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I am already fairly comfortable using docker and its tool set. Is the tide shifting towards Podman? Should I start learning how to use Podman? Thanks in advance.

Are WebPush desktop notifications currently implemented in Lemmy? I run my own instance and I am not getting any. I have given the lemmy website permissions to send notifications but none are coming through. I am running Lemmy behind a reverse proxy and I've put the NGINX headers in to allow for WebSockets. What else could I be missing? Thanks in advance.

My database is already getting to the size of almost 1GB so it made me think about some questions I have regarding maintenance of my Lemmy instance:

• What cleanup is recommended on the database?
• What is the default length of time that pictrs holds onto its cached data and how to clear the cache?
• Any other recommendations you can think of?

Has anybody else had issues with Mastodon and desktop webpush notifications? I have them enabled on my PC's web browser, Firefox. I made certain to allow notifications. Yet, I don't get any. I read somewhere that regenerating the vapid key pair can fix the problem so I did this but still nothing. I welcome any ideas.

I am running the latest version of Cinnamon on my Arch desktop with the latest version of Firefox. However, I am not receiving notifications from websites that I have expressly enabled notifications on. For example, my Mastodon instance doesn't give me notifications when something has been favorited or boosted. For that matter neither does my Lemmy instance. I have given these instances the proper permissions to allow notifications and still nothing. This happens with some other websites but it is hit and miss.

As I am not so familiar with the innards of Cinnamon, would somebody be so kind as to point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!

I just found out about The Odin Project, a self-paced online course to learn full stack web development. There are two paths: one is Ruby on Rails and the other is full JavaScript and nodejs. I am leaning more towards Ruby but I wanted to get some more opinions from folks in the field.

I am wondering what kind of career moves I have available to me because I am over the bullshit of desktop support. I have been brushing up on my Linux skills, learning docker, and doing a whole bunch of networking-related things. At this point, I am 46 years old. Would it benefit me to go back to school to learn a skill to help me advance beyond this role? I just don't know what to do. There are many options, none of them truly low cost and all of them involving a significant amount of risk.

I get that there is no avoiding risk when making a career change so late in life. I was looking at training for Java or Oracle and it isn't cheap. Maybe given my experience I could teach A+ or Network+? I don't know. I'll welcome any ideas right now.

I'm really liking the Liftoff app for Lemmy. I just discovered that I can increase the indent so comment replies are easy to read.

As my question reads I am curious if the Lemmy documentation gurus are putting together any recommended instance maintenance tasks. Also are the devs going to implement something similar to Mastodon which has the tootctl command and some various cache maintenance and cleanup capability. Thanks in advance. 😀

The Taliban got the coveted Twitter endorsement!? Here it is right from the horses mouth and courtesy of Rolling Stone.

Other than subscribing to communities, how else can I expand my feed some? I just started working with Lemmy over the weekend and I'd like to see comments from more than just the communities I subscribe to so that I can learn about others.

I am thinking of setting up an overlay network using Nebula but I am curious as to what other completely open source projects there are out there. Sure I know about the commercial ones like Tailscale and Zerotier but I'd like to know what else I might be missing.