Oh wow, this seems like a fantastic addition. One of these days I really gotta switch from my decade old tmux workflow to zellij!
Firstly, I wanted to apologize for the silence over the past couple weeks. Work, life took over administering this instance.
Onto the good stuff.
As some of you may have noticed we skipped 0.18.0 because of some unforeseen issues but we're now on 0.18.1. In my extremely minimal testing, the upgrade seems to have gone through largely smoothly! Please do let me know if you see any weirdness. (Some old themes might be borked, please update your own interface accordingly).
I am aware that Jerboa was completely broken, hopefully it works now (I can't test it since I don't have access to Android).
Time for some stats:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 392M 1.7M 390M 1% /run
/dev/vda1 94G 21G 69G 23% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 392M 4.0K 392M 1% /run/user/1002
$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3911 475 142 140 3294 3020
Swap: 2399 88 2311
Another important thing I did was upgrade the instance to a mid-tier vultr plan (we did run out of disk space on the old one). Here's the new plan:
AMD High Performance 2 vCPU, 4096 MB RAM, 100 GB NVMe, 5.00 TB Transfer
And last month's vultr stats:
This brings our yearly costs to (there's occasional bumps because of some vultr snapshot nonsense) regardless:
domain: $12/year
vultr: $24 (instance) + $4.8 (backups) = $28.8/month = $345.60 / year
email: still free tier on zoho, woo!
total: $357 / year
Let me know questions/concerns, bugs you've noticed after the upgrade.
Cheers!
Sigh, I tried it one more time. Same problem. Downtime this time was probably < 5 mins though so hopefully not noticeable. I am wondering whether the database is in some bad shape (no idea why/how). I guess we wait and retry with 0.18.1.
I can somewhat relate. I mostly do something like this (instead of the exact dependency version):
chrono = {version = "0", features = ["serde"]}
clap = {version = "4", features = ["derive"]}
anyhow = "1"
I do, however, typically write application code instead of library, so it's probably less critical for me. Occasionally do run into dependency hell here and there, but nothing too bad so far!
Hey all,
Just thought I'd share an update. I have added a few new communities and renamed the existing communities to have slightly more consistent naming throughout this instance. Icons are primarily from Wikimedia Commons (replacements welcome as long as there are no copyright issues).
Added:
- Rust: Web Development
- Rust: Game Development
- Rust: Embedded Systems
Renamed:
- Memes to Rust: Memes
- News to Rust: News
- Support to Rust: Support
- Meta to Rust: Meta
PS: The identifiers for the renamed communities remain the same. Open to any suggestions/thoughts on this change or otherwise.
Cheers!
I think I struggled at least a couple months before I even got the hang of Rust. Read "the book" several times, didn't help. Watched several videos, didn't help. What eventually clicked for me personally was learn rust with entirely too many linked lists, I think I have read that 20+ times (still visit it sometimes).
6 months into it, I started getting better at organizing code and thinking more in terms of a data-driven approach (structs and impls) vs abstraction based (class and methods).
Bottom line is, everyone has a different approach to learning with wildly different times it takes to absorb knowledge. As for whether it's worth, well, it's still a relatively young language (compared to C, python, erlang, java) so you're already early. Another decade and perhaps Rust becomes as universal as C is.
This should help you get started:
- There's the umbrella: https://github.com/LemmyNet
- Backend: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
- Front-end: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
Hey everyone, thought I'd post some stats since we're one week old now!
From Vultr (instance is hosted through them):
Total applications: 116
Denied applications: 4 (one person asked to change username, 3 others gave one word answer to the application question)
Accepted applications: 112
docker stats (snapshot):
CONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS
7f365c848236 caddy 0.19% 43.22MiB / 969.4MiB 4.46% 7.23GB / 7.65GB 631MB / 146MB 8
d9421a5d930a lemmy-ui 0.00% 49.62MiB / 969.4MiB 5.12% 1.51GB / 3.32GB 869MB / 1.26GB 11
e8850c310380 lemmy 0.08% 52.53MiB / 969.4MiB 5.42% 5.67GB / 5.86GB 942MB / 582MB 8
7ebb13fde277 postgres 0.02% 304.2MiB / 969.4MiB 31.38% 908MB / 2.97GB 3.82GB / 14.4GB 12
9b471baacf84 pictrs 0.05% 10.32MiB / 969.4MiB 1.06% 53.5MB / 1.18GB 653MB / 360MB 14
df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 97M 1.7M 96M 2% /run
/dev/vda1 24G 12G 11G 53% /
tmpfs 485M 0 485M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 97M 4.0K 97M 1% /run/user/1002
A few things:
- Instances are like their own self-hosted Reddits with communities being the sub-reddits. We have (had?) r/python, r/rust, r/golang along with r/programming; we can do the same here with topic-focused instance (like this one). I can imagine there being instances like lemmygo.org, lemmypy.org etc if the Reddit exodus continues.
- You don't need multiple accounts to access communities (sub-reddits) from other instances (reddit). A single account on any instance allows you to access communities from any other instance. The UX/UI is a bit wonky, but it works.
- As @[email protected] pointed out, micro-communities like cli, wasm, networking etc can potentially become big enough and/or have specifics that are more suitable to exist on a topic-based instance.
Personally, I don't have any preference. I will simply subscribe to the community which is the most active on whichever instance.
Hey [email protected] should be open now for non-admins to create posts. My apologies I had it setup for admin-only post creation on it earlier.
As for the logo, I was actually a bit concerned about it when setting this instance and communities up because I didn't quite know which icons were in public-domain for general consumption, so I picked the ones with the most permissive licenses I could find. Happy to change to whatever icon(s) the community desires as long as we don't use any icon with a strict license.
I have been using Artix Linux for many years now. On laptops I prefer to use either Fedora or PopOs!
I myself have been figuring things out, but ideally you should be able to just go to Communites -> Search and it should show all the relevant named communities from other instances (as long as the instances are listed in federation, which lemmyrs.org is fwiw).
Admittedly that functionality is a little flaky in my limited experience.
Greetings! The legend himself!
I made the suggested communities over at lemmyrs.org. The next few weeks are going to be very interesting!
I mostly agree with you and the fact is yes there are no guarantees. But that's kind of the point, I don't believe that lemmy.ml would be around forever either, will lemmyrs be? I don't know! I see it as an opportunity to further decentralize and diversify the existing ecosystem. FWIW, the maintainers themselves encourage hosting other instances :)
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Done. Update post coming shortly.