Community rally for Half Price Books labor union - midwest.social

It’s been a while, just came back to let yall know if you’re looking for something to do instead of doomscrolling this weekend, our comrades at the Half Price Books union stores are looking for a show of support from the community at a rally this saturday (2/22) at noon at the Westport store. They’ve been fighting for a contract for a year, facing union busting campaigns from HBP corporate the whole time. if you like books and labor you should come! Word is there will be hot drinks. Also it sounds like they don’t really expect to go til 3, so be early!

help: var folder on ubuntu won't stop filling up - midwest.social

I’ve had an Ubuntu 22.04 setup going for around a year, and over that year I’ve had to increase the size of the partition holding my /var folder multiple times. I’m now up to 20GB and again running into problems, mainly installing new apps, because that partition is again nearly full. I’ve used commands sudo apt clean and sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=500 to temporarily clear up some space, but it doesn’t take long to fill back up, and gets less effective with time, til I have no choice but to expand the partition again. Am I doing something wrong? Is it normal to need 20GB+ for var? Is there a way to safely reclaim space I don’t know about?

Port forwarding issue after network upgrade - midwest.social

Tl;Dr: port forwarding isn’t working after a network hardware upgrade, even after enabling it and rebooting all equipment, and without a firewall enabled. I’ve been running a public-facing Jellyfin server on Ubuntu 22.04 for the past few months without too much trouble. Today I upgraded my networking equipment to a Google Fiber Network Box. I ended up having to set a new static IP address for my server device. I also had to switch from using the Google Home app to using the Google Fiber app or website to configure my network. Everything’s working now except for port forwarding. The network settings give me the ability to forward ports, but port checkers keep telling me the ports I’ve opened are not open. I’ve tried rebooting the server, router, and modem (and closing and reopening the ports) multiple times to no avail. UFW is installed on the server but it’s inactive, and I don’t have any other firewalls. I don’t know what else could be blocking the ports. I’m still sort of a newbie to self hosting, so maybe there’s something I’m overlooking. But I’ve done several web searches and couldn’t find any solutions I haven’t already tried. I did notice though that it seems every device on the network has the same public IP address. I don’t know for certain that wasn’t the case with my old setup, but it did seem strange. Again I’m not an expert on this stuff, so maybe it’s nothing. I couldn’t find anything in network settings that would let me change that either.

Cory Doctorow: "Let the Platforms Burn" - midwest.social

Pretty good read

Meme videos on the fediverse - midwest.social

I like watching (and making) funny shortform videos on TikTok and Instagram reels, and I’d like to move to the fediverse as much as possible. Glancing around at PeerTube, it seems designed to replicate traditional YouTube with longform content, not something I’m interested in. PixelFed looks like the old Instagram, intended exclusively for photography and not memes of any kind, let alone video. So where can I get a quick haha off without a billionaire stooge breathing down my neck? (And let me know if this is the wrong community to ask, I’ll gladly repost elsewhere)

Restaurant reccomendations for vegan/plant based? - midwest.social

Since web searches are almost useless for this kind of thing anymore, I wanted to see if anyone here has KC restauraunt recommendations for vegan eating. Been living here a couple years and have been to and like the Fix, Mud Pie, the Wooden Spoon, and Blue Koi, but I’d love to have more options.

Trying coffee shops - midwest.social