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@joel@tumfatig.net avatar joel , to random

Hey, just wondering, does your / / Mastodon & friends client display rich HTML / posts or do you see plain text (with emoji and attachements)?

If you don’t know but don’t see an italic sentence here, then the answer is no ;-)

Boost ok.

@joel@tumfatig.net avatar joel , to random

I’m currently having a hard/fun time trying to run with encrypted root. Not like it’s something many seem to do (or document).

Hopefully, https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Slackware/index.html and https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackware_admin:zfs_root are great. But I have only read it 3 times and unsuccessfully applied dozens yet 😰

@joel@tumfatig.net avatar joel , to random

Someone was wondering about color emoji support in terminal using . I never really checked before but on 7.8, it does work OOTB.

This is inside a session ran from terminal. But it also works in plain ; since you have it render UTF-8 characters with DejaVu Sans for example.

A list of email items. 3 of them have colored emojis in their subject.
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@stefano@bsd.cafe avatar stefano , to random

This morning, someone launched into a technical explanation of a computer component for my benefit, without even bothering to check if I might know a thing or two. Initially, I just listened, but then I had to step in to correct a slight inaccuracy - one that could have actually caused problems.
I was promptly verbally assaulted and told that ignorant people should remain silent and listen instead of talking back. I politely retorted that, in principle, they were right, but that the specific thing they'd just said was incorrect and could mislead the others listening.
Nope. They doubled down, told me to be quiet or leave, since I was so determined to "remain in my ignorance".

In the end, I just fell silent and let it go. I now pretend to believe that SSD and NVMe drives have tiny, high-speed rotating platters inside - miniature ones, of course - that spin so fast that if the power is cut, their momentum keeps them going long enough to finish writing the data, preventing any loss. It all makes perfect sense now.

joel ,
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@stefano oh come on… You never heard about the Super Slow Disk technology? Read the news man. It’s on all AliExpress special day ads…

🤭🤪

@joel@tumfatig.net avatar joel , to random French

j’avoue que la relation de cause à effet n’est pas claire.

@joel@tumfatig.net avatar joel , to random

My Debian instance was migrated to before the holidays. And it went well since then.

Here’s what I did. Maybe you can too ;-)

https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/migrate-a-peertube-instance-from-debian-to-freebsd/

:runbsd:

joel OP ,
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@_elena on the VPS provider switch, I recently moved my SearXNG instance out of Layer7. I was this 🤏 far from going to OVH but there were no available room for a VPS in France. So I choose a German DC from Hetzner.

joel OP ,
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@_elena maybe that’s because you’re using YunoHost? 🤔 I don’t know this software.

My migration are usually

  1. install new OS
  2. install packages
  3. restore backups

No DevOps, Ansible, etc. Just scp, rsync and vi 🤭

joel OP ,
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@_elena yeah, it’s not that difficult, but there are quite a few steps that are hidden by YH, I guess.

@joel@tumfatig.net avatar joel , to random

Polishing the instance… today backup. Because, hey it nevers fails! But sometimes, it badly does. Maybe.

Anyway, time to realize the 16TB volume is nearly full - regarding new expected data. But after a closer look, there are lots of old backups that can be send to /dev/null and free space.

I didn’t planned this Monday to be the Backup Cleaning Day.

@joel@tumfatig.net avatar joel , to random

Those are my notes about quitting and migrating my account to :GoToSocial: using the wonderful tool.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/gotosocial-adventures-migrate-from-pixelfed/

joel OP ,
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@_elena yes, your assumptions are correct :) I now run a multi-user GoToSocial instance :)

I don’t know how much traffic a GtS instance can support. My accounts have like 300 followers at the maximum. But you can still boost a post from a GtS instance with an account that has 1.8k followers. This should make the followers’ servers connect to the GtS instance and see if it supports that many connections.

Side-thought: performance may differ if you run on a supported Linux or FreeBSD platform; I run on the unsupported OpenBSD platform using relayd rather than nginx. So I may not have to fastest possible experience :)

joel OP ,
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@_elena oh, ok. The migration is about accounts. So I believe that if the Sharkey instance supports migration out, you can certainly create a dedicated user on GtS to migrate the Sharkley account.

Technically, you may even be able to migrate N accounts to a single GtS account. I have not done it with GtS but I did it with my previous Mastodon instance. GoToSocial has like 5 or 6 available "aliases" entries, so I bet you can do it.