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Black Olives (or green, either way).

I use them when warranted, which isn’t very often. I don’t think the avoidance of using swears is a religious thing, it’s a language/cultural thing. For some reason they’re just deemed “bad words”. They exist in almost all languages and cultures as far as I know.

A good friend of mine swears a lot unless kids are around. I don’t mind it, but he’s sort of “that guy” because of it. If he was someone I just met, I’d think he’s just a bit lowbrow and that’s about it. I wouldn’t think poorly of anyone because of it as long as their attitude is good.

People look at expensive houses more often than not. You can definitely send someone, though, like if you’re looking at a house in a different city and can’t get there just for a showing. We did that once and had our friend do a video chat with us.

We decided to not host any sort of Buy-Sell-Trade community on our hobby instance for this reason. It’s a small community so a lot of people know usernames of people they know and can trust. It’s very easy for a scammer to use someone’s username and say “I’ll sell you that thing! Send me $150!”.

Oh that’s cool. I was right, only 9 monthly users.

We run on the cheapest Hetzner VPS we can, which is about $8 USD/month. Pictrs are on cloudflare R2. Pictrs storage hovers around 14GB and we have yet to get a non-zero invoice.

Our active users are super low (I think). I don’t think the lemmy interface tells you the number of active users for in instance, just for communities, but since it’s a niche instance I can safely say it’s around 10 people.

So that’s a little less than a dollar per month per user. On the existing VPS I think we could safely add a bunch of users without needing to upgrade.

Ah, interesting. That experience combined with the wording of “this update requires postgres 16”, I can see where the confusion comes from.

Interestingly enough, they fixed the documentation. Now it says “We recommend upgrading to PostgreSQL 16 due to a known memory leak in PSQL 15. To use the new image proxy feature, pict-rs version 0.5+ is required.” https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

My understanding is that postgres doesn’t need to be upgraded. It’ll still work with version 15 or whatever you have. Postgres 15 has some sort of memory leak that they’re trying to get away from, so they made 16 the new default.

Same with the “requirement” to upgrade pict-rs to the latest version. You can keep the old version if you don’t care about the new image proxy feature.

Really it’s a not a problem of needing to upgrade this stuff, but a problem with the documentation which isn’t clear. That’s a big weak spot for the Lemmy project in my opinion. I only learned the above information from lurking a bit in the Matrix chat.

Oregon Trail

They had it installed on the computer in my 5th grade classroom.

Red Beans & Rice

Plate

Fast food containers, although handy, are too restrictive. Sometimes your pull one fry out and it pulls another fry with it. Sometimes you lose that other fry. It takes some mental focus to avoid this.

Plate fries are loose and free, and don’t require any thinking.

Right. Not a bug, but a decision by the developers in order to upgrade the 2FA stuff.

Lemmy is beta software. One of the updates around the 0.19.0 mark (we’re up to 0.19.5 now, with 0.19.6 around the corner) changed the login stuff. I don’t remember the details, but instead of locking everyone out of their accounts, 2FA was disabled. The lemmy.world admins didn’t choose this, it’s just how the update worked.

I don’t know what kind of communication or sticky posts were used during the upgrade, but I’m sure some people missed it, including OP.

I wonder why they are still on 0.18.4. The latest Lemmy version is 0.19.5 and it has some nice features compared to 0.18.x.

Like, on the inside of the bucket? It’ll still hold water like normal.

Focus on what you have and make it work for you. Reduce expenses. Get a roommate. Sell stuff. Most importantly, make a budget.