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GoToSocial on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: Will it work?

I didn’t keep good notes as I went, honestly. I did a first pass on this “shooting from the hip” a bit to just see if I could get it to work. Instead of using Docker-CE, I used podman which created a little bit more work (not much at all really). Ultimately the service did start up, did run. It was even usable until the moment it started federating. As soon as I started following external accounts from the instance, and the federated traffic started coming in, I could see that the system was hitting high loadavg numbers (like in excess of 5.0). But the CPU cores still had plenty of idle capacity. ...

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Humble Tech Book Bundle: Linux from Beginner to Professional by O'Reilly

About the Bundle This bundle includes the following books: Learning Git: A Hands-On and Visual Guide to the Basics of Git by Anna Skoulikari Efficient Linux at the Command Line by Daniel J. Barrett Web Application Security: Exploitation and Countermeasures for Modern Web Applications by Andrew Hoffman Network Programmability and Automation: Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer by Matt Oswalt, Christian Adell, Scott Lowe, Jason Edelman Python for Devops: Learn Ruthlessly Effective Automation by Noah Gift, Kennedy Behrman, Alfredo Deza, Robert Jordan, Grig Gheorghiu Terraform: Up and Running, 3rd Edition by Yevgeniy Brikman Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production by Karl Matthias, Sean P. Kane Kubernetes: Up & Running by Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns, Joe Beda Practical Linux System Administration: A Guide to Installation, Configuration, and Management by Ken Hess Ansible: Up and Running: Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way by Lorin Hochstein Linux Pocket Guide by Daniel J. Barrett Learning DevSecOps: A Practical Guide to Processes and Tools by Steve Suehring Learning Modern Linux: A Handbook for the Cloud Native Practitioner by Michael Hausenblas FastAPI: Modern Python Web Development by Bill Lubanovic

oh-my-zsh alternatives

Background I’ve been a zsh user for a long time, both on Linux (where it’s not the default) and OS X macOS (where it now is the default). The first thing I used to do on new machines is port all of my .oh-my-zsh stuff over. Oh My Zsh is not bad! This is not mean to slam the project at all. But I’ve recently (Jan 2025) upgraded to a new Mac Mini M4 and I thought maybe I should see what else is out there. If there’s something that’s good enough without being quite as large in size. ...