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How much do you all pay for Power?
  • It should be noted that burying lines in this case is not for aesthetic reasons, but because trees falling on/growing into above-ground lines is one of the most common causes of wildfires. Putting the lines below the ground is much safer in that respect, but it is much harder to do maintenance on the lines should something go wrong.

    Most of these lines are likely in regions where almost nobody lives, but a fire started in those forests can threaten a much larger swathe of customers.

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    How much do you all pay for Power?
  • I am in the greater Boston area and just pulled up my most recent bill. Total cost for me (including generation and delivery) came out to $0.33 per kWh. When it comes to the total cost each month, my cost goes down dramatically in the winter when the gas is used for heat instead of the electric for AC.

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    Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user?
  • I think that user donations are easier when an instance has a good focus. There are some other instances I can think of where the donation model has been enough to cover things. In addition to feddit.dk and beehaw, an instance I use most of the time, ani.social, is more than covered by donations last I checked. It looks like @hitagi@ani.social even took away the donate link in the sidebar. Never mind, I am just blind. I didn't notice the little Ko-fi badge at the bottom. I was looking for a text link.

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    Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy?
  • There is a lot of collaboration between the different instance admins in this regard. The lemmy.world admins have a matrix room that is chock full of other instance admins where they share bots that they find to help do things like find similar posters and set up filters to block things like spammy urls. The nice thing about it all is that I am not an admin, but because it is a public room, anybody can sit in there and see the discussion in real time. Compare that to corporate social media like reddit or facebook where there is zero transparency.

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    Port Forwarding/Redirecting
  • This is what I do. I have a VPS that handles all the 443 traffic and then proxies it back to my home server on the correct port. I also just serve some things directly from the VPS since I have it already. It also works well to have a second box for things like uptime monitoring.

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    Current best lemmy clients
  • Yeah, spoiler tags are the one big feature that is missing. There are also some minor things on the moderation side that aren't there. For example, admin accounts don't have a full list of options in the moderation menu.

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    [Restored] Accidental 2FA removal for LW users
  • I am guessing a large portion of those might be inactive accounts as well. When the reddit exodus was at its peak, there were definite issues with the way 2FA worked in lemmy. I think it got reset at one point due to changes made in subsequent lemmy versions and users had to re-enable it.

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    I love Lemmy.world but can someone who is higher up than me delete or fix why it shows 18 messages when I only have two. If an admin wants I will log out give them my password so they can see for them
  • This is almost certainly because you have messages from users that you have blocked or bot users and you have disabled seeing bot accounts. I believe that if you hit the mark all read button, even the nonvisible messages should be marked as read.

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    What are your best job hunting platforms
  • This lines up with my experience. The job listings look the same across LinkedIn and Indeed. Last time I was job hunting, Indeed had a better search function, so I was able to find relevant postings there more easily. These days, I am not actively searching, but I do periodically check on some companies' websites within my field to see if anything pops up that might be worth a shot at.

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    Hi friends!
  • One recent example from a game that I ran is that my players caused a dust explosion using flour. I had to do some quick googling to figure out how big that might be to best gauge the damage (turns out it can be pretty big), but I awarded inspiration for the creativity (despite getting caught up in the blast themselves). This was also a bit of irony since the people they were attacking were assassins that ran a bakery as cover.

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    My Deer Friend Nokotan - A Lemmy Community all about anime "My Deer Friend Nokotan"
  • Sorry for not being clear. I was referring to the discussion threads created by @rikka@ani.social in the anime community. So far, she has been creating discussion threads for the episodes in the general community (episode 4 link for reference). In the past, I have disabled these posts for certain shows if there is a dedicated community to the show that wants to run their own discussion posts (!dungeonmeshi@ani.social did this for instance).

    Note if it wasn't clear: I am a mod of the anime community and the maintainer of the rikka bot.

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    The MBTA's new contactless fare readers are now live. Here are some dos and don'ts
  • I think the concern is that the reader might pick up a different payment form than the one you intend on using if there are multiple in close proximity. I highly doubt it will charge multiple times, as the sort of interlock you are describing is pretty standard NFC stuff. Using the same form of payment as you make transfers is needed to make sure you aren't charged extra.

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    The MBTA's new contactless fare readers are now live. Here are some dos and don'ts
  • For myself, I use the commuter rail and a monthly bus/subway pass, so this isn't terribly helpful. I haven't really kept up with this plan though, are they planning on including monthly passes in this in the future? Some transit systems let you put a pass into a mobile wallet and scan from that, so the tech is there.

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    My Deer Friend Nokotan - A Lemmy Community all about anime "My Deer Friend Nokotan"
  • Feel free to make a promo post over in !anime@ani.social as well. Good luck with things! I don't want to switch it up partway through the season, but if there is ever a season 2 and you want to run your own episode threads instead of the bot-created ones, let me know.

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    Why do so many people use NGINX?
  • Some good answers in here already. It boils down to a couple points for me:

    • Back when I started selfhosting, it was either nginx or apache, and I found nginx better and easier to set up
    • All the nginx knowledge I learned years ago still works just the same as it did back then, so why potentially mess things up by switching if it all still works
    • Basically every project has an example nginx config for reference, that can't be said about other proxies
    • It is easier to find support online for edge cases that might pop up with nginx due to the ubiquity of its use and years of history
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    NYC to Boston in 100 minutes: a high-speed train proposal picks up steam
  • I would love for this map to come to fruition as I live right by one of the stations they have proposed upgrading to a higher speed line. However, I am not holding my breath. Building a whole new HSR line is extraordinarily expensive and time consuming, just look at CA's ongoing project to get a taste. The density of development in the Northeast means it would probably be even more troublesome (even if it makes it more needed). If they can't build the North-South link, then they aren't going to build this any time soon.

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