Probably some hack to make it look to the OS like it is charging the battery.

But yeah, why all the silicone? 😱

It looks fine as in the default Piefed theme, yes. But they used to have a very nice custom theme.

Their theme broke with the update?

Probably? I have not tried it myself to be honest.

I am not sure how intercompatible the modules are. It might be that you have to chose between them.

It is a modular system that includes a module for microblogging. But it can also be turned into something else.

Recent models run surprisignly well on CPUs if you have sufficient regular RAM. You can also use a low VRAM GPU and offload parts to the CPU. If you are just starting out and want to play around I would try that first. 64gb system RAM is a good amount for that.

Indeed, Postgres 18 introduced some breaking changes and AFAIK Lemmy isn’t compatible with them yet. This will probably be fixed in the next release.

https://github.com/YoRyan/mailrise

Is something you might be interested in.

With libvirt it is fairly easy yes. And you can also install a standalone web-gui like Cockpit or use the desktop app virt-manager over ssh to do it.

Proxmox adds a lot of complexity and a nice GUI. If you are fine with using the terminal, there is really not much benefit from Proxmox and the potential issues from the added complexity are IMHO not worth it. I am not a Proxmox expert though, so take this advise with a grain of salt 😅

Afaik it is a specific implementation issue in Lemmy that causes this. Instances in Australia had problems catching up with lemmy.world because of that.

The federation is mainly about issues / bug reports (the discussions and comments) and being able to make cross instance pull-requests and so on. So yes, it is mostly about communication.

Usually companies accept that you remove storage mediums before sending it in, as those might contain private data. And if that is ok, then there is no way for them to know that you installed Linux on those.

Hmm, good question. I don’t have a setup for that either, but I don’t think there is a built in function for that.

Your best bet is probably to find some tool that notifies you if new files get created in a directory, as AFAIK new snapshots are only created if they were successfully transferred.

Nextcloud is overkill for what you want.

If all you need is a shared calendar and a simple way to upload images, then this is a good option: https://github.com/tchapi/davis

Wifi is often a module in older laptops, and you could unplug that.

Otherwise, 10W is quite good for older hardware, I doubt you will get much below that.

Nice work. But the phone should be able to host quite a bit more, as it is actually quite fast.

Debian is fine and you can follow many tutorials (Ubuntu tutorials also usually work as the difference isn’t big).

Not sure if that is still in their FAQ, but the Stoat devs previously said that they don’t want federation, and if that ever changes they would likely prefer XMPP over Matrix.

You mean the multiple millions of VC money and crypto investments? Absolutely.

The Matrix foundation also would have plenty of money if it wasn’t just a front for Element and most funds being siphoned off to pay for services provided by Element.