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TIFF is a classic storage format, but PNG is common for web images and isn't going away either. DNG is for RAW sensor output from professional cameras and is not used for edited and published images. However if you're archiving your photo collection or something than keep the DNGs!

I love doing this myself with short 1-2k word scenes to help develop the character and my writing at the same time. When writing a long piece in chronological order it's easy to get stuck at a section and the continual revising is tedious when you just want to write. So just skip over to a part that you want to explore and you'll often find it's much easier to get started. Later on when you actually write that section of your novel you can go back to your old short story and use that scene as inspiration.

As the previous commenter mentioned writing these short stories also gives you a chance to practice your craft in a more controlled setting. I find myself writing much quicker when I'm not constrained by the subtleties and pacing required for a full novel, and you can adapt the story to match your writing rather than the other way around.

Those mini PCs are actually have extremely quiet fans at idle and you generally won't notice the noise. The good part about an actively cooled system is that you have the ability to load up the machine without throttling in case there's a sudden activity spike.

I haven't run HA bare-metal but I have run HA on Proxmox and I've run Proxmox on these mini PCs. In my use case they supplement the main rack server in my cluster.

I run a non-federated Matrix server for my family with synapse, it's behind nginx and the setup is pretty straightforward if you know what you're doing. It does chat, voice, and video with screenshare nicely, though I don't know now well it scales to a large group.

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I'm seeing this a lot in the stickies for reopened subs discussing whether they want to continue the blackout. Last week they all wanted to protest, this week they don't want it anymore and prefer the sub to stay up. It's likely a different subset of people commenting.

In the past I normally used Pushshift to search Reddit due to how poor the search engine was. I think it was only until very recently when they finally added comment searching.

It's the time during the 90s when Usenet (remember that?) opened up to regular home users and was therefore swamped.

One of those Reddit 3PA devs need to get on board with the Fediverse and encourage their users to switch over. If they can make it seamless that'll bring in an influx of new members, for better or for worse.

Homelabbing is an amazing hobby if you're into this stuff, and you can go as far down the rabbit hole as you like :)

My lab also supports my coding endeavors since I can deploy VMs, run a local Git server, and so forth. Most of my development is done in a SPICE VDI on Proxmox.