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ESXi is a full OS, not sure if you have the option of swapping out the OS on your server. I’m also not sure it will help in this case.

You are very constrained in what you can do by your networking situation. I think your fundamental problem is that you have a single IP that has to be both the management IP of the server, and also handle all the VM network traffic.

The ideal topology for this would be firewall using the public IP for it’s WAN interface, then your VM host and VMs all on its LAN interface (using DHCP or not). With another IP address, you could run a firewall as a VM.

Any way you slice it, I think you’re either an IP or a networking device short.

I wish notifications worked with the PWA. I’m guessing that’s an Apple restriction 😞

I think it’s configurable inside pict-rs’s configuration file. I haven’t messed with it though. I’m also not sure if pict-rs has an API that lemmy can use to configure that.

I believe the activity table in Postgres is retained for 6 months (although I’m purging mine daily) and the pict-rs cache is 168 hours (1 week).

What all this has highlighted for me (and clearly a bunch of other people) is just how little friction is required for me to say “eh, I could live without [reddit | twitter]. Switch to a different app? No thanks. That’s no effort. I deployed my own Lemmy instance and figured out the fediverse instead of downloading the official Reddit app from the App Store. I think that shows how little loyalty some people have to these centralized platforms.

I'd go with something like this Lenovo M900 for $80-$90 used. Sometimes you'll get lucky and find one with a single 8GB stick, then you can get another for ~$20 and you've got a quad core x84-64 machine with 16GB of RAM for right around $100.

The downside would be power consumption compared to a Pi if you're trying to fit in a severely power-constrained setup, but the M900 will draw around 11-13W idle and 55W under higher load. so it's not bad my any means.

At the same time, Rexxit is getting more folks involved with Lemmy (both as users and developers). Lemmy's already a 4-year-old project. I expect we'll see it advance and mature a lot in the coming months from all the new attention.

What Zigbee thermostats do you have?

Fair. Discovery is easier on a big instance, but you get a lot more control on a smaller one.

Hey friend, I think this might have ended up under the wrong post.

Each of the three largest instances now are working to be a standalone replacement for Reddit and are in direct competition with each other.

I think it's clear Beehaw isn't working to be, or wanting to be, a replacement for Reddit at all.

I think this is just a cosmetic Lemmy bug. I have several Beehaw communities showing as Subscribe Pending (including this one) from my personal instance, but I'm still getting new posts and comments with sub-minute delays.