NixOS user here! Fedora is a very good contender as well

Money can't buy happiness; but at least you can live miserably in comfort

Been running my own instance for a couple months now, just for me and my friends, so that they would stop sharing private pictures on platforms that would process/sell the data. But, as always when it comes to new, privacy-respecting tools, I'm having the hardest time making them move to the platform, despite the fact that the Pixelfed instance itself has been running smoothly.

One from a fellow student, who didn't know about fork bombs and put one in his .bashrc, following "advice" from a friend, he never figured out how to fix it and just reinstalled

On my part, it was a server install of YunoHost that I broke by trying to setup an app to use the LDAP provider. Since I needed the YunoHost LDAP password, I messed with some files, broke the LDAP config, but it turns out everything in YunoHost uses LDAP. Including your own user and its associated privileges. So the server was entirely broken, and it was impossible to restore backups because the YunoHost restore tool was also botched by the config errors

That wall looks like a Portal wall texture

Relevant xkcd

My pick has to be The Linux Experiment, especially his Open Source News Podcast that I listen to every week !

For Flatpak apps, along with Warehouse, Flatseal allows you to view and edit permissions for each app, which is not only useful but sometimes mandatory when an app has misconfigured permissions

You can create ad-hoc wireless networks in desktop mode, which should enable you to achieve that. Then, if your emulator supports netplay, with the two SDs connected to each other, you should be able to play by connecting to localhost

That's in theory, in practice, we tried with a friend once, and his SD would just not connect to the ad-hoc network I had setup on mine

Google [...] a privacy disaster

I tried dual-booting Manjaro from my Ubuntu install, since VMs were slow on my machine at the time and I wanted to give Manjaro a try.

Manjaro wouldn't boot (X11 sessions crashes on boot), and then when I returned to Ubuntu, I got dropped straight to the GRUB rescue shell because I had shrunk the partition from the Manjaro installer, and it had fucked up the Ubuntu install :/ so instead of two OSes I had none

I used YunoHost to set it up.

My first idea was to have the instance locked behind the YunoHost auth, since Pixelfed supports LDAP.

But I could not manage to make the LDAP work, so I went instead with a public instance that has ActivityPub disabled and all posts set to "Followers Only".

People could also set each of their accounts to "Private", but the follow requests were not working when I first set up the instance.

Sable always had a tendency to make the Deck heat up like crazy and burn through battery in no time, but otherwise it's a great game to play in bed 😁