are made it should be syncing up. there are still a few instances out there that seem to not federate as well (in particular beehaw doesn't seem to be federating beyond community discovery) but i believe that's just some reverse proxy misconfiguration (the lemmy-ansible nginx config had some federation related fixes with the release of 0.18.1 they may not have applied) rather than anything intentional

  • Anyone else starting to favor Flatpak over native packages?
  • Just let some bees loose on your system for a while and they'll sort that out.
    Also depending on how good your CPU is btrfs compression would also save a fair bit. AFAIK shared libraries are pretty well compressible.

  • Anyone else starting to favor Flatpak over native packages?
  • I wonder how well it integrates with hardware. Arch with the pacman packages has been the only distro where I could get ROCm working reliably. I'd love to make a "ROCm container" and dump all that mess into it's own sandbox.

    In fact, the thing I really want is more of a "Qubes but not for security tryhards" (aka I can actually use Wayland AND game on it) where everything gets it's own container mainly for organizational purposes, but something like this sounds like a fair compromise.

  • What ecosystem should I use if i want to make an app and not write boilerplate all day?

    The "native" Android ecosystem has grown way too over-complicated for my liking. I do not want to dependency inject a Reactive ViewModel Room Repository DAO Purpose Factory (without blocking the main thread), I just want to make a god damn app.

    My current wishlist is:

    1. Be reasonably efficient (we're working with phones here)
    2. Be completely open source (i.e. I should be able to throw my app on F-Droid when it's ready)
    3. Have a not terrible implementation of Material 3/You
    4. Don't be too "janky" for the end user (sorry, PWAs)
    5. Be reasonably mature

    What does this leave me with? Flutter? React Native?

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    What happened to vlemmy.net?
  • There are signing keys involved, so if someone puts up a new server but uses different keys then all sorts of federation trouble will await them.

    That said it shouldn't affect the general network, just that individual server (both the communities and the users of it)

    Edit: As for switching domains on an existing server, that would be equally troublesome as ActivityPub kinda relies on domains for all sorts of IDs.

  • Is lemmy.ml working with kbin again?
  • .ml still seems to have the user-agent block in place but plenty of other Lemmy instances that didn't federate before seem to be federating. or at least federating enough that searching picks up their communities.

    last time i tried .world was the only instance that federated with kbin properly

  • Is it possible to change lemmy's domain?
  • It's possible by having the webfinger endpoints at the "root" while keeping the rest of Lemmy on a subdomain. The main thing that determines the domain in your username is webfinger.

    No clue if Lemmy or kbin support this config though, but quite a bit of the microblog-only parts of fedi do, and it's a widely used thing.

  • Anyone hosting Lemmy and Mastodon on the same server?
  • jsyk, with how ActivityPub works changing the software that's running from under it will break federation with you in all sorts of subtle ways. When you pick a thing to run under a domain you're effectively locked into running that software under that domain. And of course there is some cryptographic verification as well so you change the keys (or you wipe or forget to back up the database) you may as well burn that domain from federating ever again.

  • How much swap?
  • On a desktop or especially laptop case, it should be equal to (or larger than) your RAM if you use hibernation (as RAM gets copied to swap during hibernation)

    On my server, I set it up to be 2GBs, mostly arbitrarily. Right now it's at 500MB, but my main memory is also only 600-800MB full out of the total 4GBs available, so I'm not running out of RAM anytime soon.

    Swap behavior seems to have changed a while ago, so consider reading https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html on how it works right now. Hell, even that might be outdated nowadays. Up to date info on how swap works really seems hard to come by.