Nah it should be a tall column of small ones stacked on top of each other, because if one project fails its enough to topple the whole thing.

Yeah thats why getting rid of the SD card as the weakpoint is worth it. I had an SD card fail twice and havent used one in a SBC that does anything important since.

Ive been running Pis (full sized ones and zeros) from USB drives for a few years now and so far none of those have failed.

Idk man and i dont care. He probably couldve chosen to be a greedy asshole and sell to some big tech company for 100M but instead he took enough to buy a house and live in peace.

For this guy to be paid for all his previous work for which he was supposedly very much underpaid just like almost every open source dev out there. For relinquishing control of the project to a new non-profit he can have 10 million for all i care. From the original announcement:

For our team, a vital aspect of getting this restructuring right was making sure that Eugen was compensated fairly for Mastodon’s brand trademark, assets, and the 10 years he spent building Mastodon into what it is today (while taking less than a fair market salary). Based on replacement costs, Eugen’s time and effort, and the fair market value of the Mastodon brand, its associated properties, and the social network, we settled on a one-time compensation of EUR 1M. We are deeply grateful for his past contributions, and look forward to his contributions still to come.

Yes that would be cool, but lots of windows software still doesnt run because it has some detection stuff built in that blocks wine. To solve that the wine devs would need access to the original source.

I think they are just fed up with maintaining their own kernel. At this point it honestly seems like they are trying to get people to switch. If they now just release all their code under GPL then the linux nerds can fully support all windows software to allow a seamless transition.

How about an hour? 10 minutes? Would have prevented this. I very much doubt that their service is so unstable and flimsy that they need to respond to stuff on such short notice. It would be worthless to their customers if that were true.

Restarting and running some automated tests on a server should not take more than 5 minutes.

Yes. All my fedi services are still happy tho :)

Some phones do still work without, but i think most dont.

some devices will bypass the battery when permanently plugged in. I have an old phone i use as a syncthing node and i log the battery current on it. It never actually gets used by the phone, it only suffers from some very slight internal discharge.

has me reconsidering my use of syncthing

This is about a third party piece of software that isnt directly related to syncthing. The devs of syncthing have however been recommending syncthing-fork as their choice for android, so it definitely needs clearing up.

Who cares tho. Anyone who sells now still made massive gains. Only gamblers think about “potential gains”.

I havent used this specific app but ones like it, but this should do what you want.

https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.pranav.applock

The steam machine is only 200W, you can totally run that 24/7 from a 1000W solar setup with enough battery storage.

The www is the same for everyone no matter which OS you use sadly. The need for accounts doesnt go away completely on linux but at least not for anything OS related. Syncthing was a great example mentioned here. P2P, serverless, accountless, resource efficient, private, secure. Peak software design.

Thats a very good point and probably exactly the idea. Dorsey has always just been an actor that says one thing and thinks another.

Are you just trolling at this point? Yes there are browser engines for cli use, but those are for headless stuff like bots/scripts. How would a cli be able to render a full html site?

Thats like asking whether you can run without legs. A web application is a program made to be run in a web browser. There are applications that ship with their own custom browser engine so it doesnt look like a web browser, but its still technically being run by a web browser. Unless microsoft made a standalone version of this application, it wont be possible to run it outside some sort of web browser.

You cant run a web application without a browser. But linux has browsers so yes it will work the same as on windows.