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Mastodon Admin self hosters who are installed on standard Debian!
Have you moved to Debian 13/Trixie?
#SelfHost #Debian #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

#Debian #Trixie got its 13.3 upgrade yesterday: https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260110
Unfortunately, the …

If you are stuck on a problem, don't just sit there and think about it; start working!
Trifft auf Mathe und Leben zu.
Ich installiere auch gerade #Debian auf meinem alten iMac und denke nach, was es für meine Produktivität bedeuten würde, wenn Apple gleichgeschaltet wird. Das wird nicht schön.

RE: #Debian

Homelab migration done, all of the VMs are on Debian which makes things easier to manage. Currently deleting the old mirrors out of storage and running a few backups at the moment. I think it's time to maybe play some vidya games and just enjoy the rest of Sunday.
#homelab #debian

Wie legt man einen User in #Debian an?
#Linux

Do people like check the Debian website every 5 minutes to check it hasn't
morphed into another one? Not that I'm one to talk, but some people seriously
need to get a life.
-- james on #Debian

success! Upgraded #footiMac to Debian 13/Trixie and brought Mastodon along for the ride.
Had a few hiccups...
1) I upgraded elasticsearch and ended up having to clear out its cache files as it didn't want to 'upgrade' them itself.
2) postgresql 15 and 16 are still running in the background and needed new timezones in their configs.
3) Charlock_holmes ruby gem was unhappy (as noted in recent Mastodon release notes) and needed: bundle install --force to actually get it to install again.
4) libvibs is not happy either, so I turned it off in the config file. This seems to be an ongoing issue.
Once those things were found and fixed, it all came back up.
Phew! Wonder what else broke lol
#Mastodon #Debian #Trixie #MastoAdmin #selfhost

Update: the rebuild of the Jellyfin instance is going far better than expected. UI is snappier and still scraping all of the new episodes/media without any issues. Glad to have it on Debian finally...
#debian #jellyfin

I love Flatpaks.
I hate Flatpaks.
It really is a “Haßliebe” at the moment.
It's *finally* easy to get the latest version of an app. (Although outdated Apps are traditionally a #Debian/#Ubuntu problem.) Using them feels mostly native now.
But they are confusing: You can install an app twice!? The data path is different. And they're still not good with hardware:

you've convinced me.... (honestly,I just wanted to make sure nothing was going to blow up!)
upgrading in the background now….wish me luck!
#SelfHost #Debian #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Seit mindestens 2015 ist klar, dass #SHA1 kaputt ist
Seit 2022 sagt #NIST, man soll SHA1 nicht nutzen
Seit 2025 ist angekündigt, dass #Debian SHA1 ab Februar 2026 nicht mehr akzeptiere…

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🏗️ Built on trusted foundations: #Alpine and #Debian as proven open-source bases - minimal migration effort, maximum compatibility with existing wo…

new #debian packaging problem: trying to get `pbuilder create` to create a base image for packaging for #ubuntu noble i386 fails because there ist no package aptitude for that architecture:

This meme is probably going to trigger the #Ubuntu purists, you know, the so-called Snap elitists.
I oppose Snap and Ubuntu, and as a Debian and Secureblue user, I consider Snap unnecessary bloat.
#Debian

Migrated the Docker server over to Debian to match the other VMs. Scary, but not too horrible. Also, moving Docker volumes is a pain in the ass.
#docker #homelab #debian

<Stealth> How do I bind a computer to an NIS server?
<Joey> Use a rope?
-- Seen on #Debian

Just looking at the sidekiq stats to see how things cleared out. All in all, Not bad for a 2008 iMac.
#footiMac #Mastodon #Debian #Trixie #MastoAdmin #selfhost

any #debian packagers out here? i'm trying to build i386 packages on an amd64 machine, but can't get gbp-buildpackage to pass on the architecture to pdebuild. in desparation i've even tried
ARCH="i386" gbp buildpackage \
--git-builder="pdebuild" \
--git-arch="i386" \
--architecture "i386" \
-- --overrid…

Love it when Ubuntu/Debian frees up space like this:
#apt #ubuntu #aptitude #debian

Ansible playbook done "enough", everything is now matching. Evidently I did forget to transition one server over to Debian, but got that sorted and now everything is running pretty well.
#ansible #homelab

Sometimes I forget I even use Debian, it's so deeply ingrained in my workflow that I can't imagine using anything else. Same goes for Fedora.
:debian: :fedora:
#DebianTrixie #DebianSid

:linux: You probably shouldn’t delete your whole system… but nothing’s stopping you! :linux:
#Linux #Debian #ArchLinux

upgrade complete! #selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade

updating to Mastodon v4.5.3!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade

just looking at my archive of postgresql backups over the past 2 years of my mastodon instance.
In December 2023 just shy of 1 year since spinning it up, the compressed gz file of the database was 600MB.
By Aug 2024 it was 988MB
In April 2025 it was 1500MB
Today it is 1800MB.
That is a 2 user instance. Not small!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade