I have thought about federated social media for some time and a pain point I see people running into is their home server closing down and having to make new accounts elsewhere, losing access to data such as their saved items, their comments, their subscriptions etc.

I get the feeling this kind of breaks the decentralized spirit of the platforms because people get tired of this and likely tend toward the larger instances because they are "safe" and don't appear to be going anywhere any time soon.

I think it would be interesting if user objects were abstracted from "permanent" home servers. While this of course goes against part of the spirit as well in that a home server is a kind of place where you get to experience a local, smaller community - I think it would be interesting if there were a federated platform which functioned as follows.

1. Instance owners set a number of user accounts they want to host, and a threshold of the amount of data they want to store. You continue to leave in their control the ability to restrict sign-ups etc as normal.

2. When a user account is created, a default home server is suggested or assigned to them based on the decentralized network health - it would be optimal to assign new users to smaller home servers that have room for users to better how decentralized the platform is - the algorithm responsible for this would take into account the number of available slots for users instances have, how much storage they have remaining for user data, and how many users there are on the instance total (how to handle this in regards to if that server is defederated/defederates with other servers is not something I have a reasonable solution to at this time).

3. When a platform instance decides to close down, the user accounts are distributed equally to the remaining instances that make up the platform in a migration, again, accounting for the platforms decentralization health. Optimally the user would receive a notification of the change, receiving a suggestion for a new server, but would be otherwise unaffected.

4. Make it optional for a user to change on which instance their account data gets hosted - if they do not like the home server they were initially assigned, allow them to queue a migration of their account and data. Some users would do this but I suspect many would not see a need to, which would in theory better the health. In either instance, it would make it easier to manage.

I understand instances being intended to be topic based, but I really think it would be interesting to have a platform where the scope of the instance ends at hosting and performing this "load balancing", and the topics are controlled purely by the federated communities.

By abstracting the user account data in this way or something similar, I think it would be overall better for the health of the decentralization and it would also remove one of the larger pain points experienced by new users.

Of course there would be a lot more to consider in building such a system. You would need pseudo-usernames which are actually GUID's or some such on the back end in case an account with the same name already exists on the server accepting migration. You would need to propagate the accounts instance host to previous comments and posts etc the users have made that have been federated to other servers to try to avoid link rot.

Nonetheless, I just wanted to throw the concept out there to see if there is such a thing, or if there are any other clear pitfalls or problems with a hypothetical platform like this.

Hi all,

I recently found out that as a part of my job I get access to a small gym in the building. I think it has your basic cardio equipment and some other stuff for building muscle (but small enough I don't think there is equipment to do stuff like dead-lifts or whatever in there).

I don't know anything about working out really, but I could stand to lose some fat, which draws my attention to the treadmill that they have. I am not so concerned about building muscle and everything that involves.

I have mostly neglected going to gyms for 3 reasons.

• They are usually out of my way
• I don't usually have the time
• I don't want to spend what they charge

All three of these are now non-factors now that I have found out I have access to this one.

I would be using it twice a week as that is how often I am actually at the location.

So my question is, since it's not really something I have ever looked at - if I want to lose a bunch of fat, what do I do? I can try to diet first off, and I am glad to take suggestions on what worked for other people in that regard, but more so I just don't know how long or how fast I should run, what equipment is good for this otherwise, or really anything about using a gym.

Please note that the facility is self-serve and has no staff - they just have cleaners come in each day to clean it, the rest is up to you. I do not have the money to spend on something like a personal trainer, and the location doesn't offer such things as well given its self-serve nature.

Thank you.

Hey all,

I am wondering how to learn about auto work. I am self taught in many things but this subject evades me somewhat. It seems like the kind of thing that someone would teach to you directly but most of my learning comes from self study interacting with things directly and reading texts.

My brakes are starting to make a squeaking noise when I come to a stop and as a result I have gained an interest in learning about some basic auto work.

Does anyone have any good resources where you can learn about these things in a sequential manner? That is to say, learning the most basic concepts up to the more advanced concepts?

Thanks.

Could be a bit better in hindsight since I learned a few things but I'm pretty happy with it nonetheless. Made from poplar, carved it all by hand, filed and sanded it, has neodymium magnets embedded inside to hold the knife and scabbard together, stained the wood and painted into the carvings with white enamel paint and then waxed the whole thing.

Wood work is fun.

Hey all,

So I know there are some really great open source map applications for mobile devices such as OsmAnd and CoMaps, but I have been finding myself wishing they were available as desktop applications (on Linux).

I wanted to ask if anyone is aware of something like this or what is recommended. I know some are available via a browser, but I would really enjoy something that supports offline maps for a desktop.

