Lol Wat.
Op, just budget 200gb for lemmy and you'll be fine. Our entire lemmy.ca server is only using 100gb. It'll be a good learning experience!
Also, check out jellyfin as a possible alternative to plex.
I don't think any historical data would exist, but you could probably watch changes with ftrace
Consider a micro pc running opnsense (or Pfsense) instead.
Just look on amazon for "micro firewall pc" and you'll see what I mean. Then you can look into separate APs.
It'll cost more, but it's a better step for your home lab.
Can you be more clear about what you're looking to do? It sounds like you want to draw a dialog?
You can look into ncurses too, there's probably a bunch of bash wrappers for it.
Other than aps, I use several of these in places I don't have space for a real switch (like behind my tv).
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Well that's a thing trying to capitalize on my youth.
I personally hate all the reddit cross post stuff, and it seems like the majority of lemmy users do too. I don't understand why people obsess over this as a way to "grow" lemmy.
It doesn't contribute to active conversations, in fact it deters users who reply locally and then never get a response.
Just let lemmy grow organically by making good content and contributing, stop forcing it with mirrors from reddit.
I wonder if we could get the top admins to threaten defederation with any instance that doesn't flag automated posts as bots. This way at least the users have some visibility.
One liner to get into postgres:
docker exec -it lemmyca_postgres_1 psql -U lemmy
Show only the instances not updated in past 3 days:
select * from instance where updated < current_date-3;
Fix those old rows:
update instance set updated = current_date where updated < current_date - 3;
Images aren't federated, but their thumbnails are stored in your instance. You can prune those though as needed.