I gave up on reddit when they banned 3rd-party API access. I use Boost for Lemmy so it looks like reddit minus the karma whores, bots, and general shittiness.

I suppose some reddit users might find the distributed nature of the fediverse too complicated, but honestly I’m not sure if those folks would be much of a benefit to us here.

“Trickle-down economics: a golden shower of prosperity” - Stephen Colbert

Hello old-timer! I’ve been using various Linux versions for about 30 years as well. Started on Slackware, then jumped to Redhat around 6.0, then jumped to Ubuntu after the RHEL release. I’m still on 24.04 Mate, but will soon be switching to Debian. I like the Mate desktop but I’m tired of Canonical’s ongoing attempts to embrace and extend Linux.

I don’t know how anyone fell for this pump and dump scheme in the first place.

Well this is totally shocking

Not claiming it’s the reason since it clearly isn’t, only that it will help drive traffic to commercial AI products.

If RAM and GPUs were cheap people like us would be more likely to set up local LLMs to prevent our data from being productized by power-grabbing corporations.

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Apalrd’s Adventures did a video on setting up a nginx server to cache Debian/Ubuntu updates. As it happened I had an old, brittle apt-cache server that was taking up a massive amount of space. This guy did all of the heavy lifting and I had his solution running in like 10 minutes. I have a proxmox cluster with about two dozen VMs running Debian and Ubuntu, so this was perfect.

Any of you other Linux weenies out there should give this guy a subscribe. He’s the real deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydfsjWDPDyU