Honestly I’m done with Google Photos, I mean I get that it was free and that I shouldn’t complain about that, but I already pay with my privacy, so why pay money and have my data abused everywhere I go?

I now have a home server (second hand mac mini m2) with PhotoPrism installed

I hate that kind of stuff, when I see this I wonder if they hash the password at all

Very interesting read, it showcases how big tech can grow more aware of the “threat” of the Fediverse and how they might act.

UPDATE: Those rumours have been confirmed as at least one Mastodon admin, kev, from fosstodon.org, has been contacted to take part in an off-the-record meeting with Meta. He had the best possible reaction: he refused politely and, most importantly, published the email to be transparent with its users. Thanks kev!

What a hero, whoever you are!

Finally someone that get’s it

Nice, cool to see more people have an arm Lemmy instance

Yeah makes sense! It probably doesn’t although I have no benchmarks to prove it, it just is enough for me. I know this much though: even if the x86 server had the same specs (ram, GHz) as the arm version it likely still draws more power

The server was a second hand server that has 32GB RAM and 2 i7 CPU’s, it was made in 2015 so quite old. The Odroid has only 8GB of RAM but for my purposes that’s enough, and given the power it saves it’s absolutely a bargain!

If I ever need this much memory again I can just temporarily spin up something more powerful, for all other 24/7 tasks I can keep up the efficient ARM server.

Yeah it’s mostly performance related. I have like 10 different websites running all at once, and while CPU and RAM aren’t 100% all the time, with a heavy load I don’t have enough free to do it

I wish the Pinebook Pro was updated cause I’d give that a shot. Or better, an ARM powered Framework laptop

I replaced my old Intel Core i7 HP ProLiant server with an Odroid M1 (ARM Based) and it consumes 2 watts compared to 72 that the Intel Server did.

The only thing I can’t do with it is my Minecraft server, it runs all else perfectly. Even the Lemmy instance of this account is powered by the same server! And what’s more it basically runs for free, as solar generates enough power for the server to consume, even when it’s cloudy.

Yes, I believe Intel should be afraid.

It still sounds very unreal! I’m in the EU, idk if it’s a thing here as well…

While I heard of swatting, I’ve never heard of such a thing as companies sending police to your house and taking private property, to be honest. It sounds next-level. In fact, reading your comment makes me feel I just jumped in a parallel universe…

That can’t be real right? How can a company just send police to your house?

I actually like Flatpaks… I use dpkg/apt-get for system packages that cannot be installed in userspace, and flatpaks for desktop apps / games. Many distro’s have unified ways to update them anyway (at least VanillaOS has)

We need a starterpacks community!

It was an idea indeed. Like a daily post per user, or even go as far as to synchronize it across users (so each user has a moment to post a new post). This is interesting, and I’m thinking about how to do it!

Ah shit there goes the joke >~< 😅

I want to be a good citizen here so if there’s anything else I can help with let me know

Thanks! I also felt it was the most ethical thing to do. This way you can refer to any comments made to your post, but we don’t copy comments over ourselves (which potentially can violate users privacy if they don’t want their comments to leave Reddit)

I updated the README to add a similar warning, thanks! https://github.com/peterwilli/lemmemovetolemmy/commit/91b3ecb9f1f8e270e76057c85b8a7f75402375d4