

Almost everything is Debian - my servers, my desktop and laptops, my family member’s computers, the living room media player. Only exceptions are my router (OpenWRT) and my Steam Deck (SteamOS).
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Almost everything is Debian - my servers, my desktop and laptops, my family member’s computers, the living room media player. Only exceptions are my router (OpenWRT) and my Steam Deck (SteamOS).


Sync was a fantastic Reddit client (I started using it back in 2016), then during the API debacle the dev turned it into a Lemmy app and frankly it was the best on the market by a wide margin. But then he just vanished, and various things have gradually stopped working as it’s not keeping up with the latest Lemmy updates. When upvotes stopped working a few months ago, I bit the bullet and have now moved to Summit, which has the closest user experience to Sync of all the Lemmy apps I’ve found (although it doesn’t have anywhere close to the same level of polish as Sync did).


True, but there are also some legitimate applications for 100s of gigabytes of RAM. I’ve been working on a thing for processing historical OpenStreetMap data and it is quite a few orders of magnitude faster to fill the database by loading the 300GiB or so of point data into memory, sorting it in memory, and then partitioning and compressing it into pre-sorted table files which RocksDB can ingest directly without additional processing. I had to get 24x16GiB of RAM in order to do that, though.


I have tried hosting a Tor relay on a VPS in the past and it was bottlenecked by the CPU at barely 20MB/s, although to be fair this was without hardware AES. More importantly for you, the server’s IP started getting DDoSed constantly and a whole bunch of big internet services just immediately blocked the address (the list of relay IPs is public and many things just block every address on that list instead of only exit nodes). So any of your machines are probably at least somewhat up to the task (ideally if they have hardware AES support), but this is definitely not something I’d do on my home network.
Okay, but to be fair you should divide that by at least 2^64 because ISPs are throwing out huge blocks left and right. My home plan with Swisscom gives me a single dynamic IPv4 address and an entire /64 IPv6 prefix, and I’m pretty sure it was /60 at one point.
Y’all are too creative for me… I have:


I’ve got an old HP laptop which I’ve been running a Jenkins server on for years. The fan died back in like 2018, and I just kept putting off buying a replacement, so it has been running with no fan for 7 years now. Remarkably it still works fine, although a but slower than it used to thanks to thermal throttling :P


I can assure you that before I set up Cloudflare, I was getting hit by SYN floods filling up the entire bandwidth of my home DSL2 connection multiple times a week.


Downside: it’s entirety manual and not scalable whatsoever.
Jenkins has fairly solid Gitea/Forgejo integration :)