2022/11/08

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 (#312)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday 2025-03-27 (Thu) Everything seems to be running ok... There are no known issues. 2025-03-27 (Thu) Everything seems to be running ok... There are no known issues. Today has been a mess of interruptions so I didn't get much chance to work on the issues, but here's a quick summary of where we are: images sometimes will upload, but sometimes take effectively forever This may be due to needing an upgrade; see clar fon's post. Doing a site upgrade was already high on my priority queue; it's now the main thing. The obstacle, however, is that the failsafe upgrade script set up for me by ghost!admin isn't working. That script is written in Nix (the entire site is now running under NixOS), so in order to debug it I need to understand a bit more about Nix. The Nix Issue The first step in the upgrade is to start Nix on my desktop -- but I get an error when I do that: woozle@SamEagle:~/nextcloud/statler/woozle/projects/web/Mastodon/TootCat/nixos-config$ nix develop error: experimental Nix feature 'nix-command' is disabled; use '--extra-experimental-features nix-command' to override My recollection is that I tried the --extra-experimental-features option the last time I ran into this (several months ago), and that led to another dead-end -- but I suppose I could try it again and document that. For now, however, this is where I am stuck. Funds The server was costing $48/mo (DigitalOcean). Last night, I doubled the CPU and RAM (to 8vCPUs, 16 GB RAM); we're now burning $96/mo, as long as I keep it at that level. It's not actually clear how much it helped. I'll have more data to look at after a day or two. The queue was getting longer all this afternoon, after having gotten almost cleared this morning. I'm not sure exactly what the current revenue is. A lot of new donations came in over the past week; I'm not sure what portion were one-time. Prior to this week, monthly revenue was somewhere around $80-110. If that keeps up, then we go from "having a little extra for personal support" to "maybe breaking even". I... should probably talk about my [family's/personal] financial situation at some point, but that gets complicated. TLDR: overworked, underfunded, unemployed. Yes, I do plan to do some fundraising -- but I kind of want to fix things first.