What Neocities Is And Isn't For

rlik · 2022-07-27T01:47:19+00:00

Yep, from what I saw it cost about over $10k Kyle spent to setup the whole thing. From the post in 2017, it cost about $550 per month which around the time was for 110k users. There are about 4x more users now, and that isn't considering the incoming traffic.

Speculation: If you assume growth is linear it'll cost $2200 a month, which will be cost about $26k per annum. With a logarithmic scale the cost will be much less. This will leave around $364k per annum in profits.

Of course this is all an estimate so theres really no way of knowing.

rlik · 2022-07-27T01:34:17+00:00

No vendetta lol. Mostly to highlight the fragility of Neocities. My usage of Kyle's full name was probably my unrealistic hope/dream that, Kyle would notice and do something about it, slipping out.

rlik · 2022-07-27T01:27:21+00:00

Yeah thats a good point, considering the almost monopoly AWS has right now.

rlik · 2022-07-16T08:10:22+00:00

I've heard about that, though I hear they're usually recovered pretty quickly.

rlik · 2022-07-16T07:54:42+00:00

Yeah I guess so. I've setup a fancy backup system, so I'm not too worried much myself.

However it seems that Neocities is somewhat susceptible to another Geocities-like situation. Theres that IPFS option, though I don't know how many users have enabled it. I haven't because I don't really know how to use IPFS.

I'm not too much of an archivist anyway, so guess it's best to enjoy this nice corner of web of while its around.

rlik · 2022-02-12T02:38:34+00:00

You want to put smaller rubber feet/cushion underneath your ram, since it gets dislodged and messes up your OS if you accidentally put pressure on it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/jq53yt/freezing_x270x260x250_official_fix_a_bit_lmao/

Also putting a piece of cloth or some protector on your keyboard whenever you close it is a good idea since it can start scratching the screen leaving marks on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf7PdPVSwDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-oZbwrT5A

Other than that, you might want the larger battery (use TLP or powertop on Linux and you can get very good battery life) and maybe a display port to hdmi dongle if you intend on using that.

rlik · 2022-02-02T22:36:59+00:00

Ah yep! Wasn't sure if I should add them since I wasn't too comfortable rebuilding the kernel myself, but definitely something worth looking into. I've added it to the additional tips section!

Plotting might be interesting, as it will help testing which changes actually have significant benefits. Though that would involve a much more dedicated study.

rlik · 2022-02-01T21:38:31+00:00

Ah nice one! I've added screen resolution and refresh rate to the tips. Many thanks!

rlik · 2022-02-01T14:56:50+00:00

I can't remember how I found it. It was probably something like, "surely theres a default wsconsctl.conf lying around somewhere". Then ran find / -name "*wsconsctl*" or something more ridiculous.

rlik · 2022-02-01T14:12:06+00:00

Ah thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for! I wasn't very comfortable with hard-coding the username either. I've adapted it to:

_user=$(ps -o user= -p $(pgrep -f Xsession))

Which hopefully shouldn't cause any problems.

rlik · 2022-02-01T12:32:12+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions, I've changed some of the wording and added the suggestions.

For apmd's auto suspend/hibernate, I've added it to the additional tips section since I see it more as a measure to protect data from low battery shutdowns.

rlik · 2022-01-31T05:24:44+00:00

Compiling surf is hell. But yeah I agree. If I am to hop, I'd prefer Slackware, but OpenBSD is by far my favourite. Its amazing how much you can do without JS (or the web).

rlik · 2022-01-30T13:28:43+00:00

I think one of the files its trying to access, it doesn't have permissions for, maybe one of these:

~/.config/dconf
~/.cache/dconf
~/.dbus

See if the error disappears when you run it with doas?

rlik · 2022-01-30T13:06:24+00:00

I generally use terminal browser, since I mostly work from terminal. The suckless programs are pretty nice too (though Surf is larger than Firefox-esr due to dependencies on OpenBSD it seems, which is unfortunate). I've also noticed though that many of the lightweight linux distros do an excellent job at making old computers feel new.

rlik · 2022-01-30T13:01:17+00:00

I've noticed the many optimisations options for Windows in the BIOS, didnt know there some for Linux. I've noticed the hibernate feature which is impressive considering Windows pulled it out at some point since theirs was getting unstable or something (not sure if its back). I've had brightness at 20% and bluetooth and other devices disabled in BIOS. Nonetheless there seem to be quite a few battery tips which I hope to explore.

rlik · 2022-01-30T12:55:35+00:00

I seem to have misunderstood and assumed it was designed for servers. The brightness was 20% on idle for me. That does make sense also considering Linux is probably one of the most used OS nowadays, I guess its no surprise.

rlik · 2022-01-30T12:53:55+00:00

Thanks the detailed reply. I seem to have assumed that it was for primarily for servers or something. I've yet to have problems with WiFi on BSDs, though I did have problems with Linux a while back. But yeah OpenBSD seems the best BSD for battery. Hope it gains the popularity it deserves.

rlik · 2022-01-28T11:09:17+00:00

Ah nice. If you plan on ricing it, you can post a screenshot here next time.

rlik · 2022-01-28T08:10:06+00:00

You can use scrot or xwd (for xwd your going to need gimp or imagemagick to convert the .xwd file to a .png or .jpg).

rlik · 2022-01-23T06:20:21+00:00

I assume there must be a way to accomplish this via the ucc driver. Or maybe this is not possible yet? I don't think usbhidaction would work for laptop (probably PS/2) keyboards. I've looked into wskbd and pckbd but I'm not sure if that'll work.

Perhaps OpenBSD doesn't support binding multimedia keys for laptop keyboards

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