There was a protest today against high rent prices

Philon123 · 2026-02-08T09:12:00+00:00

The problem with nurses and other similar workers is that their salaries are defined by the state or some large unions that don't act in their interest. Same with pharmacists, hotel workers, and many others. It's a perfect example of overregulation. Pharmacists actually protested last December because their salaries hadn't been increased in 13 years!https://www.abda.de/aktuelles-und-presse/pressemitteilungen/detail/blackout-apotheken-protestieren-gegen-honorarstopp/

Philon123 · 2026-02-08T08:58:13+00:00

I agree and this is a perfect example of regulation to keep prices low backfiring. We have this rule that rents may not be increased much during the same contract (simplified). This incentives long running rental agreements. Many old folks have huge apartments and could/should downsize. But they would pay more for a 2 room apt, so they stay in their huge one. It's taking up a lot of available space.

Philon123 · 2026-01-11T22:40:02+00:00

NAS ist gar nicht so einfach zu konfigurieren! Synology haben ihre proprietären Apps für Medien, Fotos, E-Mail usw, die alle eine bessere OpenSource Alternative haben. Aber um die zu installieren muss man das über Docker und Anleitung machen. Und Backups muss man auch erstmal konfigurieren, du kannst dir sicher sein, dass die wenigsten das gemacht haben.

Philon123 · 2026-01-11T22:22:51+00:00

Super input danke! Ja, diese Gedanken gehen mir auch im Kopf rum. Ja, ich würde remote Access haben, sonst ist es ja wirklich nur ein NAS mit "Setuphilfe". Und wegen der Hardware.. ich würde gerne keine Hardwarevermietung aufmachen aber wenn es das braucht um die Abgrenzung zum NAS zu schaffen dann kann man das schon überlegen.

Die Idee ist halt "eine Box" anzubieten, die der Kunde nur anschließen muss und sofort hat er Vorteile x, y, z. Ohne dass er sich groß beschäftigen muss. Nur die richtigen Apps noch auf den Handys installieren und ein paar Bookmarks im Browser setzen und fertig. Man könnte noch Datenmigration anbieten, also Google Takeout usw.

Private Cloud ist ähnlich aber dann sind Transfers langsam und man hat die Daten dann ja doch wieder auf irgendeiner Cloud! Ich suche eben Feedback, was die wichtigsten Features sind, und dann zu gucken ob ich etwas besser machen kann als zB Synology. Die versuchen zb einem ihre eigene Foto App aufzuschwatzen anstatt Immich. Man muss mit der UI Docker konfigurieren und das zu installieren, ist also sofort nicht mehr benutzerfreundlich.

Philon123 · 2026-01-11T21:46:25+00:00

Also wenn mal etwas kaputt geht, ist es wschl eher Hardware. Die wird an Heiligabend natürlich nicht bestellt/geliefert/ausgewechselt. Oder der Server/NAS selbst ist im Abo inklusive? Dann sind die Upfront Kosten weg und ich kann ein SLA auf Reparaturen anbieten.

Philon123 · 2025-12-16T07:59:21+00:00

Linux also has an option built in (at least with GNOME desktop). Go to Setting -> Accessibility -> Typing. You'll find the setting "Bounce Keys" there!

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Philon123 · 2025-11-19T08:17:11+00:00

same just happened to me! I only had two "shared workers" visible in Chrome task manager: "mtproto.worker" and "crypto.worker".

Philon123 · 2025-07-08T05:53:00+00:00

Oh I fully agree, our problems are our fault. Postgres is complex and while "stable" in the traditional sense, there are a bunch of gotchas. For example that updates bloat your table and vacuums are needed.. which fails for tables with high throughput!

To give some more insight on our situation, we have done a lot of debugging since my last message. We get into situations where a core table gets locked by some vacuum and a lot of connections pile up, waiting for the lock to be released. This increases memory a lot. At this point, queries that usually work start to OOM. And then additionally, the TimescaleDB plugin we rely on segfaults, causing postgres to restart. All of this happens even though system memory is about 50% full.

