The maple tree just outside of the large window in our home office is bright red and orange, casting a kaleidoscope of colors on the white walls and the wood floor. The wind is gently changing the colors, shapes, and outlines on the reflections, almost like a gentle rain shower of color and leaves. It’s absolutely gorgeous, and I took a few minutes to soak it all in.

I think it’s Tippy as in gratuity, and hedren as in head wren, a small bird who is the head, or leader.

That makes Tippi Hedren, an actress. She was in a movie called the birds.

Consider the dead horse beaten lol.

1. It’s buggy. Submitting a post sometimes takes half a second, and sometimes it takes 30 seconds. Logs show a plethora of errors. The Docker container will eventually crash and restart. It’s all part of the Lemmy instance admin experience.

2. No options to collapse/customize side panels.

3. UI doesn’t refresh after saving settings.

4. Settings aren’t sticky from page to page on occasion.

If I could code I’d pitch in and help. Heck, I’d learn, but the documentation is pretty sparse.

Mom’s spaghetti

If this runs on Oracle we’re all gonna be just fine. It’s one of the slowest, clunkiest products ever made.

Meanwhile, on that other house show:

“I collect butterflies and my partner has a blog where she taste-tests different mustards. Our budget is $900,000.”

Yeah, agreed. Span = bridge. It’s gotta be contiguous across all timezones. Otherwise it’s a fact that France exists in many timezones, but not all.

Still an impressive graphic.

It’ll be unavailable on Sundays.

I’m an instance owner and mod. I’ll describe what we see.

Like anyone else, I can check a post or comment and see the upvote and downvote counts. If I click on a specific menu item by a post or comment I can also see who voted which way.

I check it often and to date have only banned two users, out of thousands, who were consistently downvoting posts. These bot accounts were literally voting within seconds of the post going federated.

It’s a useful feature on my end and I think others should be able to see it.

I’m in the same situation - started with the same printer, put money and parts into it to get it to be reliable, and now I can just login to Octoprint and send something with 99% of prints just working. I wipe the build plate down, blast it with a few squeezes of canned air, and it just works.

But now these kids and their Bambus and multi-color print abilities…get off my lawn. Seriously, kids, you’re in my light and I’m trying to get this hotend adjusted…

Stardate 4

Still true though. I’m distro-agnostic, running the best whatever for the job at hand.

When I give a presentation at a conference about something technical, the question always comes up: “Why are you running that on so-and-so? $Distro is so much better…” and their whole train of thought deviates from the subject at hand.

Point is, the tool is the tool. If Fedora is the best option given our licenses and use scenario, I don’t need to hear about how much better xyz is and how we’re wasting money.

I just want xyz to work. I don’t need the distro wars to be a thing when I’ve got 6 other more important things to attend to.

Backblaze is a great backup solution. They publish drive stats and even show you the hardware they use.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/storage-pod

We used to use Malwarebytes Corporate Edition at work.

One afternoon all of our web servers stopped responding to traffic on port 443. I could RDC into the servers, and I could ping them, but most traffic wasn’t being passed properly.

Despite not having made any changes, I did everything I could think of to get them to work. I tried moving them to different switches, different static IPs, Wireshark showed packets flowing, but no web traffic.

I left the office. It was around 8 PM and I had been banging my head on my desk trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

I came back around 10 PM, mind clear and stomach topped off. I worked a few more minutes, then heard the Outlook ding.

Mass email from Malwarebytes CEO. Bad update. Blocked all class B IP addresses by mistake (guess which class we used). Mea culpa. So sorry. New update fixes things.

I immediately uninstalled MWB CE and boom. Services restored.

The next week we got our licenses refunded by our VAR and we never used that product again.

This got me too once. I was in the server room replacing old 110 punch panels/blocks with 8P8C connections. I lost track of cable connections, a mistake I have learned from, and I looped a patch cable into the same switch. Within moments the entire network went down.

Forty-five minutes later and we figured out the loop.

Another lesson learned: HP Procurve switches did not have Spanning Tree enabled by default.

Anyway, mistakes happen, especially in IT. It’s all part of the learning experience. My boss was the coolest, chillest guy in the world so I learned and moved on.

Did your computer lose its bios settings lately? Check to see if it’s set to ahci and not raid if using a single, non-raid disk.

You can try some of the suggestions at https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-can-we-fix-this-no-irq-handler-for-vector-4175692269/, too.

Good luck

And the poor bloke inside of it at the time! /s

FYI: There’s currently an open issue with crossposting on instances using the 0.19.4 lemmy ui.

In a nutshell, the post submission page reloads after it retrieves the community to crosspost to, so everything but the selected community is wiped out.

It’s a bug in 0.19.4. I opened a GitHub issue for this in the lemmy-ui repo.

It’s confirmed here on Firefox on instance daring.lemmy.fan. You should file a bug on the lemmy-ui GitHub.

Edit: If you don’t want to or whatever let me know and I will be happy to do so.