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In using your server as a proxy cache, do you just include the server as a nix cache substitutor, or simply use a MITM approach using something like squid proxy?

If the former, via substitutor (or if also using a remote builder), how do you manage when moving portable clients outside your LAN? E.g. traveling with your laptop? Do you tunnel back home, have a toggle to change substitutor priorities?

I find it the default timeout for unresponsive substituters excessively long, as well as the repeated retries for each requested derivation annoying, rather than it recalling and skipping unresponsive substituters for subsequent derivations in the same nix switch/build invocation.


The server is configured as a caching reverse proxy (just nginx with cache.nixos.org as upstream) which I think is similar to squid proxy.

Outside my LAN I do have the ability to tunnel home, but depending on the connection and the updates I just deal with the timeouts, or just wait until I get home.

I think technically you can override substituters using cli options but its not ideal. There are several proposals for configuring timeouts per substituter but none of them are merged yet.


CtrlAssist – an open source project to bring more accessible, collaborative gaming to Linux! Inspired by PC gaming sessions with my own family, where both young and old relish exploring rich stories with immersive worlds (like Witcher 3, RDR3, Hogwarts Legacy, etc) but find coordinated combat or movement control too challenging to play solo, CtrlAssist lets you combine multiple controllers into one virtual gamepad, much like assist features on dedicated game consoles.

https://crates.io/crates/ctrlassist

Whether your helping grandparents through tough boss fights, or co-oping with nieces and nephews to level age gaps, CtrlAssist aims to make PC gaming on Linux fun and accessible for everyone. While I’m certain similar utilities exist, I also just wanted a holiday hobby project to practice Rust development while scratching a personal itch.

Please give it a try, share your feedback in the relevant discussion categories, or check out the open issues if you’d like to contribute, help is always welcome!

- Developer Feedback and Rust Community Discussion

   - https://github.com/ruffsl/CtrlAssist/discussions/14  ;
- User Feedback and Accessibility Community Discussion

   - https://github.com/ruffsl/CtrlAssist/discussions/15


CtrlAssist – an open source project to bring more accessible, collaborative gaming to Linux! Inspired by PC gaming sessions with my own family, where both young and old relish exploring rich stories with immersive worlds (like Witcher 3, RDR3, Hogwarts Legacy, etc) but find coordinated combat or movement control too challenging to play solo, CtrlAssist lets you combine multiple controllers into one virtual gamepad, much like assist features on dedicated game consoles.

Whether your helping grandparents through tough boss fights, or co-oping with nieces and nephews to level age gaps, CtrlAssist aims to make PC gaming on Linux fun and accessible for everyone. While I’m certain similar utilities exist, I also just wanted a holiday hobby project to practice Rust development while scratching a personal itch.

Please give it a try, share your feedback in the relevant discussion categories, or check out the open issues if you’d like to contribute, help is always welcome!

- Developer Feedback and Rust Community Discussion

   - https://github.com/ruffsl/CtrlAssist/discussions/14  
- User Feedback and Accessibility Community Discussion

   - https://github.com/ruffsl/CtrlAssist/discussions/15


Why do you need to stick to just the "vendor supplied CUDA"? Is CUDA for arm64 targets only distributed via Nvidia ISOs for the Jetson targets? The download site seems to offer an arm64-sbsa option.

I thought the big barrier was the custom kernel they distribute. It was a pain to use the old Jetsons before Nvidia finally enabled modern c group support for containerization with docker. Perhaps building a kennel for their ended platforms is simpler now?


This isn't likely to happen or change, but what if subscribers were instead billed by usage? If you streamed 24 hours a day for the whole month, that could round out to $10 a month, but if less, then simply a proportional percentage.

Spotify would never forgo current profits from flat monthly plans, but then why shouldn't artists be granted the same advantages in royalties proportional to a subscriber's ratio of playtime if the subscribers are charged a flat rate any how?


There are quite a few communities for game engines and platforms on programming.dev , but this also their general game development community for the same instance:

https://programming.dev/c/gamedev


Is there a community on Lemmy for Mastodon mods and admins? Hosting support discussions about Fediverse platforms on Fediverse platforms seems like an opportunity to dog food more it's development.


On Mastodon itself people like to use the #MastoAdmin hashtag.

Good point about Lemmy. I remember reading the Discourse software was considering federation/ActivityPub support but haven't seen any traction there.


I just wanted to suggest including some more helpful links.

Graphical search indexes for finding and joining an instances aligning with your interests:

- https://lemmyverse.net/

- https://browse.feddit.de/

An index of subreddit migrations, both official and unofficial community spinoffs to subscribe to:

- https://sub.rehab/

- https://lemmyverse.net/communities

A list of alternative clients for mobile, desktop, and web browsers:

- https://lemmy.world/post/465785

- https://programming.dev/post/135335


And don't forget that Lemmy and Kbin federate, so you should also check Kbin for 'magazines' (their term for subreddit) that interest you.


There are also a number of hosting providers cropping up with manage deployments for Lemmy with single click setups if you'd rather offload that:

> Do you foresee more hosting providers offering one-click, fully managed, ActivityPub deployments?

> https://programming.dev/post/136548


> Another cool development would be a science-oriented Lemmy instance with lots of special purpose sciency stuff.

Something like this?

https://mander.xyz/communities

> An instance dedicated to nature and science. > The main focus of this instance is the natural sciences, and the scope encompasses all of the STEM fields.


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