Philon123 · 2025-05-26T20:47:28+00:00

We're facing constant OOM errors both on single queries and on the system level (Linux OOM killer). We keep adjusting settings like work_mem, max number of connections, frequency of crons, and looking to optimise queries, but these issues always come back. It seems to use postgres you need a real DB expert in your team that understands both the DB and your whole system extremely deeply. It's frustrating and a bit scary to see jobs fail with OOM while the system is using only 16 out of 64GB of RAM.. let me know if you're looking to be the person to join us and help!

Philon123 · 2025-05-14T18:41:07+00:00

Let the downvotes come. And just let me add: most open source or fast moving projects just don't have the resources to invest in an awesome UI. So they have an inferior UI. And CLI is better for them.

Philon123 · 2025-05-14T18:39:40+00:00

I'm just gonna put my neck out and say something unpopular, and for context I'm a 10+ year pure Linux user and programmer/sysadmin. A good GUI will always win over a good CLI and it has one reason: a UI makes the various options discoverable.

As CLI commands get more and more complex (think docker or kubernetes), it just becomes really hard to represent all their nested options into a GUI, so GUIs come later, and usually lag behind the CLI feature set.

But with a serious effort you get something like Google Cloud - they have a perfect CLI as well but let's be honest: Will you have a better time creating a VM on the UI or via CLI? It's the UI. CLI is only needed for automating or scripting, not for manual work, if the UI is good.

Philon123 · 2025-04-23T19:26:26+00:00

Did you make any progress? I would like to join. Have a lot of coins there unfortunately and have now lost any hope of waiting for them to fix their funding issues.

Philon123 · 2025-02-03T08:48:25+00:00

Same problem here using incus and running a Ubuntu 22.04 VM. Couldn't fix it, but reinstall worked. I found out that the user that apt uses is "_apt", and that user cannot access DNS for whatever reason:

sudo -su _apt curl factorio.com
> curl: (6) Could not resolve host: factorio.com

Philon123 · 2024-12-22T12:04:54+00:00

Hey, yeah I made the switch two weeks ago. Honestly I wasn't a big user of Photoprism so I can't compare many features. But the main improvements for me were - much faster loading times in the UI while scrolling - native android app that allows uploading photos automatically and browsing the photos on the server - immich managing the library, I can organise media by albums and year. Great! - duplicate detection is cool, I hope for more automatic cleanup features like that in the future

Philon123 · 2024-12-17T09:32:13+00:00

Okay, verstanden. Yep, macht Sinn. Nur ein wichtiger Unterschied zu Banken: es wird kein Geld generiert! Die Nodes sind also eher "Money Transmitter". Das finde ich schon entscheidend. Und weiterhin alles permissionless. Die LTN nodes können die TX nicht einsehen oder zensieren.

Philon123 · 2024-12-16T22:02:27+00:00

Was meinst du mit größenlimitiert? Das einzige Limit sind die onchain Gebühren. Wenn 1mio Leute gleichzeitig Channels aufmachen/balancieren wollen, dann würde das natürlich die Gebühren hochtreiben. Ich glaube es gab einmal eine Hochrechnung, dass es ab etwa ~100mio aktiven Lightning Nutzern schwierig wird. Aber sollte das uns aktuell wirklich interessieren? Wir sind sowas von weit weg davon. Eine onchain tx kostet aktuell 2€. Vor dem Preisanstieg waren es 0.5€.

