No, that is only the official line due to history and political pressure from China.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_Taiwanese_identity

I ran into similar issues before, but adding a passive cooler brought the temperatures down sufficiently.

However when researching the issue there were several people that claimed that ~70° C is actually the design temperature for these SSDs, which would explain why they usually don’t come with a cooler.

This is not a cultural failing that can be fixed by asking people to be nicer, which was roughly Scott Jenson’s prescription. Nor is it resolved by pointing to the protocol’s openness, which was roughly the community’s response. Neither prescription reaches the actual problem, because Mastodon’s governance tools sit at the instance level and the community’s experience happens at the federation level. Mastodon was built as open infrastructure at the federation level and community at the instance level. The Jenson thread demonstrates that the community has long since reversed this: they experience the federation as their community, and the instance as an administrative detail. The software has not caught up, and until it does, the community will keep enforcing its boundaries the only way the federation layer allows: person by person, reply by reply.

Thoughtful article overall, but I think what is describes is a design problem of Twitter like micro-blogging. There really is only a void to shout into, and I don’t really see how software can catch up to anything there. I also don’t really understand how this problem is specific to the Fediverse/Mastodon, with even the pre-Elon Twitter being famously toxic for very similar reasons.

Lemmy and other “community” based Fediverse software has much less of this problem, because there is a venue i.e a community to post into which has a theme, rules and moderators.

Not too many 8 port managed switches out there with an sfp+ 10gbe port for 50 bucks

Easy to get these days actually, with 10gbit sfp+ and 8x 2.5gbit, managed switches. About $60.

But my actual argument was that your 48 port switch eats electricity like crazy. That aint a cheap switch at all.

But you seem to only need a 8 port at most 🤯

Way too professional looking for this thread.

Also, you got a link to that sticker? Maybe I’ll add that as an ironic reminder to my “Kabelsalat” 😅

That 95% unused switch 😱

Such electricity waste. Much unclean.

That’s very much part of the experience you seem to crave /s

You could also use them with https://www.filestash.app/ for example, but you still need something to actually store the files.

And Fediverse instances are similar. But that only works when you know what a car actually is.

Yes, as I said 🤷

When building you own servers from consumer hardware this is a bit difficult, but getting a PSU that actually fits to the power use profile of the server seems to make a difference. Sadly it is hard to get small PSUs with sufficient SATA power connections.

Sadly this. I have a graveyard of nice server boards that I got cheap before realizing how power hungry they are.

For CPUs basically anything older than gen 6 intel is too power hungry (although be careful with Xeon and xeon derived cpus, that are sometimes older gens rebadged as gen 6).

You sound a bit like someone who demands to be explained what a car is when entering a car shop 😅

Probably not, as the compatibility for Mastodon api using apps is experimental and not included at all in Misskey itself.

But if you want to host a server for a specific community that would apprechiate the more playful features of it, it is definitly a good alternative.

Works here 🤷

XMPP chat account integration.

I am not into “social VR” so I can’t really comment on that (but it does seem like all junk), but there are plenty of good single player PCVR games these days. In fact I have quite a backlog of good VR games I can’t seem to find the time to finish.

IMHO with the hopefully soon release of the Steam Frame and other (shitty) vendors scaling back their involvement, a refocus on actual VR gaming is coming and that is a good thing.

What even happened to group support in Mastodon? Wasn’t that promised to be nearly finished and about to be released like some years ago?

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/lack-rack-ikeas-cheapest-ta.html