Kind of. Father has turned into a religious right Trump supporting nutjob. COVID is bs, vaccine 'changed your DNA', etc. He's 80 now, and the sad part is he used to be a science teacher.

And then he got leukemia. Because of his BS rhetoric, my mother and brother who live with him couldn't visit him in the hospital because they all refused to get the vaccine. My brother almost lost his job over it.

Anyways get this: my dad got COVID while he was in the middle of chemo with zero white blood cell count, and recovered in like 3 days! And .. is in remission from leukemia and has stopped chemo.

So I mean he's really damned lucky, but this all just reinforces his view that COVID was nothing and he made the right choice. Meanwhile he spams my inbox with alt right bullshit all day. The fact I live in a different country and only see him once a year keeps things cordial I think.

UK here. Most people I work with will have Signal or Telegram. However my kids and the parents groups and schools all use WhatsApp.

None of them could get their friends to switch from WhatsApp. Nobody gives a shit at all about Meta and their dodgy data practices. Convenience is king. "aLL mY frIEnDs aRE oN WHatSaPp!"

They will literally be excluded if they don't use it.

Super-frustrating and makes me feel pretty helpless tbh.

My kid's school here in the UK banned them, but the kids all take them in anyways and the teachers don't care.

I had banned YouTube in the house, but then the school started assigning homework to watch YouTube videos.

The dependence of our infrastructure on private social media companies is shocking and needs to be stopped immediately.

I was looking at similar requirements for my daily lunch during the workday. I live in London so you're paying between £5 and £10 per day even for just a sandwich-based lunch. I needed a packed lunch that was cheap, tasty, healthy and additionally: filling, easy/quick to prepare and low carb. So that's a big ask.

I settled on a kind of custom Greek salad. One cucumber, some red onion, pickled beetroot all diced up, olive oil (or cold-pressed rapeseed oil) and some feta cheese. Sometimes I add chickpeas and coriander.

It's perfect, I've been eating it for years now.

Yes totally. I originally used Reddit because I was subscribed to some super-niche hobby communities. I never doom-scrolled the front page or anything. These communities don't yet exist in Lemmy yet so I'm kind of hanging around to see what happens. And yes, everything is negative. But to be fair, I didn't sign up expecting to read uplifting stories and people (or bots) are just posting clickbait garbage that the internet is already awash in anyways.

I prefer more discussion forum type communities rather than link aggregators. I just need to keep looking for what I like and subscribing to those so I can filter out the crap.

Yep. If it's a video it gets a hard pass from me. They can get their 'views' from someone else.

Someone please make it stop.

TikTok and its ilk should come with those warnings like you get with cigarettes and alcohol. "May cause lowering of IQ and inhibit the development of critical thinking skills."

I was primarily interested in r/soapmaking, r/instantpot and r/breadmachines. Also some true crime ones - I've joined the ones I could find here but there's hardly anyone in them.

I mean through the Jerboa app though. What you're suggesting is through the web UI right?

Dealt with by simply rinsing it afterwards

You're not wrong. We need to vote with our wallets. If we demand more healthy food instead of crap, perhaps someone will figure out at way to make it scale economically.

It's my daughter's birthday tomorrow, so I'm making her a cheesecake today. Of course, being a dad it's not going to be straightforward but rather using a gadget (instant pot) to make it: https://www.pressurecookrecipes.com/instant-pot-cheesecake-new-york/

And yes, I don't miss those kids parties. I have 3 kids and thankfully they are all beyond that stage now!

I would use it. Anything to not have to use public transportation or fly in an airplane ever again.

Great, now it will be even easier to post endlessly about it.

ya think?

I am not telling you to quit I'm not telling you to know more. I was merely suggesting that the devs put out the minimal required documentation for an experienced admin to get it up and running, while also suggesting a way to not waste money.

Sorry it came out wrong.

Yeah. Getting sick of it is definitely a thing. Not eating it on the weekend helps, as does changing the type of oil. There are other bits you can change. I've definitely had to take breaks from it from time to time!

I'm currently trying to get Lemmy working on Azure Container Apps and Azure Postgres Flexible Server. I've got it all deployed, but I'm having some issues with the reverse proxy.

Regarding the 'best' choice - well it depends on what you mean by 'best'. AKS will be the most flexible and ACI will probably be the simplest (if it will even work for Lemmy - I haven't looked at ACI in years). Container Apps will probably be somewhere in the middle. Container Apps is just an abstraction over Kubernetes, so in theory you should get the scalability and flexibility of k8s without the overhead of managing a cluster.

I got Lemmy up and running on my home Rapberry Pi microk8s cluster pretty easily, so it will work fine on AKS for sure.

I'm looking at Container Apps just as a pet project because I've been waiting for a product like this for years. Kubernetes is awesome, but has always been too complicated for the average software developer to use. It needs a layer of abstraction and that's what Container Apps is. So anyways I figured running Lemmy on it would be a good way to test drive it.

As I said though, I've run into some issues and am almost at the point where I was going to ask for help. If anyone's interested, I can post links to my Github repos with my Terraform code and all that.

Do you have a local device you can try all this on first so you're not wasting money?

I agree the guides aren't great, but they assume you have some experience doing this stuff.

Yeah that worked, thanks for following that up!