I’ve been having trouble keeping this instance up - right now, it’s a problem with proxy errors between the docker containers as well as with the Ansible scripts. It’s taking too much time to maintain. I'll be shutting down wayfarershaven.eu per 31 October 2023.

That means that the fountainpens community here will also disappear. Anyone who would like to restart this on another instance is more than welcome to do so.

Hey all! My apologies for the fact that the instance has been down. For those who are curious, it turns out that the Lemmy volumes had ballooned and taken up all the space on the server. I've reclaimed the space and set a recurring task to make sure that it automatically gets cleaned up going forward.

This shows the vulnerability of small instances run by a single admin - I wasn't able to sit down and troubleshoot the issue. I don't have a good solution for you beyond recognizing that sometimes things willl take time when there isn't a team or paid business with SLAs. If you have things you'd like to see change, I'm happy to discuss.

Sharing because I can see this community having thoughts to share. :)

cross-posted from: https://wayfarershaven.eu/post/182136

With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can't understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don't have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still like to do handwriting, there's many app does that and they can even convert it to text notes.

So, if you still write notes with pen and paper, why?

Thank you to @Valdair@kbin.social for submitting the suggestions for a banner and to everyone who voted! The photo of the Nakaya Decapod (#3) won by a 60% landslide.

We have four possibilities for a new community banner image thanks to @Valdair@kbin.social. Please vote by commenting on which image you would prefer. One comment will be one vote. Voting closes on Friday 4 August.

#1 - may need some cropping to find the right aspect ratio:

#2 - Montblanc Heritage 1912

#3 - Nakaya Decapod

#4 - Waterman, TWSBI, Nakaya, Pelikan, Lamy, Parker, Montblanc, Pelikan, Montblanc

I added a search option to a community's sidebar - this will be helpful to find past answers but also to check and see if someone has already asked that question recently.

For example, here are the latest posts on password managers: https://lemmy.ml/search?q=password&type=Posts&listingType=All&communityId=8&page=1&sort=TopAll

I've set it to search through Lemmy.ml - this has the pro that it will be able to find all content because it's a local community. It has the con that most people won't be able to interact directly with the content as they are not subscribed via their own instance.

I was hoping to use a relative search URL and search through the user's instance. This won't work as each instance numbers the communities differently: the communityId on Lemmy.ml is different than on my own instance.

Is this helpful for anyone? Do you have any suggestions on how to improve it further?

I recently started using a tablet and pen (Wacom Intuos S if you're curious) for work and I cannot keep track of the pen - it's slim, black, and blends in with my desk. I know that this is the fountain pen community rather than an ergonomics community, but I bet you all have tips for a pen stand/holder. What do you use to keep your pen(s) close at hand?

I love that Diamine works together with the community to create new inks.

These have been out for a few months - have you had a chance to try them out? What did you think?

Note: linked to a different Youtube front-end to avoid the Youtube interface. The video is rather incidental to the post and meant to show off the inks if you haven't yet seen them.

We can upload images directly to Lemmy but that does increase the load on the instances. What other services do you recommend? Do you have a go to?

You can find us at:

• https://wayfarershaven.eu/c/digitalnomads
• /c/digitalnomads
• !digitalnomads@wayfarershaven.eu

I know that we have a few other digital nomad communities around but none of them seem to have taken off. Given that wayfarershaven.eu is also home to communities like !heronebag@wayfarershaven.eu and !solotravel@wayfarershaven.eu, I'm hoping to build the digital nomad community here on Lemmy.

I really enjoyed /r/lowsodiumsimmers so have created !lowsodiumsimmers@wayfarershaven.eu. Share what makes you happy about the Sims, without the added salt.

Sticky so that we have one place to discuss.