It’s long running, so you want a database so you can store your state. If you’re storing state, locking it into a state machine makes sense.

I do agree with some of the commenters that making it closer to an event source design would make more sense still.

It’s so rare that we get a new video, but it’s always a special day when it happens.

I think the author’s intended implication is absolutely that it’s a dollar because the USA invented the computer. The two problems I have is that:

1. He’s talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
2. Brits or Germans invented the computer (although I can’t deny that most of today’s commercial computers trace back to the US)

It’s just a lazy bit of thinking in an otherwise excellent and internationally-minded article and so it stuck out to me too.

The stupid thing is, all the author had to do was write “kind of tells you who invented ASCII” and he’d have been 100% right in his logic and history.

This guy’s got great taste in films, I’ll have to watch some of those that I haven’t and then I get to enjoy the book cover.

It’s so good, although I think I only ever got about 20% through. I should try again now I’m older and wiser(?).

It allows me to connect into the house via the VPS without opening ports or knowing my home address.

Nowadays there are various companies offering tunnelling services, but my setup has been working for a long time and I see no reason to change.

It’s the root OS; that Pi is a media centre in the living room (plus it’s taken on a few extra duties since it’s always online). It’s been going for a good few years now, 8+?

I’ve been running OSMC (Kodi on Debian) plus a few useful things like maintaining a reverse SSH connection to a VPS.

Yup: Backblaze Product and Pricing Updates

I plan to switch over later when it makes sense to - the nice thing about Backblaze is that it scales with your storage, whereas with Hetzner you have to jump from 1 TB to 5 TB.

It’s for storing a few terabytes of fairly static media (for the most part, write-once). The codebases using it don’t natively support object storage (and will be in Docker containers).

It’s on a Hetzner server, and Backblaze (even after the price increase) will be a lot cheaper than normal drives, although their storage box option is probably better value over about two GB.

oops - fixed, cheers

Huh, I thought that bit sounded interesting but each to their own. I like card games in real life, but not having to deal with bothering to shuffle all the time is nice.

Uncharted

That’s still a series I’ve yet to start but I’m sure I’ll love them.

Ah, I’m too late for this. Cave Story+ is on until “today” (no idea what time/timezone it changes).

Without knowing much about how Lemmy works, I’d assume that if an update isn’t working, export+fresh install+import would be the best way forward. I don’t know how custom the setup here is, but perhaps changing to something more standard might reduce problems in the future.

I wouldn’t love having all my submissions being lost, although it seems I only have ~200 on this instance.

There was talk of having Nivenly/Hackyderm run LemmyRS but I don’t know where that got to. I’d definitely feel safer having more than one admin running things, but sadly I don’t have the Lemmy ops knowledge to be useful myself.

I spoke to the admin today: https://lemmyrs.org/post/353212

Thanks for doing this, but I have equally little idea about how to best visualise it.