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Thank you so much for explaining this! I felt like I really like the joke / name, but the context made it truly brilliant indeed!

Sorry to interrupt, but why the cheesecake? I just found it hilarious for some reason, but I’m not getting whether the cheesecake bears any hidden meaning I’m not getting.

I did similar task recently, but used my old MacBook Pro 2011 (15 inch, with a faulty GPU). I chose DietPi, which I can recommend as a start distro for a newcomer. I chose it since I have some experience with it from my Raspberry Pi and I plan to give the laptop to a friend, who isn’t familiar with Linux. (For him to run Immich.)

I have a similar MacBook Pro for myself, with Arch Linux installed (my old laptop with a few keys now broken). It’s on WiFi, not Ethernet, and where the signal isn’t very good. Yet, I’m mostly happy with the result.

So far, being somewhat experienced with Linux, I think I’d choose DietPi for most server setups. I really love it, a good work done by maintainers. I can recommend going with it for your first self-hosted adventures.

Russia is working on it. If that’s not what you want, help Ukraine as much as you can.

I had an entry level GPU (Radeon RX580 4GB) which I bought from a friend for €150 circa 2018, when its price was about twice more (won’t recall, from €200 to €250 maybe), he just did not need it and the card was overkill for my ‘just render the interface and occasional Photoshop-like kind of task’ workload. I thought I needed it, but it turned out I never utilised it. I don’t play games, that was for my Hackintosh to get a native support (which worked). I needed to upgrade the PSU alongside the GPU. I saw almost no difference in day to day life, since most of my work was some office-like stuff.

We entered some crazy times with GPUs a bit later, 2019 or ’20, another friend who was buying and selling these cards, told me I should sell it for €150 to €180 (basically returning my money back), and while I agreed with him at the time, I did not sell it. I didn’t want to spend my efforts on that, and then spend my efforts on buying something else (I thought I’d still need some GPU).

I regret that slightly. Not much, since €150 isn’t much to lose, and I did not have much resources to spend on this task. But if it was today, I think I’d do that.

I believe RAM prices would fall significantly at some point (would take years), I did buy +16 GB of DDR3 RAM right before the Rampocalypse, but I don’t see DDR3 being too expensive today. I don’t really utilise 32 GB vs 16 GB, but there’s not much point to sell it for what I’ve bought (€30 or so).

DDR5, on the other hand, may sell for a very good price, so if you don’t utilise it fully, why not then? You may buy a much better memory in some years. Keep in mind though that this crisis may take longer than we all hope. May take it not a year or two, but, say, five or ten.

Me, I’m ready for this. I run Linux, which works ideally with even just 8 GB of DDR3 RAM (my current laptop), so I’m pretty confident I’d survive till the prices drop. I’m not even sure I need it being newer and faster. Only if the hardware upgrade price would be insignificant to notice. I’ve got my current laptop from work for free, so that’s even better than I expected. But that’s just a different story.

‘Meddling with the US elections, eh?’ An imaginable question of the (bought and promoted by Russia) US president to Ukraine.

I really like the irony of it. If Ukraine wants to affect the elections in their favour, they should target the bot farms indeed.

Yeah, and you better hope the Russians are OK too then, since they’re the ones who pirate and steal in the first place. That’s their best skill, alongside rape and torture.

Ah, yes, it’s the same thing (or a similar one), but reversed. You’re a proprietary product, which is free if you’re willing to host it yourself.

Not sure I’ve got the idea properly, but if so, I agree. I think offering help with self-hosting may generate decent income for a developer. Plus, give them insight into their users.

E.g. I have this idea to develop a set of neat Immich servers for friends (for free, but they buy needed hardware, say, Mac mini or something similar). As an extension of this idea, sell pre-made Immich-ready servers for general public, with the initial setup and extra support being paid. Including the donation to the original project off the money, if their licence allows selling the support. I expect it is, but haven’t investigated that further. Treat this as an example of the idea.

Obviously, this model would work for your own software. Perhaps, that’s not the fuck-you-money you can get with this, but still that may be more than open source projects get via the shallow donations that they usually get.

I have some ideas for some for-me software, which can live on any computer. So I think of deploying a fleet of SBC (Raspberry / Orange Pi or alike) servers to gift to friends, with bunch of neat services there, like Pi-Hole, etc. Plus some of made by me software, if I think the particular friend may have a use for it. The extension of this idea might be the broader audience. Won’t likely to be millions of users, but still. And who knows, one day … perhaps.

Yep, a story of some Russian killing someone with his car is written as if he’s a maintainer of some incredibly popular and needed thing, and killing someone’s just a little inconvenience.

I don’t care if you’re even Linus fucking Torvalds (with all the respect) and you drive to kill someone, not realising that driving at 3 am may be dangerous. I highly doubt he was driving slowly otherwise he won’t kill someone on the spot.

What’s the value of your work then, if the result of it is that dramatic? Don’t overwork then, to have to drive at 3 am being that exhausted.

And what is core-js? Is it even remotely important?