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Block lemmy.ml and hexbear to start. I find their users to be quite toxic.

You mean like the one linked here? Or something with a specific URL like “killedbymozilla.com”?

How does this work? You must stop working at “retirement age”? Or is that when your benefits kick in, meaning you must work until then?

Retirement is a financial position, not an age. In the US you can start withdrawing social security at age 62 (at a reduced amount/month). They consider 67 to be full retirement age, meaning you get the largest amount (per month) if you wait until then. A lot of people treat that as their retirement plan, so it ties an age to when you stop working.

We decided to not host any sort of Buy-Sell-Trade community on our hobby instance for this reason. It’s a small community so a lot of people know usernames of people they know and can trust. It’s very easy for a scammer to use someone’s username and say “I’ll sell you that thing! Send me $150!”.

Wrong thread, I think.

Honest quetion, what’s a stan account?

Oh that’s cool. I was right, only 9 monthly users.

We run on the cheapest Hetzner VPS we can, which is about $8 USD/month. Pictrs are on cloudflare R2. Pictrs storage hovers around 14GB and we have yet to get a non-zero invoice.

Our active users are super low (I think). I don’t think the lemmy interface tells you the number of active users for in instance, just for communities, but since it’s a niche instance I can safely say it’s around 10 people.

So that’s a little less than a dollar per month per user. On the existing VPS I think we could safely add a bunch of users without needing to upgrade.

Yeah. I don’t think the police purposely drove over the boat, but it was instead a consequence of being too close. Some would say the police were too close, but you could also say the other boat was too close. It’s not like a road where you’re limited in where you can go.

I watched it over and over and I think the boat on the run accidentally self-pitted themselves. Why didn’t they stop, I wonder?

Looks sort of like the boat version of a pit maneuver.

“Taliban”. That rings a bell for some reason. I swear I’ve heard it before!

Ah, interesting. That experience combined with the wording of “this update requires postgres 16”, I can see where the confusion comes from.

Interestingly enough, they fixed the documentation. Now it says “We recommend upgrading to PostgreSQL 16 due to a known memory leak in PSQL 15. To use the new image proxy feature, pict-rs version 0.5+ is required.” https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

My understanding is that postgres doesn’t need to be upgraded. It’ll still work with version 15 or whatever you have. Postgres 15 has some sort of memory leak that they’re trying to get away from, so they made 16 the new default.

Same with the “requirement” to upgrade pict-rs to the latest version. You can keep the old version if you don’t care about the new image proxy feature.

Really it’s a not a problem of needing to upgrade this stuff, but a problem with the documentation which isn’t clear. That’s a big weak spot for the Lemmy project in my opinion. I only learned the above information from lurking a bit in the Matrix chat.

I had no idea it had a name. Good to know.

LOL. Let me go ahead and apply for a grant to get that study done for you.

The tankies love demanding proof.

A Trump advisor is a Russian asset?! Who could have known?! Who could have guessed?!

It doesn’t really matter if the railing broke. If something breaks while it’s being used, it’s the builder’s fault.

Nice work.

2% with 2FA seems low. People need to get on the ball, but of course there are probably plenty of “bots” that don’t bother with that.