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Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
  • I daily drove a laptop with 8gb of RAM less than a year ago. Works just fine for most tasks. Granted, at Apples typical price point, I'd want more than that, but it is far from unusable. Running VMs wasn't fun though.

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    Worth trying using a 15 years old notebook for self hosting?
  • I started out self hosting on a laptop maybe a little newer than yours. Pentium, 2gb RAM. I'm happier with my pi, but it's more than enough to get started on. Pretty sure pi-hole will run no problem, the others my struggle a little bit depending on your disk speed.

    Your cpu will be a pretty limiting factor, but upgrading the RAM and putting in an SSD could boost the performance quite a bit.

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    What happens to my instance if my domain expires?
  • Yes! I got a cheap .tech domain, and it kept increasing price year after year. Eventually it got a lot cheaper to just grab a .com.

    Cloudflare has the best prices for domain names, they sell them at cost

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    is the lemmyverse dying already?
  • As soon as someone makes a Lemmy client with really solid client side filtering, this platform will become almost usable.

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    Ah yes, it's in the 30s. That sounds.... lovely? too warm?
  • This is why Fahrenheit is great. It's a 0-100 scale for the temperatures humans typically experience with bonus off-the-charts temperatures for when it's particularly miserable

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    Reddit users who switched to Lemmy, what is the most annoying thing you have seen about Lemmy users?
  • Seriously, I mainly use Eternity (the Infinity fork) and even with aggressive filtering for anything even remotely political, stuff slips through.

    Edit: And the built-in lemmy blocking features aren't nearly enough to cut through it all.

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    [Rant] Cloud service is not a reason to have phones with only 128 GB
  • If the phone is lost/stolen/damaged, your SD card could be inaccessible too. Your backups are your business, but you are opening yourself up to all kinds data loss if your only backups are stored within the device in question.

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