I mostly stick to things in the repos, if theres something I want that’s not yet packaged I package it myself because Gentoo packages are fancy bash scripts with libraries (eclasses) to handle the normal make && make install sort of things for most build systems

I still use X11 because one of my necessary voip apps (mumble) doesn’t yet support wayland’s method of global hotkeys.

Otherwise I don’t particularly care one way or the other.

one of the reasons I love gentoo is how easy it is to package things for it.

You know how for pkgbuilds you have to explictly write out the whole configure make make install stuff that pretty much every package uses some variation on? Gentoo abstracts that out to libraries (eclasses) that handle that sort of thing for each build system so you can focus down on anything unique to the package, like build system options.

why did you link to a kbin view of another post right here on [email protected] ?

kubuntu is already literally just a package.

if you just install kubuntu-desktop (or something similar) from any buntu flavor you get it.

What would you do with that much storage?

package myself; I chose Gentoo (and previously Arch) in part because its reasonably easy to package things there.

Most build systems are covered by eclasses ( libraries) that handle the repetitive minutia every package that build system needs.

Here’s the tuba ebuild for example (from GURU, the Gentoo equivalent of the AUR), 90% of it is just listing the dependencies and telling it to use a few eclasses to handle everything else.

Oh, and here’s the lemmy back end ebuild, the giant wall of crates is automatically generated/updated from a tool that reads the cargo files. (needed because Gentoo doesn’t allow internet access during the build for normal packages so crates are downloaded ahead of time)

It can be easy to be nose-blind to your own smell, trust me its easy to stink enough to be offensive to others but not notice yourself.

They’re doing you a favor by letting you know. Just take the extra moment and put some on in the morning. Just don’t overdo it and douse yourself in body spray; too much body spray is nasty too.

0.18.3 is bringing in more sanitization, probably got missed.

I poked them and they’re working on a fix

Update: fix is in and should be in the next rc. It does work ( built my personal backend from source)

if no one on your home instance was subscribed to the community, it wont get posts or comments. the first time someone on an instance searches the community it seems to just get a few of the old posts but it doesnt get their comments; if you or someone else on your instance subscribes then the instance will get new posts and new comments

There’s nothing wrong with solid old file systems; ext4 is almost 17 and no one complains about it,

it runs fine if you don’t cross-compile and build it on the pi itself ( or emulate an arm system using qemu or similar)

They fixed it ( the 2fa bypass; now resetting password won’t log you in) looks like it’l be in 0.18.3 ( not out yet, but its up to release candidate 3, so soon)

some communities themselves are tagged nsfw. That might cause what you’re seeing.

Just make sure any nsfw stuff you do post you manually check the box as well.

no man, that “shorthand” is exactly how you’re supposed to search for new communities. Its exactly how I’ve added every community to my personal instance

nginx is fine, lemmy uses it inside of its docker images too. I don’t find it’s config scary(template lemmy internal nginx config)

if you want specific old posts search for the post’s original url on your instance, same with comments.

if you’re impatient like me you could just grab the latest code from git; there’s another change in there that dramatically reduces the database size: my one person instance went from having a database dump taking 1.3 Gb to 250Mb.

it does the hot update every 15 minutes now and it pretty much instantly nuked the ancient posts when I started running with it.

a bug that was/will be fixed that mostly stoped posts from aging properly. it and some other nice things should be in the next release.