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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • If you think America is dependent on plastic you should visit Asia. Here is an anecdote which explains it:

    I went to a supermarket to buy some food. I saw readymade duck meat and it looked deliciousdelicious. It was packaged in a transparent plastic bag inside of a hard plastic shell. I tried to take it but one of the grandmas who work there snatched it out of my hand and put it into another plastic bag. Then I went to pay for it and they put my nice plastic package into a plastic bag so it’s easier for me to carry.

    By that time my 200 grams of duck meat was packaged in four layers of soft and hard plastic.

    Or bread, in Germany, Poland and Sweden where I lived before they put bread into a paper bag, which makes it stay crispy. Here in Korea the bread goes into a clear plastic bag, which then goes into a plastic bag for carrying. If you let in be in the plastic, once you’re home the bread is almost soggy.


  • Oh it was a delight! Actually I am trying to switch because I’m so tired of how badly the lemmy software works.

    Already last time updating to 0.19.3 I spent so much time tweaking things just so it would not hog all the servers resources, but after the update to 0.19.4 I’m ready to give up on it.

    I have like 15 services or so running on the server and they all run nicely together and making a load of 0.5, but once I start lemmy the load goes first up to 8 then over time to 12 and by that time there are so many problems that my other services start hanging and I have to restart the server. This is why I had to stop it yesterday.

    But because the threadyverse is my main source of news I couldn’t just quit it. I remembered PieFed and that it’s written in python and in a simple way like my other services. No need for docker and complicated deploy mechanisms.

    But the biggest pro is that with the same communities subscribed to, the load is always between 1 and 1.5 which is totally amazing!

    The setup was very stright forward too, just following the instructions, even if I never worked with flask or celery before. I think it took me half an hour to have everything running without problems.

    Then it took me a lot of time to subscribe to all the communities only shortly after I did to realize that there is a import communities from lemmy tool 🤦.