Jonathan Rollans

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I can’t be certain if this is my main or my alt account, but you’re here and I’m here, so, hello!

I’m a and a lover of (most of my “hobby time” is spent working on various bits of server software with a recent heavy lean towards ).


This account resides on an instance of (an ActivityPub server software) running on .

Also, I’m a lifelong, massive, fan. I love it all, I don’t hate on any Trek, it’s all good. Especially the bad.




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I keep thinking today is Sunday and then I realize it’s Saturday, which is great, because that means I still have more than 24 hours to be lazy.

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Next up on the rewatch is the season 3 finale “The Best of Both Worlds - Part 1”, maybe you’ve heard of that one? 😉

I actually haven’t seen this two-parter in decades and I’m super excited to watch it with new eyes!

Captain Picard looking quite worried on a Borg ship. (Image capture from the season 3 finale)

Alt...Captain Picard looking quite worried on a Borg ship. (Image capture from the season 3 finale)

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I just ordered my first iPhone upgrade since the iPhone 12 came out. It’ll be weird going back to a large phone, I love the mini form factor.

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And by “large phone” I mean the regular Pro version, I would never get a “Max”. Those things are hilariously enormous!

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Oh and happy 𝛑 Day!

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My area is supposed to get 10” of today and another 6” tomorrow, but the has been very nice and the streets are too warm to be covered in snow. Everything else however is a fresh clean white.

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I see that now supports Articles posted to which means they will not appear in Mastodon clients (generally, I think) right?

Speaking of ActivityPub, anyone have some concise and simple breakdown documentation links handy? There’s kind of an overwhelming amount or information out there.

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Nextcloud: Round 3 (or 4 or 5)

I’ve once again started the process of installing and setting up Nextcloud on one of my servers. It occurs to me that my Nextcloud instances always die a slow death. Something about that piece of software, I think, sort of just falls apart over time. This time I’m attempting to future proof it a little bit more than the previous times, but honestly I fully expect it to go about the same as usual. Then again, historically I have installed all kinds of plugins (or apps) and was running it on fairly low powered hardware. Setting it up on some decently powerful hardware on this go around though. I’ll also try to be more conservative with the app installs as well.

I might actually set up two separate instances and federate them together. Perhaps if I maintain multiple servers they’ll survive a bit longer? Or I’ll just be creating twice the amount of tinkering and maintenance for myself.

#SelfHosting #Nextcloud #Admin

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It’s time for my biweekly haircut and I’m basically still a child when it comes to that, I loathe haircuts.

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I’ve been having a connection issue between my Mastodon instance and this snac2 server, well, it just hit me… I left an incorrect address in the hosts file of one of them. Seems like all is well now.

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To join in the chorus of DST hate, well, I loathe Daylight Saving Time.

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@Tooden@aus.social I say DS9 is my favorite, but my favorites change from day to day. Recently watched all of Voyager as well and really enjoyed it and while watching I kept thinking it was my favorite. Something about the atmosphere of DS9 though, it’s got a feel to it that is unique.

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@Tooden@aus.social @jrollans I totally agree, season 3 gets much better though! I think is my favorite series as well.

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I bought these, I am disgusting. It’s a special St. Patrick’s Day Edition though!

A bag of dehydrated marshmallows from Lucky Charms cereal.

Alt...A bag of dehydrated marshmallows from Lucky Charms cereal.

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I had intended to get a bunch of stuff done with some projects today, but a migraine has basically halted any of that from happening.

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I’ve been watching for the first time in decades and I honestly think the first couple of seasons aren’t that bad. With the exception of a couple of episodes, of course. I was anticipating a slog through the first third of the series, but I’m happy to be wrong!

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Jonathan Rollans »
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Got the new deployment running smoothly and mostly done with performance tuning.

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I have much I want to do, but the motivation and energy eludes me.

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No, it does not appear to support markdown. I guess I could read the manual…

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Hey, does this server support markdown? well, _does it?_

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Discoverability seems basically non-existent using , but damn I like it a lot. I think maybe it’s a matter of finding folks to follow the “old way”. By browsing the internet.

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I’m trying to wrap my head around working with Lemmy posts in the confines of Mastodons posts, specifically what kind of ActivityPub object is a Lemmy post? Is it an “Article”?

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Started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation last night and insanely I don’t think I’ve ever even seen every episode. It’s also been decades!

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I finally got around to setting up snac2 (https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2) on my server. I have been considering ditching entirely, as far as hosting it, and perhaps this is what I might use. I will give it a while and see how it goes.

So if you see me start following you from here, you will know it is me!

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This is just a test…

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Well, I guess I’ll start with a good old fashioned “Hello World!”

Hello World!

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