lemmy can run on a decent variety of hardware, just has to be some thing left on 24/7 and exposed to the internet (be careful, the internet is a hostile place... mine was getting scanned and poked constantly until I put it behind cloudflare and then locked the firewall down to just let in cloudflare), and of course more users take more powerful hardware.

For my personal just me instance though, I'm just running it on a Raspberry Pi 4 I run some other stuff on. Uses less than a gig of memory.

some instances let anyone create their own community (lemmy equivalent of subreddit)

I'd recommend tech experience before setting up your own lemmy server ( instance); the internet is a hostile place with random pcs poking servers 24/7

There's nothing wrong with solid old file systems; ext4 is almost 17 and no one complains about it,

My home room in middle school was one of the few classrooms that had windows pcs. They used deepfreeze to reset them daily, but I found some program that actually disabled it. I think I just installed firefox or chrome and then ran windows updates because they always had the annoying yellow shield system tray icon for windows updates needed.

in some ways: they now sanitize input so things like the xss attack a while ago is much much harder.

will it solve the ddos attacks they're experiencing? nope.

don't worry, its already fixed. should be in the next release.

On my personal instance I'm running a build with that and its properly giving nice recent posts ( including the OP)

first I've heard of it, but I'm skeptical of their claim to deliver security fixes faster than firefox.

I want the ability to sideload, Apple is very much a walled garden.

I enjoy having the ability to use custom roms.

I've been generally happy with all the android phones I've used in the past and see no reason to change that.

why did you link to a kbin view of another post right here on ![email protected] ?

a bug that was/will be fixed that mostly stoped posts from aging properly. it and some other nice things should be in the next release.

dnf is to apt as rpm is to dpkg.

The first pair are the nice user friendly front ends that pull things in and install from the repos.

The latter are the guts that directly handle the raw packages and are used by the frontends.

I'm rocking a pixel 6 pro. I like having the option of being able to unlock the bootloader and install custom roms, and the easy access to reflash the official os with just adb/fastboot as opposed to other androids requiring extra tools. Getting updates every month is also important to me.

the thing is right now lemmy by defaultNEVER expires the tokens... oops. Right now servers are manually expiring all their user's tokens by changing the secret in the database because of this attack.

The closed source ones were good enough for quite a while; it was amd's closed source ones that were mediocre.

Course now that wayland is around Nvidia bungled their support for it ( trying to force their standard rather than what had been accepted by others), and Amd's open drivers have been solid the entire time afaik.

all you need to do is refresh the page after the error message appears and you're golden, no big deal

snaps I actively dislike since they're more heavily tied to specific servers and how Ubuntu is replacing perfectly good native packages with them.

Flatpaks and appimages are both ok, but I usually just package anything I need myself ( I use Gentoo and like its ebuild format) rather than go looking for them.

I recommend avoiding political communities in general. too many extremists on either side of the political spectrum.

neither, there was a commit just last week in a feature branch , also you only linked to the apps icon and not their main page.

It has the power to run a one user instance, I'm sure it would run into issues trying to squeeze a normal amount of people onto it, but a handful sure.

I run everything off an external hard drive

Something with how the ui handles ban lengths that arn't permanent but are still far far in the future.

If you're an instance owner you can fix it by making those bans permanent by editing the database