submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

In case you were one of the lucky ones able to snag a free account in the olden days, the terms have changed. Instead of 4 CPU and 24 RAM that you were free to whack up amongst 1-4 VPS, now you got 2 CPU and 12 GB RAM, so either one dual-core VPS or two single-core. If you keep using the old setup beyond a certain date (can't be bothered to look up when that is) you'll get billed; at reasonable rates, I'm sure.

If I'm reading this correctly, the block volume storage allotment hasn't changed, but their whole setup is hella confusing, so might be off on that.

Was really a matter of days when they was gonna axe the thing, they fired half a planet's worth of workers, I'm amazed they left even this much.

edit: I'm behind the times, this was reported more than a month ago: https://linuxiac.com/oracle-quietly-cuts-free-tier-ampere-a1-resources-in-half/

[–] 1 point 3 days ago

this thing here. I've dramatically reduced support work at two shops I've set this up for. incidents went from from coupla times a month to once a year. not to mention - you don't need no VPS no more, don't need no database, nothing, the simplest web hosting will do and it's very cache friendly.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    swapped the main board from a T16 into my T14

    you did what?! how come? which CPU and gen into which gen? what's the display situation? what's the upside? any difficulites?

    @OP thinkpads usually have a setup setting that turns them on when they detect power, that's easier than fishing for power-on pads

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    as to "how" it's as simple as torify yt-dlp https://youtu.be/etc. I don't think it'll help, though. maybe try some alternative frontend like Freetube that allows you to download videos interactively.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    for $0 a day, you can utilize Codeberg pages for static hosting or VMs from Oracle Cloud Free Tier (4 cores and 24 GB RAM that you can use on up to four VMs).

    for the domain part, you can get 'em from afraid.org or eu.org.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago
    • you should give less details. model? voltage? amperage/wattage?
    • there ain't a direct line charger - battery, power goes through a buncha stuff before it reaches the battery.
    • how's this linux related?
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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I checked and it wasn't mentioned in the article; just choosing a wayland session is not enough, the games are by default ran through the xwayland compatibility layer. you need to start each game with the DISPLAY variable unset in order to run wine in wayland mode.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I mean I can't stand the thing but this is basically paid-for nuthugging - watch me dunk on the team you hate. fluff, bereft of any semblance of standards. you're allowed to pay for office but not install 7zip and any other utility. haven't tried in the past decade or so, but I am sure you can make a usable workstation out of any windows - rip out the irritants, fall back on tons of stuff developed over what four decades?

    it ain't GUI inconsistency issue; you got that plenty on the other side of the fence with Qt/GTK/Ayatana heterogeneity. and also not the thing where you can change a setting in three places, that's also present ova here, in spades.

    the issue is MICROS~1 and I have a fundamental disagreement on the concept of "whose shit is my shit". no other thing can alleviate that clash of interests, this is someone judging the quality of the chopped onions in a shit sandwich - don't matter how skillful the chopping was or wasn't, I ain't having none of the thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    yeah, that's the thing - "outside" would be on my property, so all that dust is deposited there, forever, that shit doesn't decay. trying to think of some containment rig and disposal procedure atm. will be looking for other experiences; the dudes in the video I linked don't give no fucks, happy as clams

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    watched a coupla videos on how to cut up the bottles in order to stick them in the mortar and it kinda looks dangerous, where does all the glass-dust go when you cut up hundreds of bottles with a circular saw? is this shit airborne, does it contaminate the environment, anyone savvy?

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    hated on the thing since I first spotted it and dismissed it, never to think about it again - doing everything wrong and then adding the shittiest of solutions, who's gonna fall for that, right? but that thing is gaining and this post and recent threads just make me irrationally angry.

    oh, the thing is also vibecoded. if you had any reservations about letting this idiocy loose on your data, there's a relief, huh? head bozo detects ever-so-subtle AGI whilst slop-fondling and easily "verifies" 30K LoC that was shat out. stomach-churning shit.

    not to mention, said bozo is doubling down on his fash idiocies. I wish I was making half of this up.

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