I’ve never had to reboot the server; I had to restart Synapse because if Memory leaks.

Are you using any bridges?

Anyway, it got too expensive to run my own, so I went back to Matrix.org. Now I’m mostly back on IRC except for a couple of rooms. IRC stinks, but Matrix has been nothing but a decade of pain.

Right. The idea is to do it thoughtfully, and informed. Exercising can kill, too, but it’s usually overdoing it that causes harm.

I don’t know why you were downvoted. It’s called “fasting,” and it’s an entirely legitimate way to lose weight. There’s good evidence that, if done thoughtfully, it can have health benefits.

Calories in, calories out. There’s no way around physics.

I watch YouTube with FreeTube on the desktop, and Tubular on mobile. Both are always over VPN, and anonymous (not logged in).

I haven’t logged into YouTube in literal years.

Hmmm. The last time I had stock was several versions ago. I made a bad choice and have a Samsung now, and it’s always required the persistent notification, or it kills the apps.

That’s not worth much, though. Samsung’s Android is probably the shittiest I’ve used. I’ll be damned if I’m going to replace a perfectly good phone, though; the hardware is good.

God, I wish. Every Android update seems to undo all of the app run configuration I do on bloatware: disabling background network access, disabling background running, etc. If I can’t uninstall it, I limit the fuck out of it and hope. I wish Android would aggressively kill these things.

However, I get that your issue is that it’s killing stuff you don’t want it to. Are you allowing notifications for background apps? I think that, even in Lineage, to stay active and prevent sleeping an app has to show a persistent notification. I hate the things, since they only clutter the notification lists, but when I disable them the apps don’t stay running.

Yup! Someone else pointed that out to me; I thought you were talking about the puppets and missed that you were talking about Jabber.

My bad!

Oh. I did misread that. Thanks for pointing it out!

“Qutos”, a new State Trek Ferengi comic relief character who goes around sagely quoting capitalist aphorisms that make no sense to anyone but other Ferengi.

running your own server is super lightweight.

Not IME. Are you running Synapse? Gigabytes of disk usage and memory leaks requiring restarts.

I definitely understand the call of the void. The mental image of killing my cats quells any desire to squish them - for me - but I get it.

I can use IRC

The fact that many Discord and IRC channels (servers?) block Matrix connections has drastically reduced its usefulness for me. When I was running my own Matrix server, I could have gotten around it by using a puppet, but Synapse is such a hog I had to shut it down, and most of the IRC rooms I want to use don’t allow Matrix proxies.

Is it possible to configure the kernel to allow access to decrypted contend only through the user session?

Theoretically, kernel keys can be set to be readable only by the user session, and in an uncompromised root is not able to read those keys. I can imagine a filesystem encryption design that uses a user session key to en/decrypt data on the fly using a user session key, such that not even root or a process in another user session could read the mounted filesystem.

Does such a system exist? As I understand, this is not the way dm-crypt or LUKS work. FDE and TPM are still vulnerable to hacking while everything is running, unlocked, and mounted.

Yes!

Current understanding of cat psychology is that being constrained is calming to them, so there’s a good chance that your cat enjoys being given a firm but gentle (i.e., not to goo) squeeze.

A hypothetical pet that’s basically a stress ball that loves being squished would be ideal, but a cat is pretty close!

Yeeeeah… um… except OP includes the consequences. Most people want to squeeze but stop at the wanting to splatter their pets to goo. That’s where it goes from “normal” to “psycho.”

Really. Do you really empathize with squeezing your pet so hard you kill it? I think most people’s cute aggression desire stops before the killing.

It doesn’t take long to get used to them, though, of you’re around them all the time.

I thought it was just my instance, but I discovered that Lemmy was rewriting external image references to proxy them through my Lemmy instance, which doesn’t always work.

Changing my post content is not cool, but doing it in such a way that breaks my comment is fucked up. If I wanted my Lemmy instance to host my image, I’d have uploaded it to my instance. Feels sleazy.

Me too. I miss my youthful metabolism.

For the past couple of years, I’ve been grooving on Ramune, that Japanese drink in the glass bottles with the marble. It’s just sugar-water; the flavorings are mild, there’s no caffeine, and it’s pretty sweet, but it’s fun and tastes good. My Cub Foods carries it in the “foreign” section, and I’ll get a bottle a couple of times a year. It’s the only sweetened soda I drink.

We do drink a fair amount of soda water; just plain, unsweetened, unflavored carbonated water, but I don’t think that counts towards OP’s question. Gerolsteiner, mostly, but also non-mineral … Gerolsteiner has a taste, being mineral water, which I like but not so much with meals.

Messing around is how blow jobs were first invented. If we’re ever going to discover the next major sex move, we’re all going to have to do our parts and mess around a lot while we’re cleaning the starfish.