I'm using contabo and the VPS I got is advertised as 1 Gigabit. When I do a speedtest or use iperf3 to connect to public servers I get pretty close to 1 Gigabit. But from my residential IP the speed drops down to 100-250 Mbit/s. My home internet connection can handle 500 Mbit just fine.

I'm looking for a new hoster with a better network connection. What real world speeds do you get with your server?

I often find myself defining function args with list[SomeClass] type and think "do I really care that it's a list? No, tuple or Generator is fine, too". I then tend to use Iterable[SomeClass] or Collection[SomeClass]. But when it comes to str, I really don't like that solution, because if you have this function:

def foo(bar: Collection[str]) -> None:
    pass

Then calling foo("hello") is fine, too, because "hello" is a collection of strings with length 1, which would not be fine if I just used list[str] in the first place. What would you do in a situation like this?

I'm currently using a VPS from contabo and am curious if I would get better performance CPU and disk I/O wise because of the dedicated resources. The bigger VPS from contabo seem to be in a similar ballpark to the cheapest options available in the hetzner server auction when it comes to corecount, ram and disk size and price.

I'm new to the container world. Does it have any security benefits when I run my applications as a non-root user in a docker container? And how about Podman? There I'll run the container as an unprivileged user anyway. Would changing the user in the container achieve anything?

Sometimes when I am using goto definition I get errors like this one

E5108: Error executing lua: ...t_nvimeitLsr/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/lsp/util.lua:1964: Invalid window id: 1000
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'nvim_win_get_buf'
	...t_nvimeitLsr/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/lsp/util.lua:1964: in function 'make_position_params'
	...nvim/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/builtin/__lsp.lua:147: in function 'v'
	...nvim/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/builtin/__lsp.lua:391: in function 'v'
	.../nvim/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/builtin/init.lua:541: in function 'lsp_definitions'
	/home/user/.config/nvim/lua/user/plugins/ide/lspconfig.lua:80: in function 

What could be the cause of an error like this? Whenever this happens I have to restart nvim.

the config in lspconfig.lua:79 looks like this:

        opts.desc = "LSP: Jump to definition of symbol"
        keymap.set("n", "gd", function()
          telescope.lsp_definitions(ivy)
        end, opts)

Any ideas?

I have seen some people prefer to create a list of strings by using thing = list[str]() instead of thing: list[str] = []. I think it looks kinda weird, but maybe that's just because I have never seen that syntax before. Does that have any downsides?

It is also possible to use this for dicts: thing = dict[str, SomeClass](). Looks equally weird to me. Is that widely used? Would you use it? Would you point it out in a code review?

I use OpenWrt on x86. I use this build but added a WiFi card and antennas. At first the WiFi performance was very good giving me great speeds and range. Some time ago performance degraded. The signal range is extremely limited giving me disconnects on my phone when I'm 4 meters away.

How could I debug what the cause might be. Any ideas?