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[โ€“] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

A small thing, but I stopped synching my calendar with Google and now have DAVx5 synched with my (new and free) Nextcloud, and use Etar frontend (it is better than Google Calendar, but I am still tempted to just use Samsung Calendar as long as I still have my 6-years-old Galaxy S10).

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 9 months ago

    Got my family on a proton subscription. Drive, vpn, email, calendar. 5 less people using Google

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago

    I already switched from BackBlaze (horrible customer support) to Jottacloud.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago* (13 children)

    Most recent ones: moved away from CloudFlare for my tunnels to self-hosted Pangolin. Moved away from a US domain registrar to INWX.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 5 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    I just noticed you are the admin of belgae.social, would you be interested in hosting a Piefed instance? It has a few features that Lemmy is currently missing: https://join.piefed.social/features/

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    I'm meaning to actually, I like the PieFed devs more. I just don't want to rush the transition as I'm still thinking up the transition strategy. It's just a single-user instance, so would not cause too much impact. But do know it's on my TODO list :D

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (10 children)

    Nice! Would you be open to have other users there too, or do you prefer to keep it a single-user instance? I'm looking around for smaller instances to use for a change ๐Ÿ˜„

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (9 children)

    Sadly I'm hitting RAM limits at the moment, so won't be opened up to other users until memory prices come down :)

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (7 children)

    what specs are needed to run such an instance?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

    Lemmy's consuming close to 19GiB of RAM. CPU is less critical, that only occasionally spikes above 10% on 2 cores. Disk size of 60GiB is enough with a regular cleanup.

    EDIT: turns out It was actually using ~9.5 GiB, the rest was linux buff/cache which Proxmox reports as used. Moving pict-rs off SLED to postgres and tuning postgres a bit, I was able to bring it down to ~2.6 GiB.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    19 GiB or RAM? Oh wow, that's a lot!

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It is, surprised me as well. It's been through a couple of reboots already, no noticeable build-up, the amount is pretty constant. This pushes the PieFed switch near the top of the list, it seems PieFeds load is drastically less.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for replying. I have only 16GB ram. Plenty of disk space (240GB ssd), CPU is okay. Just the ram's the problem, can't expand it either.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago

    I learned today PieFed should be much leaner, 1-2 GiBs only for some multi-user instances. Such a big difference blew my mind, I might have to make the switch. Feel free to try it out (and let me know how it went :D )

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago*

    Several actually:

    • Web Browser: Vivaldi
    • Phone: FairPhone 6
    • Storage: Infomaniak kDrive
    • Mail: MailBox.org
    • Notes: Joplin over kDrive WebDAV

    Also, general rule for the software is to look for an open source client or for an alternative with no or less trackers implemented.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I've always been self hosting a lot but recently I've started to move some external things

    • Domain management from Cloudflare/AWS to OVH.
    • DNS and CDN from AWS/Cloudflare to BummyCDN
    • E-mail Gateway from AWS SES to a mail server on Hetzner (pending)
    • Considering to self host email to get off Googlw Workspace (free), but Im not sure that is a commitment I want to make.

    And of course trying to go from Reddit to the Fediverse

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago*

    Switching my electronic component choices for PCBs to STM, NXP, Nordic & ublox (these 3 have the best MCUs), Wurth, and Infineon. Then as second choice Rohm, Toshiba, Panasonic, JST.

    Sadly, only american companies currently make new AFEs, especially biomedical.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago

    I am using Proton, Ecosia, Vivaldi, Qwant and Lone Earth

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    I closed down all us clouds (google, apple) switched to a NAS and Posteo. Trying out Loops and monnett.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago

    I started using Lemmy :)

    Apart from that, worth mentioning is Niagara Launcher. I've been using it for some time, and just upgraded to Pro and I just love it.

    My phone (unfortunately) is still Android, but it doesn't feel that way anymore because my homescreen and searchbar are all optimisable

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    I switched from Sync.com to pCloud.com. Iโ€™m considering self hosting Nextcloud but need to learn and iron out security stuff first.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Currently trying to switch from Reddit to Lemmy - and also cut down on scrolling in the process. A smaller amount of users and content is more of a benefit than a drawback in that regard.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago

    I thought you were talking about cloud compute and I was interested, but then I saw that it's just cloud file storage.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago

    Been using koofr since last year or so.

    Last months I've tranfered my domain to netcup and bought a new one.

    Moved dns to desec.io which was working fine, but since I bought a new domain it only supports one, so this week I reactivated my bunnycdn account and moved domains there.

    Still a bit pissed that a european company is charging me in usd and I have to pay the conversion and it's taxes on my bank, but oh well.

    I don't plan and moving email since I have been using fastmail for years and have been generating a lot of new fresh emails for each account I have or update in other places.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago

    I started new e-mail journey with mailo.com, paid plan gives you option to create @mailo.eu which looks nicer than @mailo.com for free plan.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago

    Dunno, lately not much, I've done the switch a while ago and self host. I'm not sure what to switch

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