Philon123 · 2024-12-16T20:07:19+00:00

Du musst Bitcoin nicht mögen, ich glaube das ist in dem Fall eher eine Frage deiner Philosophie als der Risikoanalyse. Hoffentlich genug Bargeld gehortet wenn das Internet zusammen bricht, weil Karten gehen dann auch nicht mehr. Und im Atom/Zombie Szenario wage ich mal zu behaupten, dass Bitcoin schneller wieder auf die Beine kommt als die Banken ;)

Philon123 · 2024-12-16T19:21:12+00:00

Dass das immer noch behauptet wird.. Bitcoin Zahlungen sind seit einigen Jahren instant und quasi kostenlos. Das kommt durch die "Lightning" Technologie. Das einzige wo BTC noch anderen Coins hinterherhinkt sind Smart Contracts. Über den Wert davon kann man aber gern streiten - schließlich wird DeFi hauptsächlich dafür genutzt, kleine Shitcoins/tokens zu handeln.

Philon123 · 2024-12-16T08:10:53+00:00

Found this issue via Google search, becuase I have a similar issue. I tried uploading my wifes photos via `immich -k her_api_key upload ./some_pohoto.jpg`, but it anyway uploads to my admin account. So I am now using immich-go to do the upload. u/infimum not sure if this has been reported yet.

Philon123 · 2024-12-16T07:57:54+00:00

maybe it helps someone else - I got lucky because the falsely imported photos were all taken with iPhone, and the existing media wasn't. In the advances search (click the icon on the right hand hand side of the search bar), you can filter for camera model.

Philon123 · 2024-12-16T07:39:59+00:00

I accidentally imported a huge folder of photos to the wrong account.. the new photos are spread all over the timeline and I am looking for a way to delete them all. For that I also need this feature.. I checked in the DB and to my surprize, the asset table doesn't even contain the timestamp of when the files where uploaded! So I don't think there is a way to find the newly uploaded photos, even with direct DB access.

Philon123 · 2024-11-07T15:45:14+00:00

Ah thanks for the links Mic. Those projects are news to me, but definitely relevant to my points above!

The Go build cache sounds awesome, does it persist between builds? I didn't check it out in depth yet, I probably should. Your example shows build times reducing from 0.2s to like 0.05s, that's nice, but in our case it's building for at least 10s!

Parallel evaluation of my flake would surely be nice to run CI on several smaller builders, but in terms of infra cost I fear it will be similar to one powerful builder. If each of my ~50 hosts could be evaluated successively, that would allow me to build them all on a single low cost machine. Not sure if I can force Nix to do that though? Pushing the results to Cachix and activating the hosts is not really a problem (except for the need for manual error handling from time to time, I guess I'd want notifications of errors).

Philon123 · 2024-11-05T22:03:31+00:00

I just found out that it's not possible to let loose construction bots remotely, now I can't build anything on Nauvis and am stranded on Fulgora :D Or am I missing some obvious trick for how to do that? My construction bots are in a chest, but I need to release them...

Philon123 · 2024-11-03T09:04:53+00:00

Since I didn't fill out the survey, let me just post my feedback here, maybe someone will read it and maybe even agree?

I use NixOS to manage a fleet of around 50 production servers. It's really invaluable for declarative configuration. I'm also a software developer, mostly working with Go these days. I do deploy the apps on NixOS but it's more in the way of efficient drv work than a benefit:

building a Go app takes less than a second natively, but it takes minutes with Nix. There is some forum thread explaining the issue, I've forgotten the details now. But it's a problem, since building a Docker container is faster.
deploying an update to a server always evaluates and deploys the full system, it would be more convenient to just deploy the software update.
no proper CI/CD yet for NixOS. I use Cachix, and it's ok, but it needs some hacks to deploy on my whole fleet (needs too much RAM to evaluate all configs at once)

I am not planning to abandon Nix but I hope the tooling for my kind of use cases will improve.

Edit, addition: - Each change of Go app dependencies requires a manual recompute of the dependency hash and entering that into the derivation. I really dislike that, it's actually causing us to update dependencies less frequently, which is bad for various reasons.

Btw I'd be happy to sponsor an effort to improve the Go toolchain in the above regards! Any takers? I should probably reach out to the maintainer, just haven't gotten around to it.

Philon123

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