ptman
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I hope it is going to be ok. Automattic has been involved with matrix before. Time will tell, but I’m more hopeful than afraid.
How full is your ZFS? ZFS doesn’t handle disk filling and fragmentation well.
Make a spreadsheet of where your money is going.
https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
Or then you can just realize that the time you spend is spent not making money and you need to save time, not services.
- Flatness. UI controls need to be recognizable.
- Theming/styling. A button should look like button.
- Lack of menus. Discoverability is poor if you don’t have a list of things in an obvious place.
- Gestures. Lack of discoverability.
- Information density. I don’t care about huge margins and filler pictures. Content shouldn’t be crammed, but space should be used efficiently.
- Mobile first. Especially if mobile use is only a fraction of actual use. Or maybe even if it is the majority of users, but not majority of use (operations, hours).
- Simplicity. Make simple things simple, but hard things possible. Removing features can make your software useless.
1·1 year agoGot bought
9·1 year ago- Matrix is viable. There are https://view.matrix.org and soon https://archive.matrix.org/ for indexing by crawlers
- https://servers.joinmatrix.org/ isn’t quite the same as https://discord.com/servers. Joinmatrix lists matrix home servers, like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, … for email. But once you have an account on a home server, you can use the “explore” feature to browse rooms known to that server (or another that has public room directory). There is not central place to list all, since there is not single central matrix server. Same with lemmy. You need to use https://lemmyverse.net/communities
cryptpad si quite good
Gandi is no longer a good choice
I see. I’m an old fart and couldn’t care less about gifs. But I do care about stuff being open instead of someone suddenly telling me the conditions have changed.
what about an actually free alternative, like matrix + element?
I’ve read some old DOS manual. And several Linux books back from the days when Linux came on CDs alongside books.
There are different kinds of documentation https://diataxis.fr/
HP Microserver + openmediavault or similar.
11·1 year agoYeah, forgot the interrobang. But really, air travel is a problem. It needs to be minimized. Not increased. Especially not increased in amount of greenhouse gas emissions per distance flown per person
Minimum, but it still doesn’t get below 23C in the winter
Everyone has a (changing) tattoo on their forehead telling how many deaths are caused by their overconsumption of the planet’s resources.
All environmental externalities are included in all prices. Also currency is manipulated to prevent overconsuming the planet’s resources
The problem is that those emissions cause more warming at that altitude. So fly just above treetops, please. https://oncarbon.app/articles/non-co2-effects-aviation you need to at least triple it
I’m waiting for hetzner object storage (they were hiring some people for this a couple of months ago)
What are the current alternatives?
- Idrive e2 $4/TB/month
- Backblaze B2 6$/TB/month
- Wasabi $7/TB/month
- Cloudflare R2 $15/TB/month
- AWS S3 $21/TB/month (tricky, cheaper profiles available)
- GCP $20/TB/month (tricky, cheaper profiles available)
- Oracle $25/TB/month
- Azure $18.4/TB/month
- DigitalOcean / Linode / Vultr ~ $20/TB/month
Quite far: