Depends on context. If the context is “planning a holiday in El Salvador”, maybe MS-13 is relevant. Beyond being worried about impact on others’ lives, MS-13 is largely irrelevant to Americans and most people that I’ve encountered never heard of them before 2016.

Yeah. This looks me like a kill -9 to me.

It’s immutable too, which is great for a console experience, but probably not ideal for a desktop user.

I’ve been enjoying Fedora Atomic, personally.

Linux gamers rise up! (Or don’t, I’m not going to judge.)

Probably odorous house ants (sometimes also called sugar ants). I’m fairly sensitive to their scent, myself and recall being in tears as a small child ~6 because one of them walked across my finger and no amount of washing would get the smell off. I’m not a fan.

Ok. That’s cool. I don’t know if I’ve intentionally recalled touch in that way before. Lamb’s ear and comfrey plants are interesting and satisfying to recall.

I… Didn’t know that was a thing but it makes sense. Is less than 1 something that people typically do without intent? That is, I can imagine a cartoon apple but, it’s different than imagining an actual apple.

I’ve got some suggestions and “tiers” of permanence for you.

Power

First, get yourself something like a vertical rack power strip (like one of these). You can probably notch the shelves to incorporate it well, without adding any required space behind them. This alone will go a long way towards cleaning things up.

Video

This is probably the other biggest mess is the video cabling. Here, there’s a few options.

Permanent, upgradeable, but harder to keep neat and probably a bit of a PitA to run cables

Use some cable passthrough wallplates like these. You’d install one close to your shelving and one close to your TV, then fish cables through. Given the distance, there’s probably at least one stud in the way that would make it a bit of a pain.

**Permanent, cleaner look, probably easier to run and more expensive **

Use HDMI/coax/RCA jack plates and pull cable through attic or basement. May need active cables to avoid issues (differential pair signaling used by HDMI can get finicky).

Semi-permanent

Purchase or make cable raceways. There are some commercial products that replace baseboard or crown moulding. This is probably the easiest route for clean appearance. You can use the risers in the shelf as anchor points to run up or down to your raceway, if you are ok with visibility there. Otherwise, notch the shelves, like the above suggestion for power, and run raceway/square conduit up or down, with ports for each shelf tier.

Less permanent, more expensive

Get an A/V receiver/mux box that you can use as a central connection appliance for the shelves. This way, everything connects to it and you have the minimum number of cables going from it to your TV. I honestly don’t know how much these things currently cost but they used to be pricey on account of being marketed to the “audiophile” segment.

Networking

Try to concentrate as many of your network-capable systems on adjacent shelves as possible. Install a keystone jackplate and either run Cat6 for each device or use a small edge switch and as short of patch cables as you can manage.

You have been super-banned from hexbear.

Blast. Someone beat me to the “one of my parents is dead” joke/not-joke.

I was going to ask whether it runs on Linux but then saw what comm it was <3

I think that tunnel magneto-resistance (TMR) are more favored for 3rd-party sticks. They’ve significant advantages over Hall Effect sensors in latency, power consumption, and, apparently, resolution. Plus, they operate on more similar electrical principles to the traditional pot-based sticks, so, they require less effort to design around.

I like your take as well. My “disagreement” is mainly contrarian silliness as I felt it was rather implicit in your post :)

I disagree with your premise.

It should be “The best thing that you can do for humanity is to be kind”.

Seriously. We’re living in a time when fascism is in an upswing and at least one religious leader has publicly called empathy a sin. Kindness and empathy are rebellious acts.

It’s rare and I’m looking for it

Unfortunately not that rare of a POV to find. They just generally don’t do the young account thing. Some are true believers. Others likely state actors. Don’t see as many bots but the greater levels of transparency and lower active population probably makes it less worthwhile of an investment.

Ease of cross-compiling is really one of my favorite things about Rust. It can run anywhere with little coaxing needed.

You don’t even need to know how to use it very well, in my experience.

the main bottleneck with Lemmy seems to be the database performance, so with both projects depending on PostgreSQL

Postgres being a bottleneck is a first for me. Not saying it’s not possible, just… It’s postgres. Wondering if it’s more an issue with ORM, etc.

using Python

Full disclosure: I like Python a lot and have written a lot of it.

That said, if not for my recent work experiences, I would be absolutely horrified at the idea of using Python for such a project. Between the type system and being interpreted, the performance and runtime issues are pretty painful. That and the historical greater dependence on external application servers really makes Python-based services something that really sucks to administer.

However, as I noted, I have also recently seen Python performing far faster than it has any right to with highly-optimized use of multi-processing and offloading the server stuff to Go.

I think I’m going to have to take a look at Piefed source this weekend.

An unfortunately small number of venues which clearly would be in the public interest to be publicly-owned are actually publicly-owned. A huge percentage, in fact, are owned by the Ticketmaster vertically-integrated monopoly that forces entertainers to use their venues and scammy ticketing system (they enable scalpers so that they can get an extra cut) by threatening blacklisting of any who don’t play ball.