I’ve found the biggest thing isn’t any real resource. My instance runs on a core 2 duo with 4GB of RAM, and I really try to get it to waste memory and barely fill the 4GB.

The thing is your instance will be blasted by all the other instances you subscribe to. If you subscribe to too many big communities you might find you’re locked out during peak times, but it should be just fine as long as you’re not crazy with follows like I am lol

I don’t think its too bad, but it probably depends a lot on a lot of factors.

Since I first started my hardware got a lot stronger, and nextcloud, php, and mariadb have all improved and so my experience has gotten pretty decent.

Remember though, there’s a ton of biases here, so I could be wrong…

“we only jerk each other off on union hours!”

Yeah, that’s what happens when you have mass money printing and someone produces a finite resource.

We’re talking about the economic laws of physics. When you blow up a balloon, do you get angry at the balloon for getting larger? No, there’s more air in there so the skin gets stretched thicker under the pressure. In the same way, you add more dollars to an economy, particularly when you’ve gone and told everyone to stop working for years, things get stretched a lot thinner and it’ll take more dollars to buy the essentially similar amount of stuff.

I don’t need to tell you about theoreticals, I can give you an example of why businesses can’t just underprice their goods. Remember during the pandemic, you couldn’t get an Nvidia graphics card for love or money? There were none in stores. Its because whether we like it or not, the cards were underpriced so scalpers came in and bought them all and resold them at the actual market price of several times the listed price. Once Nvidia repriced their cards, the scalpers tried the same thing and ended up sitting on a bunch of cards nobody wanted to buy and now you can easily find a video card in stores. (By the way, this can happen to the big companies too, if they try to price their goods too high they’ll just be sitting on inventory they can’t get rid of)

Is it unfair? If course it is. That’s the point. The government takes money from everyone and then borrows from future generations and then creates central banks and mandates that those central banks print money out of thin air to buy the debt and add more money to the system, and eventually all those dollars funnel into buying a limited amount of natural resources and productivity, and inflates stock prices, and creates big winners and big losers.

Elon Musk has a crappy little car company whose revenue isn’t a fraction of virtually any other car company. Why is he the world’s richest man? Because of all that money floating around trying to grow before the party stops.

All this was predictable and publicly predicted. Its Only politicians and central bankers who pretended it wouldn’t happen.

shutting down the productive world economy

World record money printing

Government debt at all time highs in every country

Government spending still not under control

“Why would greedy corporations do this?”

We shoot ourselves in the head then blame the ant next to us for the pain in our head. “You must’ve bit me! Why would you do that?”

Typically it’d mostly just go sideways and wait for inflation to catch up.

Nextcloud Notes has become my go-to (Oh look, SJ is advocating for Nextcloud again! How original!)

We’re starting to see institutional money leaving housing markets.

The money comes from debt, so as debt costs increase, the profit margin of buying homes decrease. As well, as the amount of money available to a common customer drops as interest rates rise, house prices will have to drop as a function of the laws of physics and mathematics – The only way to keep increasing prices is to keep finding people who can afford higher prices.

The fact that there are still buyers doesn’t mean prices can’t drop, it’s about the balance of buyers and sellers, and if people are dumping their houses at a loss because they can’t afford to keep paying then that’ll drive prices down by increasing sellers and decreasing buyers.

It’ll play out in a bunch of ways because there’s a bunch of stuff out there totally reliant on sucking up debt. Real estate bubbles around the world, zombie businesses, even the rich used debt as a tax vehicle for consumption since you can take out debt without paying taxes.

It’s sad, but it was obvious that interest rates were going to rise. I refinanced in 2020 with the longest fixed-rate available (and paid a penalty to do so) and dropped my amortization length by 10 years when it became painfully clear we were going to see high inflation from government policies overlapping over each other and there was a chance of the return of high interest rates as a result.

A lot of people will get burned on the way down, but it’s good for society if housing is cheaper.

Friendica is interesting because it’s fundamentally different than a lot of the others. It supports ActivityPub, but also other protocols. The view is fundamentally threaded. It supports groups so some parts of the threadiverse can federate with it in that regard and presumably it could too. It also supports RSS, so you can get content from outside the fediverse.

I liked it, especially with a custom skin I set up. My big problem was that it has a php back-end and I needed something way lighter for my tiny at the time server, so I went with pleroma.

Australian Croatian Nazis. Seen it a million times.

I’m cheap.

Not necessarily. Elected officials aren’t just there to spin a roulette wheel of experts and then slavishly implement whatever those experts propose.

Being around experts at times, I know full well that most experts end up with tunnel vision. They see the one thing that they care about, to the exclusion of all the other things.

