Plus the default server and client are bloated and buggy

I’m not sure why people keep repeating this. I’ve been running both for 6 months without issues (see recent comment about DB maintenance). Maybe it was true before and isn’t true anymore.

You can use their free instance, it’s all done on the client, if the doc is not sensitive. But it’s really just one docker command to set up and one command to install docker.

I’ve been using bento pdf (self-hosted)

In my understanding that’s the idea, the local ones are lost unless another federated instances synced them. As for the remote ones, maybe they’re backed up but I really don’t care for an instant messaging platform to not have a rear view past 2 weeks.

I don’t know, can’t speak for the devs. It is weird that if you don’t implement these API calls buried a bit deep in the wiki, you end up storing every meme and screenshot anybody posted on any instance for the rest of time. But I found these through issue reports with many people asking for these to be implemented by default with for instance a simple setting “purge after X days” and a list of rooms to include or exclude from the history clean-up.

I purge 2 weeks old media using these. Then I purge the largest rooms’ history events using these. Then I compress the DB using this.

It looks like this:

export PGPASSWORD=$DB_PASS
export MYTOKEN="yourtokengoeshere"
export TIMESTAMP=$(date --date='2 weeks ago' '+%s%N' | cut -b1-13)

echo "DB size:"
psql --host $DB_HOST -U $DB_USER -d $DB_NAME -c "SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('$DB_NAME'));"

echo "Purging remote media"
curl \
	-X POST \
	--header "Authorization: Bearer $MYTOKEN" \
	"http://localhost:8008/_synapse/admin/v1/purge_media_cache?before_ts=%24%7BTIMESTAMP%7D"

echo ''
echo 'Purging local media'
curl \
	-X POST \
	--header "Authorization: Bearer $MYTOKEN" \
	"http://localhost:8008/_synapse/admin/v1/media/delete?before_ts=%24%7BTIMESTAMP%7D"

echo ''
echo 'Purging room Arch Linux'
export ROOM='!usBJpHiVDuopesfvJo:archlinux.org'
curl \
	-X POST \
	--header "Authorization: Bearer $MYTOKEN" \
	--data-raw '{"purge_up_to_ts":'${TIMESTAMP}'}' \
	"http://localhost:8008/_synapse/admin/v1/purge_history/$%7BROOM%7D"

echo ''
echo 'Purging room Arch Offtopic'
export ROOM='!zGNeatjQRNTWLiTpMb:archlinux.org'
curl \
	-X POST \
	--header "Authorization: Bearer $MYTOKEN" \
	--data-raw '{"purge_up_to_ts":'${TIMESTAMP}'}' \
	"http://localhost:8008/_synapse/admin/v1/purge_history/$%7BROOM%7D"

echo ''
echo 'Compressing db'
/home/northernlights/scripts/synapse_auto_compressor -p postgresql://$DB_USER:$DB_PASS@$DB_HOST/$DB_NAME -c 500 -n 100

echo "DB size:"
psql --host $DB_HOST -U $DB_USER -d $DB_NAME -c "SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('$DB_NAME'));"

unset PGPASSWORD

And periodically I run vacuum;

And, importantly, run the db on postgre, not sqlite, and implement the regular db maintenance steps explained in the wiki. I’ve been running mine like that in a small VM for about 6 months, i join large communities, run whatsapp, gmessages and discord bridges, and my DB is 400MB.

Before when I was still testing and didn’t implement the regular db maintenance it balloned up to 10GB in 4 months.

Sheesh, did he play around with ketamine too? “We have full AGI”. OK dude.

Anything for Samsung in the works?

Renault at least has to apply French privacy laws, which are pretty tough.

If only something more than Pixels was supported.

I look forward to these posts/emails every week, keep up the good work please :)

Closed source and 25EUR.

As someone who tried to develop for Tizen it’s a feat. The environment, the docs, everything was abysmal.

Don’t you get deported when you’re not born in the US and are convicted of a felony? Just saying.

I fully expect him to throw a fit and have to be forcibly removed when it’s finally his time to leave the white house.

Maybe give hyprland a run? That sure breaks away with the traditional paradigm. I’ve been running it a couple months on Arch and love it. Maybe use it with quickshell so it comes preconfigured like a “light” DE, at least at first.

You certainly don’t see that on Windows:

https://quickshell.org/assets/showcase/soramane.mp4

I had to stop playing No Man’s Sky, I was caught in the game play loop way too much and doing nothing else.

Just use the web version? i’ve been doing that on my linux desktop for over a year, works just fine.

Lol that first picture, are you playing Halo or Subnautica