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How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] cole@lemdro.id 3 points 2 weeks ago

There's the rub :/

I'm waiting too dude, I'm waiting too

How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] cole@lemdro.id 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You can technically put PostmarketOS on a wide variety of devices, but it isn't a "pure" Linux experience, since it is using the same proprietary blobs as the vendor to get all the hardware working.

Depends how anal you want to be

I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would they do that without any monetary incentive at all?

I mean, I guess what I'm saying is if you can post to YouTube and get paid, why would you intentionally choose to post to PeerTube and not get paid?

Everything is so tiny in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] cole@lemdro.id 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I went the opposite way. Wanted to like KDE, but found it too buggy and a bit inconsistent.

On Gnome I use really minimal extensions and those get updated very quickly so it is no longer an issue for me. I also do Gnome Extension reviews so take from that what you will

Months after he's helped gut NASA's budget, Musk is to divert $2 billion from SpaceX to his Grok AI. in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] cole@lemdro.id 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think this claim might apply to Boeing, but SpaceX is very good at actually accomplishing things. There's a reason it's the world's #1 launch provider.

Needs in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm fine with it, since they pay my phone bill if I have it installed ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

you miss all the shots you don't take in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't do that on your resume. Lots of these systems detect hidden text and highlight it for reviewers. I probably would see that as a negative when reviewing them.

A Pixel 10 motherboard just went up for auction, and the listing shows off a third camera and a temperature sensor in c/googlepixel@lemdro.id
[–] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 3 weeks ago

The infrared temperature sensor is the longest lived pixel gimmick so far. I actually love mine, but I thought it'd go the way if Soli after the Pixel 9. I guess not!

What are your favorite apps for public transit and bike navigation? in c/askandroid@lemdro.id
[–] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 3 weeks ago

Totally agree! I love this effort, but haven't been able to switch off of Google Maps yet since I don't find them to work as well for public transit

What are your favorite apps for public transit and bike navigation? in c/askandroid@lemdro.id
[–] cole@lemdro.id 3 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Honestly? I just use Google Maps. It prioritizes putting me on protected bike lanes and even shows me on my route where I'd be protected, just in a painted bike lane, or amongst cars.

I've never been unhappy with Google Maps public transit

Microsoft Teams now has threaded conversations in c/microsoft@lemdro.id
[–] cole@lemdro.id 3 points 3 weeks ago

I don't understand how this is any different than what we have now

Microsoft Teams now has threaded conversations in c/microsoft@lemdro.id
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Infrastructure Upgrade Rollback (lemdro.id)
 

I recently rolled out an infrastructure upgrade this last Monday (Dec 4) with the intent of reducing peak response times and removing occasional scaling errors.

Unfortunately, my metrics system showed slightly elevated error rates, so I've decided to rollback these changes for now. I will make another announcement before I roll them back out in the future. Thanks for your support!

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Google Pixel Update - November 2023 - Google Pixel Community (support.google.com)
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Should lemdro.id change its default instance to Photon? Please vote! (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/lemdroid@lemdro.id
24 comments fedilink
 

Hey there everyone. I think the Photon project has matured enough to the point where I feel ready to replace the default lemmy frontend with it. Since this instance serves roughly 1000 people now, I figured this was worth holding a vote on!

Please check out Photon as currently hosted at https://p.lemdro.id/.

If you support changing the default frontend to Photon, upvote my comment on this post. If you don't support it, downvote that same comment.

Thanks!

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Chromecast Audio appreciation post (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/androidmemes@lemdro.id
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RIP :(

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The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be Crumbling Into Chaos (futurism.com)
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Android rule (infosec.pub)
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[COMPLETED] Proxy tuning (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/lemdroid@lemdro.id
8 comments fedilink
 

Earlier today, I identified the root cause of an issue causing annoying 502 errors intermittently. If you've ever had an action infinitely load until you refreshed the page, that is this issue. I deployed a fix, and am slowly scaling it down to stress test it. If you encounter an infinite loading occurrence or an HTTP 502 error please let me know!

UPDATE: Stress testing complete. Theoretically we should be equipped to handle another 5k users without any intervention from me

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[COMPLETED] Image server maintenance (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/lemdroid@lemdro.id
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Hello folks! I am migrating the image backend to an S3-compatible provider for cost and reliability reasons. During this time, thumbnails and other images hosted here will be borked, but the rest of Lemdro.id will remain online. Thank you for your patience!

UPDATE: Image migration is gonna take a hot minute. Should be done in around 6 hours, I'll get it fully fixed up in around 7-8 hours when I wake up (~08:30 PDT)

UPDATE 2: It failed, yay! Alright, fine. I turned the image proxying back on. I am migrating to S3 in the background and will switch over when it is done. Any images uploaded in the next 8 hours or so may end up being lost.

UPDATE 3: Migration complete. Will be rolling out the update to S3-backed image storage in around 6 hours (~6pm PDT)

UPDATE 4: Object storage backend deployed! Thanks for your patience folks.

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Praise Duarte (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/androidmemes@lemdro.id
0 comments fedilink
 

daily Duarte praise

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[COMPLETED] Upcoming server maintenance (10:30pm PT-> 11:30pm PT) (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole@lemdro.id to c/lemdroid@lemdro.id
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I'm sure you all have noticed the latency problems on this instance. Stage 1 of my 4 stage scaling roadmap is taking place tonight as I migrate the database to physically run closer to the machines running lemmy.

I will do a more detailed write-up on this later, but the gist is that each db operation required a new connection from lemmy, and that means a brand new SSL handshake since the db is managed elsewhere. Pooling would solve this, but lemmy does not handle a properly configured pg bouncer correctly in my testing. So the solution is move the database closer and within the private network to avoid SSL handshakes altogether.

TL;DR instance gonna go brrrr, downtime starting at 10:30pm pacific time tonight, should be done by 11:30pm

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New hosting, and backend information (lemdro.id)
 

For all curious, Lemdroid now runs via fly.io and neon.tech.

The database is hosted by neon tech while the frontend and backend are horizontally scalable and deployed to fly.io. This should be massively scalable both up and down, so we can handle nearly any amount of users. Pretty neat, right?

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