In such a situation, you can end up with an absurdity such as spending massive resources on something that doesn’t really matter when something that matters a whole lot ends up getting completely ignored because you don’t have any experts that care about that thing. I know an engineer who would take virtually any job, and start planning to tear out everything that’s already there and completely redo it because it’s usually not installed to his standard. Well that’s great, but when the job is to do something like setting up a new button, a job that would take an hour and it’s going to take 6 months. The expert opinion of what’s best and the holistic opinion of finding a balance between what’s best and what’s practical are at odds.

In the 1800s, a Hungarian doctor practicing in Switzerland proposed washing your hands thoroughly in between handling and giving birth to children. At that time, the difference between giving birth using a midwife and giving birth using an expert doctor was a massive difference in mortality rate, having a child with a doctor was a death sentence for the child and potentially for the mother. The experts of the day scoffed at him and he was widely maligned, and he died in an asylum.

Experts created the field of eugenics, And without considering anything else the theory of evolution suggests that the field of eugenics is factually grounded in reality if you are an expert with blinders on. It’s only when you draw your view out that you realize the societal implications of policies based on eugenics and the fact that they are evil. (There was some debate a couple years ago as to whether eugenics was practically effective, which is an absurd argument. We know that it works, because we do it all the time on domesticated species. If you select for plants that grow bigger fruit, then you’re going to get bigger fruit.)

In the past, the entrenched opinion of experts was that racism is factually correct. There were swaths of experts who would tell you what ethnicity people were based on the measurements of their skull, and they could tell you how superior ones bloodline was based on that. In that case the experts were wrong and evil. While its true they were quacks, they were credentialed and esteemed quacks.

Experts in Archaeology believed for a long time that myths were just made up stories, but some people decided to check out the locations mentioned in the stories and were surprised to find archeological evidence of some parts of those myths. The Minoan civilization was completely lost to history until relatively recently, buried in the myth of Theseus. This shows that folk wisdom (which obviously isn’t always correct or fully correct as the myth is twisted by thousands of years of retelling) is sometimes more instructive than the experts.

In 2007, the experts all agreed that the economy was stronger than ever before and there couldn’t possibly be a financial crash. Once the crash occurred, there was a huge amount of tax money (and debt) spent bailing out banks and putting the gas on “the economy”, and many expert economists believed it recovered. In reality, their aggregate view missed that some regions were becoming incredibly rich and some regions were dying based in part on the consequences of expert interventions, so not only did they cause harm, but they didn’t (and in many cases still don’t) realize they were doing so and in fact believed they had succeeded.

In 2021, the experts all agreed that inflation was transitory and no action needed to be taken because it would disappear on its own. Outsiders were yelling from the rooftops about inflation as early as mid-2020 but were told they were wrong and stupid and ignorant and not an expert.

Experts helped develop a climate change policy that provided carbon credits if a company disposed of the hydrofluorocarbon HFC-23, which was a chemical mostly used to produce HFC-22. Factories started to produce HFC-22 with the express intent of creating and destroying HFC-23 because the carbon credits were worth more than the HFC-22 produced at the end. When this scam was exposed (in fact the scheme ended up incentivizing the use of now inexpensive HFC-22 instead of more environmentally friendly options), China then threatened to release the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, in what many called “Climate Blackmail”.

So the job of a representative isn’t to try to be an expert themselves, but to be well-rounded and aggregate many different sources of information including experts from a number of different fields who may have conflicting opinions on a subject, as well as personal experience and wisdom, in a way that a specialist in one field cannot. That means that often you do what the expert suggests, but other times you don’t because the world is more complicated than just asking one question.

I’d rather neither and they do what they think is best based on a broad set of sources.

to be fair, the point of parliamentary democracy within a constitutional monarchy is that the government made up of MPs elected by the people makes the final decision, not the experts.

If we are going to blindly do whatever experts tell us to do instead of letting elected governments make the final decision, then we might as well save everyone the trouble – just have the King hire experts and give the experts absolute power.

So far, Conduit is the only answer for me, since I don’t own any quantum supercomputers.

Steve Jobs died in 2011, the headphone jack disappeared from the iPhone 7 in 2016.

The person who decided a headphone jack is superfluous should be found, tarred, feathered, and left naked and alone deep in the alaskan wilderness covered in pigs blood for the wildlife to enjoy.

One big difference between the json requests and a user callling for the site directly is your instance pulls all the data all the time, whereas a user only pulls the data they use themselves.

I don’t use RSS for lemmy or kbin communities. I’ve got nextcloud news for RSS feeds, and lemmy for communities I can interact with.