Good question.

26 years ago I was a volunteer community manager for a (at the time) huge fps for a big online gaming community. That involved effectively recruiting and managing a group of admins, developing a system of monitoring and anticheat reporting. In hindsight I put way too much time into that but I have difficulty limiting.

It was tiring. 4/5 hours every night after work. No social life. All my choice.

I don’t regret it. I did good, I think. With the team, we stopped a lot of really nasty racism and other abuse. Really helped inform and prevent aimbotting and similar cheating (went down a whole other rabbit hole and ended up writing several guides on the subject). Generally made the servers a nicer place to play. I was offered a job with the company, but I couldn’t take it - and they’ve since closed doors.

Downsides: Death threats, doxxing attempts, a long running issue with another admin who didn’t like me firing him. The charismatic cheaters who think they can charm their way around a ban with begging and promises. The entitled players who’ve never been told “No” before and get ridiculously angry. It can be a lot.

Now I try to help around the edges rather than be the main guy. I do manage a biggish facebook group, but it doesn’t need a lot of input.

I know what you mean - although I’ve found the… receptiveness? on lemmy is generally better than reddit for most things, but yes, the scale is tiny in comparison.

A lot of the replies so far focus on fixing the problem yourself, which is awesome if you’re a coder.

But even reporting problems is a big help to all projects. Found a bug? Report it - give the right information and be cordial.

Also, contribute sensible suggestions. Some smaller projects suffer from a single owner not understanding how others might use their work because they don’t have that perspective (certainly an issue for me). Plus, getting involved and contributing this way can be a huge motivator to these small projects. It can be pretty disheartening to work hard on a passion project and not hear anything back from users.

Hard disagree. Resizing partitions is dangerous and difficult for most computer users.

(I’m a sysadmin who does this stuff multiple times a day, so this isn’t negative bias)

Symlinking is quick, easy, totally safe. It’s one of the best things about linux filesystems. Use it.

That’s fun, but it’s just a third party summary of your posting history, not what Reddit is using.

It’s fine, I’m don’t know why you’re trying to generate shade with this post and comments.

We run self-hosted versions of both Gitlab (ce and enterprise versions) and Gitea.

They’re very different things, but broadly what you say is correct. Gitea is lighter, it comes as a single binary and is really fast in operation. For most people, most of Gitlab’s featureset will never be used.

Keeping them up to date:

Gitlab has repos for most distros, so updating is really just letting it update alongside the OS. But it does that every two weeks and is very noisy about reminding all users the second that a new release has dropped. (So I get a bunch of emails about this critical new release) Features seem to change quite often.

Gitea has no repos, and doesn’t self-update. However, I’ve written a script that checks and if it’s a new version, then it’ll download the new version and replace the single binary.

Both are pretty reliable at not introducing breaking changes when updating, I’ve not had many issues.

The other commenter is right, my work desktop has access to my home server so I can remotely monitor on my breaks, as well as my password manager.

Well, that’s your own fault and poor opsec. That’s also a likely breach of your employer’s acceptable use policy in using their equipment for your personal things.

I know you’re going to say “They don’t care” and that’s probably true - right up until the point when they suddenly do care, or are looking for reasons. It doesn’t matter if your IT are in-house or a MSP, they’re still paid by your employers and so answer to them.

I started unplugging the Ethernet cable when I leave for work so IT can’t do any behind the scenes when I’m away.

It’s not your computer, why do you care?

All that’s going to do is make you an annoyance and potentially end up with you being called into a special meeting.

Back up everything before you start playing with partitions.

No, seriously, do it.

Same. I bought a second hand set of Wahl clippers for £4 from a charity shop after spending two hours and £5 having a bad haircut done professionally.

That was in about 1992.

They’re still going strong and I’ve not paid for another haircut since, nor wasted a second travelling to or waiting around for one.

Profits before ethics.

Shame, I expected better of them.

I do it with my wife. For us, it’s a way of:

• Learning about the other’s day and what they do - whether that’s work or pleasure. I think that’s a big part of being in a relationship.
• If something’s happened that has made one of us happy/sad, sharing that helps us support the other. It also lets them know when there’s something going on that might affect our relationship. Even if they can’t help, it’s good to know there’s a problem so they don’t think it’s about them when I’m unduly quiet or down.
• As someone who sometimes doesn’t understand things obvious to others, it can be handy for a second opinion, or ask what they thought was meant. It also helps me post-process the day’s events and square them away.

If I didn’t have an SO, I’d probably do the same with my dog; although it might be a bit more one sided.

I work four days a week on a remote windows vm. It has everything I need, and I remote from /that/ onto whatever other vm I might need. I connect over a vpn using, well, anything. As you’ve pointed out, the local machine doesn’t need much in the way of specs, although in my case I have three monitors - all given over to the remote, and it’s a clean way to separate work’s environment and network from my own and it’s a very common work pattern. The hypervisor there is vmware, but that doesn’t matter.

But… Gaming is a different. There is latency over the conn, and audio/graphic lag would make FPS and gpu-heavy games particularly poor. I don’t know of a way to totally overcome that, although game-streaming services exist, so presumably it is possible.

Good. This is a horrible misuse of law and the government should be made ashamed of it.

I don’t often support protesters, I’m not that easy to rile, but to me these people are heroes and much braver than I am.

Oh, there’s loads of it.

But you asked, so let’s pick one at random. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Africa

Blockading Africa to force the Americans to stop transporting slaves and ended the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

This is not a part of our history we should be proud of.

idd, I hadn’t heard of it before and it sounded a bit dodgy (felt like a rightwing dogwhistle) but it seems not to be that.

Council Estate Media is the online content brand of John Ghent, a Leicester-based estate agent who has gained a following for his social media videos about the city’s local history and neighborhoods. The content focuses on giving a unique, personal perspective on council estates, forgotten buildings, and local landmarks, often with a nostalgic and humorous tone.

It’s an important story that should be given a lot of exposure, so on this at least, good for him.

We’re very keen on ours in England too. Re-enactments are a big community and some take a lot of trouble to be accurate. (Apart from Derek who forgets to take off his digital watch)

I think it has a genuine part to play in bringing history to life, especially when done in old castles where kids especially seem to really ‘get’ it. History is often taught very badly - dry, dull and boring - sitting in a classroom being spoken at with a long list of names and dates. Anything that makes it more interesting has to be good.

The alternative is burying history, isn’t it? And that’s a dark path to tread, my friend. A very dark path.

aka, Leo