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  • Not anymore. Bitcoin now requires dedicated hardware (ASICs). Other coins were designed to make use of ASICs impossible or impractical, requiring GPUs, but those still require a CPU to drive them.

    New developments, such as Ethereum moving away from proof of work to proof of stake made GPUs unnecessary, but you still need a computer with a CPU to validate the blocks on the block-chain.

    Edit: Even with ASICs mining bitcoin, you still need servers to distribute the work to them.








  • What ? stores can’t have profit ? Why not sue Walmart or Target for this egregious practice then ?

    I kinda understand that the Apple model of locking iPhones so only their store can exist is, if not ilegal, unethical and immoral, but on Android phones, you can sideload a different store or individual apps. IANAL, but this is the kind of meritless lawsuit that in my country would not only be thrown away but could also expose Tim to sanctions.

    Before contrarians come in to say that 30% is too much for a digital store, I work with cloud services (mostly AWS and a bit of Azure), and let me tell you, that shit is _EXPENSIVE_. Especially bandwidth and storage, which is the two things digital stores use the most, that why I don’t think 30% is too much, it’s basically what they need to charge to cover costs and have some profit to keep investing on the service.


  • Anarch157a@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldRevamped install for Piped
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    1 year ago

    You can run with your own reverse proxy Nginx if:

    • You expose the port used by the backend/API with a “ports:” setting on the compose file
    • Expose the socket used by the ytproxy container using a volume that points to a directory in the host

    You’ll still need 3 DNS names and a SSL certificate to cover all three.

    TO configure your Nginx, you can use the template I provided on the config/ directory as a base.








  • When the owner themself doesn’t hide what kind of PoS they are, this is what you get. I have no love for Zuckerberg, but if I can criticize him based on what he does and how he does it and the effects his decisions have on society, any one with brains could without having to resort to low brow insults of measuring contests. That’s basically the difference, one service is managed by someone who, despite all his flaws, is an adult, the other isn’t.

    BTW, I used neutral pronouns for the “chief twitt” and not for Zuck just to spite him and make the point that one doesn’t have to lower the level bellow a certain threshold to provoke, all considering how they hate “woke” stuff…




  • I already did a few months ago. My setup was a mess, everything tacked on the host OS, some stuff installed directly, others as docker, firewall was just a bunch of hand-written iptables rules…

    I got a newer motherboard and CPU to replace my ageing i5-2500K, so I decided to start from scratch.

    First order of business: Something to manage VMs and containers. Second: a decent firewall. Third: One app, one container.

    I ended up with:

    • Proxmox as VM and container manager
    • OPNSense as firewall. Server has 3 network cards (1 built-in, 2 on PCIe slots), the 2 add-ons are passed through to OPNSense, the built in is for managing Proxmox and for the containers .
    • A whole bunch of LXC containers running all sorts of stuff.

    Things look a lot more professional and clean, and it’s all much easier to manage.