Personally, I would like this for standard map needs (locating things locally), but also for doing stuff like planning out camping trips. It would be nice to be able to for example, bring my laptop camping, and be able to reference a map of the area on there and take notes about the trails and whatnot.

This would be especially handy for when I got back to an internet connection, because then I could add to the OpenStreetMap data using those notes.

Been re-theming my desktop system recently, decided to go with a gruvbox style, but still making some additions and changes.

Hello all,

I was recently reading through some posts here and noticed a comment in which someone was asking if this community was moderated at all.

I went to take a look, and sure enough, the only mod account here had not been active for ~2 years.

As I generally have the time to do so, I submitted a request to the instance admin to moderate the community and it was granted.

I have done this before for another community, and it seems to have gone well, so I am glad to try to help here too.

I wanted to make this post to first provide my assurances to you that I like to be responsible in moderation duties, and to let you know that I am well aware that this is no one persons community, but all of ours.

Second, and to that end, I see that this community currently has no rules set in the sidebar. I wanted to ask you all if you have any suggestions for rules for this community, or if you think it is even necessary to list any etc.

If people are generally in agreement with suggested rules, I would be glad to add them there and to try to enforce them as I have the time to do so.

Once these are in place, please remember that you can use the report feature on comments or posts that you believe break rules to get my attention to review them in regards to that.

Otherwise if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to ask or to make yourself heard.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

When I was previously on windows I had a lot of fun doing music production. My workflow took place in FL studio and used a lot of software synthesizers (VST files mainly).

After my switch to Linux, I am 95% better off. Everything is great except I have to rediscover a music workflow.

It's quite painful because I had licenses to some very expensive software synth libraries (The Arturia V collection for example). I have done some reading and have found that while it is possible to get FL studio working in Linux, it still doesn't have the greatest of results.

As far as that goes, I am not terribly concerned - Reaper, Bitwig, and other Linux DAW's exist and I am fine using those instead even if it means purchasing a license for the paid ones.

But the real problem is the software centers/Licenses/installations for my software synths. It would be such a shame and a waste of money if I couldn't get these working, but I don't know much about dealing with this on Linux, so I am appealing to your collective knowledge.

I wanted to ask if anyone has successfully installed the Arturia V collection on Linux for use in a DAW, and if so, what you think I should know about it. I thought I read somewhere about some software these could be emulated/installed through (not wine), but I'm just really open to hearing about recommended options for something like this if anyone knows.

Otherwise, I wanted to ask my musical Linux friends here what they have for VST's and what their workflow is on Linux, because it's always fun to develop new work flows.

Thanks

Hi all,

Not too long ago I remembered that I had an old tower sitting in a garage which still had enough parts to run. Needless to say I went and bought 18 TB of surplus disks and some SATA cables, hooked them up, and configured RAID5 before installing my VPN client, my torrenting software, and Jellyfin.

This seedbox/media server setup has been completely revolutionary and I am floored by how great Jellyfin in particular works. I don't even have this tower wired - it's using an old crappy wifi dongle I bought around 2012 - and yet I can seamlessly stream all my content to the computers on my network without a hiccup.

Now in my home, there are two separate networks and two separate internet connections for reasons I wont get into. I want to make the server available to all the devices on both networks (particularly the television sets on the network the server does not reside on).

I believe I can just run an ethernet cable from the WAN port of one networks router to a LAN port on the other router, but wanted to see if anyone has had to do something similar.

Furthermore, while one television on the non-server network has the Jellyfin application available on it, the other televisions do not. As I understand it, trying to chromecast from a phone or something can be pretty painful to configure due to requiring certs and encryption. Is my best bet to get Jellyfin on the other TV's to do something like buy some Raspberry Pi/Libre Sweet Potato microcomputers or some such and hook them up to each TV to enable easy access?

Otherwise, if anyone has any ideas or has done something to get Jellyfin available for multiple TV sets which don't support the Jellyfin app, I'd be really happy to hear about your solutions and setups.

Thanks

Hey all,

Every Christmas Eve, my family hosts the dinner and events. For years my Mother has come up with some simple games to keep everyone entertained during the middle-later portion of the night.

She doesn't like anything too complicated. I was wondering if anyone has any simple party games which are fun with extended family around the holidays.

Thanks.

Qwerty Keys QK101 full sized.

• Anodized sandgold chassis
• NicePBT Morse key caps
• Gateron root beer float tactile switches, 58g bottom out, 62g tactile peak, 3.5 mm travel
• Inbuilt LCD display and LED matrix
• Per key RGB
• Aluminum top plate
• 3 way PCB, 1.2 mm with masking tape mod on the flex cuts/around screw holes
• Top mounted, back foam, anti-static sheet

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