Posy has many videos along the lines of technology connections with incredible macro footage as well as lots of other random interesting stuff.

mitxela for well documented high quality projects blending mechanical and electrical engineering.

The Tim Traveller is basically Tom Scott if only covering strange historical things. And unlike Tom Scott he’s still making videos.

Cathode Ray Dude does a mix of long form content like technology connections, but focusing on relatively modern computers.

Notably this post gets it wrong too, missing the S. It’s “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”.

Ya I used to always tip cash but stopped all food delivery entirely ~5yr ago. By turning food delivery into a live auction everybody loses except the company running the service. Drivers compete against eachother accepting the absolute lowest fees while customers need to play the game of choosing an appropriate tip for a prompt delivery while also ideally not shorting the employee who ultimately accepts the order. But since to accept the order they need to compete with other drivers it’s naturally going to lead to them accepting lower prices, allowing the delivery company to pocket the difference. Not a good system.

+1 for VPS, the ionos ones are $2/mo and have unlimited bandwidth at 400mbps. That’s basically the cost of electricity for a home server with orders of magnitude better reliability.

NVME only. I suspect caching just isn’t enabled based on previous comment. If it’s not by default then I didn’t change it.

I reverse proxy over tailscale to a VPS because I have double NAT… The connection to the VPS is direct with wireguard at least, no relay node. Adds ~30ms latency. But even when I connect direct locally it’s not substantially faster.

I’ll check my config.php for caching. I don’t recall adding anything for it so if it’s not on by default then that’s a likely reason. Thanks!

Any tips for speeding it up? Loading can be painfully slow at times. I was reading that it may be the database (I use MariaDB which in theory shouldn’t limit it with 32gb RAM and an R7 1700x).

I’m not suggesting appimages are better, just that I’ve had fewer problems with them relative to snaps. Ultimately I’d argue all attempts to remove dependencies are not ready to replace typical packages for low powered systems. For desktop Linux the performance difference is negligible anyway.

My first introduction to them was “hey why does startup take so long now? This machine used to be so much faster.” and realizing it was snapd that was eating up the time. It’s also not exactly efficient at using storage compared to native installs of dependencies.

For a desktop these may not be noticable but for low power embedded systems it’s a nightmare. It should be an option but really isn’t ready to be default. And when appimages are already a thing that work well I don’t really see the point.

Induction stoves can heat much faster than the hottest setting on many gas stoves which gives many the impression that electric stoves are “hard to control”. But then the resistive element ones have the opposite problem where the power is somewhat lower than gas. Most people don’t differentiate the type of electric stove they’re using, and just project a single bad experience or two to all electric stoves.