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This weekend I will be migrating a lot of my services over to new hardware and leaving Oracle Cloud.

I will be getting four times the storage space, and fully dedicated hardware, for a little under half the cost.

This is important to maintain the sustainability of these services.

There may be occasional short term outages on some of these services. If you notice something down for more than a couple of minutes, reach out.

Shits going down.

Shits going down.

The PicSur database is nearly 7GB.

I’m going to be switching (in the future) to something that uses S3 for a backend, then self host the bucket with Minio to keep it decentralized.

The madness has to end.

Post storm beauty to compensate for the power being out.

Realizing some of my posts made earlier today are just now showing up, because I dual boot and keep forgetting to fix Linux thinking my clock is set to UTC while Windows thinks it’s local.

Ideas like this are helpful and constructive. We need more of them. Nostr will not grow into a mainstream platform if it becomes a "you have to buy another phone" platform. The big thinkers on here will overcome restrictions thrown in their path - regardless of the source - and will overcome it and make it better than it was before.

That's the power of Nostr, and the power of Open Source.

#nostr #foss

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There are a lot of suggestions to switch to Graphene right now. I tried Graphene twice for weeks at a time on a Pixel 6 Pro. Here are my observations/thoughts.

* None of my banking apps worked.

* Ended up using Google anyways for maps because the "free" alternatives took me miles out of the way or had no clue where things were.

* I never got the full zoom capabilities of my phone's camera to work, despite installing - you guessed it - Google's camera app.

* Swipe to type might as well have been non-existent.

* RCS never activated despite days of trying - oh, and that required installing Google Messages. Most people in the US still use text.

* There feels like a dearth of FOSS photo galleries with competitive editing features. I ended up installing.... Google Photos.

* Backing stuff up automatically... you going to also self-host NextCloud? Are you going to set up SyncThing? This is not a simple software swap - it requires a whole lifestyle.

I'm a software engineer and competent with Linux, etc... and I felt like I had reduced a $800 phone to the equivalent of something I could buy on prepaid for $150.

I'm sure there was a way to "fix" it - but that's the point. I do this for a living, and I don't have time to fix it. My phone has to work. Period.

You guys realize that basically *nobody* outside of this small echo chamber is willing to deal with that right?

I don't even hate the project - I follow several of the developers and they're fucking *awesome human beings* doing amazing work. Essential work that is needed and used by probably 10's or even 100's of thousands of people with high threat profiles. But almost nobody is going to do this unless they have significant other factors contributing to their threat profile, or they're nerds like us who are willing to tinker for hours to get less than what they get by pulling a stock phone out of a box.

The year of the Graphene Phone will happen at the same exact time the year of the Linux Desktop happens. When it just works. 99% of the time. With no sacrifices in feature set or performance.

What if we replace zaps with likes and send each value based likes and apple doesn’t even have to know anything.