Funnily enough it’s often used in the pirate scene to distribute games. But only as archives.

Maybe mention the domain and IP in question so that we can help better. Your end goal is to have them publicly accessible anyways.

Thank you, the part about the database is important.

Of course that depends on the apps in question and if you are even able to install additional apps in a managed environment.

But not all apps are so limited. The cookbook app for instance saves all recipes as markdown files you can easily share with others, download or backup.

Managed Nextcloud is definitely easier than hosting it your own. I bet they also have the hardware to guarantee good performance. With any luck Hetzner also offers AI features like face recognition and automated tagging.

But don’t go in there expecting a fully fledged Google Photos alternative. Even when Memories is much better than Nextcloud’s own Photos, it lacks many essential features like easy filtering of your collection. You basically have to sort your photos yourself.

Unless Hetzner offer something on top of Nextcloud file sync is done via Webdav, not sftp or rsync. But basically every OS has Webdav clients.

Calendar and Contacts are also synced via DAV. CalDAV and CardDAV. Works well for me on Android with DAVx⁵.

I just googled something. Don’t remember what I ended up on. Probably some blog post combined with rspamd’s website. It depends on your mailserver anyways.

rspamd is used nowadays. Add sieve filtering to automatically move mails with a 7.0 or higher to a spam-folder. Manually move mails there that haven’t been detected and move mails out of the spam folder that have been falsely detected (personally don’t have any false positives with rspamd).

Then set up bayes learning with rspamd, either when mails are moved between folders or every few hours.

The classic Lucas Arts adventures. Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, Grim Fandango.

I’ve been gaming since C64 days. We had the problem of too many games already back then. Hundreds of pirated games on disks and most of them weren’t even good.

The other day I felt the urge to play a new game from the “dead” point & click adventure genre. Filtered my Steam games and even found a relatively recent one with full Steam Deck support that was given away for free.

And I think I can do that with basically any genre.

Great indy titles get released all the time. Emulation gives me the ability to play almost everything from the entire history of gaming. Or just play one of my favourites. I just have to reach out and play. 2023 was an amazing year for gaming. 2025 wasn’t bad either.

Sure, bad games get made as well. But when I feel down I can just stop playing those and play Diarrhea 4 instead.

I use Nextcloud. Of course that only makes sense when you use the other Nextcloud stuff as well.

Switch and Click had a video about that recently: https://youtu.be/M9qJI2u_be0

I was and still am on HDD. The CPU was upgraded as well. I migrated to a new server.

The main culprit was the database. As far as I’m aware Lemmy is missing some indexes and due to the ORM they used didn’t always have optimised queries. Now with 64 GB RAM the whole database (almost 30 GB) fits in there fixing most of those issues.

The real fix will probably come with Lemmy 1.0. They radically changed the database layout and queries.

Image proxying wasn’t bad for performance. Just storage space. It was growing really really fast. Now that only I am using it to host the pictures I uploaded it is still much too large (24 GB). But its directory structure is so convoluted that I can’t really debug it. My stuff really shouldn’t be taking up more than a few hundred MBs.

I am the only one using this instance. I am subscribed to a hundred communities or so. I am always pretty up to date with my Lemmy versions.

RAM. Maybe 32 would have been enough but 64 cost as much as 32 so that decision was easy.

Same stuff you do on any other instance. Looking at stuff, upvoting, downvoting, posting and commenting.

Control. I’m not beholden to anyone. My server is federating exactly those communities that interest me.

I run an instance just for myself and it was a nightmare on HDD and 16 GB RAM. It was slow as molasses. Supposedly the database layout will be fixed with the 1.0 release that is just around the corner.

Since I upgraded to 64 GB it’s been pretty smooth. Still wild that that is necessary for a single user.

Also, disable image proxying. I have no idea what pict-rs does but it seems to be too much.

You should consider running Piefed instead. It’s not as resource hungry as Lemmy.

There have been plenty of similar techniques (esync and fsync) in Proton for years. That’s basically why the work was started to get this into Wine in the first place.

The way I understand it this is proper support in the kernel and Wine. So you will still get some improvement. But it won’t be any way nearly as large as the article suggests.

I bet those patches are already in Proton-GE or at least GE is likely already working on adding them. For Valve’s Proton I suspect they will be added for version 11 or 12 at the latest.

Newest version is 6.6.something so maybe the bug is fixed by now.

The kernels (and accompanying modules/drivers) are more or less freely interchangeable.

Bugs in the kernel are pretty rare in my experience. I think it’s more likely that the bug was somewhere in KDE Plasma. Kubuntu’s version should be older than the one on Cachy. On top of that Kubuntu has their own patches for KDE, so even if the version numbers are the same they are not the exact same programs. And on top of that the way they compiled KDE will be slightly different.

That’s the way it goes with the scale from simple to “something that fits our needs”. Either something is too simple or it is so complex that you can’t let your more challenged users at it. So you end up rolling your own solution.

That’s how many companies end up with monstrous Excel or Access applications.

The upside of having your own app that uses common open source components is that integration with other tools is easier later down the line. Make it web based and it can run on basically every computer on the planet. Use PostgreSQL or MySQL in the backend and you can easily add other frontends if needed.

Isn’t Oracle still giving out free servers? They are known to pull the plug on those without warning, but it should be enough to play around with and set it up in a way that you can get it running again quickly if it goes down, which is very valuable knowledge.