Best advice I can give is eat as many vegetables as you can and skip this crap.

I continue to use GamePass because you can download the games to your console, but if/when they go fully cloud-only, I’m out. That will be the death knell for mainstream consoles for me. I’ll stick to my Steam Deck and modded classic consoles.

Go back to old consoles like I’ve been doing. I’m in the process of modding a PS2, and I’ve got a 3DS that is on Pretendo Network and has a fuckload of games installed on an SD card.

Edit: forgot to mention that I also recently threw my old BD burner into an external case. So now I can archive stuff to DVD like we did back in the day. I’ve been really leaning into reviving old tech.

I can’t remember exactly what I did but enabling autovacuum was one of the big ones. I’ll try to provide some info below:

Walks through VACUUM and autovacuum - https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-01-25-use-vacuum-analyze-postgresql/view

How to see if autovacuum is already enabled (these are commands you’d run while in sql):

SHOW autovacuum;

View current settings:

SELECT name, setting FROM pg_settings WHERE name LIKE '%autovacuum%';

Monitor which tables need attention:

SELECT schemaname, relname, n_dead_tup, n_live_tup 
FROM pg_stat_user_tables 
WHERE n_dead_tup > 1000 
ORDER BY n_dead_tup DESC;

I wish I had documented it at the time because info about this for Lemmy specifically is pretty lacking. I was in kind of a dire situation though because my disk space had filled up quickly and my system was struggling. A lot of what I did was basic PostgreSQL maintenance stuff, so you should be able to find some general guides for that.

EDIT: I had Claude help me corral some optimization stuff into a PDF. This is along the lines of what I did to get my db back under control. Make sure to always backup first! https://u.orca.casa/1771250081

I look back now and remember how rewarding it was when that DivX file finally finished. “Hell yeah, movie time!”

Nobody wants that, but unless you’re a bootlicker, you’re not going to let thugs barge into your home. I know I won’t, but I’m also going to do everything in my power to not let them in to begin with. Shooting intruders is the last resort. They’re no different than home invaders in my eyes.

And Copilot is still one of the weakest AI offerings out there based on my experience.

Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a vibe-coded OS at this point.

As someone that turned a programming hobby into a career… it fucking sucks. I don’t have enough time in the day to get back to hobbies, so when the work day ends, zoning out to video games late into the night becomes my main quest. Can’t complain but this full-time job side quest fucking sucks, especially with AI muscling into everything and sucking the oxygen out of the room.

I know this is kinda dumb, but feed your comments to some free AI tool and ask it to change the tone to be more neutral. Totally phone it in lol.

Fuck all seeing as they live like 9,500 miles away from the US.

“Money is the root of all evil! Why don’t you give that to us so that we can dispose of it properly for you…”

Okay, let’s say he stole the election just for the sake of an exercise. There are a metric fuckton of regime change examples where the US meddled with the elections of other countries for their own gain. Is Venezuela now the magical example where the US government did it simply out of the goodness of their hearts? Or is this just a convenient scenario where Maduro needed to go and the US just happened to be the ones to do it and that’s somehow totally cool? I mean, fuck the approval of Congress, international law, etc. amirite?

Venezuela’s issues and elections are for Venezuelans to decide, not parasitic imperialist scum. The mental gymnastics to support this one are on an Olympic level of stupid.

but Lemmy really fucked up their database performance somehow.

Can confirm. I spent like 4 hours one day configuring auto vacuum and other shit on my Lemmy DB because it was bloating to hell and eating up resources. Runs much smoother now but it was a massive PITA to get there.

I think part of it is that those supposed leftists don’t categorize all of those capitalists the same way. It’s like they view billionaire CEOs and landlords as different groups, when the reality is that they fall into the same capitalist bucket. So landlords being stripped of their hoarded properties so that everyone can have a home, is not viewed by them in the same critical light as a CEO that hoards wealth and exploits the working class.

I don’t have anything solid to back this up. It’s just my general observation. It all boils down to class consciousness and decoupling oneself from propaganda.

I’d also mistake this for Twitter. I’ve never seen so many abhorrent people flock to one place en masse like that.

Trinket.

Wouldn’t this require the multitude of folks making fun of that fucking caveman, to watch said fights and actually pay to view them? Nobody here gives a fuck how much money he’s making.

Wow, such a stunning list of achievements. Dude’s a byproduct of Idiocracy America.